Top 100 Political Fiction Books

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📘 Animal Farm

Animal Farm is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Satire

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📘 Hard Times

Dickens scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Drama

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📘 The Iron Heel

Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Dystopia

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📘 Split Second

SPLIT SECOND is a tale of two disgraced Secret Service agents racing against time to find the common thread that connects a series of assassinations and abductions."Played" and misled by suspects, the duo search for answers.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Conspiracy

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📘 The Camel Club

After witnessing a shocking murder, four conspiracy theorists team up with a Secret Service agent to uncover the government corruption that threatens to cause an international terrorism crisis in this New York Times bestselling thriller. Welcome to THE CAMEL CLUB. Existing at the fringes of Washington, D.C.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Conspiracy

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📘 The Collectors

In Washington, D.C, where power is everything and too few have too much of it, four highly eccentric men with mysterious pasts call themselves the Camel Club. Their mission: find out what's really going on behind the closed doors of America's leaders. The assassination of the U.S. Speaker of the House has shaken the nation.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Conspiracy

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📘 Žert

La broma es la novela de un amor, pero se trata también de la novela de una broma extraviada en un mundo que ha perdido el sentido del humor. Una chanza fútil y mal comprendida ha roto la vida de Ludvik, aterrado al advertir que su tragedia personal quedará para siempre adherida al ridículo de un chiste.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Drama

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📘 The Manchurian candidate

Sgt Raymond Shaw is a hero of the first order. He's an ex-prisoner of war who saved the life of his entire outfit, a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, the stepson of an influential senator...and the perfect assassin. Brainwashed during his time as a POW he is a 'sleeper', a living weapon to be triggered by a secret signal.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Conspiracy

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📘 First Among Equals

Charles Seymour, second-born son, will never be the earl like his father, but he did inherit his mother's strength—and the will to realize his destiny... Simon Kerslake's father sacrificed everything to make sure his son's dreams come true. Now it is Simon's chance to rise as high as those dreams allow...

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Drama

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📘 The Prodigal Daughter

HER FUTURE IS AMBITION. With a will of steel, Polish immigrant Florentyna Rosnovski is indeed Abel’s daughter. She shares with her father a love of America, his ideals, and his dream for the future. But she wants more: to be the first female president. HIS FUTURE IS WEALTH. Golden boy Richard Kane was born into a life of luxury.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Drama

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📘 Being there

Being There is a satirical novel by the Polish born writer Jerzy Kosinski, first published in 1971. Set in America the story concerns Chance, a simple gardener who unwittingly becomes a much sought after political pundit and commentator of the modern world. A film of the book was made in 1979 for which Kosinski co-wrote the screenplay with Robert C.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Satire

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📘 Saturday

From the pen of a master -- the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize--winning author of Atonement -- comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Drama

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📘 Shame

In het hedendaagse Pakistan, met zijn grote tegenstelling tussen rijk en arm, zijn machtsstrijd, politiek gekonkel en corruptie dagelijks voorkomende verschijnselen.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Drama

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📘 Divine Justice

Following the instant # 1 New York Times bestseller Stone Cold, Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in David Baldacci's most surprising thriller yet . . . Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America .

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Conspiracy

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📘 The successor

THE SUCCESSOR was written by one of the prominent Kenyan writers, Francis D. Imbuga, a lecture, administrator and senior academician at the University of Nairobi. His book portrays the real African political system as full of struggle for power and unconstitutional succession of existing government leadership.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Drama

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📘 Truth or die

"After a serious professional stumble, attorney Trevor Mann may have finally hit his stride. He's found happiness with his girlfriend Claire Parker, a beautiful, ambitious journalist always on the hunt for a scoop. But when Claire's newest story leads to a violent confrontation, Trevor's newly peaceful life is shattered as he tries to find out why.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Conspiracy

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📘 The Shadow Lines

This book is an excellent example of a unique narrative which most books lack. According to many literary sources this book do not intend to tell a story but rather invites the reader to invent one. The book have so many deep quotes that inspires such as :- NOBODY KNOWS NOBODY EVER KNOWS BECAUSE THERE ARE MOMENTS IN TIME THAT ARE NOT KNOWABLE.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Drama

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📘 Tom Clancy

A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City. A package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don't have.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Conspiracy

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📘 An obedient father

"Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the Physical Education Department of the Delhi school system, lives in one of the city's slums with his widowed daughter and his little granddaughter. Bumbling, ironical, sad, Ram is also a man corroded by a guilty secret.".

