AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

Advise and Consent

Allen Drury · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

A Clash of Kings

George R.R. Martin · 764 pages

In this thrilling sequel to *A Game of Thrones*, George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. *A Clash of Kings* transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any we have ever experienced. ***A Clash of Kings*** A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Barat

Political CorruptionPolitical IntrigueEnsemble CastSprawling Epic
❤️

The Evening and the Morning

Ken Follett · 816 pages

Political CorruptionSprawling EpicPolitical IntrigueEnsemble Cast
❤️

Second Foundation

Isaac Asimov · 225 pages

After years of struggle, the Foundation lay in ruins -- destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it was rumored that there was a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule had failed to find it the first time -- but now he was certain he knew where it lay. The fate of

Sprawling EpicPolitical IntrigueEnsemble CastPolitical Corruption
❤️

Under the Dome

Stephen King · 1,088 pages

A mysterious, impervious dome seals a small town off from the world...and supplies, and fresh air. Where did it come from and how do the inhabitants escape?

Political CorruptionSprawling EpicEnsemble CastPolitical Intrigue
❤️

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Tom Wolfe · 690 pages

Political CorruptionSprawling EpicEnsemble CastLiterary Fiction
❤️

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 422 pages

Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.

Political CorruptionSprawling EpicEnsemble CastLiterary Fiction
❤️

The Sum of All Fears

Tom Clancy · 914 pages

Peace may finally be at hand in the Middle East -- as Jack Ryan lays the groundwork for a plan that could end centuries of conflict. But ruthless terrorists have a final, desperate card to play; with one terrible act, distrust mounts, forces collide, and the floundering U.S. president seems unable to cope with the crisis. With the world on the verge of nuclear disaster, Ryan must frantically seek

Political IntriguePolitical CorruptionEnsemble CastSprawling Epic
❤️

The Center Cannot Hold

Harry Turtledove · 640 pages

Ensemble CastSprawling EpicPolitical CorruptionPolitical Intrigue
❤️

In the First Circle

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 741 pages

Political CorruptionEnsemble CastSprawling EpicLiterary Fiction
❤️

Bleak House

Charles Dickens · 815 pages

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, t

Political CorruptionSprawling EpicEnsemble CastLiterary Fiction
🙂

Speaking Bones

Ken Liu · 1,047 pages

Political IntrigueSprawling EpicEnsemble CastLiterary Fiction
🙂

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare · 136 pages

Political CorruptionPolitical IntrigueEnsemble CastClassics
🙂

New Moon

Ian McDonald · 398 pages

"The Moon wants to kill you. Whether it's being unable to pay your per diem for your allotted food, water, and air, or you just get caught up in a fight between the Moon's ruling corporations, the Five Dragons. You must fight for every inch you want to gain in the Moon's near feudal society. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. As the leader of the Moon's newest "dragon," Adriana has wrested c

Sprawling EpicPolitical IntrigueEnsemble CastSeries
🙂

Animal Farm

George Orwell · 122 pages

Animal Farm is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking ov

Political CorruptionPolitical IntrigueEnsemble CastLiterary Fiction
🙂
Political CorruptionPolitical IntrigueEnsemble CastLiterary Fiction
🙂

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand · 1,088 pages

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will learn the answers to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play hav

Political CorruptionSprawling EpicEnsemble CastLiterary Fiction
🙂

A Place of Greater Safety

Hilary Mantel · 816 pages

A spellbinding, epic novel which recounts the events between the fall of the Ancient Regime and the peak of the Terror, as seen through the eyes of the French Revolution's three protagonists – Georges-Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, men whose mix of ambition, idealism, and ego helped unleash the darker side of the Revolution's ideals and brought them eventually to th

Political IntriguePolitical CorruptionSprawling EpicLiterary Fiction
🙂

The Camel Club

David Baldacci · 438 pages

The Camel Club. Four members, four stories, one philosophy. Men with no past and no future, they spend their time studying wild conspiracy theories that reach to the highest levels of government. One fateful night ,The Camel Club witnesses a shocking murder and realizes that even their wildest theories are not as horrifying as the truth...Soon, they have an ally in the person of Alex Ford, a caree

Political CorruptionPolitical IntrigueEnsemble CastSeries
🙂

The Path of Daggers

Robert Jordan · 608 pages

From Publishers Weekly The eighth book of Jordan's bestselling The Wheel of Time saga (A Crown of Swords, etc.) opens with a renewed invasion by the Seanchans, a conquering race whose arsenal includes man-carrying flying reptiles and enslaved female magic-workers as well as powerful soldiers, many of whom have joined the Seanchans out of fear of the Dragon Reborn. The Dragon himself, Rand al'Thor

Political IntrigueEnsemble CastSprawling EpicSeries
🙂

Noble House

James Clavell · 1,142 pages

The setting is Hong Kong, 1963. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are the days of high from kidnapping and murder to financial double-dealing and natural catastrophes -- fire, flood, and landslide. Yet they are days filled as well with all the mystery and romance of Hong Kong -- the heart of Asia -- rich in every trade... money, flesh, opium, power.

Sprawling EpicEnsemble CastPolitical IntrigueLiterary Fiction
🙂

Wizard of the Crow

Ngugi wa Thiong'o · 784 pages

>From the exiled Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic--a magisterial comic novel that is certain to take its place as a landmark of postcolonial African literature.In exile now for more than twenty years, Ngugl wa Thiong'o has become one of the most widely read African writers of our time, the power and scope of his work garnering him international attention and praise. His aim i

Political CorruptionSprawling EpicEnsemble CastLiterary Fiction
🙂

I, Claudius/Claudius the God

Robert Graves · 848 pages

Political CorruptionPolitical IntrigueSprawling EpicSeries
🙂

A Pillar of Iron

Taylor Caldwell · 580 pages

“The sweep and splendor of the Roman past blazes anew in this mighty story of Cicero and the Republic he fought to save.” “Unfolded here in rich detail are the private dramas behind the great Roman hero's triumphs and defeats—and the intimate, deeply moving story of his desperate love affair with the beautiful Livia.”

Political CorruptionPolitical IntrigueSprawling EpicClassics
🙂

All the King's Men

Robert Penn Warren · 490 pages

The story is about Willie Stark, a slick politician of humble birth, who was based on real-life Huey Long, a Louisiana governor, but the real main character is Jack Burden, a reporter who serves to narrate the story and Stark's rise to power.

Political CorruptionPolitical IntrigueSprawling EpicLiterary Fiction

In the works

To be read SpinnerCan’t pick your next book? Spin your Want to read.Blind date with a bookPick a mood, unwrap a surprise.Add a tiny librarySnap a little free library and its books.