 | Miss Lonelyhearts by Howard Teichmann
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $9.00 Newspaper columnist agonizes over his lovelorn clients.
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 | A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell: Two Novels by Nathanael West
Buy used from: $0.85 West takes on the Horatio Alger myth.
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 | The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic) by Nathanael West
Buy used from: $0.46 West skewers Hollywood.
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 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Bantam Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 Twain takes on King Arthur and the round table.
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 | A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Dover Thrift Editions) by Jonathan Swift
Buy new: $2.00 / Used from: $0.01 This may be the greatest satire ever written. More focused than GULLIVER.
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 | Little Green Men: A Novel by Christopher Buckley
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $0.01 This is William F.'s beloved son Chris, who pokes fun at UFO nuts.
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 | Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
Buy used from: $0.01 The protagonist is chief spokesman for the tobacco industry during an era of political correctness.
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 | Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) by Voltaire
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.01 Voltaire satirizes the theory that ours is the best of all possible worlds.
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: $0.77 Should be taught in junior high. Shows there is no such thing as a harmless drug.
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 | Babbitt (Bantam Classics) by Sinclair Lewis
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.01 Sinclair Lewis's best book in my mind. Satirizes businessmen.
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| Elmer Gantry (Signet classics) by Sinclair Lewis
Buy used from: $0.70 What would Lewis have thought of Jim and Tammy Fae Baker?
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 | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.96 Satirizes America's fascination with serial killers.
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 | Main Street (Signet Classics) by Sinclair Lewis
Buy used from: $0.01 Small town America takes a hit. These days they love Lewis in Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
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 | 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.77 Orwell was a little early, but give Ashcroft time.
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 | The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.92 Very bawdy. First of English language satirists. Although it was written in the fourteenth century, you'll recognize some of these people.
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 | Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $4.00 Knight errant in an era where chivalry was dead.
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 | Nicholas Nickleby (movie tie-in) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: $0.01 Dickens takes on the Industrial Revolution. Our greatest storyteller.
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 | Myra Breckinridge/Myron (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Gore Vidal
Buy used from: $8.46 Vidal tackles sexual preference.
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 | The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $2.50 / Used from: $0.01 This was written after Clemens lost his family. Much more bitter than his previous work, but fascinating.
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 | The Importance of Being Earnest (Dover Thrift Editions) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: $1.50 / Used from: $0.01 Comedy of manners.
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.99 Heller's diatribe against war. It doesn't get much funnier. Yossarian's "cultivation of boredom" to slow down time is right on.
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| Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy used from: $5.92 Another goofy satire written by a writer who was there. Vonnegut spent time in a prison camp during WWII.
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 | The Rape of the Lock: Illustrations by Alexander Pope
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $1.68 Pope takes a trivial incident and makes it grandiose and he does it in verse.
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 | Plays Unpleasant (Shaw Library) by George Bernard Shaw
Buy used from: $0.01 Shaw was a socialist. These plays show how he tackled social problems in his plays.
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 | Dimensions of Sheckley : The Selected Novels of Robert Sheckley by Robert Sheckley
Buy new: $29.00 / Used from: $14.20 Sheckley satirizes science fiction conventions.
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