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Conspiracy

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📘 The Book of Fate

"Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming."So says Wes Holloway, a young presidential aide, about the day he put Ron Boyle, the chief executive's oldest friend, into the president's limousine. By the trip's end, a crazed assassin would permanently disfigure Wes and kill Boyle.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Conspiracy

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📘 The Run

A respected senator from Georgia, Will Lee has aspirations of more. But a cruel stroke of fate thrusts him onto the national stage well before he expects, and long before he's ready, for a national campaign.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Conspiracy

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📘 Novels (Animal Farm / Burmese Days / Clergyman's Daughter / Coming Up for Air / Keep the Aspidistra Flying / Nineteen Eighty-Four)

Contains: Animal Farm Burmese Days A Clergyman's Daughter Coming Up for Air Keep the Aspidistra Flying [Nineteen Eighty-Four](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1168091W)

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Dystopia

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📘 The cry of the Halidon

Alex McAuliff has received an offer he can’t refuse: two million dollars for a geological survey of Jamaica. All Dunstone Limited requires is his time, his expertise, and his absolute secrecy. No one—not even McAuliff’s handpicked team—can know of Dunstone’s involvement.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Conspiracy

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📘 Pandora's box

Women, like money, were part of the Lancaster legacy. And Haydon Lancaster was heir to the throne, a man bred for the White House, born to succeed. To Laura, brilliant designer and photographer, he was forbidden pleasure, consuming passion, secret shame.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Drama

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📘 Jennifer Government

In Barry's twisted, hilarious vision of the near future, the world is run by giant American corporations and employees take the last name of the companies they work for. Hot on the trail of John Nike, an executive from the land of Marketing, is agent Jennifer Government, the consumer watchdog from hell.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Satire

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📘 Sardines

Genre/Form: Political fiction Fiction Material Type: Fiction Document Type: Book All Authors / Contributors: Nuruddin Farah Find more information about: ISBN: 155597161X 9781555971618 OCLC Number: 24847501 Notes: Originally published: [London] : Allison and Busby, 1981. Description: 263 p. ; 22 cm.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Drama

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📘 The Last Hurrah

“We’re living in a sensitive age, Cuke, and I’m not altogether sure you’re fully attuned to it.” So says Irish-American politician Frank Skeffington—a cynical, corrupt 1950s mayor, and also an old-school gentleman who looks after the constituents of his New England city and enjoys their unwavering loyalty in return.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Drama

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📘 Blood's a rover

Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures.

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📘 1984

> April, 1984. Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye. > > Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwell’s fiction is often said to be our reality.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Dystopia

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📘 Advise and consent.

Allen Drury has penetrated the world’s stormiest political battleground—the smoke-filled committee rooms of the United States Senate—to reveal the bitter conflicts set in motion when the President calls upon the Senate to confirm his controversial choice for Secretary of State.

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📘 The fat years

From inside front cover: Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no once could care less -- except for a small circle of friends who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister cheerfulness and amnesia that have possessed the Chinese nation. ...

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📘 Day of confession

A heart-thumping whirlwind of action, suspense & murder that reaches deep into the highest levels of Vatican power & uncovers a demonic scheme to massacre hundreds of thousands of Chinese in an attempt to establish a new Holy Roman Empire on the Chinese mainland in the twenty-first century.

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Conspiracy

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📘 The First Counsel

Sombra es el nombre en clave que el Servicio Secreto ha dado a Nora Hartson, la hija del Presidente, la Primera Hija. Y cuando Michael Garrick, un joven abogado de Presidencia, empieza a salir con ella, queda inmediatamente subyugado, como todos cuantos se mueven en el mundo de la irresistible Nora.

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📘 The unusual life of Tristan Smith

A satire on Australia and its relationship to the U.S. The protagonist is actor Tristan Smith, a dwarf. He is a citizen of Effica, a small country whose theater is overshadowed by Voorstand, a big country with a culture that dominates the world. The novel follows him to Voorstand where his father became a famous actor by selling his soul.

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📘 Daybreak Zero

**DAYBREAK ZERO** *In* Directive 51*, John Barnes created "the thinking person's techno-thriller"+ about the modern world brought to a standstill by radical groups who engineered the destruction of a century of technology...* A year has passed since the catastrophic event known as "Daybreak" began.

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📘 Angel of light

Maurice Halleck, Director of the Commission for the Ministry of Justice, is accused of wrongdoing and then dies in a suspicious car accident. A suicide note and confession are found. But are they legitimate, or was he coerced into writing them before he was taken out to be killed?

Genre: Political Fiction Subgenre: Political Conspiracy

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📘 The boat rocker

"New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news agency that produces a website read by Chinese all over the world. Danlin's explosive exposés have made him legendary among readers--and feared by Communist officials.

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📘 1984 with Connections

Contains: [Nineteen Eighty-Four](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1168091W/Nineteen_Eighty-Four) A fresh visit to Bethnal Green -- The censors -- Happy birthday, North Korea -- From one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich -- If our enemies took me -- Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara -- Biographical sketch.

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