Satire Bucket List

Tiffany goes to learn witchcraft and something invisible follows her.

A wizard's staff goes to an eighth daughter; Granny Weatherwax argues with the university.

Tiffany Aching, a frying pan and the Nac Mac Feegle against the Queen of the Fairies.

Modern, rational vampires invade Lancre and Granny Weatherwax is not invited.

Tiffany dances with winter and winter falls in love with her.

Three witches, a murdered king and a travelling theatre; Macbeth as Pratchett tells it.

Rincewind in XXXX, a continent of red sand, beer and very large sheep.

The heir to a desert kingdom trains as an assassin and inherits seven thousand years of ritual.

Spider Jerusalem, a Hunter Thompson of the future, against the City; Warren Ellis.

Enid and Rebecca after high school in a suburb of nowhere; Clowes' teenage bible.

A human raised by Martians comes to Earth and starts a church; grok.

A dead man narrates his pointless life with digressions; Machado's 1881 modernism.

Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for the Mafia and fights a virus in the Metaverse; the word comes from here.

A 36-year-old who is only normal behind a till; Murata's deadpan bestseller.

A Bangalore driver murders his master and explains why in letters to the Chinese premier; Adiga's Booker.

A Muslim party wins the French presidency in 2022; Houellebecq published it the day of Charlie Hebdo.

A god reduced to a tortoise and the one boy who believes; the Discworld book to start with.

Earth is demolished for a bypass; 42 and a towel.

Yossarian wants out of the war but only the sane ask, and asking proves you are sane; Heller's loop.

A tennis academy, a halfway house and a film so entertaining it kills; 1,079 pages and 388 endnotes.

Alexander Portnoy tells his analyst everything; the novel that scandalised 1969.

The pigs take over the farm; all animals are equal, but some more than others.

Billy Pilgrim comes unstuck in time between Dresden and Tralfamadore; so it goes.

Oedipa Maas and a secret postal system; Pynchon in 150 pages.

An idiot, or a genius, in the Austro-Hungarian army; the funniest book about a war.

Ice-nine, a fake religion and the end of the world in a Caribbean republic; Vonnegut at his funniest.

A professor of Hitler studies, an airborne toxic event and the fear of death; DeLillo's comedy.

A nature columnist sent by mistake to cover an African war; Waugh's Fleet Street satire.

A thirty-year-old is dragged back to school; Gombrowicz's grotesque about immaturity.

A 999-line poem and the mad commentary of the man who stole it; Nabokov's puzzle novel.