The Greatest Satire Books Since 1927

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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
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
33 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961 American English
55 Animal Farm George Orwell 1945 British English
84 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969 American English
91 The Tin Drum Günter Grass 1959 German German
203 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 1980 American English
241 Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969 American English
310 Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe 1987 American English
347 The Day of the Locust Nathanael West 1939 American English
357 At Swim Two-Birds Flann O'Brien 1939 Irish English
392 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 1954 British English
435 Scoop Evelyn Waugh 1938 British English
467 A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh 1934 British English
480 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 1932 British English
566 I Served The King Of England Bohumil Hrabal 1983 Czech Czech
657 The Elementary Particles Michel Houellebecq 1998 French French
663 The Siege of Krishnapur J. G. Farrell 1973 British English
681 Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut 1963 American English
706 The Skin Curzio Malaparte 1949 Italian Italian
723 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst 2004 British English
744 Moscow to the End of the Line Venedikt Yerofeev 1970 Russian Russian
760 Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh 1928 British English
776 War with the Newts Karel Čapek 1936 Czech Czech
793 The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut 1959 American English
800 The Loved One Evelyn Waugh 1948 British English
837 The Sellout Paul Beatty 2015 American English
869 Woodcutters Thomas Bernhard 1984 Austrian German
904 Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut 1973 American English
928 Tobacco Road Erskine Caldwell 1932 American English
930 The Seven Madmen Roberto Arlt 1929 Argentinian Spanish
941 Collected Essays of George Orwell George Orwell 1968 British English
1111 Get Shorty Elmore Leonard 1990 American English
1137 Miss Lonelyhearts Nathanael West 1933 American English
1161 The Twelve Chairs Ilya Ilf, Evgeniy Petrov 1928 Russian Russian
1165 The Horse's Mouth Joyce Cary 1944 British English
1208 Love in a Cold Climate Nancy Mitford 1949 British English
1221 Thank You, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse 1934 British English
1281 Mumbo Jumbo Ishmael Reed 1972 American English
1310 Our Man In Havana Graham Greene 1958 British English
1325 A Far Cry From Kensington Muriel Spark 1988 British English
1356 Towards The End Of The Morning Michael Frayn 1967 British English
1378 The Towers Of Trebizond Rose Macauley 1956 British English
1422 The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth 1960 American English
1427 Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh 1930 British English
1481 The Little Golden Calf Ilya Ilf, Evgeniy Petrov 1931 Russian Russian
1530 Myra Breckinridge Gore Vidal 1968 American English
1600 On the Edge of Reason Miroslav Krleža 1938 Croatian Croatian
1622 Fortress Besieged Qian Zhongshu 1947 Chinese Chinese
1626 The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett 1983 British English
1629 Point Counter Point Aldous Huxley 1928 British English
1648 Wizard of the Crow Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 2006 Kenyan English
1674 London Fields Martin Amis 1989 British English
1678 A Time To Be Born Dawn Powell 1942 American English
1691 Cat Country Lao She 1932 Chinese Chinese
1699 That Awful Mess On Via Merulana Carlo Emilio Gadda 1957 Italian Italian
1722 The Joke Milan Kundera 1967 Czech Czech
1865 Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis 1927 American English
1921 Anglo Saxon Attitudes Angus Wilson 1956 British English
2089 Parkinson's Law C. Northcote Parkinson 1957 British English
2102 Collected Short Stories of Saki Saki 1930 British English
2104 Someone Like You Roald Dahl 1953 British English
2191 The Witches Of Eastwick John Updike 1984 American English
2214 The Threepenny Opera Bertolt Brecht 1928 German German
2223 Good Omens Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman 1990 British English
2235 The Futurological Congress Stanislaw Lem 1971 Polish Polish
2240 Flashman George MacDonald Fraser 1969 British English
2249 1066 And All That W. C. Sellar 1930 British English
2326 What a Carve Up! Jonathan Coe 1994 British English
2373 Put Out More Flags Evelyn Waugh 1942 British English
2404 The City Of Marvels Eduardo Mendoza 1986 Spanish Spanish
2425 Platform Michel Houellebecq 2001 French French
2439 Puckoon Spike Milligan 1963 Irish English
2443 The Ascent Of Rum Doodle W. E. Bowman 1956 British English
2445 The Space Merchants Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth 1952 American English
2446 The Map And The Territory Michel Houellebecq 2010 French French
2453 Black Mischief Evelyn Waugh 1932 British English
2455 Molesworth Geoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle 1953 British English
2461 Men At Arms Evelyn Waugh 1952 British English
2481 Mangeclous Albert Cohen 1938 French French
2519 The American Way of Death Jessica Mitford 1963 American English
2558 Keep the Aspidistra Flying George Orwell 1936 British English
2585 Bokhandlaren som slutade bada Fritiof Nilsson Piraten 1937 Swedish Swedish
2628 Selected Plays of George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw 1976 Irish English
2631 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Bertolt Brecht 1941 German German
2697 Wise Children Angela Carter 1991 British English
2751 Castle Gripsholm Kurt Tucholsky 1931 German German
2751 Threepenny Novel Bertolt Brecht 1934 German German
2751 Fabian Erich Kästner 1931 German German
2770 Unkempt Thoughts Stanislaw Jerzy Lec 1950 Polish Polish
2793 Soft Soap Willem Elsschot 1931 Belgian Dutch
2802 The Old Devils Kingsley Amis 1986 British English
2931 Tourist Season Carl Hiaasen 1986 American English
2964 The History Man Malcolm Bradbury 1975 British English
2973 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga 2008 Indian English
2982 The Life And Loves Of A She Devil Fay Weldon 1983 British English
3002 Monsignor Quixote Graham Greene 1982 British English
3022 Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House Eric Hodgkins 1946 American English
3022 Pictures From An Institution Randall Jarrell 1954 American English
3022 Whisky Galore Compton Mackenzie 1947 British English
3034 Novel on Yellow Paper Stevie Smith 1936 British English
3042 England, Their England A. G. Macdonell 1933 British English
3094 Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers Tom Wolfe 1970 American English
3103 Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart 2010 American English
3129 Mr. Weston's Good Wine T. F. Powys 1927 British English
3139 Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain 2012 American English
3158 The Flounder Günter Grass 1977 German German
3207 Submission Michel Houellebecq 2015 French French
3244 The Thurber Carnival James Thurber 1945 American English
3324 The Apes of God Wyndham Lewis 1930 British English
3372 The Nazi And The Barber Edgar Hilsenrath 1971 German German
3406 The Great Indian Novel Shashi Tharoor 1989 Indian English
3459 Captain Pantoja And The Special Service Mario Vargas Llosa 1973 Peruvian Spanish
3563 The Beggars' Strike Aminata Sow Fall 1979 Senegalese French
3618 Porterhouse Blue Tom Sharpe 1974 British English
3637 Der Gaulschreck Im Rosennetz Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando 1928 Austrian German
3637 Die Feuerzangenbowle Heinrich Spoerl 1933 German German
3637 The Captain Of Köpenick Carl Zuckmayer 1931 German German
3802 Inside Mr. Enderby Anthony Burgess 1963 British English
3804 The Ponder Heart Eudora Welty 1954 American English
3831 Blott On The Landscape Tom Sharpe 1975 British English