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.


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  • Low Hanging Fruit by Alex  Thayer
    Low Hanging Fruit (At the End of the Day #1)
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    Release date: Apr 15, 2026
    A workplace satire with a mystery underneath. Reviewers call it "Silicon Valley meets Severance" and "the Mad Men of tech." Utterly free of AI. ...more
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    Availability: 100 copies available, 547 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jun 15 - Jun 23, 2026

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  • The Kinky and Unfortunate Events of Billy "Bone Spurs" Bumble by Steve Zappa
    The Kinky and Unfortunate Events of Billy "Bone Spurs" Bumble: A Novelette
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    Release date: Jun 07, 2026
    No longer able to terrorize families in the streets of Nashville, ICE agent Billy Bumble is forced into an office position due to his ailing bone spur ...more
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    Availability: 100 copies available, 472 people requesting

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  • Foundling Fathers by Meg Elison
    Foundling Fathers
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    Release date: Jun 23, 2026
    In celebration of its release, we're giving away 1 copy of FOUNDLING FATHERS, the new subversive novella by the award winning Meg Elison ...more
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  • Animal Farm
    Catch-22
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    Candide
    Gulliver’s Travels
    Cat’s Cradle
    Yellowface
    The Master and Margarita
    Breakfast of Champions
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
    Good Omens
    A Modest Proposal
    1984
    Fight Club
    The Sellout
    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThree Men in a Boat by Jerome K. JeromeRight Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
    British Wit and Humour
    564 books — 308 voters

    Second Term by J.M. AdamsAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe House Divided by J.B. ManheimCatch-22 by Joseph HellerTales of the Astonishing Black Spark by Charlie J. Eskew
    Political Satire
    114 books — 142 voters
    A Modest Proposal by Jonathan SwiftAnimal Farm by George OrwellCatch-22 by Joseph Heller1984 by George OrwellCandide by Voltaire
    Classic Satire
    55 books — 31 voters

    A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works by Jonathan SwiftAnimal Farm by George OrwellCandide by VoltaireThe Lost Gospel of Donald by Preston ColemanA Woman Does It Better by A Very Lucky Lady
    Must Read for the Aspiring Satirist
    12 books — 7 voters
    1984 by George OrwellFight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
    Let's Shake It Up A Bit
    978 books — 615 voters

    Oscar Wilde
    Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
    Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

    Anton Chekhov
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