Election Fiction

Sophie Sterling wants to run a clean, quiet campaign for student body president. Lexie Sterling has never done anything quietly in her life. When Sophie decides to throw her hat in the ring, Lexie appoints herself campaign manager and immediately turns the race into a full-blown spectacle. Flashy posters, surprise events, and way too many opinions later, the whole school is watching. Their opponent is polished, popular, and playing to win. Rumors start flying. Posters mysteriously disappear. And Sophie’s carefully planned speeches keep getting hijacked by her sister’s big personality. ...

In less than a week, America will select her new president. Three candidates are tied in a dead heat. But one of them is about to step into a lethal trap.

The drug didn’t just cross borders - it rewrote them. Now, it isn’t running from the law. It’s running for office [source: 2]. Mateo Rojas thought he had escaped the shadow of the Silver Phoenix. He thought burning the Rotterdam files would buy him redemption. He was wrong. Returned from Namibian exile to a country that hails him as a hero, Mateo is offered the ultimate prize: a Senate seat on the Colombian coast. But in a state where political power is bought with blood money and sealed behind closed doors, every vote is a transaction, and every candidate is an asset. They didn't ...

“Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, American War, is an...

The best-selling author of Enigma and Fatherland turns to today's Vatican in a ripped-from-the-headlines novel, and gives us his most ambitious, page-turning thriller yet--where the power of God is nearly equaled by the ambition of men. The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine...

In Blood Song, Anthony Ryan introduced readers to “a fascinating world of conflicting religions and the wars fought in the name of those faiths” (Library Journal). Now Ryan’s epic tale continues as Vaelin Al Sorna discovers that there is no escape from the call of destiny… “The...

Claire Whitman has spent her career doing everything by the book. As Ohio’s sitting Attorney General, she’s respected, prepared, and relentlessly controlled. But as her re-election campaign tightens, polling reveals a problem strategy alone can’t solve: voters don’t feel connected to her. Daniel Reyes has built his life far from politics, leading disaster-response efforts rooted in trust, presence, and community. When the campaign asks him to appear as Claire’s partner, the arrangement is supposed to be simple—temporary, contained, and purely strategic. It isn’t. As public ...

Zoey is Too Drunk for This Dystopia is the latest installment in New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin's thrilling Zoey Ashe sci-fi series. Zoey Ashe wakes up every day feeling like she’s trying to steer a battleship while tied to the propeller. The twenty-three-year-old heiress to a...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “chilling and timeless” (The Washington Post) political and legal thriller that will leave readers unable to think about our electoral process or judicial system in quite the same way ever again. “Fascinating . . . filled with deadly accurate...

A.D. 1172. Henry II’s three eldest sons conspire against him and align themselves with his greatest enemy, King Louis of France, but it’s Eleanor of Aquitaine’s involvement in the plot to overthrow her husband that proves to be the harshest betrayal. As a royal family collapses and a...

“Ingenious… Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I’ve read in a novel this century.” —The New York Times WINNER OF THE 2018 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR THE 2019 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The suspenseful and...

“Audacious and terrifying—and uncannily believable.” —Lee Child New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series, Lee Child, was blown away by The Breach—and you will be, too! A novel of unrelenting suspense and nonstop surprises, The Breach immediately rockets author...

The anomaly called the Breach is the government’s most carefully guarded secret. But there is another secret even less known . . . and far more terrifying. As the U.S. President addresses the nation fromthe Oval Office, a missile screams toward the White House. In a lightning flash, the Chief...

In Chaucer's London, betrayal, murder, royal intrigue, mystery, and dangerous politics swirl around the existence of a prophetic book that foretells the deaths of England's kings. Bruce Holsinger's A Burnable Book is an irresistible historical thriller reminiscent of the classics An Instance of...

Cousin Alice is running for mayor, and the Boxcar Children must find out which of her opponents is using sneaky tricks to win the race!

Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way in modern America. “Masood’s novel presents a stereoscopic, three-dimensional view of contemporary Muslim...

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. I never believed the diagnoses the doctors settled...

A nation exposed. An enemy emboldened. A faith under siege. He never wanted the power, but now he's their biggest obstacle. Victory is within reach, but a relentless and visible enemy is mobilizing against him. Sanctum, the Deep State, operates openly, their ruthless ambition no longer hidden. They will stop at nothing to seize control, threatening the very integrity of the election. Even a clear win offers no guarantee of survival against their pervasive power. His faith is his only anchor in a battle to dismantle a deep state that will stop at nothing. Can his unwavering belief guide him ...

Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times bestseller A Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A New York Times Notable Book “Extreme times call for extreme reactions, extreme writing. Hamid has done something extraordinary with this novel...

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST AND LITHUB! “This gifted Mexican writer … delivers novels that are steeped in history and have a hallucinatory sense of pageantry … He’s one of the best we have.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times A...