Great choice but any selection should include Right Ho, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse. This contains the funniest ever sustained passage of humorous prose when an inebriated Gussie Fink-Nottle presents the prizes at Marker Snodsbury Grammar School.

PG Wodehouse surpassed his own remarkable standards in this novel.

I did think about including Wodehouse, but he has so many great novels/stories I didn't know which to choose!

But thanks for suggesting it :)