Best Political Fiction

Description
Fiction with a political slant or agenda.
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
69,886 members
1,005 reviews
4
8 Members
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
94,079 members
1,449 reviews
4.2
8 Members
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
48,366 members
1,235 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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4
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
61,399 members
867 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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5
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
39,040 members
517 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
14,498 members
231 reviews
4
6 Members
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Gulliver's Travels [Dover Thrift Editions]
by Jonathan Swift
411 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
6 Members
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8
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
13,932 members
167 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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9
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
63,249 members
1,141 reviews
4
5 Members
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10
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
7,281 members
108 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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Middlemarch
by George Eliot
20,726 members
367 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
23,770 members
514 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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Demons
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9,427 members
84 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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14
The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
8,709 members
206 reviews
4
5 Members
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15
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
15,568 members
282 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
51,569 members
574 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
9,904 members
236 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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18
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
57,995 members
1,373 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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19
The Honorary Consul
by Graham Greene
2,329 members
33 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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Germinal
by Émile Zola
6,120 members
90 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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Blindness
by José Saramago
14,595 members
432 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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American Tabloid
by James Ellroy
3,089 members
45 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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23
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
11,982 members
146 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
9,959 members
246 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Lincoln
by Gore Vidal
2,870 members
45 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Burr
by Gore Vidal
2,586 members
59 reviews
4
3 Members
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27
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
41,709 members
416 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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28
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
15,507 members
269 reviews
4
3 Members
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
49,309 members
585 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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Explanations
ehines : I really don't see how this book is particularly political. A great one, but certainly not a "political novel."
30
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
30,548 members
379 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
19,577 members
209 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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32
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
by Haruki Murakami
19,686 members
405 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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33
Agent Running in the Field
by John le Carré
1,721 members
61 reviews
3.8
2 Members
Opinionated, blakelylaw
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Snow
by Orhan Pamuk
7,634 members
152 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
roby72, Opinionated, thecoroner
35
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
33,484 members
510 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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36
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
14,826 members
188 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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37
The Manchurian Candidate
by Richard Condon
1,408 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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38
The Children of Men
by P. D. James
6,453 members
214 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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39
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
by Joseph Conrad
5,317 members
70 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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The Prime Minister
by Anthony Trollope
1,418 members
27 reviews
4
3 Members
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1876
by Gore Vidal
1,381 members
22 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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43
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
13,351 members
145 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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44
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
17,823 members
186 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
roby72, ManWithAnAgenda
45
Gentian Violet
by Edward Hyams
2 members
Member
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Explanations
woolly: Satire of 1950's UK political scene. James Blundell becomes MP for both Conservative and Labour parties.
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Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
13,003 members
172 reviews
3.8
2 Members
roby72, thecoroner
47
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
14,373 members
519 reviews
3.8
2 Members
roby72, ahef1963
48
Saturday
by Ian McEwan
10,935 members
232 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
Opinionated, ahef1963
49
Primary Colors
by Joe Klein
2,794 members
44 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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50
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
8,397 members
104 reviews
4
2 Members
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51
The Joke
by Milan Kundera
4,204 members
49 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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52
Washington, D.C.
by Gore Vidal
975 members
14 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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Doctor Faustus
by Thomas Mann
4,699 members
50 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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54
Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3,995 members
58 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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55
A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul
3,475 members
58 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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56
The Appeal
by John Grisham
7,320 members
161 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
10,577 members
194 reviews
4
2 Members
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58
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Parts I-II
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
6,015 members
48 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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59
The Charterhouse of Parma
by Stendhal
4,951 members
82 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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60
Under Western Eyes
by Joseph Conrad
2,112 members
29 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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61
The Coup
by John Updike
861 members
6 reviews
3.2
2 Members
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62
The Land of Green Plums
by Herta Müller
1,209 members
46 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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63
The President
by Miguel Ángel Asturias
1,229 members
22 reviews
4
2 Members
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64
The Fox
by Frederick Forsyth
567 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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65
It Can't Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis
4,195 members
106 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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66
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
18,369 members
231 reviews
4
Member
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67
Lucifer with a Book
by John Horne Burns
50 members
1 review
3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
68
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
11,488 members
318 reviews
4.1
Member
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69
Parable of the Talents
by Octavia E. Butler
4,854 members
125 reviews
4.1
Member
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70
Catriona
by Robert Louis Stevenson
1,036 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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71
The Ugly American
by William J. Lederer
1,545 members
27 reviews
3.8
Member
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72
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
13,109 members
152 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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73
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
24,599 members
426 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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74
In the Days of the Comet
by H. G. Wells
951 members
17 reviews
3
Member
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75
Can You Forgive Her?
by Anthony Trollope
2,585 members
65 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
76
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
10,522 members
136 reviews
3.9
Member
Opinionated
77
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
19,121 members
522 reviews
4.2
Member
Opinionated
78
A Man of the People
by Chinua Achebe
979 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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79
Journey into Fear
by Eric Ambler
956 members
19 reviews
3.8
Member
Opinionated
80
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
by Giorgio Bassani
2,339 members
59 reviews
3.8
Member
Opinionated
81
The Plague
by Albert Camus
21,042 members
283 reviews
3.9
Member
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82
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
27,806 members
303 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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83
The Orphan Master's Son
by Adam Johnson
4,434 members
300 reviews
4.1
Member
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84
Duck for President
by Doreen Cronin
4,563 members
157 reviews
4.2
Member
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85
No Way to Treat a First Lady
by Christopher Buckley
673 members
18 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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86
Advise and Consent
by Allen Drury
1,076 members
20 reviews
3.9
Member
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87
The Last Hurrah
by Edwin O'Connor
550 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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88
Seven Days in May
by Fletcher Knebel
554 members
14 reviews
4
Member
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89
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
8,089 members
133 reviews
4.1
Member
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90
The Dinner
by Herman Koch
5,594 members
393 reviews
½ 3.4
91
A Game of Thrones
by George R. R. Martin
49,775 members
1,200 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
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92
A Clash of Kings
by George R. R. Martin
35,146 members
592 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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