The Best Satirical Novels to Make You Laugh... and Think

8/16/2022

I recently shared my five favorite satirical novels to make you laugh and think on a new website called Shepherd. Shepherd is a new site trying to help readers find books in fun ways. They ask authors like myself to recommend books around a topic, theme, or mood. And, then they remix these book recommendations into categories to help you explore things like satire or identity politics.

The list is topical with the inclusion of Sir Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses - and by the way pre-dated the cowardly, evil, and imbecilic attack on the author.

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What Writers Are Saying About
Our Parent Who Art In heaven:

Powell has penned what may be the anti-woke campus novel of our times, a rollicking satire equal to the wittiest and most keenly observed of Tom Sharpe or Evelyn Waugh."
David Joiner, author of Kanazawa

"When I started reading Our Parent Who Art in Heaven, I laughed so loud I scared myself - when I finished it, I realized I'd just read a brilliant book. If I taught English Lit., I'd put Powell's satire on my syllabus with such writers as Evelyn Waugh, DH Lawrence, and John Fowles. And when they (the woke mob of both plural and singular theys) came for Powell's book with pitchforks and Twitter, screaming for the book to be cancelled, I would fight for it, as it is a great book about this age of unreason."
Kirsten Koza, humourist, author of Lost in Moscow

"Hurry! Get this book before it's canceled! Brilliant and hysterically funny. Touches on everything wrong with today's so-called higher education. I can't wait to (anonymously) leave this dangerously hilarious book in my English Department Lounge. Pure comical genius. Unfortunately, it's all too true."
Gary Buslik, author of A Rotten Person in the Caribbean

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