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
8921 The Devil's Racetrack Mark Twain 1966 American Unknown
8931 O Coronel E O Lobisomem José Cândido De Carvalho 1964 Brazilian Portuguese
8940 Febeapá Stanislaw Ponte Preta 1966 Brazilian Portuguese
8960 A Frolic of His Own William Gaddis 1994 American English
9020 Memories Of My Father Watching Tv Curtis White 1998 American English
9055 The Late George Apley John P. Marquand 1937 American English
9134 How To Write About Africa Binyavanga Wainaina 2005 Kenyan English
9237 Lightning Rods Helen DeWitt 2011 American English
9240 Soul Music Terry Pratchett 1994 British English
9261 Absurdistan Gary Shteyngart 2006 Russian English
9303 The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida Shehan Karunatilaka 2022 Sri Lankan English
9307 The Devil Wears Prada Lauren Weisberger 2003 American English
9363 Night Watch Terry Pratchett 2002 British English
9373 Their Brilliant Careers Ryan O’Neill 2016 Australian English
9374 Stolen Spring Hans Scherfig 1940 Danish Danish
9375 The Heroine Eaton Stannard Barrett 1813 British English
9375 Tales Of The Good Woman, By A Doubtful Gentleman James Kirke Paulding 1835 American English
9375 The Stolen Bacillus And Other Incidents H. G. Wells 1895 British English
9375 Xingu And Other Stories Edith Wharton 1916 American English
9538 A Case Of Exploding Mangoes Mohammed Hanif 2008 Pakistani English
9544 O Analista De Bagé Luis Fernando Verissimo 1983 Brazilian Portuguese
9568 Custer Died For Your Sins Vine DeLoria, Jr. 1969 American English
9597 The Noodle Maker Ma Jian 2004 Chinese Chinese
9598 Москва 2042 Vladimir Voinovich 1987 Russian Russian
9603 Hogfather Terry Pratchett 1996 British English
9602 Lenin's Kisses Yan Lianke 2003 Chinese Chinese
9657 Schubumkehr Robert Menasse 2013 Austrian German
9691 Year Of The Sex Olympics Nigel Kneale 1968 British English
9741 Reasons Of State Alejo Carpentier 1974 Cuban Spanish
9831 Barney's Version Mordecai Richler 1997 Canadian English
9849 Markurells In Wadköping Hjalmar Bergman 1919 Swedish Swedish
9857 An Essay on Man Alexander Pope 1734 British English
9905 The Demon Haunted World Carl Sagan 1995 American English
9927 The Complete Plays Joe Orton 1976 British English
9961 Mailman J. Robert Lennon 2003 American English
9967 Politics Hendrik Hertzberg 2004 American English
10103 The Fifth Elephant Terry Pratchett 1999 British English
10158 Transmission Hari Kunzru 2004 British English
10219 Great Granny Webster Caroline Blackwood 1977 English English
10361 Witches Abroad Terry Pratchett 1991 British English
10402 Oh Pure And Radiant Heart Lydia Millet 2005 American English
10450 Crudo Olivia Laing 2018 British English
10450 Calypso David Sedaris 2018 American English
10543 I Am Not Sidney Poitier Percival Everett 2009 American English
10571 The Censors Luisa Valenzuela 1976 Argentinian Spanish
10601 The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare 1590 British English
10608 The Alchemist Ben Jonson 1610 British English
10660 Men At Arms Terry Pratchett 1993 British English
10694 How To Dodge A Cannonball Dennard Dayle 2025 Unknown English
10723 The Amalgamation Polka Stephen Wright 2006 American English
10820 Pym Mat Johnson 2011 American English
10896 After Many A Summer Dies The Swan Aldous Huxley 1939 British English
10929 Wilt Tom Sharpe 1976 British English
10936 Bitches, Bimbos, And Ballbreakers Guerilla Girls 2003 American English
10993 Portable Curiosities Julie Koh 2016 Australian English
11089 Der Herr Karl Carl Merz, Helmut Qualtinger 1961 Austrian German
11195 Stranglehold On Africa René Dumont 1980 French French
11209 Based On A True Story Norm Macdonald 2016 Canadian English
11244 Another Roadside Attraction Tom Robbins 1971 American English
