Read-alikes and related books

Books like Scoop

If you loved Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Satire, Classics, and Literary.

Satire Classics Literary Fiction

Top related books to Scoop

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Scoop.

Modern Classics Handful of Dust — Evelyn Waugh

Modern Classics Handful of Dust

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Hocus Pocus — Kurt Vonnegut

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady — Anita Loos

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Martin Chuzzlewit — Charles Dickens

Martin Chuzzlewit

Charles Dickens

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

The Way We Live Now — Anthony Trollope

The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Something Fresh — P. G. Wodehouse

Something Fresh

P. G. Wodehouse

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Fortress Besieged — Zhongshu Qian

Fortress Besieged

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Main Street — Sinclair Lewis

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Babbitt Fully Annotated Edition with Over 300 Notes (Alma Classics Evergreens) — Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt Fully Annotated Edition with Over 300 Notes (Alma Classics Evergreens)

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Eye in the Sky — Philip K. Dick

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

American Psycho — Bret Easton Ellis

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

White Noise (Penguin Orange Collection) — Don DeLillo

White Noise (Penguin Orange Collection)

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Emma — Jane Austen

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

The Children of Jocasta A Novel — Natalie Haynes

The Children of Jocasta A Novel

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Joseph Andrews/Shamela — Henry Fielding

Joseph Andrews/Shamela

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

The Walls of Jericho — Rudolph Fisher

The Walls of Jericho

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

The Absentee — Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Oliver Twist Introduction by Michael Slater — Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist Introduction by Michael Slater

Charles Dickens

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text) — Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)

Anthony Burgess

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Candide Or Optimism — Francois Voltaire

Candide Or Optimism

Francois Voltaire

Themes: Satire • Classics • Literary

Lucky Jim — Kingsley Amis

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

If Scoop by Evelyn Waugh is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Satire, Classics, Literary and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Evelyn Waugh, Kurt Vonnegut, Anita Loos, Charles Dickens, and others.

More by Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder — Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Decline and Fall — Evelyn Waugh

Decline and Fall

Vile Bodies — Evelyn Waugh

Penguin Classics Black Mischief 6 — Evelyn Waugh

Penguin Classics Black Mischief 6

A Handful of Dust — Evelyn Waugh

A Handful of Dust

A Tourist in Africa — Evelyn Waugh

A Tourist in Africa

Explore more

More by Evelyn Waugh More books tagged Satire Explore Classics

An informational database of English-language books