📚 Satire

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Wit with a blade: targets, forms, and the line from Juvenal through Swift to the present complaints.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject satire in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	1726	1,810
Candide	Voltaire	1746	1,079
Animal Farm	George Orwell	1945	657
Tono-Bungay	H. G. Wells	1890	332
Crome yellow	Aldous Huxley	1921	299
Мастер и Маргарита	Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков	1966	237
A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess	1962	146
Catch-22	Joseph Heller	1961	134
Love and Mr. Lewisham	H. G. Wells	1899	118
Satirae	Horace	1763	115
The Colour of Magic	Terry Pratchett	1983	93
The Screwtape Letters	C. S. Lewis	1942	88
A tale of a tub	Jonathan Swift	1704	84
Mort	Terry Pratchett	1987	61
Breakfast of Champions	Kurt Vonnegut	1973	60
Animal Farm / Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell	1949	48
Satirae	Juvenal	1648	47
God bless you, Mr. Rosewater	Kurt Vonnegut	1965	43
The Stepford Wives	Ira Levin	1972	41
A Christmas garland	Sir Max Beerbohm	1912	36
Myra Breckinridge	Gore Vidal	1968	32
Les Possédés	Albert Camus	1959	31
Er ist wieder da	Timur Vermes	2012	31
Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey	Thomas Love Peacock	1845	26
Raḥmat Allāh; that is: The mercy of Allah	Hilaire Belloc	1922	24
The satires of Juvenal	Juvenal	1807	23
The Magic Christian	Terry Southern	1959	21
Poor things	Alasdair Gray	1992	21
Numero Zero	Umberto Eco	2013	21
QualityLand	Marc-Uwe Kling	2017	21

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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