P.J. O’Rourke Books in Order

This collection gathers sexual humor from National Lampoon, edited by P. J. O'Rourke, Peter Kaminsky and Elise Cagan. Its adult comic material forms a second volume following the magazine's earlier Dirty Book anthology.

P.J. O'Rourke turns conventional etiquette advice upside down in a satirical guide to behaving badly. Covering entertaining, relationships, reading, and death, he treats modern discourtesy as an absurd set of social rules to master.

P.J. O'Rourke parodies domestic advice for bachelors who have little interest in learning to cook, clean, or keep house. His deliberately impractical suggestions turn everyday chores and the excuses used to avoid them into comedy.

P.J. O'Rourke combines political reporting, travel, and personal essays to sketch a hedonistic brand of conservatism. Visits to conflict zones and authoritarian states sit alongside comic examinations of cars, everyday behavior, and his own contradictions.

P.J. O'Rourke examines the workings of American government through reporting and political satire. Budgets, bureaucracy, elected officials, and voters all become subjects in an irreverent explanation of how Washington functions and why it so often fails.

Essays spanning twenty-five years follow P.J. O'Rourke's journey from counterculture radical to conservative commentator. Previously uncollected pieces explore political change, magazine work, driving, and leisure, forming an unconventional portrait of his evolving outlook.

Beginning with an American Spectator article and expanding through reader suggestions, P.J. O'Rourke compiles a satirical roster of public irritants. Politicians, celebrities, cultural fashions, and assorted forms of foolishness receive his deliberately indiscriminate scrutiny.

P.J. O'Rourke surveys a year of domestic life from his living room, mixing family observations with political and cultural satire. Occasional excursions, from India to a wine tasting, broaden the range of targets beyond his sofa.

P.J. O'Rourke reports on American foreign policy after the Cold War, combining firsthand travel with political satire. Kosovo, the aftermath of September 11, and the Iraq invasion reveal the contradictions and human consequences of intervention.

P.J. O'Rourke collects three decades of automotive journalism, tracing his enthusiasm for cars through road trips, racing, and improbable journeys. His accounts range from cross-country adventures and NASCAR to difficult roads in Mexico and Central Asia.

P.J. O'Rourke examines the principles behind American political dysfunction through satire and commentary. The financial crisis, health care, climate policy, education, and public spending provide material for his skeptical account of power, freedom, and responsibility.

After retiring from war reporting, P.J. O'Rourke discovers that ordinary travel brings its own frustrations. Family skiing, sightseeing, and a hazardous ride through Kyrgyzstan become occasions to examine marriage, parenthood, and the elusive promise of a restful holiday.

P.J. O'Rourke uses his own experiences to examine the generation born after World War II. Personal anecdotes and social commentary trace its rebellions, ambitions, excesses, and enduring influence on American culture and politics.

P.J. O'Rourke follows the 2016 American presidential campaign from its crowded opening field through debates, primaries, and election night. His satire examines the candidates and the political conditions that led a conservative writer to endorse Hillary Clinton.

P.J. O'Rourke brings his satirical attention to business, investment, and finance, drawing on decades of observing economic upheaval. Essays examine technological promises, cryptocurrency, and the strange behavior surrounding money, ending with an imagined world of free goods.

P.J. O'Rourke examines a divided America through essays on history, social media, technology, and public policy. His observations connect contemporary anger with older national habits while proposing deliberately provocative ways to rethink political life.

Edited by Terry McDonell, this collection arranges P.J. O'Rourke's quotations and extended comic riffs by subject. Selections spanning more than four decades cover politics, economics, human behavior, and the pleasures and irritations of everyday life.

P. J. O'Rourke visits places marked by war, repression, and political upheaval, including Lebanon, Korea, Poland, and El Salvador. These travel reports mix firsthand encounters with sardonic commentary, finding absurdity and uncomfortable humor amid dangerous events.