11274 The Ill Fated Peregrinations Of Fray Servando Reinaldo Arenas 1987 Cuban Spanish
11310 Atavists Lydia Millet 2025 American English
11316 Lamb Christopher Moore 2002 American English
11481 Ninety Nine Glimpses Of Princess Margaret Craig Brown 2017 British English
11513 Le Recensement Des Intellos De Gauche Giacomo Papi 2019 Unknown French
11539 The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1869 American English
11545 Valentine Vox Henry Cockton 1839 British English
11545 Ten Thousand A Year Samuel Warren 1839 British English
11627 May We Be Forgiven A. M. Homes 2012 American English
11874 Monday Begins On Saturday Arkadi Strugatski 1964 Russian Russian
12026 Gog Giovanni Papini 1931 Italian Italian
12048 The Death Of Napoleon Simon Leys 1986 Belgian French
12103 Sword Of Honour Evelyn Waugh 1965 British English
12140 Yellow Blue Tibia Adam Roberts 2009 British English
12184 The Short Cut Ennio Flaiano 1947 Italian Unknown
12230 Vulture Phoebe Greenwood 2025 Unknown English
12250 Election Tom Perrotta 1998 American English
12298 Ape And Essence Aldous Huxley 1948 British English
12321 Worsted Garielle Lutz 2025 American English
12376 Haunted Chuck Palahniuk 2005 American English
12324 Headlong Michael Frayn 1999 British English
12398 Handy Andy Samuel Lover 1842 Irish English
12641 Officialdom Unmasked Li Baojia 1903 Chinese Chinese
13148 2016 Sarah Hesketh 2025 Unknown English
13318 Redshirts John Scalzi 2012 American English
13359 How To Lie With Statistics Darrell Huff 1954 American English
13359 An Essay On Criticism Alexander Pope 1711 British English
13359 Critic Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1779 British English
13359 Essays And Tales Joseph Addison 1711 British English
13359 Micromégas Voltaire 1752 French French
13359 The Red Lily Anatole France 1894 French French
13359 The Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. 1858 American English
13359 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, And Other Stories And Essays Mark Twain 1900 American English
13359 Blast I Wyndham Lewis 1914 British English
13359 The Ayrshire Legatees John Galt 1821 Scottish English
13359 The Adventures Of Hajji Baba Of Ispahan James Morier 1824 British English
13359 Jack Brag Theodore Edward Hook 1837 British English
13359 A History Of New York Washington Irving 1809 American English
13359 The Time Regulation Institute Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar 1954 Turkish Turkish
13359 The Unpossessed Tess Slesinger 1934 American English
13505 Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman 1988 American English
13542 Morte D'Urban J. F. Powers 1962 American English
13599 Enemy Force John Antoine Nau 1903 French French
13599 Dingley, L'illustre écrivain Jérôme Tharaud, Jean Tharaud 1902 French French
13599 De Goupil à Margot Louis Pergaud 1910 French French
13599 Civilization Georges Duhamel 1918 French French
13599 Le Vitriol De La Lune And Le Martyre De L'obèse Henri Béraud French French
13599 Jerome Maurice Bedel French French
13599 Faux Passeports Charles Plisnier 1937 Belgian French
13599 The Forests Of The Night Jean-Louis Curtis 1992 French French
13599 Les Bêtises Jacques Laurent 1971 French French
13599 Les Filles Du Calvaire Pierre Combescot 1991 French French
13599 Cry, Mother Spain Lydie Salvayre 2014 French French
13599 Houris Kamel Daoud 2024 French French
13759 Drop City T. Coraghessan Boyle 2003 American English
13771 Tale Of The Troika Arkady Strugatsky 1968 Russian Russian
13805 Metropolitan Life Fran Lebowitz 1978 American English
13885 Unseen Academicals Terry Pratchett 2009 British English
13885 Pygmy Chuck Palahniuk 2009 American English
13919 The Cyberiad Stanislaw Lem 1965 Polish Polish
13941 The Story Of My Teeth Valeria Luiselli 2015 Mexican Spanish