I keep seeing 1984 mentioned. Are there any others that could reflect what is happening? My library only has 22 copies of 1984 and there are 82 people waiting. I wanted to look for some other options while I waited. I mainly read sci-fi, but any genre will do. Thank you for suggestions!
Edit: Maybe I should get some of these on hard copy to make sure they continue to be available.
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
*Blackshirts and reds* by Michael Parenti
*The capital order* by Clara Mattei
The Stand
The parable of the sower
Sci-fi that is technically not related but has a lot of parallels (politics, crime, small American town, big crooked political figure): Under the dome by Stephen King
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
The handmaid’s tale – for the way they are repealing a lot of reproductive rights for women.
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth.
The Mandibles
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27064345
Not socially, which I think is what you are asking, but economically for sure. A mad man president isolating America only for the rest of the world to turn on it. And the outcome…. Buckle up.
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
I am a camera
*When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944* by Ronald C. Rosbottom
Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Goldhagen
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara – newer one but the last part…
Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself by Florian Huber
I recommend x 1000
“the diary of anne frank”