Political Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors
- Fiction, Immigration Fiction, Political Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
In 1934, a young José Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers’ strike in Estación Camarón, which became the basis of his landmark novel, Human Mourning. In her...
- by Laila Lalami
- Fiction, Political Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance. Sara has just landed at LAX, returning...
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Political Fiction, Satire
- Publication Year: 2025
Lyrical and swashbuckling, tender and surreal, Gabriela Cabezón Camara’s new novel finds glimmers of hope for the future in the brutal history of colonial Latin America. Deep in the wilds...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Political Fiction
- Publication Year: 2021
In this “beautiful…urgent” novel (The New York Times), Nahr, a young Palestinian woman, fights for a better life for her family as she travels as a refugee throughout the Middle...
- by Mohsin Hamid
- Political Fiction
- Publication Year: 2017
The New York Times bestselling novel: an astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands, from...
- by Mohsin Hamid
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction, Political Fiction
- Publication Year: 2013
His first two novels established Mohsin Hamid as a radically inventive storyteller with his finger on the world’s pulse. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia meets that reputation—and...