A list of possible reads that I may or may not revisit ever again

Early satire

• Aesop / Aesop's fables
• Aristophanes
• Horace
• Ovid
• anyone else who wasn't an old white man

11-19th century

• Geoffrey Chaucer / The Canterbury Tales
• Don Quixote
• Molière
• Shakespeare
• Jonathon Swift
• Alexander Pope
• Voltaire
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
• The Miseries of Human Life

19+ century

• Nikolai Gogal
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Vanity Fair
• Charles Dickens
• A Fable for Critics
• Lewis Carroll
• Mark Twain
• Oscar Wilde
• George Bernard Shaw
• Aldous Huxley
• HG Wells
• George Orwell
• Anthony Burgess / A Clockwork Orange
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Catch-22
• Dr. Strangelove (Terry Southern & Stanley Kubrick)
• Ray Bradbury
• Mel Brooks
• Tom Wolfe / The Bonfire of the Vanities
• The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy
• Jonathan Miller
• Woody Allen ??
• Eleanor Bron
• Discworld series
• George Saunders

Contemp

• Bo Burnham
• Stephen Colbert / tv: The Colbert Report
• John Oliver / tv: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
• Jon Stewart / tv: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• David Thorne
• Casino Royale (1967)
• Starship Troopers
• Scary Movie
• Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
• Not Another Teen Movie
• Fight Club
• American Psycho
• American History X
• Land of the Dead
• The Great Dictator
• Monty Python
• Tropic Thunder (RDJ)
• The Man Who Knew Too Little

Online

• The Onion
• The Toast

Ideas to investigate

• hit and misses of satirical success (in contemp film & online news)