Jasper Fforde - The Well of Lost Plots & Something Rotten

In these ones, as in Lost in a Good Book, Fforde allows himself more outright jokes and cute gestures, and as a result they're far more fun to read than The Eyre Affair (another part of that might be the investment in the characters and world of the books which develops over the series). They're wonderful to read, anyway - by this point in the series (the most recent, I think), Fforde's well and truly found his tone and it's a treat. The literary allusions are the main game, and the fun that results from Hamlet, Heathcliff, the Cheshire Cat, Humpty Dumpty (not to mention the cloned Shakespeares) and plenty of others striding around and basically being themselves while also reflecting in their various ways on their own characters and reception in the 'real' world, but it's also cool to follow the way Fforde distorts our 'real' world into the 'real' world of Thursday Next (cricket --> croquet, various rewrites of history, Goliath Corporation, etc). I wish there were more!