The Greatest Satire Books of All Time

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
6200 Tóték István Örkény 1967 Hungarian Hungarian
6211 The Midnight Examiner William Kotzwinkle 1989 American English
6216 The Monkey Wrench Gang Edward Abbey 1975 American English
6226 Boule De Suif Guy de Maupassant 1880 French French
6244 Volpone Ben Jonson 1607 British English
6250 Great Apes Will Self 1997 British English
6266 Thank You For Not Reading Dubravka Ugrešić 2001 Croatian Croatian
6279 Primary Colors Unknown 1996 American English
6300 Mark Twain's Which Was The Dream Mark Twain 1966 American English
6363 The Restraint Of Beasts Magnus Mills 1998 British English
6368 Cabbage And Kings O. Henry 1904 American English
6472 The Belles Lettres Papers Charles Simmons 1987 American English
6503 The End Of The Road John Barth 1958 American English
6567 Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming László Krasznahorkai 2016 Hungarian Hungarian
6569 Nice Work David Lodge 1988 British English
6585 Kvartetten Som Sprängdes Birger Sjöberg 1924 Swedish Swedish
6637 Life With Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse 1983 British English
6637 The Curse Of Lono Hunter S. Thompson 1983 American English
6669 Complete Short Stories Mark Twain 1957 American English
6680 A Fraction Of The Whole Steve Toltz 2008 Australian English
6759 The Light Fantastic Terry Pratchett 1986 British English
6789 The Investigation Stanislaw Lem 1959 Polish Polish
6821 Tales Of The Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 American English
6821 Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography And First Romance Mark Twain 1871 American English
6831 The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett 2007 British English
6837 Yellowface R. F. Kuang 2023 American English
6846 The Complete Short Stories Of Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce 1970 American English
6878 Galantine De Volaille Pour Dames Frivoles San-Antonio 1987 French French
6919 S.C.U.M. Manifesto Valerie Solanas 1967 American English
6927 Travesties Tom Stoppard 1974 British English
6979 Reuben, Reuben Peter De Vries 1964 American English
6992 A Light Comedy Eduardo Mendoza 1996 Spanish Spanish
7062 Then We Came To The End Joshua Ferris 2007 American English
7082 The Scholars Wu Ching-tzu 1750 Chinese Chinese
7085 Nothing Like the Sun Anthony Burgess 1964 British English
7093 Small Gods Terry Pratchett 1992 British English
7120 The Color Of Summer Reinaldo Arenas 1991 Cuban Spanish
7144 Báječná Léta Pod Psa Michal Viewegh 1992 Czech Czech
7186 A Funny Dirty Little War Osvaldo Soriano 1983 Argentinian Spanish
7216 The Mandrake Niccolo Machiavelli 1518 Italian Italian
7216 Visions Francisco de Quevedo 1627 Spanish Spanish
7216 Satirical Letter Of Censure Francisco de Quevedo 1601 Spanish Spanish
7216 The Complete English Poems John Skelton 1500 British English
7216 Poems, Plays, And Masques Ben Jonson 1601 British English
7216 Hudibras Samuel Butler (poet) 1663 British English
7216 The Prose Works Of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift 1701 Irish English
7216 Poems Of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift 1701 Irish English
7216 The Man Of Mode George Etherege 1676 British English
7216 The Plain Dealer William Wycherley 1676 British English
7216 The Learned Ladies Molière 1672 French French
7216 School For Husbands Molière 1661 French French
7216 The Precious Ridiculous Molière 1659 French French
7216 Lutrin Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1674 French French
7216 The Lisbon Earthquake Voltaire 1756 French French
7216 Venetian Epigrams Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790 German German
7216 Selected Writings Jules Laforgue 1901 French French
7216 Imaginary Conversations Walter Savage Landor 1824 British English
7216 Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock 1861 British English
