Books with action in real dictatorships, fiction. Some of them are action books, some other are centered around characters and normal people life.
created by AncaC
last updated January, 2026
The Complete Maus
Art Spiegelman
Rolul familiei mele în revoluţia mondială
Bora Ćosić
In the Country of Men
Hisham Matar
Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini
Giorgio Bassani
The Tiger's Wife
Téa Obreht
Inheritance
Lan Samantha Chang
A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova
Arnošt Lustig
The Fountains of Silence
Ruta Sepetys
I Must Betray You
Elveda Gülsarı
Chingiz Aitmatov
Atemschaukel
Herta Müller
The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
Bandi Bandi
Salt to the Sea
Between Shades of Gray
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