Friend of the library Samwise tweeted out a call for #ActivistNovels this morning. We think we can help.
Below is a list of fiction either dealing with a revolution or with themes of social injustice, war, and repression. It’s not definitive by any means – leave us your comments with any additions you have.
List is organized alphabetically by author’s last name. Because we’re book snobs.
Baum, L. Frank – The Wizard of Oz
Bradbury, Ray – Fahrenheit 451
Card, Orson Scott – Ender’s Game
Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities
Doctorow, Cory – Little Brother
Doctorow, E. L. – Ragtime
Eliot, George – Felix Holt, the Radical
Ellison, Ralph – Invisible Man
Finney, Jack – Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Hansberry, Lorraine – A Raisin in the Sun
Heinlein, Robert A. – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Heinlein, Robert A. – Stranger in a Strange Land
Hugo, Victor – Les Miserables
Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World
Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird
Le Guin, Ursula K. – The Left Hand of Darkness
Levin, Ira – The Stepford Wives
O’Brien, Tim – The Things They Carried
Orwell, George – 1984
Orwell, George – Animal Farm
Remarque, Erich Maria – All Quiet on the Western Front
Sinclair, Upton – The Jungle
Steinbeck, John – Grapes of Wrath
Stowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Vonnegut, Kurt – Cat’s Cradle
Vonnegut, Kurt – Sirens of Titan
Wolfe, Tom – Bonfire of the Vanities