Popular North American Satire Books
Find satire books written by authors from North America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (11)
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American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. "A seminal book.” —The Washington Post One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyp... continue
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Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
“Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York Times In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. “Free-wheeling, wild and great . . . uniquely Vonnegut.”—Publishers Weekly
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Cat's Cradle : A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
“A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”—The New York Times Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best. “[Vonnegut is] an unimitative and i... continue
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Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary. At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he furiously scrambles, thousands of people he hasn't even met are trying to kill him. His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. ... continue
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El asco : tres relatos violentos by Horacio Castellanos Moya ES
Country: North America / 
Honduras
Honduras
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"Moya, el narrador de la historia, relata con sarcasmo y minuciosidad obsesivas su encuentro con Vega, un emigrante salvadoreno comodamente asentado en el estado del bienestar canadiense de visita en su pais natal. De este falso dialogo, mas bien desmedido monologo con testigo, van apareciendo, como de una gran bolsa de payaso el rencor, las contradicciones, la decapitacion de la historia y los valores que la derecha y la izquierda se disputan en medio de una ciudad, un pais y, por extension, un continente en ruinas."
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Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Hailed by many as the major experimental novel of the post-war period, Gravity's Rainbow is a bizarre comic masterpiece in which linguistic virtuosity creates a whole other world.
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Less: A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (New York Times Book Review). WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017 A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017 Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award and the California Book Award "I could not love LESS more."--Ron Charles, Washington Post "Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, ... continue
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Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece from the bestselling author of Burr, Lincoln, and the National Book Award-winning United States. With a new introduction by Camille Paglia "I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess." So begins the irresistible testimony of the luscious instructor of Empathy and Posture at Buck Loner's Academy of Drama and Modeling. Myra has a secret that only her surgeon shares; a passion for classic Hollywood films, which she regards as the supreme achievements of Western... continue
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time). Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prison... continue
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The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
"Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in...for six months out of the year."--