Menippean Satires of All Time

1.
Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,498 ratings
2.
The Satyricon
The Satyricon
by: Petronius
3.78 avg rating — 9,455 ratings
3.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) 4.22 avg rating — 1,969,860 ratings
4.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass 4.06 avg rating — 597,596 ratings
5.
Nightmare Abbey
Nightmare Abbey 3.45 avg rating — 2,034 ratings
6.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,252 ratings
7.
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel 3.65 avg rating — 16,002 ratings
8.
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,906 ratings
9.
Jacques the Fatalist
Jacques the Fatalist 3.80 avg rating — 9,455 ratings
10.
Praise of Folly
Praise of Folly
by: Erasmus
3.83 avg rating — 19,731 ratings
11.
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr 3.94 avg rating — 2,251 ratings
12.
The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto 3.19 avg rating — 39,779 ratings
13.
Lucian, Volume VII: Dialogues of the Dead. Dialogues of the Sea-Gods. Dialogues of the Gods. Dialogues of the Courtesans
Lucian, Volume VII: Dialogues of the Dead. Dialogues of the Sea-Gods. Dialogues of the Gods. Dialogues of the Courtesans 4.13 avg rating — 181 ratings
14.
The Golden Ass
The Golden Ass
by: Apuleius
3.86 avg rating — 16,753 ratings
15.
Don Juan
Don Juan 3.78 avg rating — 8,807 ratings
16.
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa 4.10 avg rating — 4,048 ratings
17.
Foucault’s Pendulum
Foucault’s Pendulum 3.91 avg rating — 73,671 ratings
18.
Demons
Demons 4.30 avg rating — 59,719 ratings
19.
Maldoror and the Complete Works
Maldoror and the Complete Works 4.25 avg rating — 3,913 ratings
20.
Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3) 3.92 avg rating — 15,454 ratings
21.
Apocolocyntosis
Apocolocyntosis
by: Seneca
3.66 avg rating — 579 ratings
22.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy 4.11 avg rating — 1,840 ratings
23.
A Tale of a Tub
A Tale of a Tub 3.45 avg rating — 2,045 ratings
24.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 4.19 avg rating — 11,414 ratings
25.
The Water Babies
The Water Babies 3.38 avg rating — 9,743 ratings
26.
Point Counter Point
Point Counter Point 3.87 avg rating — 12,092 ratings
27.
Nightwood
Nightwood 3.61 avg rating — 14,248 ratings
28.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake 3.68 avg rating — 13,450 ratings
29.
At Swim-Two-Birds
At Swim-Two-Birds 3.85 avg rating — 14,060 ratings
30.
The Third Policeman
The Third Policeman 3.97 avg rating — 22,242 ratings
31.
Cat’s Cradle
Cat’s Cradle 4.15 avg rating — 428,349 ratings
32.
The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49 3.69 avg rating — 93,726 ratings
33.
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,890 ratings
34.
The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up
The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up 3.54 avg rating — 540 ratings
35.
The Circle (The Circle, #1)
The Circle (The Circle, #1) 3.43 avg rating — 227,358 ratings
36.
AnatomĂ­a del tabaco
Anatomía del tabaco 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
37.
Sartor Resartus
Sartor Resartus 3.63 avg rating — 1,142 ratings
38.
A Maggot
A Maggot 3.59 avg rating — 3,506 ratings
39.
The Secret Glory
The Secret Glory 3.75 avg rating — 146 ratings
40.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra 4.07 avg rating — 169,507 ratings
41.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,024 ratings
42.
Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating — 2,015,493 ratings
43.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,470 ratings
44.
Utopia
Utopia 3.55 avg rating — 80,685 ratings
45.
Little, Big
Little, Big 3.80 avg rating — 12,095 ratings
46.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,010 ratings
47.
Day of the Oprichnik
Day of the Oprichnik 3.75 avg rating — 9,219 ratings
48.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,747 ratings
49.
Los detectives salvajes
Los detectives salvajes 4.17 avg rating — 50,122 ratings
50.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,616 ratings
51.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 3.73 avg rating — 22,670 ratings
52.
Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,703 ratings
53.
The Consolation of Philosophy
The Consolation of Philosophy
by: Boethius
4.05 avg rating — 17,137 ratings
54.
Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating — 1,020,080 ratings
55.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World 4.11 avg rating — 148,383 ratings
56.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night; Complete
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night; Complete
by: Anonymous
4.20 avg rating — 148 ratings
57.
Paris Spleen
Paris Spleen 4.24 avg rating — 15,176 ratings
58.
Sir John Harington's A New Discourse of a Stale Subject Called the Metamorphosis of Ajax
Sir John Harington's A New Discourse of a Stale Subject Called the Metamorphosis of Ajax 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
59.
Giles Goat-Boy
Giles Goat-Boy 3.75 avg rating — 2,231 ratings
60.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,337 ratings
61.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
The French Lieutenant’s Woman 3.88 avg rating — 54,864 ratings
62.
Bouvard and PĂ©cuchet
Bouvard and Pécuchet 3.82 avg rating — 4,381 ratings
63.
War with the Newts
War with the Newts 4.17 avg rating — 16,878 ratings
64.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3.64 avg rating — 160,984 ratings
65.
Lanark
Lanark 4.10 avg rating — 7,665 ratings
66.
Romans Et Contes
Romans Et Contes
by: Voltaire
3.97 avg rating — 172 ratings
67.
L'autre monde ou les Etats et les empires de la lune
L'autre monde ou les Etats et les empires de la lune 3.52 avg rating — 912 ratings
68.
The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary 4.05 avg rating — 10,953 ratings
69.
Mundus Alter et Idem: An Old World and a New
Mundus Alter et Idem: An Old World and a New 2.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
70.
The Magus
The Magus 4.05 avg rating — 62,315 ratings
71.
The Memoirs of Many in One: By Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray
The Memoirs of Many in One: By Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray 3.29 avg rating — 56 ratings
72.
La Leyenda De Los Soles
La Leyenda De Los Soles 3.53 avg rating — 32 ratings
73.
El rey de La Habana
El rey de La Habana 3.70 avg rating — 1,508 ratings
74.
Sin tetas no hay ParaĂ­so
Sin tetas no hay Paraíso 3.57 avg rating — 1,096 ratings
75.
Icaro-Menippus (New Translation) (Early Science Fiction Series Book 3)
Icaro-Menippus (New Translation) (Early Science Fiction Series Book 3) 3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings
76.
Los sueños
Los sueños 3.73 avg rating — 504 ratings
77.
El CriticĂłn
El Criticón 4.11 avg rating — 231 ratings
78.
2666
2666 4.21 avg rating — 46,694 ratings
79.
The Idiot
The Idiot 4.21 avg rating — 207,618 ratings
80.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 56,585 ratings
81.
Adán Buenosayres
Adán Buenosayres 4.32 avg rating — 624 ratings
82.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,623 ratings
83.
Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night 4.19 avg rating — 46,245 ratings
84.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 3.93 avg rating — 9,668 ratings
85.
The Story Giant
The Story Giant 4.30 avg rating — 169 ratings
86.
Exemplary Stories
Exemplary Stories 3.68 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
87.
The Box Man
The Box Man 3.59 avg rating — 7,276 ratings