Pick-up a book and read during afterhours at the La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo.

We'll bring a selection of humour writers, and other recommendations, and there'll be a gallery of art to enjoy.

Bring your own book too.

Budget depending we'll have live music in the background.

Tickets offered at Pay What You Can pricing. So you choose payment from free to billions of dollars.

Here is a selection of books suggested by comedians at the Bendigo Comedy Festival:

Careless People: A story of where I used to work, by Sarah Wynn-Williams - recommended by Danielle Walker

A Wolf At The Table by Augusten Burroughs - recommended by Mick Neven

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - recommended by Mick Neven

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilber - recommended by Urvi Majumdar

Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein - recommended by Bert Misery

Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly - recommended by Luke Morris

Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse - recommended by Luke Morris

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams - recommended by Luke Morris

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett - recommended by Luke Morris

Time For Bed by David Baddiel - recommended by Luke Morris

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole - recommended by Luke Morris (again)

Math Mind: The Simple path to loving Math, by Shalinee Sharma - recommended by Michael Connell

The Right Way, the Wrong Way, and the Railway by Nick Anchen - recommended by Sam Hargraves

Four Little Engines by The Rev. W. Awdry - recommended by Sam Hargraves

Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton - recommended by Amy Ruffle

Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth - recommended by Amy Ruffle

Landfall by James Bradley - recommended by Amy Ruffle

Hyperion by Dan Simmons - recommended by Ben Richardson

The Beach by Alex Garland - recommended by Ben Richardson

Hekate by Nikita Gill - recommended by Ben Richardson

Overstory by Richard Powers - recommended by Lucy Best

Hyperbole and a Half : unfortunate situations, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem, and other things that happened, by Allie Brosch - recommended by Lucy Best

Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut - recommended by Jez Watts

Running The Light by Sam Tallent - recommended by Jez Watts

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein - recommended by Jez Watts

The Bible by God - recommended by Rowan Thambar

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins - recommended by Rowan Thambar

Pokémon Encyclopedia by Simcha Whitehill - recommended by Thomas Begg

Contact the host of Gallery of Laughs at the La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo.