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Satire - Extreme Reader 2025

Reading suggestions for anyone to enjoy that also work for the Extreme Reader 2025 challenge! Additional Category Information: • Use of comedy and exaggeration to point out foolishness and flaws often of society or humanity

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  • As the politicians bring the nation to the brink of war, a mysterious book appears offering directives and carrying wisdom to prepare people for Adjustment Day.
    BookNew York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018] — F PALAH-C
  • America Again

    Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't

    Colbert, Stephen, 1964-
    Covering subjects ranging from healthcare to the economy to food, Stephen gives America the dose of truth it needs to get back on track.
    BookNew York : Grand Central Pub., 2012. — 818.607 C671A 2012
  • Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.
    BookNew York : First Second, 2006. — YG AMERI
  • Animal Farm

    the Graphic Novel

    Odyr,
    A beautiful graphic adaptation of George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel.
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. — GN ORWEL
  • Sasha Marcus was once the epitome of contemporary success: an internet sensation, social media darling, and a creator of a high profile wellness brand for women. But a confrontation with an abusive troll has taken a horrifying turn, and…
    BookNew York, NY : Atria Books, [2021] — F MCELR-I
  • Birds Aren't Real

    the True Story of Mass Avian Murder and the Largest Surveillance Campaign in US History

    McIndoe, Peter,
    This urgent manifesto features a host of useful illustrations, activities, and leaked classified documents that will convince even the most outspoken skeptic that birds aren't real. The truth is out there: will you stand and fight before…
    BookNew York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2024. — 817 MCINDOE 2024
  • Breakfast of Champions

    Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!

    Vonnegut, Kurt
    A satirical novel that critiques American society, particularly its treatment of marginalized groups like the poor and people of color, through the story of Dwayne Hoover, a disillusioned Pontiac car salesman. The book is known for its…
    BookLondon : Cape, 1973. — F VONNE-K
  • Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this…
    BookNew York : Random house, 1928. — F VOLTA-F
  • The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters --…
    BookNew York : Modern Library, 2008. — 821.1 C3931C 2008
  • Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying…
    BookNew York : Simon and Schuster, 1961. — F HELLE-J
  • The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's…
    BookNew York : Pantheon Books, [2023] — F ADJEI-N
  • The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a…
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf ; San Francisco : McSweeney's Books, 2013. — F EGGER-D
  • Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia…
    BookNew York : Norton, 20uu[1962] — F BURGE-A
  • Dictatorship

    It's Easier Than You Think!

    Kendzior, Sarah,
    Do you crave the power to shape the world in your image? Can you tell lies without blinking an eye? Do you see enemies all around you? If you answered yes to all of the above, then this is the job for you! And if becoming a dictator sounds…
    BookNew York : First Second, 2023. — GN 321.9 KENDZIOR 2023
  • Six disgruntled teens are forced to spend their winter break at fat camp during Flagstaff, Arizona's worst blizzard in a century, only to find that Camp Featherlite is even worse than expected because it is crawling with…
    BookNew York : Razorbill, 2021. — YF DEVOS-K
  • Ending her relationship with a man who she discovers is a popular anonymous internet conspiracy theorist, a woman activist travels from Washington, DC, to Berlin, where she struggles with increasingly manipulative dynamics in her online,…
    BookNew York : Catapult, [2021] — F OYLER-L
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    a Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

    Thompson, Hunter S.
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop…
    BookNew York : Popular Library, [1971] — F THOMP-H
  • From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's writing will grab you, haunt you, enrage and invigorate you. By placing ordinary characters in extraordinary situations, Adjei-Brenyah reveals the violence, injustice,…
    BookBarcelona, España : Libros del Asteroide, 2021. — SP ADJEI-N
  • The Innocents Abroad

    Or, The New Pilgrims` Progress, Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City`s Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land

    Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
    The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain published in 1869 which humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City…
    BookNew York : Heritage Press, [1963] — 817 TWAIN 1962
  • From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.
    BookNew York : Pantheon Books, [2020] — F YU-C