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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1861 times as satire)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,695,086 ratings — published 1945
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 916 times as satire)
avg rating 3.99 — 896,904 ratings — published 1961
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 729 times as satire)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,507,760 ratings — published 1969
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 674 times as satire)
avg rating 3.76 — 306,592 ratings — published 1759
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 561 times as satire)
avg rating 3.59 — 302,518 ratings — published 1726
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 549 times as satire)
avg rating 4.15 — 443,957 ratings — published 1963
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 500 times as satire)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,109,993 ratings — published 2023
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 451 times as satire)
avg rating 4.28 — 436,560 ratings — published 1967
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 443 times as satire)
avg rating 4.06 — 283,575 ratings — published 1973
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 422 times as satire)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,049,828 ratings — published 1979
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 392 times as satire)
avg rating 4.25 — 835,791 ratings — published 1990
A Modest Proposal (Paperback)
by (shelved 372 times as satire)
avg rating 4.02 — 49,885 ratings — published 1729
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 368 times as satire)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,631,627 ratings — published 1948
The Sellout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 295 times as satire)
avg rating 3.74 — 76,242 ratings — published 2015
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 294 times as satire)
avg rating 4.18 — 655,023 ratings — published 1996
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by (shelved 274 times as satire)
avg rating 4.17 — 411,955 ratings — published 1895
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as satire)
avg rating 3.80 — 373,384 ratings — published 1991
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
by (shelved 256 times as satire)
avg rating 3.99 — 428,605 ratings — published 1983
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as satire)
avg rating 3.89 — 303,717 ratings — published 1980
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as satire)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,119,859 ratings — published 1932
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as satire)
avg rating 3.85 — 464,323 ratings — published 1817
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as satire)
avg rating 4.27 — 957,246 ratings — published 1973
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as satire)
avg rating 3.91 — 311,135 ratings — published 1605
The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1)
by (shelved 207 times as satire)
avg rating 4.27 — 539,010 ratings — published 1942
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 207 times as satire)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,921,742 ratings — published 1813
I Am America (And So Can You!)
by (shelved 202 times as satire)
avg rating 3.90 — 84,748 ratings — published 2007
Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
by (shelved 193 times as satire)
avg rating 4.34 — 241,229 ratings — published 1989
Beauty Queens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as satire)
avg rating 3.62 — 55,359 ratings — published 2011
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 191 times as satire)
avg rating 3.97 — 73,799 ratings — published 1965
Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
by (shelved 186 times as satire)
avg rating 4.41 — 137,859 ratings — published 2004
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as satire)
avg rating 4.00 — 783,372 ratings — published 1962
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 183 times as satire)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,346,438 ratings — published 1885
The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind, #2)
by (shelved 177 times as satire)
avg rating 4.01 — 171,845 ratings — published 1986
Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
by (shelved 176 times as satire)
avg rating 4.24 — 277,084 ratings — published 1987
The Sirens of Titan (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as satire)
avg rating 4.15 — 161,346 ratings — published 1959
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as satire)
avg rating 4.22 — 183,899 ratings — published 2002
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
by (shelved 170 times as satire)
avg rating 4.19 — 321,275 ratings — published 1980
Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
by (shelved 167 times as satire)
avg rating 4.32 — 135,772 ratings — published 1992
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
by (shelved 167 times as satire)
avg rating 4.01 — 97,580 ratings — published 2004
Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)
by (shelved 166 times as satire)
avg rating 4.07 — 203,375 ratings — published 1987
Heart of a Dog (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as satire)
avg rating 4.08 — 75,600 ratings — published 1925
Galápagos (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as satire)
avg rating 3.87 — 90,236 ratings — published 1985
Mother Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as satire)
avg rating 4.24 — 108,908 ratings — published 1961
Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch, #2)
by (shelved 155 times as satire)
avg rating 4.42 — 114,971 ratings — published 1993
Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)
by (shelved 151 times as satire)
avg rating 4.50 — 120,250 ratings — published 2002
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as satire)
avg rating 3.78 — 108,943 ratings — published 1889
Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches, #2)
by (shelved 147 times as satire)
avg rating 4.16 — 133,677 ratings — published 1988
Survivor (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as satire)
avg rating 3.93 — 125,013 ratings — published 1999
Redshirts (ebook)
by (shelved 142 times as satire)
avg rating 3.87 — 119,628 ratings — published 2012
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as satire)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,923,006 ratings — published 1963
“Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!”
― Drop your Foreign Accent
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!”
― Drop your Foreign Accent
“A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?”
― I Am America
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