Satire Books by BIPOC Authors
- by Canwen Xu
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, Satire
- Publication Year: 2026
“Thank you for your interest in our school, but we regret to inform you that…” you’re not special. You’re too average. You’re too boring. Well, in that case, she’ll have...
- Fiction, Satire, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2025
From the critically-acclaimed author of Disorientation, a multi-genre story collection that explores the limits and possibilities of storytelling. A mail order bride from Taiwan is packed up in a cardboard...
- Family Life, Fiction, Satire
- Publication Year: 2025
A social media influencer’s empire is burned to the ground—literally. The top suspects? The five daughters who made her famous. What do you really know about the people you’ve made...
- by Kevin Nguyen
The paths of four family members diverge drastically when the U.S. government begins detaining Vietnamese Americans, in this “rich, gripping novel that lands squarely as a mirror of our contemporary...
- by Ed Park
Gilt-edged stories that slice clean through the mundanity of modern life, written by Ed Park. In “Machine City” a college student’s chance role in a friend’s movie blurs the line...
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Political Fiction, Satire
- Publication Year: 2025
Lyrical and swashbuckling, tender and surreal, Gabriela Cabezón Camara’s new novel finds glimmers of hope for the future in the brutal history of colonial Latin America. Deep in the wilds...
- Dystopian, Fiction, Satire, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government. The new book censor hasn’t slept soundly in weeks. By day he...
- Coming of Age, Fiction, Satire
- Publication Year: 2024
From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel,” New York Magazine), an electrifying novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as...
- American Literature, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Satire
- Publication Year: 2024
James is a brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that...
- by Samit Basu
- Dystopian, Fiction, Satire, Science Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at...
- Satire
- Publication Year: 2022
A Taiwanese American woman’s coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a college campus in this outrageously hilarious and startlingly tender debut novel. Twenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate...