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The Final Cut

Michael Dobbs · 480 pages

Villain ProtagonistPolitical CorruptionMorally Gray CharacterPolitical Intrigue
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Richard III

William Shakespeare · 192 pages

"containing his treacherous plots against his brother Clarence, the pittiefull murther of his innocent nephewes, his tyrannicall usurpation, with the whole course of his detested life and most deserved death" (Subtitle of the 1597 edition.)

Villain ProtagonistPolitical CorruptionMorally Gray CharacterMonarchy History
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Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel · 432 pages

The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England

Monarchy HistoryPolitical CorruptionVillain ProtagonistPolitical Intrigue
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Les Liaisons dangereuses

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos · 400 pages

Cet ouvrage, ou plutot ce recueil, que le public trouvera peut-etre encore trop volumineux, ne contient pourtant que le plus petit nombre des lettres qui composaient la totalite de la correspondance dont il est extrait. Charge de la mettre en ordre par les personnes a qui elle etait parvenue, et que je savais dans l'intention de la publier, je n'ai demande, pour prix de mes soins, que la permissio

Morally Gray CharacterVillain ProtagonistSatirical HumorPolitical Intrigue
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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde · 224 pages

**The Picture of Dorian Gray** is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical *Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine*. The novel-length version was published in April 1891. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray))

Villain ProtagonistLondonSatirical HumorSatire
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Death Note, Vol. 5: Whiteout

Tsugumi Ohba · 202 pages

After a week locked up with no one but Ryuk for company, Light is ready to give up his Death Note and all memories of it. Freed from his past actions, Light is convinced he's innocent. But L is ready to keep Light under lock and key forever, especially since the killings stopped once Light was incarcerated. Then a new wave of Kira crimes hits Japan. Someone else has gotten their hands on a Death N

Villain ProtagonistMorally Gray CharacterPolitical IntrigueThriller
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Kill Your Friends

John Niven · 323 pages

A dark, satirical and hysterically funny evisceration of the record business, a place populated by frauds, charlatans and bluffers, where ambition is a higher currency than talent, and where it seems anything can be achieved - as long as you want it badly enough.

Villain ProtagonistLondonSatirical HumorSatire
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Holy Spy

Rory Clements · 472 pages

Political IntrigueLondonMonarchy HistoryMorally Gray Character
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Night Watch

Terry Pratchett · 384 pages

One moment, Sir Sam Vimes is in his old patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. The next, he's lying naked in the street, having been sent back thirty years courtesy of a group of time-manipulating monks who won't leave well enough alone. This Discworld is a darker place that Vimes remembers too well, three decades before his title, fortune, beloved

Political CorruptionPolitical IntrigueSatirical HumorSatire
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Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics

Anonymous, Joe Klein · 384 pages

Political CorruptionSatirical HumorPolitical IntrigueSatire
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A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess · 188 pages

A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him. The book is partially written in a Russian-influenced argot called "Na

Villain ProtagonistPolitical CorruptionLondonSatire
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (a Hunger Games Novel)

Suzanne Collins · 528 pages

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will revisit the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games.

Morally Gray CharacterVillain ProtagonistPolitical IntrigueThriller
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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

Morally Gray CharacterPolitical CorruptionPolitical IntrigueMale Lead
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The Autumn of the Patriarch

Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 265 pages

Political CorruptionVillain ProtagonistSatireMale Lead
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The Tailor Of Panama

John le Carre

Harry Pendel is the charismatic proprietor and guiding genius of a top Panama City tailoring firm. Andrew Osnard is an Old Etonian and spy, his mission is to keep a watchful eye on political manoeuvrings leading up to the handing over of the Panama Canal. Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996.

Political CorruptionSatirical HumorSatireThriller
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Distraction

Bruce Sterling · 467 pages

It's November 2044, an election year, and the state of the Union is a farce. The government is broke, the cities are privately owned, and the military is shaking down citizens in the streets. Washington has become a circus and no one knows that better than Oscar Valparaiso. A political spin doctor, Oscar has always made things look good. Now he wants to make a difference. But Oscar has a skelet

Political CorruptionSatirical HumorPolitical IntrigueSatire
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Darth Plagueis

James Luceno · 429 pages

Darth Plagueis, a Sith Lord who knows the Dark Side so well that he has power over life and death, joins forces with his apprentice, one-day emperor Darth Sidious, to try to dominate the whole galaxy.

Villain ProtagonistMorally Gray CharacterPolitical IntrigueMale Lead
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The Orphan Master's Son

Adam Johnson · 456 pages

An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master’s Son follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. There the boy is giv

Political CorruptionSatirical HumorSatireThriller
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The Boys Omnibus Vol. 2

Garth Ennis · 406 pages

Morally Gray CharacterPolitical CorruptionSatirical HumorSatire
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The Godfather

Mario Puzo · 447 pages

The Godfather is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo. Originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, the novel details the story of a fictional Mafia family in New York City (and Long Beach, New York), headed by Vito Corleone. Puzo's dedication for The Godfather is "For Anthony Cleri". The novel's epigraph is by the French author Honoré de Balzac: "Behind every great fortune there is

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Ripley Under Water

Patricia Highsmith · 280 pages

Villain ProtagonistMorally Gray CharacterThrillerMale Lead
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Scythe

Neal Shusterman · 448 pages

*Thou shalt kill.* A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “a

Political CorruptionMorally Gray CharacterPolitical IntrigueThriller
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High Society

Ben Elton · 381 pages

High society is a story about our world today, a collection of criminal nations in which everybody is either breaking the law or knows people who do.

Political CorruptionLondonSatirical HumorSatire
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The Great Indian Novel

Shashi Tharoor · 423 pages

Writing in English, Shasi Tharoor has produced a stunning novel that is at once ambitious, daring, boldly satirical, and outrageously funny. The two structural pillars of his astonishing work are the national epic, the *Mahabharata,* and the Indian struggle in this century for independence from Great Britain.

Political CorruptionSatirical HumorPolitical IntrigueSatire

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