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24 titles for readers of Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut, selected for shared themes: Satire, Classics, and Literary.

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Timequake — Kurt Vonnegut

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

The Warden — Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Decline and Fall — Evelyn Waugh

Decline and Fall

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Candide Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) — Francois Voltaire

Candide Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Francois Voltaire

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

The Ticket that Exploded The Restored Text — William S. Burroughs

The Ticket that Exploded The Restored Text

William S. Burroughs

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

The Color of Magic A Discworld Novel — Terry Pratchett

The Color of Magic A Discworld Novel

Terry Pratchett

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Lost Illusions — Honoré De Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Carry On, Jeeves — P. G. Wodehouse

Carry On, Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Emma — Jane Austen

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Animal Farm — George Orwell

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

A Handful of Dust — Evelyn Waugh

A Handful of Dust

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Flatland The Book that Inspired Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls — Edwin Abbott

Flatland The Book that Inspired Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

The Confidence-Man His Masquerade — Herman Melville

The Confidence-Man His Masquerade

Herman Melville

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

The Crying of Lot 49 — Thomas Pynchon

The Crying of Lot 49

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

The Green Man — Kingsley Amis

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Eye in the Sky — Philip K. Dick

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Main Street The Story of Carol Kennicott — Sinclair Lewis

Main Street The Story of Carol Kennicott

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Finnley Wren His Notions and Opinions, Together with a Haphazard History of His Career and Amours in These Moody Years, As Well As Sundry Rhymes, Fables, Diatribes and Literary Misdemeanors — Philip Wylie

Finnley Wren His Notions and Opinions, Together with a Haphazard History of His Career and Amours in These Moody Years, As Well As Sundry Rhymes, Fables, Diatribes and Literary Misdemeanors

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

The Absentee — Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Vanity Fair A Novel Without a Hero — William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair A Novel Without a Hero

William Makepeace Thackeray

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Our Mutual Friend With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton — Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton

Charles Dickens

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Satire, Classics, Literary — the same threads that run through Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut. Among the authors featured: Kurt Vonnegut, Anthony Trollope, Anthony Burgess, Evelyn Waugh, and others.

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