Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957) by John Steinbeck The Ugly American (1958) by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe Act of Mercy [U.S. title: Guns of Darkness] (1959) by Francis Clifford The Manchurian Candidate (1959) by Richard Condon Advise and Consent (1959) by Allen Drury The Best Man (1960) by Gore Vidal (play) Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing Seven Days in May (1962) by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey Corridors of Power (1964) by C.P. Snow The Man (1964) by Irving Wallace Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert The Squares of the City (1965) by John Brunner All in the Family (1966) by Edwin O'Connor A Man of the People (1966) by Chinua Achebe The Comedians (1966) by Graham Greene The Late Bourgeois World (1966) by Nadine Gordimer Cancer Ward (1967) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Washington, D.C. (1967) by Gore Vidal Z (1969) by Vassilis Vassilikos The Godfather (1969) by Mario Puzo Being There (1971) by Jerzy Kosiński The Lorax (1971) by Dr. Seuss Burr (1973) by Gore Vidal Reasons of State (1974) by Alejo Carpentier I, the Supreme (1974) by Augusto Roa Bastos The Chocolate War (1974) by Robert Cormier Remember Ruben (1974) by Mongo Beti The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Guerrillas (1975) by V. S. Naipaul The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) by Edward Abbey Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976) by Manuel Puig 1876 (1976) by Gore Vidal A Flag For Sunrise (1977) by Robert Stone The Public Burning (1977) by Robert Coover The Shad Treatment (1977) by Garrett Epps The Dead Zone (1979) by Stephen King A Married Man (1979) by Piers Paul Read An Enemy of the State (1980) by F. Paul Wilson A Very British Coup (1982) by Chris Mullin Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1982–88) by Yoshiki Tanaka V for Vendetta (1982–88) by Alan Moore and David Lloyd The Day the Leader was Killed (1983) by Naguib Mahfouz The Floating Island (1983) by Garrett Epps The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984) by Mario Vargas Llosa First Among Equals (1984) by Jeffrey Archer The Butter Battle Book (1984) by Dr. Seuss The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood Anthills of the Savannah (1987) by Chinua Achebe Favorite Son (1988) by Steve Sohmer House of Cards (1989) by Michael