Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Lampoon: 1964 High School Yearbook: 39th Reunion Edition | 1974 | P.J. O’Rourke | Buy |
| 2 | National Lampoon Sunday Newspaper Parody | 1978 | P.J. O’Rourke | Buy |
| 3 | The Sixties | 1995 | P.J. O’Rourke | Buy |
| 4 | 100 Years Of Fishing: The Ultimate Tribute To Our Fishing Tradition | 2002 | P.J. O’Rourke | Buy |
| 5 | The Weekly Standard: A Reader: 1995-2005 | 2005 | P.J. O’Rourke | Buy |
| 6 | The Dreaded Feast: Writers on Enduring the Holidays | 2009 | P.J. O’Rourke | Buy |
| 7 | The Casual Reader | 2014 | P.J. O’Rourke | Buy |
| 8 | The Seven Deadly Virtues | 2014 | P.J. O’Rourke | Buy |
| 9 | The Dadly Virtues | 2015 | P.J. O’Rourke | Buy |
| 10 | The Christmas Virtues: A Treasury of Conservative Tales for the Holidays | 2015 | P.J. O’Rourke | Buy |
| 11 | Conservative Christmas Quotables | 2016 | P.J. O’Rourke | Buy |
P.J. O’Rourke’s anthology work spans his entire career, from the National Lampoon parodies of the 1970s to themed collections published in the 2010s. His earliest entries include the 1964 High School Yearbook parody and the Sunday Newspaper Parody, both products of his years on the National Lampoon staff. These remain cult favorites among fans of the magazine’s golden era.
His later anthologies tend toward themed collections with a conservative sensibility. Titles like The Seven Deadly Virtues, The Dadly Virtues, and The Christmas Virtues gather essays from multiple writers around specific topics, with O’Rourke contributing his own pieces and serving as editor. The Dreaded Feast collects writers’ accounts of surviving the holidays. These books are lighter than his solo non-fiction but offer a good sample of the broader circle of humor writers O’Rourke associated with throughout his career.