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
13964 Barbarian Spring Jonas Lüscher 2013 Swiss German
13971 Star Island Carl Hiaasen 2010 American English
13971 Doonesbury And The Art Of G.B. Trudeau Brian Walker 2010 American English
13986 I'm Dying Laughing Christina Stead 1986 Australian English
14001 The Eye In The Pyramid Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson 1975 American English
14001 The Golden Apple Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson 1975 American English
14011 The Groves Of Academe Mary McCarthy 1952 American English
14011 The Houseguest Thomas Berger 1988 American English
14025 2030 Albert Brooks 2011 American English
14023 Generation Of Vipers Philip Wylie 1942 American English
14093 Leviathan Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson 1981 American English
14093 The Road To Wellville T. Coraghessan Boyle 1993 American English
14138 Youth In Revolt M. D. Payne Unknown Unknown
14166 Going Postal Terry Pratchett 2004 British English
14180 Facial Justice L. P. Hartley 1960 British English
14197 What The Butler Saw Joe Orton 1969 British English
14212 The Opinions Of Jerome Coignard Anatole France 1893 French French
14232 The Imperfectionists Tom Rachman 2010 British English
14362 Water Music T. C. Boyle 1982 American English
14410 A Man Of The People Chinua Achebe 1966 Nigerian English
14410 Auntie Mame Patrick Dennis 1955 American English
14452 Making Money Terry Pratchett 2007 British English
14457 The Image Men J. B. Priestley 1968 British English
14457 Cocksure Mordecai Richler 1968 Canadian English
14485 Mislaid Nell Zink 2015 American English
14666 The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson 2010 British English
14679 The Oranging of America Max Apple 1976 American English
14697 Falstaff Robert Nye 1976 British English
14723 Apocolocyntosis Seneca 54 Roman Latin
14817 Restaurant At The End Of The Universe Douglas Adams 1980 British English
14830 Troubles J. G. Farrell 1970 British English
14867 Le Bal Irène Némirovsky 1930 French French
14872 Jeeves In The Offing P. G. Wodehouse 1960 British English
14896 Archy And Mehitabel Don Marquis 1927 American English
14889 Right Ho, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse 1934 British English
14922 Life, The Universe And Everything Douglas Adams 1982 British English
14923 Johann Holtrop Rainald Goetz 2012 German German
14945 Double Or Nothing Raymond Federman 1971 American English
14942 Player Piano Kurt Vonnegut 1952 American English
14952 Persian Letters Montesquieu 1721 French French
14984 Injury Time Beryl Bainbridge 1977 British English
14984 Poor Things Alasdair Gray 1992 Scottish English
14984 Naked David Sedaris 1997 American English
14984 The Public Burning Robert Coover 1977 American English
14984 Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down Ishmael Reed 1969 American English
14984 Complete Stories Dorothy Parker 1995 American English
14984 The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta Mario Vargas Llosa 1984 Peruvian Spanish
14984 The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck Mark Manson 2016 American English
14984 Galapagos Kurt Vonnegut 1985 American English
14984 Double Whammy Carl Hiaasen 1987 American English
14974 The Fire Raisers Max Frisch 1953 Swiss German
14984 Accidental Death Of An Anarchist Dario Fo 1970 Italian Italian
14984 Pyramids Terry Pratchett 1989 British English
14984 Within The Context Of No Context George W. S. Trow 1980 American English
14984 Skin Tight Carl Hiaasen 1989 American English
14984 English, August Upamanyu Chatterjee 1988 Indian English
14970 The Stepford Wives Ira Levin 1972 American English
14984 Q Craig Brown 2024 Unknown English
14984 Old Masters Thomas Bernhard 1985 Austrian German
14984 Starter Villain John Scalzi 2023 American English
15561 Stories T. C. Boyle 1998 American English
15588 The Peter Principle Laurence J. Peter 1969 Canadian English
15636 The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight Jimmy Breslin 1971 American English
15648 The Mercy Of Allah Hilaire Belloc 1922 British English
15680 Blue Heaven Joe Keenan American English
15680 The Funnies J. Robert Lennon American English
15722 Slaughterhouse Five, Or The Children's Crusade Ryan North 1969 Unknown English
15721 You Know Me Al Ring Lardner 1916 American English
15735 A Mad World, My Masters Thomas Middleton 1605 British English
15729 Maqamat Al Hariri Al-Hariri of Basra 1101 Arabic Arabic
15750 Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut 1961 American English
15746 Brave New World Including Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
15773 The Fig Tree Aubrey Menen 1959 Indian English
15766 Xala Ousmane Sembène 1973 Senegalese French
15758 Three Men In A Boat And Three Men On The Bummel Jerome K. Jerome 1889 British English
15790 Mr. Skeffington Elizabeth 1940 British English
15826 Autobiografija Branislav Nušić 1924 Serbian Serbian
15825 The Fable Of The Bees Bernard Mandeville 1714 British English
15815 The Stone Of Chastity Margery Sharp 1940 British English
15893 Beat the Devil Claud Cockburn 1951 British English
15899 The Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll 1876 British English
15873 Summer Lightning (Csa Word Classic) P. G. Wodehouse 1929 British English
15899 Officers And Gentlemen Evelyn Waugh 1955 British English
15899 Unconditional Surrender Evelyn Waugh 1961 British English
15899 The Decline And Fall Of Practically Everybody Will Cuppy 1950 American English
15899 The Wicked Pavilion Dawn Powell 1954 American English
15899 The Great American Novel William Carlos Williams 1923 American English
15899 Ending Up Kingsley Amis 1974 British English
15892 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut 1965 American English
15899 Sunshine Sketches Of A Little Town Stephen Leacock 1912 Canadian English
15899 Here's Luck Lennie Lower 1930 Australian English
15899 Bestiario Juan José Arreola 1938 Mexican Spanish
15899 A Tramp Abroad Mark Twain 1880 American English
16579 The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde 1887 British English
16564 Screwtape Letters Clive Staples Lewis 1942 British English
16614 The Ballad of Peckham Rye Muriel Spark 1960 British English
16614 Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 1950 Armenian Russian
16701 The Skin Of Our Teeth Thornton Wilder 1942 American English
16717 So Long And Thanks For All The Fish (Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, No. 4) Douglas Adams 1984 British English
16614 The Most Of S. J. Perelman S. J. Perelman 1970 American English
16673 An Ideal Husband Oscar Wilde 1895 British English
16712 The Misanthrope / Tartuffe Molière 1666 French French
16632 The Water Method Man John Irving 1972 American English
16729 Being There Jerzy Kosinski 1970 American English
16608 The Collected Tales Nikolai Gogol 1836 Russian Russian
16633 Le Journal D'une Femme De Chambre Octave Mirbeau 1900 French French
16610 What Makes Sammy Run? Budd Schulberg 1941 American English
16732 Manalive G. K. Chesterton 1912 British English
16674 Love And Freindship Jane Austen 1790 English English
17120 The Bear Comes Home Rafi Zabor 1997 American English
17120 George Mills Stanley Elkin 1982 American English
17120 Mrs. Ted Bliss Stanley Elkin 1995 American English
17120 Kruger's Alp Christopher Hope 1984 South African English
17120 Swing Hammer Swing! Jeff Torrington 1992 Scottish English
17120 America John Stewart 2004 American English
17120 The Epicure's Lament Kate Christensen 2004 American English
17120 Take It Or Leave It Raymond Federman 1976 American English
17120 Entering Fire Rikki Ducornet 1986 American English
17120 The Franchiser Stanley Elkin 1976 American English
17120 Up Ronald Sukenick 1968 American English