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
8925 The Devil's Racetrack Mark Twain 1966 American Unknown
8935 O Coronel E O Lobisomem José Cândido De Carvalho 1964 Brazilian Portuguese
8944 Febeapá Stanislaw Ponte Preta 1966 Brazilian Portuguese
8964 A Frolic of His Own William Gaddis 1994 American English
9024 Memories Of My Father Watching Tv Curtis White 1998 American English
9059 The Late George Apley John P. Marquand 1937 American English
9138 How To Write About Africa Binyavanga Wainaina 2005 Kenyan English
9240 Lightning Rods Helen DeWitt 2011 American English
9243 Soul Music Terry Pratchett 1994 British English
9264 Absurdistan Gary Shteyngart 2006 Russian English
9306 The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida Shehan Karunatilaka 2022 Sri Lankan English
9310 The Devil Wears Prada Lauren Weisberger 2003 American English
9366 Night Watch Terry Pratchett 2002 British English
9376 Their Brilliant Careers Ryan O’Neill 2016 Australian English
9377 Stolen Spring Hans Scherfig 1940 Danish Danish
9378 The Heroine Eaton Stannard Barrett 1813 British English
9378 Tales Of The Good Woman, By A Doubtful Gentleman James Kirke Paulding 1835 American English
9378 The Stolen Bacillus And Other Incidents H. G. Wells 1895 British English
9378 Xingu And Other Stories Edith Wharton 1916 American English
9541 A Case Of Exploding Mangoes Mohammed Hanif 2008 Pakistani English
9547 O Analista De Bagé Luis Fernando Verissimo 1983 Brazilian Portuguese
9571 Custer Died For Your Sins Vine DeLoria, Jr. 1969 American English
9600 The Noodle Maker Ma Jian 2004 Chinese Chinese
9601 Москва 2042 Vladimir Voinovich 1987 Russian Russian
9606 Hogfather Terry Pratchett 1996 British English
9605 Lenin's Kisses Yan Lianke 2003 Chinese Chinese
9661 Schubumkehr Robert Menasse 2013 Austrian German
9695 Year Of The Sex Olympics Nigel Kneale 1968 British English
9745 Reasons Of State Alejo Carpentier 1974 Cuban Spanish
9835 Barney's Version Mordecai Richler 1997 Canadian English
9853 Markurells In Wadköping Hjalmar Bergman 1919 Swedish Swedish
9861 An Essay on Man Alexander Pope 1734 British English
9909 The Demon Haunted World Carl Sagan 1995 American English
9932 The Complete Plays Joe Orton 1976 British English
9966 Mailman J. Robert Lennon 2003 American English
9972 Politics Hendrik Hertzberg 2004 American English
10108 The Fifth Elephant Terry Pratchett 1999 British English
10162 Transmission Hari Kunzru 2004 British English
10224 Great Granny Webster Caroline Blackwood 1977 English English
10365 Witches Abroad Terry Pratchett 1991 British English
10406 Oh Pure And Radiant Heart Lydia Millet 2005 American English
10454 Crudo Olivia Laing 2018 British English
10454 Calypso David Sedaris 2018 American English
10546 I Am Not Sidney Poitier Percival Everett 2009 American English
10574 The Censors Luisa Valenzuela 1976 Argentinian Spanish
10604 The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare 1590 British English
10611 The Alchemist Ben Jonson 1610 British English
10664 Men At Arms Terry Pratchett 1993 British English
10698 How To Dodge A Cannonball Dennard Dayle 2025 Unknown English
10727 The Amalgamation Polka Stephen Wright 2006 American English
10825 Pym Mat Johnson 2011 American English
10901 After Many A Summer Dies The Swan Aldous Huxley 1939 British English
10934 Wilt Tom Sharpe 1976 British English
10941 Bitches, Bimbos, And Ballbreakers Guerilla Girls 2003 American English
10998 Portable Curiosities Julie Koh 2016 Australian English
11093 Der Herr Karl Carl Merz, Helmut Qualtinger 1961 Austrian German
11199 Stranglehold On Africa René Dumont 1980 French French
11213 Based On A True Story Norm Macdonald 2016 Canadian English
11248 Another Roadside Attraction Tom Robbins 1971 American English
