No Trigger Warnings

I will have great hope for the country's political future when every college student reads at least 15 of these novels.

1. "The Last Hurrah" by Edwin O'Connor
2. "1984" by George Orwell
3. "Animal Farm" by George Orwell
4. "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
5. "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
6. "First Among Equals" by Jeffrey Archer
7. "Darkness at Noon" by Arthur Koestler
8. "Lincoln" by Gore Vidal
9. "The Way We Live Now" by Anthony Trollope
10. "Life with a Star" by Jiri Weil
11. "The First Circle" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
12. "The Balkan Trilogy" by Olivia Manning
13. "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand
14. "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
15. "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
16. "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
17. "Submission" by Michel Houellebecq
18. "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
19. "Children of the Arbat" by Anatoly Rybakov
20. "I, Claudius" by Robert Graves
21. "The Radetzky March" by Joseph Roth