Politics in fiction

Written works

• The Republic by Plato
• Panchatantra by Vishnu Sarma
• Utopia by Thomas More
• The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys by Jan Kochanowski
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• Simplicius Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
• The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
• Persian Letters by Montesquieu
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Candide by Voltaire
• The History and Adventures of an Atom by Tobias Smollett
• Fables and Parables by Ignacy Krasicki
• The Return of the Deputy by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
• The Partisan Leader by Nathaniel Beverley Tucker
• Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
• The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
• Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli
• Sybil, or The Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli
• Tancred by Benjamin Disraeli
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Max Havelaar by Multatuli
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
• The Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope
• Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Demons, also known as The Possessed or The Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
• Honest John Vane by John William De Forest
• ' by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
• ' by Henry Adams
• An Enemy of the People, play by Henrik Ibsen
• An American Politician by F. Marion Crawford
• The Princess Casamassima by Henry James
• Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Bostonians by Henry James
• Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal
• Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
• El filibusterismo by José Rizal
• The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
• Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• NEQUA or The Problem of the Ages by Jack Adams, pseudonym for A.O. Grigsby and Mary P. Lowe
• The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
• Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
• The Czar's Spy by William Le Queux
• The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace
• King Leopold's Soliloquy by Mark Twain
• ' by Thomas Dixon, Jr.
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
• The Iron Heel by Jack London
• Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
• ' by Edward M. House
• The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
• The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela
• The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
• Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Fall of a Nation by Thomas Dixon, Jr.
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Bunt by Władysław Reymont
• Metropolis by Thea von Harbou
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• The Castle by Franz Kafka
• The Shadow of the Caudillo by Martín Luis Guzmán
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
• Stamboul Train by Graham Greene
• Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
• The Forbidden Territory by Dennis Wheatley
• Antoine Bloye by Paul Nizan
• Fontamara by Ignazio Silone
• Burmese Days by George Orwell
• The House of the Four Winds by John Buchan
• It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
• Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone
• The Pretender by Lion Feuchtwanger
• Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
• The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene
• Exit a Dictator by E. Phillips Oppenheim
• The Gladiators by Arthur Koestler
• Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
• Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
• A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
• El Señor Presidente by Miguel Ángel Asturias
• All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
• Lonely Crusade by Chester Himes
• Walden Two by B. F. Skinner
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• Dark Green, Bright Red by Gore Vidal
• Who Goes Home by Maurice Edelman
• In the Wet by Nevil Shute
• The Outsider by Richard Wright
• The Quiet American by Graham Greene
• The Shark and the Sardines by Juan José Arévalo
• The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• The Short Reign of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck
• The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Act of Mercy by Francis Clifford
• The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
• Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
• The Best Man by Gore Vidal
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
• Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey
• Corridors of Power by C.P. Snow
• The Man by Irving Wallace
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• The Squares of the City by John Brunner
• All in the Family by Edwin O'Connor
• A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe
• The Comedians by Graham Greene
• The Late Bourgeois World by Nadine Gordimer
• Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Washington, D.C. by Gore Vidal
• Z by Vassilis Vassilikos
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• Being There by Jerzy Kosiński
• The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
• Burr by Gore Vidal
• Reasons of State by Alejo Carpentier
• I, the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• Remember Ruben by Mongo Beti
• The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Guerrillas by V. S. Naipaul
• The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
• Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
• 1876 by Gore Vidal
• A Flag For Sunrise by Robert Stone
• The Public Burning by Robert Coover
• The Shad Treatment by Garrett Epps
• The Dead Zone by Stephen King
• A Married Man by Piers Paul Read
• An Enemy of the State by F. Paul Wilson
• A Very British Coup by Chris Mullin
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes by Yoshiki Tanaka
• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
• The Day the Leader was Killed by Naguib Mahfouz
• The Floating Island by Garrett Epps
• The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa
• First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer
• The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
• Favorite Son by Steve Sohmer
• House of Cards by Michael Dobbs
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Redemption by Tariq Ali
• The Fourth K by Mario Puzo
• Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
• Patriots by Steve Sohmer
• To Play the King by Michael Dobbs
• Fatherland by Robert Harris
• The Final Cut by Michael Dobbs
• American Hero by Larry Beinhart
• Blindness by Jose Saramago
• Primary Colors by Joe Klein
• Absolute Power by David Baldacci
• Yo-Yo Boing! by Giannina Braschi
• The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk
• The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
• The Gospel According To Larry by Janet Tashjian
• The Successor by Ismail Kadare
• Seeing by José Saramago
• A Time to Run by Barbara Boxer
• The Ghost by Robert Harris
• American Savior by Roland Merullo
• The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
• United States of Banana by Giannina Braschi
• What You Don't Know by David Belbin
• Faultline 49 by David Danson
• Occupied by Joss Sheldon
• The Little Voice by Joss Sheldon
• Money Power Love by Joss Sheldon

