Fiction Set During a Revolution

1

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

36,885 members

457 reviews

3.9

12 Members: hailelib, lquilter, KimarieBee, abbottthomas, thorold, aulsmith, avatiakh, roby72, DorsVenabili, susiesharp, souloftherose, John_Vaughan,ncgraham
Explanations: aulsmith: French Revolution

2

Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Pasternak

11,493 members

152 reviews

3.9

7 Members: thorold, norabelle414, CurrerBell, roby72, DorsVenabili, Dilara86, John_Vaughan

3

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Orczy

8,864 members

192 reviews

4

7 Members: hailelib, wookiebender, aulsmith, DorsVenabili, souloftherose, John_Vaughan, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: aulsmith: French Revolution

4

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

26,437 members

341 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: hailelib, roby72, DorsVenabili, ncgraham, souloftherose, Dilara86

5

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

by Robert A. Heinlein

10,482 members

183 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hailelib, lquilter, KimarieBee, aulsmith, calm, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Nostromo

by Joseph Conrad

4,790 members

58 reviews

3.8

5 Members: Ravic, abbottthomas, CurrerBell, roby72, DorsVenabili

7

Johnny Tremain: A Story of Boston in Revolt

by Esther Forbes

9,389 members

84 reviews

3.8

4 Members: wookiebender, norabelle414, CurrerBell, ncgraham

8

A Place of Greater Safety

by Hilary Mantel

1,845 members

60 reviews

4

4 Members: DorsVenabili, calm, souloftherose, elkiedee

9

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

11,243 members

128 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: gilroy, aulsmith, roby72
Explanations: aulsmith: Never thought of the US Civil War as a failed revolution, but it really is.

10

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

60,402 members

892 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

10,780 members

268 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Eight

by Katherine Neville

4,899 members

137 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: KimarieBee, norabelle414

13

Twenty Years After

by Alexandre Dumas

2,914 members

42 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aulsmith, DorsVenabili
Explanations: aulsmith: English Civil War

14

Man's Fate

by André Malraux

2,539 members

37 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: roby72, DorsVenabili

15

Parrot and Olivier in America

by Peter Carey

1,743 members

69 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: wookiebender, DorsVenabili

16

Madame Tussaud

by Michelle Moran

1,046 members

96 reviews

4

2 Members: DorsVenabili, susiesharp

17

While England Sleeps

by David Leavitt

620 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, DorsVenabili
Explanations: aulsmith: Spanish Civil War

18

City of Darkness, City of Light

by Marge Piercy

459 members

10 reviews

3.9

2 Members: lquilter, DorsVenabili

19

The Temple

by Stephen Spender

371 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: thorold, aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Spanish Civil War

20

My Lady Ludlow

by Elizabeth Gaskell

156 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: CurrerBell, ManWithAnAgenda

21

The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

13,941 members

264 reviews

4

Member: roby72

22

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

13,013 members

202 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, John_Vaughan,aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith : This takes place long after the Russian revolution.

23

The Fiery Cross

by Diana Gabaldon

9,844 members

167 reviews

4.1

Member: calm

24

A Breath of Snow and Ashes

by Diana Gabaldon

8,974 members

143 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: calm

25

My Brother Sam is Dead

by James Lincoln Collier

3,982 members

89 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party

by M. T. Anderson

2,969 members

160 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

27

Fables, Vol. 02: Animal Farm

by Bill Willingham

2,745 members

68 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Stories

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,378 members

31 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

29

Revolt in 2100

by Robert A. Heinlein

2,037 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aulsmith

30

Scaramouche

by Rafael Sabatini

1,754 members

55 reviews

4

Member: DorsVenabili

31

The 42nd Parallel

by John Dos Passos

1,641 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Mexican Revolution

32

The Old Wives' Tale

by Arnold Bennett

1,560 members

25 reviews

3.9

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Paris commune

33

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

by Peter Weiss

1,248 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: French revolution, 1789

34

The Kingdom of This World

by Alejo Carpentier

1,209 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Haitian revolution

35

Freedom and Necessity

by Steven Brust

1,080 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: The failed English revolution in 1848

36

El siglo de las luces

by Alejo Carpentier

1,007 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: French Revolution

37

Distress

by Greg Egan

873 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Revolution or singularity? The world certainly changed.

38

The Glass Blowers

by Daphne du Maurier

851 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: avatiakh

39

Old Mortality

by Sir Walter Scott

635 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thorold

40

The City, Not Long After

by Pat Murphy

493 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

41

Danton's Death

by Georg Büchner

437 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: DorsVenabili

42

Sky Without Stars

by Jessica Brody

430 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

43

1776: a musical play

by Sherman Edwards

275 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: American revolution

44

Shadow Man

by Melissa Scott

259 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

45

Conquered City

by Victor Serge

247 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee

46

The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie

by John Bellairs

218 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

Woodstock

by Sir Walter Scott

210 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thorold

48

King's Mountain

by Sharyn McCrumb

182 members

6 reviews

3.1

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: American Revolution

49

The Day Before the Revolution [short story]

by Ursula K. Le Guin

122 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

50

Birth of Our Power

by Victor Serge

120 members

1 review

3.8

Member: elkiedee

51

The King's Commissar

by Duncan Kyle

71 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: Noisy

52

The Vanishing Futurist

by Charlotte Hobson

41 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee

53

The Wall {short story}

by Jean-Paul Sartre

9 members

1 review

5

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Spanish Civil War

54

Traverser la Ville

by Robert Silverberg

7 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: aulsmith

55

The Valley of the Fallen {poem}

by Carolyn Kizer

1 member

1 review

4

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Spanish Civil War

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