Satire Bucket List

Ignatius J. Reilly, hot-dog vendor and medievalist, against New Orleans; published eleven years after the author's suicide.

Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds, until it is not; cultivate your garden.

Chichikov tours provincial Russia buying dead serfs on paper; Gogol's comic epic.

Lilliput, Brobdingnag and the horses who are wiser than men; Swift's satire dressed as travel.

Becky Sharp climbs through Regency society without a heart; a novel without a hero.

The same tiny squads sent into space and back through history, with the graveyard on the hill still filling up.

A neon VHS 1980s with Michael Biehn narrating; the standalone joke that outlived the game around it.

Points for pedestrians and a timer only a crash extends; the racer several countries banned outright.

War has never been so much fun; squads of little men and a graveyard that grows.

Turn the universe into paperclips; an AI parable as a browser game.

A corporate colony in space; Obsidian's Fallout in the stars.

Spread managed democracy with friendly fire and stratagems; the co-op hit of 2024.