Fiction Set During a Revolution

1

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

42,059 members

491 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

12,987 members

172 reviews

3.8

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

3

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Orczy

10,039 members

211 reviews

4

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

4

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

30,642 members

380 reviews

½ 4.3

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

5

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

by Robert A. Heinlein

11,524 members

212 reviews

4.1

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

6

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

by Joseph Conrad

5,328 members

70 reviews

3.8

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

7

Johnny Tremain: A Story of Boston in Revolt

by Esther Forbes

10,851 members

90 reviews

3.8

4 Members: wookiebender, norabelle414, CurrerBell, ncgraham

8

A Place of Greater Safety

by Hilary Mantel

2,125 members

64 reviews

4

4 Members: DorsVenabili, calm, souloftherose, elkiedee

9

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

13,448 members

138 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

70,020 members

1,007 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

12,912 members

311 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Eight

by Katherine Neville

5,262 members

146 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: KimarieBee, norabelle414

13

Twenty Years After

by Alexandre Dumas

3,273 members

44 reviews

3.9

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

14

Man's Fate

by André Malraux

2,867 members

39 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: roby72, DorsVenabili

15

Parrot and Olivier in America

by Peter Carey

1,870 members

71 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: wookiebender, DorsVenabili

16

Madame Tussaud

by Michelle Moran

1,114 members

97 reviews

4

2 Members: DorsVenabili, susiesharp

17

While England Sleeps

by David Leavitt

674 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

487 members

11 reviews

3.9

2 Members: lquilter, DorsVenabili

19

The Temple

by Stephen Spender

411 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

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

20

My Lady Ludlow

by Elizabeth Gaskell

165 members

7 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: CurrerBell, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

15,316 members

290 reviews

4

Member: roby72

22

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

14,528 members

232 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

11,097 members

172 reviews

4.1

Member: calm

24

A Breath of Snow and Ashes

by Diana Gabaldon

10,052 members

150 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: calm

25

My Brother Sam is Dead

by James Lincoln Collier

4,572 members

93 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

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

by M. T. Anderson

3,139 members

162 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

27

Fables, Vol. 02: Animal Farm

by Bill Willingham

2,933 members

73 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Wind's Twelve Quarters

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,742 members

40 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

29

Revolt in 2100

by Robert A. Heinlein

2,245 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aulsmith

30

Scaramouche

by Rafael Sabatini

1,935 members

60 reviews

4

Member: DorsVenabili

31

The 42nd Parallel

by John Dos Passos

1,842 members

30 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Mexican Revolution

32

The Old Wives' Tale

by Arnold Bennett

1,675 members

27 reviews

3.9

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Paris commune

33

The Kingdom of This World

by Alejo Carpentier

1,410 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Haitian revolution

34

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

1,380 members

15 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: French revolution, 1789

35

El siglo de las luces

by Alejo Carpentier

1,216 members

37 reviews

3.9

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: French Revolution

36

Freedom and Necessity

by Steven Brust

1,133 members

21 reviews

3.9

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

37

The Glass Blowers

by Daphne du Maurier

964 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

38

Distress

by Greg Egan

930 members

24 reviews

3.8

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

39

Old Mortality

by Sir Walter Scott

719 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

40

Sky Without Stars

by Jessica Brody

568 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

The City, Not Long After

by Pat Murphy

540 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

42

Danton's Death

by Georg Büchner

467 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: DorsVenabili

43

1776: a musical play

by Sherman Edwards

316 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: American revolution

44

Shadow Man

by Melissa Scott

274 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

45

Conquered City

by Victor Serge

272 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee

46

Woodstock

by Sir Walter Scott

244 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: thorold

47

The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie

by John Bellairs

235 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

King's Mountain

by Sharyn McCrumb

214 members

7 reviews

3.2

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: American Revolution

49

The Day Before the Revolution [short story]

by Ursula K. Le Guin

141 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

50

Birth of Our Power

by Victor Serge

138 members

1 review

3.8

Member: elkiedee

51

The King's Commissar

by Duncan Kyle

76 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: Noisy

52

The Vanishing Futurist

by Charlotte Hobson

45 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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