October 6, 2021 | I’m often asked for a book list by listeners and readers.
Until now, I hadn’t formally put one together. But, over the past couple o
 
October 06, 2021

My Five Favorite Political Fiction Books
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By Ben Shapiro
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I’m often asked for a book list by listeners and readers. Until now, I hadn’t
formally put one together. But, over the past couple of weeks, I began
compiling a fiction list, divided by topic. The categories are rather fluid –
for example, I have a category for Science Fiction, in which some of the books
clearly overlap into the category for Political Fiction (see, e.g.,1984 by
George Orwell orBrave New World by Aldous Huxley). With that said, here are my
top five political novels. Leave your own picks below!

 

Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler


This book is a wildly underappreciated classic – even though it is indeed very
much appreciated by literary types. Koestler essentially fictionalizes the
stories of Old Soviets who have been deemed bourgeois by Stalin; the main
character, Rubashov, is arrested by the NKVD and thrown into prison, awaiting
interrogation and execution. The novel follows Rubashov’s thoughts as he
communicates with his next-door cellmate, remembers his own participation in
Communist atrocities, and finally realizes that in order to justify his life,
he must sign off on the lie that he is actually anti-Communist, thus upholding
the regime. Dark and terrifying and shockingly accurate about human nature.
Here’s Koestler, inside Rubashov’s mind: “Soon it would be over. But when he
asked himself, For what actually are you dying? he found no answer. It was a
mistake in the system; perhaps it lay in the precept which until now he had
held to be uncontestable, in whose name he had sacrificed others and was
himself being sacrificed: in the precept, that the end justifies the means.”
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