Comedy & satire

Landmark works

1. 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
2. 1813 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen · read free
3. 1600 A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
4. 1932 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
5. 1623 The Tempest by William Shakespeare
6. 1861 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens · read free
7. 1600 The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare · read free
8. 1623 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
9. 1623 As You Like It by William Shakespeare
10. The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
11. 1623 The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
12. 1962 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
13. 1734 The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
14. 1871 Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
15. 1836 The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens · read free
16. 1983 Discworld by Terry Pratchett
17. 1884 Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott · read free
18. 2012 The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
19. 1990 Good Omens by Terry Pratchett
20. 1983 The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
21. 1889 Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome · read free
22. 1928 Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
23. 1986 The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
24. 1987 Mort by Terry Pratchett
25. 1876 The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
26. 1988 Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
27. 1996 Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
28. 1987 Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
29. 1991 Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
30. 1988 Sourcery by Terry Pratchett

Writers

• William Shakespeare1564–1616 · English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
• Charles Dickens1812–1870 · English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)
• Jane Austen1775–1817 · author, novelist, writer (1775–1817)
• J. K. Rowling1965 · English author (born 1965)
• Virginia Woolf1882–1941 · English modernist writer (1882–1941)
• William Blake1757–1827 · English poet and artist (1757–1827)
• Lewis Carroll1832–1898 · British author and scholar (1832–1898)
• Aldous Huxley1894–1963 · viva el completo (1894–1963)
• Samuel Johnson1709–1784 · English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
• Graham Greene1904–1991 · British writer, playwright and literary critic (1904–1991)
• Harold Pinter1930–2008 · British playwright (1930–2008)
• Terry Pratchett1948–2015 · English fantasy author (1948–2015)
• Hugh Laurie1959 · English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer (born 1959)
• John Dryden1631–1700 · 17th-century English poet and playwright (1631–1700)
• Ben Jonson1572–1637 · English playwright, poet, and actor (1572-1637)
• Stephen Fry1957 · British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
• Anthony Burgess1917–1993 · English writer and composer (1917–1993)
• Evelyn Waugh1903–1966 · British writer and journalist (1903–1966)
• Henry Fielding1707–1754 · English novelist and dramatist (1707–1754)
• Jerome K. Jerome1859–1927 · English humorist (1859-1927)
• Aphra Behn1640–1689 · British playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689)
• P. G. Wodehouse1881–1975 · English author (1881–1975)
• Eric Idle1943 · British comedian, actor and writer (born 1943)
• Ian McEwan1948 · British author (born 1948)

And 78 more

• Noël Coward (1899)
• Julian Barnes (1946)
• Samuel Butler (1835)
• Martin Amis (1949)
• Martin McDonagh (1970)
• Anthony Trollope (1815)
• Edward Lear (1812)
• George Meredith (1828)
• Arnold Bennett (1867)
• David Garrick (1717)
• J. B. Priestley (1894)
• Helen Fielding (1958)
• Alan Bennett (1934)
• W. S. Gilbert (1836)
• Peter Shaffer (1926)
• Ben Elton (1959)
• John Burgoyne (1722)
• John Vanbrugh (1664)
• William Beckford (1760)
• Max Beerbohm (1872)
• Howard Jacobson (1942)
• Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838)
• Thomas Middleton (1580)
• Alan Ayckbourn (1939)
• Thomas Nashe (1567)
• Terence Rattigan (1911)
• David Nicholls (1966)
• Thomas Hood (1799)
• William Harrison Ainsworth (1805)
• Michael Frayn (1933)
• Francis Beaumont (1584)
• Jez Butterworth (1969)
• Thomas Dekker (1572)
• Compton Mackenzie (1883)
• Jasper Fforde (1961)
• George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1627)
• Stella Gibbons (1902)
• Colley Cibber (1671)
• Willy Russell (1947)
• R. C. Sherriff (1896)
• Philip Massinger (1583)
• Christopher Fry (1907)
• Arthur Wing Pinero (1855)
• William Wycherley (1640)
• Patrick Hamilton (1904)
• Elizabeth Inchbald (1753)
• Eliza Haywood (1693)
• Thomas Heywood (1574)
• Thomas Shadwell (1642)
• Adam Roberts (1965)
• James Shirley (1596)
• Enid Bagnold (1889)
• Susanna Centlivre (1667)
• Thomas d'Urfey (1653)
• A. P. Herbert (1890)
• E. V. Lucas (1868)
• Henry Carey (1687)
• John Van Druten (1901)
• Thomas Killigrew (1612)
• Peter Ustinov (1921)
• Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856)
• Richard Cumberland (1731)
• George Colman the Younger (1762)
• Dornford Yates (1885)
• Hannah Cowley (1743)
• Peter Nichols (1927)
• Val Gielgud (1900)
• Henry James Byron (1835)
• Terence Frisby (1932)
• Mary Pix (1666)
• Edgar Jepson (1863)
• Archibald Clavering Gunter (1847)
• Cosmo Stuart (1869)
• N. C. Hunter (1908)
• Kingsley Amis (1922)
• Paul Stewart (1955)
• John Birmingham (1964)
• John Godber (1956)