The most popular satire books

Satire makes you laugh at things that deserve it. Politicians, institutions, fashions and human vanity are exaggerated until their absurdity shows. Some of these books are gentle and some are savage, and the sharpest are funny and uncomfortable at once. These are comic novels with a point to make.

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Choke
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Choke

Chuck Palahniuk

Published 2001

293 pages

WALDEN
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WALDEN

Henry David Thoreau

1882 · 2017 edition

271 pages

Shuggie Bain
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Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart

Published 2020

430 pages

Equal Rites
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Equal Rites

Terry Pratchett

1987 · 2024 edition

256 pages

What If?
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What If?

Randall Munroe

Published 2014

303 pages

Dubliners
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Dubliners

James Joyce

1970 · 2018 edition

155 pages

Lamb
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Lamb

Christopher Moore

2001 · 2007 edition

506 pages

The Great Believers
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The Great Believers

Rebecca Makkai, Marc Rubio Rodón

Published 2018

421 pages

Anthem
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Anthem

Ayn Rand

1988 · 2017 edition

78 pages

Brooklyn
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Brooklyn

Colm Tóibín

2009 · 2018 edition

250 pages

Cannery Row
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Cannery Row

John Steinbeck

1971 · 1950 edition

123 pages

The Jungle
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The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

1970 · 2023 edition

407 pages

The Hours
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The Hours

Michael Cunningham

1997 · 2024 edition

240 pages