Fiction Set During a Revolution

1

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

36,747 members

455 reviews

3.9

12 Members: hailelib, lquilter, KimarieBee, abbottthomas, thorold, aulsmith, avatiakh, roby72, DorsVenabili, susiesharp, souloftherose, John_Vaughan,ncgraham
Explanations: aulsmith: French Revolution

2

Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Pasternak

11,410 members

152 reviews

3.9

7 Members: thorold, norabelle414, CurrerBell, roby72, DorsVenabili, Dilara86, John_Vaughan

3

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Orczy

8,823 members

192 reviews

4

7 Members: hailelib, wookiebender, aulsmith, DorsVenabili, souloftherose, John_Vaughan, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: aulsmith: French Revolution

4

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

26,343 members

341 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: hailelib, roby72, DorsVenabili, ncgraham, souloftherose, Dilara86

5

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

by Robert A. Heinlein

10,456 members

183 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hailelib, lquilter, KimarieBee, aulsmith, calm, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Nostromo

by Joseph Conrad

4,775 members

58 reviews

3.8

5 Members: Ravic, abbottthomas, CurrerBell, roby72, DorsVenabili

7

Johnny Tremain: A Story of Boston in Revolt

by Esther Forbes

9,266 members

84 reviews

3.8

4 Members: wookiebender, norabelle414, CurrerBell, ncgraham

8

A Place of Greater Safety

by Hilary Mantel

1,832 members

59 reviews

4

4 Members: DorsVenabili, calm, souloftherose, elkiedee

9

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

11,205 members

128 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: gilroy, aulsmith, roby72
Explanations: aulsmith: Never thought of the US Civil War as a failed revolution, but it really is.

10

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

60,161 members

887 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

10,728 members

268 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Eight

by Katherine Neville

4,892 members

136 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: KimarieBee, norabelle414

13

Twenty Years After

by Alexandre Dumas

2,905 members

41 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, DorsVenabili
Explanations: aulsmith: English Civil War

14

Man's Fate

by André Malraux

2,530 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: roby72, DorsVenabili

15

Parrot and Olivier in America

by Peter Carey

1,740 members

69 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: wookiebender, DorsVenabili

16

Madame Tussaud

by Michelle Moran

1,043 members

96 reviews

4

2 Members: DorsVenabili, susiesharp

17

While England Sleeps

by David Leavitt

618 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, DorsVenabili
Explanations: aulsmith: Spanish Civil War

18

City of Darkness, City of Light

by Marge Piercy

457 members

10 reviews

3.9

2 Members: lquilter, DorsVenabili

19

The Temple

by Stephen Spender

371 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: thorold, aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Spanish Civil War

20

My Lady Ludlow

by Elizabeth Gaskell

156 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: CurrerBell, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

13,869 members

264 reviews

4

Member: roby72

22

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

12,964 members

201 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, John_Vaughan,aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith : This takes place long after the Russian revolution.

23

The Fiery Cross

by Diana Gabaldon

9,829 members

167 reviews

4.1

Member: calm

24

A Breath of Snow and Ashes

by Diana Gabaldon

8,926 members

143 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: calm

25

My Brother Sam is Dead

by James Lincoln Collier

3,954 members

89 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party

by M. T. Anderson

2,966 members

160 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

27

Fables, Vol. 02: Animal Farm

by Bill Willingham

2,738 members

68 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Stories

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,368 members

31 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

29

Revolt in 2100

by Robert A. Heinlein

2,033 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aulsmith

30

Scaramouche

by Rafael Sabatini

1,749 members

55 reviews

4

Member: DorsVenabili

31

The 42nd Parallel

by John Dos Passos

1,634 members

23 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Mexican Revolution

32

The Old Wives' Tale

by Arnold Bennett

1,557 members

25 reviews

3.9

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Paris commune

33

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

by Peter Weiss

1,245 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: French revolution, 1789

34

The Kingdom of This World

by Alejo Carpentier

1,202 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Haitian revolution

35

Freedom and Necessity

by Steven Brust

1,080 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: The failed English revolution in 1848

36

El siglo de las luces

by Alejo Carpentier

1,002 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: French Revolution

37

Distress

by Greg Egan

871 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Revolution or singularity? The world certainly changed.

38

The Glass Blowers

by Daphne du Maurier

845 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

39

Old Mortality

by Sir Walter Scott

631 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thorold

40

The City, Not Long After

by Pat Murphy

492 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

41

Danton's Death

by Georg Büchner

437 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: DorsVenabili

42

Sky Without Stars

by Jessica Brody

426 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

43

1776: a musical play

by Sherman Edwards

275 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: American revolution

44

Shadow Man

by Melissa Scott

258 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

45

Conquered City

by Victor Serge

246 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee

46

The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie

by John Bellairs

216 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

Woodstock

by Sir Walter Scott

208 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thorold

48

King's Mountain

by Sharyn McCrumb

181 members

6 reviews

3.1

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: American Revolution

49

The Day Before the Revolution [short story]

by Ursula K. Le Guin

121 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

50

Birth of Our Power

by Victor Serge

120 members

1 review

3.8

Member: elkiedee

51

The King's Commissar

by Duncan Kyle

71 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: Noisy

52

The Vanishing Futurist

by Charlotte Hobson

41 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee

53

The Wall {short story}

by Jean-Paul Sartre

9 members

1 review

5

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Spanish Civil War

54

Traverser la Ville

by Robert Silverberg

7 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: aulsmith

55

The Valley of the Fallen {poem}

by Carolyn Kizer

1 member

1 review

4

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Spanish Civil War

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