Satire

Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be funny, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon.


The Beasts of Success by Jasun EtherPoint Counter Point by Aldous HuxleyCandide by VoltaireThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisSatires and Epistles of Horace and Satires of Persius by Horatius
Greatest Satires of All Time
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Out There by Mark BradleyThe Sincerest Form of Parody by John BensonThe Eo-Nauts, of the Spirit of Delusion by Lemuel GulliverMan Bites Man by R.O. BlechmanHornbook for the Double Damned by samuel milton elam
"Satire"
73 books — 2 voters

1984 by George OrwellCatch-22 by Joseph HellerDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaAnimal Farm by George Orwell
White Collar Holler
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The Craziest Book Ever Written by Mr. WThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Stranger by Albert CamusFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Absurdist Fiction
268 books — 337 voters


Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ambrose Bierce
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

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