Political Fiction

Power, and who pays for it. Fiction about the machinery of governance and its human cost — written from inside the argument, not above it.

On the Society & Self shelf.

Books shelved as Political Fiction

• La Historia de Los Vertebrados — Mar García Puig
• There There — Tommy Orange
• El librero de Gaza — Rachid Benzine
• Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
• La voz dormida — Dulce Chacón
• The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Strangled Queen — Maurice Druon
• The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli
• La trampa — Magda Portal
• A Murky Business — Honoré de Balzac / Herbert J. Hunt
• Commander in Chief — Mark Greaney
• Parable of the Talents — Octavia E. Butler
• Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
• The Collapsing Empire — John Scalzi
• 1984 / Animal Farm — George Orwell
• Chain-Gang All-Stars — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West — Gregory Maguire
• The Autumn Of The Patriarch — Gregory Rabassa
• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida — Shehan Karunatilaka
• City of Miracles — Robert Jackson Bennett
• The King Without a Kingdom — Maurice Druon
• The Overstory — Richard Powers
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest — Stieg Larsson
• The Poisoned Crown — Maurice Druon

Related genres

• LGBTQ+ Fiction
• Coming of Age
• Family Drama
• Social Commentary
• Parenting & Motherhood
• Feminist Fiction
• War Fiction
• Identity & Belonging
• Sapphic Fiction
• Addiction
• Music Fiction

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