Politics in fiction

This is a list of fictional stories in which politics features as an important plot element. Passing mentions are omitted from this list.

Ignacy Krasicki

Benjamin Disraeli

Turgenev

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Henrik Ibsen

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Henry Adams

Henry James

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Bolesław Prus

Joseph Conrad

Władysław Reymont

Upton Sinclair

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Martín Luis Guzmán

Aldous Huxley

Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz

George Orwell

Robert Penn Warren

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Gore Vidal

Barbara Boxer

Written works

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• 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
• Prince Otto (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 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
• The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) by Anthony Hope
• Pharaoh (1895) by Bolesław Prus
• Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
• NEQUA or The Problem of the Ages (1900) Jack Adams pseudonym for A. O. Grigsby and Mary P. Lowe
• The Riddle of the Sands (1903) by Erskine Childers
• Nostromo (1904) by Joseph Conrad
• The Czar's Spy (1905) by William Le Queux
• The Four Just Men (1905) by Edgar Wallace
• King Leopold's Soliloquy (1905) by Mark Twain
• The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905) by Thomas Dixon, Jr.
• 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
• The Fall of a Nation (1916) by Thomas Dixon, Jr.
• We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Bunt (The Revolt) (1922) by Władysław Reymont
• Metropolis (1925) by Thea von Harbou
• 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
• The House of the Four Winds (1935) by John Buchan
• It Can't Happen Here (1935) by Sinclair Lewis
• Strange Passage (1935) by Theodore Irwin
• Bread and Wine (1936) by Ignazio Silone
• The Pretender (1936) by Lion Feuchtwanger
• Alamut (1938) by Vladimir Bartol
• The Confidential Agent (1939) by Graham Greene
• Exit a Dictator (1939) by E. Phillips Oppenheim
• 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
• In the Wet (1953) by Nevil Shute
• 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
• Act of Mercy [U.S. title: Guns of Darkness] (1959) by Francis Clifford
• 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
• *Corridors of Power (1964) by C.P. Snow
• 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
• Z (1969) by Vassilis Vassilikos
• 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 Shad Treatment, (1977) by Garrett Epps
• The Dead Zone (1979) by Stephen King
• A Married Man (1979) by Piers Paul Read
• An Enemy of the State, by F. Paul Wilson (1980)
• A Very British Coup, by Chris Mullin (1982)
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes by Yoshiki Tanaka (1982–88)
• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd (1982–88)
• The Day the Leader was Killed (1983) by Naguib Mahfouz
• The Floating Island (1983) by Garrett Epps
• 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
• What You Don't Know (2012) by David Belbin
• Faultline 49 (2012) by David Danson
• Stealing the Future (2015) by Max Hertzberg

Film

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Mike Judge, director of Idiocracy (2006)

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• The Dark Horse (1932)
• Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• The Great Dictator (1940)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
• State of the Union (film) (1948)
• All the King's Men (1949)
• A Lion in the Streets (1953)
• The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy — 1956 Polish film, starring Adolf Dymsza, based on the novel of the same title by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz)
• Advise & Consent (1962)
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• The Best Man (1964)
• Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• Point of Order (1964)
• Seven Days in May (1964)
• Battle of Algiers (1966)
• Pharaoh (1966 Polish feature film based on Bolesław Prus' novel, Pharaoh)
• Z (film) (1969)
• 1776 (1972)
• The Man (1972)
• The Godfather (1972)
• The Candidate (1972)
• The Godfather, Part II (1974)
• Being There (1979)
• Seeing Red (1983)
• Secret Honor (1984)
• Power (1986)
• Bob Roberts (1992)
• The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
• Running Mates (1992)
• Dave (1993)
• The War Room (1993)
• With Honors (1994)
• The American President (1995)
• Nixon (1995)
• Flirting With Power (1996)
• My Fellow Americans (1996)
• Murder at 1600 (1997)
• Wag the Dog (1997)
• The Peacemaker (1997)
• Absolute Power (1997, based on the 1996 novel by David Baldacci)
• Bulworth (1998)
• Primary Colors (1998)
• The Siege (1998)
• Three Kings (1999)
• Dick (1999)
• The Contender (2000)
• Running Mates (2000)
• Ali G Indahouse (2002)
• The Quiet American (2002)
• The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy — 2002 Polish film, starring Cezary Pazura, based on the novel of the same title by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz)
• Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
• The Manchurian Candidate (2004 remake of the 1962 film)
• V for Vendetta (2005)
• All the King's Men (2006)
• An Unreasonable Man (2006)
• Man of the Year (2006)
• The Lives of Others (2006)
• Idiocracy (2006)
• Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
• Dawn of the World (2008)
• Swing Vote (2008)
• Vantage Point (2008)
• In the Loop (2009)
• Raajneeti (2010)
• 2016: Obama's America (2012)
• The Ides of March (2011)
• The Dictator (2012)
• The Campaign (2012)
• Game Change (2012)
• Lincoln (2012)

