Politics in Fiction - Written Works

Written Works

• The Republic (ca. 360 BCE) by Plato

• Panchatantra (ca. 200 BCE) by Vishnu Sarma

• Utopia (1516) by Thomas More
• The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys (1578) by Jan Kochanowski

• Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes
• Simplicius Simplicissimus (1668) by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
• The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan

• Persian Letters (1721) by Montesquieu
• Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift
• Candide (1759) by Voltaire
• The History and Adventures of an Atom (1769) by Tobias Smollett
• Fables and Parables (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki
• The Return of the Deputy (1790) by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
• The Partisan Leader (1836) by Nathaniel Beverley Tucker
• Barnaby Rudge (1841) by Charles Dickens
• The Betrothed (1842) by Alessandro Manzoni
• Coningsby (1844) by Benjamin Disraeli
• Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) by Benjamin Disraeli
• Tancred (1847) by Benjamin Disraeli
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens
• Max Havelaar (1860) by Multatuli
• Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
• The Palliser novels (1864–1879) by Anthony Trollope
• War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
• Demons, also known as The Possessed or The Devils (1872), by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope (1875)
• Honest John Vane (1875) by John William De Forest
• The Gilded Age (1876) by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
• Democracy: An American Novel (1880) by Henry Adams
• An Enemy of the People (1882), play by Henrik Ibsen
• An American Politician (1884) by F. Marion Crawford
• The Princess Casamassima (1886) by Henry James
• The Bostonians (1886) by Henry James
• Noli Me Tangere (1887) by José Rizal
• Looking Backward (1888) by Edward Bellamy
• El filibusterismo (1891) by José Rizal
• Pharaoh (1895) by Bolesław Prus
• Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad

• The Riddle of the Sands (1903) by Erskine Childers
• Nostromo (1904) by Joseph Conrad
• The Czar's Spy (1905) by William Le Queux
• King Leopold's Soliloquy (1905) by Mark Twain
• The Jungle (1906) by Upton Sinclair
• The Secret Agent (1907) by Joseph Conrad
• The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London
• Under Western Eyes (1911) by Joseph Conrad
• The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (1914) by Robert Tressell
• The Underdogs (1915) by Mariano Azuela
• Herland (1915) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Bunt (The Revolt) (1922) by Władysław Reymont
• The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
• The Castle (1926) by Franz Kafka
• The Shadow of the Caudillo (1929) by Martín Luis Guzmán
• Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
• The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (1932) by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
• Stamboul Train (1932) by Graham Greene
• Black Mischief (1932) by Evelyn Waugh
• The Forbidden Territory (1933) by Dennis Wheatley
• Antoine Bloye (1933) by Paul Nizan
• Fontamara (1933) by Ignazio Silone
• The President (1933, published 1946) by Miguel Ángel Asturias
• Burmese Days (1934) by George Orwell
• It Can't Happen Here (1935) by Sinclair Lewis
• The Pretender (1936) by Lion Feuchtwanger
• Alamut (1938) by Vladimir Bartol
• The Gladiators (1939) by Arthur Koestler
• Darkness at Noon (1940) by Arthur Koestler
• Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (1945) by George Orwell
• A Bell for Adano (1945) by John Hersey
• "El Señor Presidente" (1946) by Miguel Ángel Asturias
• All the King's Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
• Lonely Crusade (1947) by Chester Himes
• Walden Two (1948) by B. F. Skinner
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell
• Dark Green, Bright Red (1950) by Gore Vidal
• The Outsider (1953) by Richard Wright
• The Quiet American (1955) by Graham Greene
• The Shark and the Sardines (1956) by Juan José Arévalo
• The Last Hurrah (1956) by Edwin O'Connor
• Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand
• The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957) by John Steinbeck
• The Ugly American (1958) by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick
• Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
• The Manchurian Candidate (1959) by Richard Condon
• Advise and Consent (1959) by Allen Drury
• The Best Man (1960) by Gore Vidal (play)
• Catch 22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
• The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
• Seven Days in May (1962) by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey
• The Man (1964) by Irving Wallace
• Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert
• The Squares of the City (1965) by John Brunner
• All in the Family (1966) by Edwin O'Connor
• A Man of the People, by Chinua Achebe (1966)
• The Comedians (1966) by Graham Greene
• The Late Bourgeois World (1966) by Nadine Gordimer
• Cancer Ward (1967) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Washington, D.C. (1967) by Gore Vidal
• The Godfather, by Mario Puzo (1969)
• Being There, by Jerzy Kosiński (1971)
• The Lorax (1971) by Dr. Seuss
• Burr (1973) by Gore Vidal
• Reasons of State (1974) by Alejo Carpentier
• I, the Supreme (1974) by Augusto Roa Bastos
• The Chocolate War (1974) by Robert Cormier
• Remember Ruben (1974) by Mongo Beti
• The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Guerrillas (1975) by V. S. Naipaul
• The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) by Edward Abbey
• Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976) by Manuel Puig
• 1876 (1976) by Gore Vidal
• A Flag For Sunrise, by Robert Stone (1977)
• The Dead Zone (1979) by Stephen King
• An Enemy of the State, by F. Paul Wilson (1980)
• A Very British Coup, by Chris Mullin (1982)
• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd (1982–88)
• The Day the Leader was Killed (1983) by Naguib Mahfouz
• The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984) by Mario Vargas Llosa
• First Among Equals (1984) by Jeffrey Archer
• The Butter Battle Book (1984) by Dr. Seuss
• The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood
• Anthills of the Savannah (1987) by Chinua Achebe
• Favorite Son, by Steve Sohmer, (1988)
• House of Cards, by Michael Dobbs (1989?)
• Redemption (1990) by Tariq Ali
• The Fourth K, by Mario Puzo (1990)
• Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon
• Patriots, by Steve Sohmer (1991)
• To Play the King, by Michael Dobbs (1991)
• Fatherland, by Robert Harris (1992)
• The Final Cut, by Michael Dobbs (1992)
• American Hero, by Larry Beinhart (1994)
• Blindness (1995) by Jose Saramago
• Primary Colors (1996) by Joe Klein (as "Anonymous")
• Absolute Power, by David Baldacci (1996)
• Yo-Yo Boing!" by Giannina Braschi (1998)
• The Feast of the Goat (2000) by Mario Vargas Llosa
• Snow (2002) by Orhan Pamuk
• The Gospel According To Larry (2003) by Janet Tashjian
• The Successor (2003) by Ismail Kadare
• Seeing (2004) by José Saramago
• De president, by Khalid Boudou (2005)
• A Time to Run, by Barbara Boxer (2005)
• The Polity of Beasts (2007) by Renald Iacovelli
• The Writing on the Wall (2007) by Hannes Artens
• The Coup, by Jamie Malanowski (2007)
• The Ghost, by Robert Harris (2007)
• When the White House Was Ours, by Porter Shreve (2008)
• American Savior (2008) by Roland Merullo
• The Best Laid Plans (2008) by Terry Fallis
• United States of Banana (2011) by Giannina Braschi
• Faultline 49 (2012) by David Danson