Monday, November 03, 2014

60 Extraordinary Political Novels



Granted, some are more "political" than others but they are worth your time.
  1. The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
  2. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  3. 1984 by George Orwell
  4. The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  5. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  6. The Wall by John Hersey
  7. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
  8. All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
  9. The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
  10. Primary Colors by Anonymous (Joe Klein)
  11. First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer
  12. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  13. Lincoln by Gore Vidal
  14. In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
  15. Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
  16. The Warden by Anthony Trollope
  17. Watergate by Thomas Mallon
  18. The House of Cards Trilogy by Michael Dobbs
  19. No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  20. Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
  21. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
  22. Life with a Star by Jiri Weil
  23. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
  24. The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
  25. The Levant Trilogy by Olivia Manning
  26. Badenheim 1939 by Aharon Appelfeld
  27. The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes
  28. The Comedians by Graham Greene
  29. The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
  30. State of Fear by Michael Crichton
  31. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  32. A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
  33. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  34. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  35. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  36. The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
  37. Caesar by Colleen McCullough
  38. The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
  39. War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
  40. Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil
  41. Julian by Gore Vidal
  42. The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton
  43. The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Ken Kalfus
  44. Washington, D.C. by Gore Vidal
  45. A Pillar of Iron by Taylor Caldwell
  46. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  47. Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem
  48. The Autobiography of Henry VIII, with Notes by His Fool, Will Somers by Margaret George
  49. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  50. Restoration by Rose Tremain
  51. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  52. All in the Family by Edwin O'Connor
  53. Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe
  54. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
  55. Claudius The God by Robert Graves
  56. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
  57. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
  58. A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
  59. Fatherland by Robert Harris
  60. A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin

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