11278 The Ill Fated Peregrinations Of Fray Servando Reinaldo Arenas 1987 Cuban Spanish
11314 Atavists Lydia Millet 2025 American English
11320 Lamb Christopher Moore 2002 American English
11483 Ninety Nine Glimpses Of Princess Margaret Craig Brown 2017 British English
11515 Le Recensement Des Intellos De Gauche Giacomo Papi 2019 Unknown French
11541 The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1869 American English
11547 Valentine Vox Henry Cockton 1839 British English
11547 Ten Thousand A Year Samuel Warren 1839 British English
11629 May We Be Forgiven A. M. Homes 2012 American English
11876 Monday Begins On Saturday Arkadi Strugatski 1964 Russian Russian
12028 Gog Giovanni Papini 1931 Italian Italian
12050 The Death Of Napoleon Simon Leys 1986 Belgian French
12104 Sword Of Honour Evelyn Waugh 1965 British English
12141 Yellow Blue Tibia Adam Roberts 2009 British English
12185 The Short Cut Ennio Flaiano 1947 Italian Unknown
12231 Vulture Phoebe Greenwood 2025 Unknown English
12251 Election Tom Perrotta 1998 American English
12299 Ape And Essence Aldous Huxley 1948 British English
12323 Worsted Garielle Lutz 2025 American English
12378 Haunted Chuck Palahniuk 2005 American English
12326 Headlong Michael Frayn 1999 British English
12400 Handy Andy Samuel Lover 1842 Irish English
12643 Officialdom Unmasked Li Baojia 1903 Chinese Chinese
13151 2016 Sarah Hesketh 2025 Unknown English
13321 Redshirts John Scalzi 2012 American English
13362 How To Lie With Statistics Darrell Huff 1954 American English
13362 An Essay On Criticism Alexander Pope 1711 British English
13362 Critic Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1779 British English
13362 Essays And Tales Joseph Addison 1711 British English
13362 Micromégas Voltaire 1752 French French
13362 The Red Lily Anatole France 1894 French French
13362 The Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. 1858 American English
13362 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, And Other Stories And Essays Mark Twain 1900 American English
13362 Blast I Wyndham Lewis 1914 British English
13362 The Ayrshire Legatees John Galt 1821 Scottish English
13362 The Adventures Of Hajji Baba Of Ispahan James Morier 1824 British English
13362 Jack Brag Theodore Edward Hook 1837 British English
13362 A History Of New York Washington Irving 1809 American English
13362 The Time Regulation Institute Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar 1954 Turkish Turkish
13362 The Unpossessed Tess Slesinger 1934 American English
13506 Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman 1988 American English
13543 Morte D'Urban J. F. Powers 1962 American English
13600 Enemy Force John Antoine Nau 1903 French French
13600 Dingley, L'illustre écrivain Jérôme Tharaud, Jean Tharaud 1902 French French
13600 De Goupil à Margot Louis Pergaud 1910 French French
13600 Civilization Georges Duhamel 1918 French French
13600 Le Vitriol De La Lune And Le Martyre De L'obèse Henri Béraud French French
13600 Jerome Maurice Bedel French French
13600 Faux Passeports Charles Plisnier 1937 Belgian French
13600 The Forests Of The Night Jean-Louis Curtis 1992 French French
13600 Les Bêtises Jacques Laurent 1971 French French
13600 Les Filles Du Calvaire Pierre Combescot 1991 French French
13600 Cry, Mother Spain Lydie Salvayre 2014 French French
13600 Houris Kamel Daoud 2024 French French
13760 Drop City T. Coraghessan Boyle 2003 American English
13772 Tale Of The Troika Arkady Strugatsky 1968 Russian Russian
13806 Metropolitan Life Fran Lebowitz 1978 American English
13886 Unseen Academicals Terry Pratchett 2009 British English
13886 Pygmy Chuck Palahniuk 2009 American English
13920 The Cyberiad Stanislaw Lem 1965 Polish Polish
13941 The Story Of My Teeth Valeria Luiselli 2015 Mexican Spanish