Books about real autocracies and how affect people's life. Most of them are memories, but the list is open for other books as well, as long as they are non-fiction.
created by AncaC
last updated January, 2026
Burned Alive
Souad Souad
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai
Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir
Shahrnush Parsipur
Prisoner of Tehran
Marina Nemat
Girls of Riyadh
Rajaa Alsanea
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi
The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
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