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The aim of this study is to identify the social satirical elements in The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonneut. In this paper we can identify results as follows : In The Crying of Lot 49, social satire lies in the criticism of closed society. Oedipa realizes that genuine communication stems from understanding of the “Other”. She refuses to adopt only the formal communication. Journey to Narcisos ironically means an escape from narcissism. We can say that Pynchon reminds us of chances of escape from narcissism by using the term “trystero” as social metaphor. The satire in Slaughterhouse-Five attacks the notion of war as glorious, noble and just through a mixture of fact and fantasy. Vonnegut shows to us that a historical construct which has been regarded as an absolute truth is in fact a kind of arbitrary construct distorted by bad illusions. Bad illusions force man to overlook the common humanity. Billy’s trip to Tralfamadore serves to see time and death from a different perspective and to give them a better view of bad illusions. Such inversion of values leads man away from compassion and conscience toward greed and self-centeredness. In Slaughterhouse-Five Vonneget is making a powerful satirical statement about the kind of social attitudes responsible for war and its atrocities. As a conclusion, it can be said that social satire is dominant in American postmodern novels as many postmodern writers demonstrate.