Television

• Slattery's People (1964-65 American television series about local politics, starring Richard Crenna as a U.S. state legislator)
• The Prisoner (1967)
• The Adams Chronicles (1976 miniseries)
• Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy (The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma — 1980 Polish TV miniseries based on the novel by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz)
• Yes Minister (and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister), by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn (1980–88)
• Edge of Darkness (1985)
• First Among Equals (1986)
• The New Statesman (1987-94)
• A Very British Coup (1988)
• Tanner '88 (1988)
• House of Cards (1990)
• Babylon 5 (1993)
• A Third Choice (1996)
• Spin City (1996-2002)
• Nostromo (1997)
• The West Wing (1999–2006)
• Moncloa, ¿dígame? (2001) Sitcom about the Spanish President press office
• 24 (2001-10)
• The Wire (2002–08)
• The Project (2002)
• Absolute Power (2003, 2005)
• Yugo the Negotiator (2004; anime, on hostage-negotiation)
• Battlestar Galactica (2004)
• Commander-in-Chief (2005)
• The Thick of It, by Armando Iannucci (2005)
• Brotherhood (2006)
• Party Animals (BBC Two, 2007)
• John Adams (2008) (miniseries)
• Recount (2008)
• The Hollowmen (ABC1, 2008)
• Change (2008)
• Parks and Recreation (2009)
• Borgen (2010-2013)
• Boss (2011)
• Scandal (2012)
• Political Animals (2012)
• Veep, by Armando Ianucci (2012)
• House of Cards (US) (2012)
• The Best Laid Plans (2014)

Musicals

• Running for Office (1903)
• George Washington, Jr. (1906)
• Show Boat (1927)
• The Threepenny Opera (1928)
• Of Thee I Sing (1931)
• Miss Liberty (1949)
• South Pacific (1950)
• Call Me Madam (1950)
• The King and I (1952)
• The Pajama Game (1955)
• Candide (1957)
• West Side Story (1958)
• Fiorello! (1960)
• The Sound of Music (1960)
• Fiddler on the Roof (1965)
• Man of La Mancha (1966)
• Cabaret (1967)
• 1776 (1969)
• Hair (1969)
• Jesus Christ Superstar (1971)
• Shenandoah (1975)
• Chicago (1976)
• 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976)
• Evita (1980)
• Sarafina! (1988)
• The Who's Tommy (1993)
• Rent (1996)
• Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk (1996)
• Ragtime (1998)
• Parade (1998)
• Urinetown The Musical (2001)
• Wicked (2004)
• Assassins (2004)
• Caroline, or Change (2004)
• The Color Purple (2006)
• Grey Gardens (2007)
• The Scottsboro Boys (2010)

Comic strips

• Pogo
• Bloom County
• Doonesbury
• Opus
• Outland
• Pearls Before Swine

See also

• Editorial cartoon
• Political fiction
• Assassinations in fiction

External links

• Political Film Society