Wednesday, March 04, 2026

Novels on Dictatorships


Since we’re anticipating the fall of the Iranian theocracy, here’s an assortment of novels with insights on dictatorships.

The First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Comedians by Graham Greene

Mendelssohn Is on the Roof by Jiri Weil

Life with a Star by Jiri Weil

The Wall by John Hersey

The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes

Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi

The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli

The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden

The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

The Conformist by Alberto Moravia

Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter

Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Children of the Arbat by Anatoly Rybakov

A Gentleman in Moscow by Armor Towles


[Photo by Adventure Albania at Unsplash]

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