7216 Complete Plays Of Gilbert And Sullivan W. S. Gilbert 1938 British English
7216 Bab Ballads W. S. Gilbert 1869 British English
7216 Essays Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1909 Irish English
7216 Essays And Reviews Edgar Allan Poe 1845 American English
7216 Seven Dada Manifestoes Tristan Tzara 1924 French French
7216 Major Critical Essays George Bernard Shaw 1930 Irish English
7216 Back To Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1921 Irish English
7216 Nervous People And Other Satires Mikhail Zoshchenko 1927 Russian Russian
7216 The Travels And Adventures Of Benjamin The Third Mendele Mokher Seforim 1878 Israeli Yiddish
7216 It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis 1935 American English
7216 A Cool Million Nathanael West 1934 American English
7216 The Journal Of Albion Moonlight Kenneth Patchen 1941 American English
7216 Europe After The Rain Alan Burns 1965 British English
7216 Lead Us Into Temptation Breandán Ó hEithir 1976 Irish English
7216 Seasons Of Anomy Wole Soyinka 1973 Nigerian English
7216 The Bloater Rosemary Tonks 1968 English English
7589 Memoirs Of A Gnostic Dwarf David Madsen 1995 British English
7589 Moo Jane Smiley 1995 American English
7604 Sin Remedio Antonio Caballero 1984 Colombian Spanish
7606 Les Praticiens De L'infernal Pierre La Police 1993 French French
7616 Everything Bad Is Good For You Steven Johnson 2005 American English
7612 Aunt Julia And The Script Writer Mario Vargas Llosa 1977 Peruvian Spanish
7679 The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen 2021 American English
7722 Pig Tales Marie Darrieussecq 1996 French French
7734 Despair Vladimir Nabokov 1934 Russian Russian
7808 Products Of The Perfected Civilization Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort 1969 French French
7812 Cain José Saramago 2009 Portuguese Portuguese
7820 Five Novels Ronald Firbank 1949 British English
7872 Psmith, Journalist P. G. Wodehouse 1915 British English
7900 Capital John Lanchester 2012 British English
7915 The Braindead Megaphone George Saunders 2007 American English
7926 Letters From The Earth Mark Twain 1962 American English
7957 Das Frühstücksei. Gesammelte Dramatische Geschichten Loriot 1997 German German
8076 The Great Derangement Matt Taibbi 2008 American English
8143 Mort Terry Pratchett 1987 British English
8178 Cards Of Identity Nigel Dennis 1955 British English
8253 Serve The People! Yan Lianke 2005 Chinese Chinese
8323 The Truth Terry Pratchett 2000 British English
8350 Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett 1989 British English
8372 The Lecturer's Tale James Hynes 2001 American English
8384 Guard of Honor James Gould Cozzens 1948 American English
8406 Wyrd Sisters Terry Pratchett 1988 British English
8463 The Age Of Openness Frank Dikötter 2008 Unknown English
8474 Three Novels Witold Gombrowicz 1960 Polish Polish
8474 A Dance Of The Forest Wole Soyinka 1960 Nigerian English
8474 Textermination Christine Brooke-Rose 1992 British English
8500 Serafim Ponte Grande Oswald De Andrade 1923 Brazilian Portuguese
8515 Expecting Someone Taller Tom Holt 1987 British English
8618 Civilisation Steve Braunias 2012 New Zealand English
8657 Domestic Manners of the Americans Fanny Trollope 1832 British English
8671 The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope 1712 British English
8683 In Defense Of Sanity G. K. Chesterton 2011 British English
8703 Millennium People J. G. Ballard 2003 British English
8722 Prejudices H. L. Mencken 1919 American English
8730 The Living End Stanley Elkin 1979 American English
8741 The Dalkey Archive Flann O'Brien 1964 Irish English
8752 Reaper Man Terry Pratchett 1991 British English
8794 The Reivers William Faulkner 1962 American English
8803 The Revenger's Tragedy Thomas Middleton 1606 British English
8822 China In Ten Words Yu Hua 2011 Chinese Chinese
8864 The Warrior's Honor Michael Ignatieff 1997 Canadian English
8876 Yawning Heights Alexander Sinowjew 1976 Russian Russian