Satire

A joke with a target. Comedy aimed at institutions and pieties — funny because it is accurate, and uncomfortable for the same reason.

On the Comedy & Satire shelf.

Books shelved as Satire

• Orconomics — J. Zachary Pike
• Stranger in a Strange Land — James Warhola
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead — Olga Tokarczuk
• Breakfast of Champions — Kurt Vonnegut
• Vile Bodies — Evelyn Waugh
• The Stepford Wives — Ira Levin
• Tips for Living — Renee Shafransky
• Gulliver’s Travels — Jonathan Swift
• Severance — Ling Ma
• Patricia Wants to Cuddle — Samantha Allen
• The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
• Rouge — Mona Awad
• A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess
• How High We Go in the Dark — Sequoia Nagamatsu
• The Screwtape Letters — C. S. Lewis
• Soul Music — Terry Pratchett
• Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
• youthjuice — E.K. Sathue
• The Radleys — Matt Haig
• Chain-Gang All-Stars — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Atrabalario — Mariano José de Larra
• Yellowface — R.F. Kuang
• Mort — Terry Pratchett
• White Noise — Richard Powers

Related genres

• Comedy & Wit
• Dark Comedy

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