  Film

• The Birth of a Nation
• America
• Strike
• The Dark Horse
• The Phantom President
• Washington Merry-Go-Round
• Duck Soup
• Manhattan Melodrama
• Judge Priest
• The Prisoner of Zenda
• In Old Chicago
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• The Great McGinty
• The Great Dictator
• Citizen Kane
• Meet John Doe
• The Devil and Daniel Webster
• Casablanca
• Angel on My Shoulder
• The Farmer's Daughter
• The Senator Was Indiscreet
• State of the Union
• Alias Nick Beal
• All the King's Men
• A Lion Is in the Streets
• Nikodem Dyzma
• Touch of Evil
• The Last Hurrah
• Advise and Consent
• The Manchurian Candidate
• The Best Man
• Dr. Strangelove
• Point of Order
• Seven Days in May
• Pharaoh
• Z
• The Man
• The Godfather
• The Candidate
• The Parallax View
• The Godfather, Part II
• Being There
• Seeing Red
• Secret Honor
• Power
• The Godfather, Part III
• Bob Roberts
• The Distinguished Gentleman
• Running Mates
• Batman Returns
• Dave
• With Honors
• The American President
• Absolute Power
• Murder at 1600
• Air Force One
• The Peacemaker
• Wag the Dog
• Primary Colors
• The Siege
• Three Kings
• Election
• The Contender
• Running Mates
• Ali G Indahouse
• The Quiet American
• Gangs of New York
• The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma
• '
• The Manchurian Candidate
• Thank You for Smoking
• V for Vendetta
• All the King's Men
• An Unreasonable Man
• Man of the Year
• Idiocracy
• The Lives of Others
• Even Almighty
• The Dark Knight
• My Name Is Khan
• The Campaign
• The Dictator
• '
• '
• '
• Joker

  Television

• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Slattery's People
• The Prisoner
• Grandpa Goes to Washington
• Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy
• Yes Minister
• Edge of Darkness
• First Among Equals
• The New Statesman
• A Very British Coup
• Tanner '88
• House of Cards
• Babylon 5
• To Play the King
• The Politician's Wife
• The Final Cut
• Spin City
• Nostromo
• Smallville
• 24
• The Wire
• The Project
• Absolute Power
• Battlestar Galactica
• Commander-in-Chief
• The Thick of It
• Brotherhood
• Party Animals
• Parks and Recreation
• The Good Wife
• Boardwalk Empire
• Downton Abbey
• Game of Thrones
• The Hour
• Boss
• Homeland
• Scandal
• Political Animals
• Veep
• House of Cards
• Orange is the New Black
• Wentworth
• The Politician's Husband
• Rectify
• The Best Laid Plans
• The Red Road
• The Honourable Woman
• Madam Secretary
• The Code
• Utopia
• Gotham
• American Crime
• The Same Sky
• BrainDead
• Designated Survivor
• The Good Fight
• Wildflower

  Musicals

• George Washington, Jr.
• Disraeli
• Hamilton
• Show Boat
• The Threepenny Opera
• Of Thee I Sing
• Miss Liberty
• South Pacific
• Call Me Madam
• The King and I
• The Pajama Game
• Candide
• West Side Story
• Fiorello!
• The Sound of Music
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Man of La Mancha
• Cabaret
• 1776
• Hair
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Shenandoah
• Chicago
• 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
• Evita
• Sarafina!
• The Who's Tommy
• Rent
• Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk
• Ragtime
• Parade
• Urinetown The Musical
• Wicked
• Assassins
• Caroline, or Change
• The Color Purple
• Grey Gardens
• The Scottsboro Boys
• Hamilton

  Comic strips

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