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Political satire in fiction

Description: This list is for fiction (novels, plays...) with a strong political satire element.
Based on tag: political satire

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1

by Augusto Roa Bastos

657 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

2

by George Orwell

69,757 members

1,002 reviews

4

Member: Dilara86

3

The banquet in Blitva

by Miroslav Krleža

48 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

4

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

by G. K. Chesterton

1,285 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Dilara86

5

A babbo morto. Una storia di Natale

57 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: Dilara86

6

I Am America (And So Can You!)

by Stephen Colbert

6,219 members

143 reviews

3.8

7

America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

7,761 members

63 reviews

4.1

8

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right

4,712 members

68 reviews

3.8

9

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

93,941 members

1,448 reviews

4.2

10

by Christopher Buckley

1,350 members

54 reviews

½ 3.6

11

Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!

by Michael Moore

6,648 members

53 reviews

3.2

12

America (The Book) Teacher's Edition: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

2,471 members

26 reviews

4.1

13

It Can't Happen Here

by Sinclair Lewis

4,204 members

108 reviews

½ 3.7

14

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

20,935 members

191 reviews

½ 3.7

15

Dude, Where's My Country?

by Michael Moore

4,204 members

42 reviews

½ 3.3

16

Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot

1,820 members

34 reviews

½ 3.7

17

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

by Gregory Maguire

33,024 members

709 reviews

½ 3.6

18

Little Green Men

by Christopher Buckley

858 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

19

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

23,724 members

513 reviews

4.2

20

Supreme Courtship

by Christopher Buckley

823 members

56 reviews

½ 3.6

21

Look Who's Back

by Timur Vermes

1,969 members

90 reviews

½ 3.4

22

A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works

by Jonathan Swift

1,480 members

20 reviews

4

23

The Mouse that Roared

by Léonard Wibberley

881 members

18 reviews

3.9

24

The Truth (with jokes)

1,741 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

25

The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication

by John Steinbeck

1,074 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

26

When you ride alone you ride with bin Laden : What the government should be telling us to help fight the war on terrorism

469 members

14 reviews

3.2

27

The White House Mess

by Christopher Buckley

397 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

28

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

28,568 members

415 reviews

4

29

2,792 members

44 reviews

½ 3.5

30

No Way to Treat a First Lady

by Christopher Buckley

673 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

31

Te qu man hua zhi

6 members

32

by Joseph Heller

44,220 members

578 reviews

4.1

33

The Doonesbury Chronicles

by Garry Trudeau

829 members

9 reviews

4.1

34

Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut: Twenty-Five Years of P. J. O'Rourke

by P. J. O'Rourke

788 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

35

Yuge!: 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump

by Garry Trudeau

261 members

11 reviews

4.2

36

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,292 members

866 reviews

3.9

37

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

29,311 members

315 reviews

4.1

38

13,650 members

135 reviews

½ 3.5

39

Animal Farm / 1984

by George Orwell

4,228 members

36 reviews

4.2

40

by Jerzy Kosiński

2,184 members

53 reviews

3.8

41

Naked Pictures of Famous People

1,923 members

24 reviews

½ 3.4

42

Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

by P. J. O'Rourke

1,646 members

21 reviews

½ 3.7

43

All the Trouble in the World

by P. J. O'Rourke

1,039 members

12 reviews

3.8

44

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

by George Saunders

973 members

34 reviews

½ 3.5

45

Give War a Chance

by P. J. O'Rourke

940 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

46

Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel

by Richard H. Minear

901 members

15 reviews

4.2

47

Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism

by P. J. O'Rourke

628 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

48

Florence of Arabia

by Christopher Buckley

601 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

49

You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

347 members

5 reviews

4

50

Speaking of Inalienable Rights, Amy

by Garry Trudeau

235 members

2 reviews

3.9

51

Peace Out, Dawg! Tales from Ground Zero

by Garry Trudeau

171 members

2 reviews

4.2

52

You Can't Spell America without Me

by Alec Baldwin

157 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

53

#SAD! Doonesbury in the Time of Trump

by Garry Trudeau

97 members

11 reviews

3.9

54

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

49,155 members

775 reviews

4.1

55

23,051 members

345 reviews

3.8

56

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

13,125 members

152 reviews

½ 3.7

57

by Terry Pratchett

12,399 members

182 reviews

½ 4.4

58

Welcome to the Monkey House

by Kurt Vonnegut

7,877 members

72 reviews

4

59

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

6,212 members

596 reviews

3.9

60

Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)

by Jonathan Swift

4,540 members

66 reviews

½ 3.5

61

Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source

2,164 members

13 reviews

4.2

62

Holidays in Hell

by P. J. O'Rourke

1,348 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

63

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,251 members

16 reviews

3.8

64

Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition

1,213 members

19 reviews

4.1

65

by P. J. O'Rourke

1,195 members

16 reviews

3.8

66

Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America

1,099 members

14 reviews

3.8

67

The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister

by Jonathan Lynn

1,039 members

13 reviews

½ 4.5

68

America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't

by Stephen Colbert

1,019 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

69

Gulliver's Travels [Norton Critical Edition]

by Jonathan Swift

914 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

70

Doonesbury's Greatest Hits: A Mid-Seventies Revue

by Garry Trudeau

584 members

6 reviews

4.1

71

The People's Doonesbury: Notes from Underfoot

by Garry Trudeau

438 members

3 reviews

4.2

72

Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known

392 members

7 reviews

4.1

73

Whose Boat Is This Boat? Comments That Don't Help in the Aftermath of a Hurricane

by Donald J. Trump

368 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

74

Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder

230 members

5 reviews

½ 4.7

75

"Any Grooming Hints for Your Fans, Rollie?"

by Gary B. Trudeau

223 members

2 reviews

4.1

76

But This War Had Such Promise

by Garry Trudeau

206 members

2 reviews

4.1

77

You're Never Too Old for Nuts and Berries

by Gary B. Trudeau

205 members

1 review

4.1

78

by Garry Trudeau

197 members

3 reviews

4

79

Los relámpagos de agosto

by Jorge Ibargüengoitia

189 members

8 reviews

3.9

80

American Spectator's Enemies List: A Vigilant Journalist's Plea for a Renewed Red Scare

by P. J. O'Rourke

150 members

3 reviews

½ 2.7

81

Koljatti : romaani

61 members

2.8

82

Obama's BlackBerry

by Kasper Hauser

55 members

9 reviews

3.1

83

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

56,694 members

811 reviews

½ 3.7

84

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

48,223 members

1,233 reviews

4.1

85

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

35,719 members

531 reviews

4.1

86

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

32,479 members

534 reviews

4

87

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

29,731 members

838 reviews

3.9

88

by Kurt Vonnegut

24,812 members

347 reviews

4.1

89

21,000 members

518 reviews

½ 4.3

90

by Arthur Miller

17,797 members

187 reviews

½ 3.7

91

by Charles Dickens

11,965 members

146 reviews

½ 3.5

92

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

by Edwin A. Abbott

10,808 members

202 reviews

½ 3.7

93

by Terry Pratchett

10,489 members

131 reviews

4

94

Monstrous Regiment

by Terry Pratchett

10,466 members

149 reviews

4

95

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

9,937 members

244 reviews

3.8

96

by Gregory Maguire

9,901 members

138 reviews

½ 3.4

97

The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

by Jonas Jonasson

8,977 members

490 reviews

½ 3.7

98

by Terry Pratchett

5,894 members

186 reviews

4

99

The Illuminatus! Trilogy

4,857 members

59 reviews

3.9

100

by Koushun Takami

4,849 members

130 reviews

4.1

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