The Buzz...About Books

Election stories can be found in fiction as well as non-fiction. The most famous recent example is The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling. Her first book since completing the Harry Potter series, this adult novel is about a hotly contested town council seat. There is a long waiting list for this one, but the library has other books about elections, too.

General Fiction

American Savior: a Novel of Divine Politics by Roland Merullo
Jesus returns and announces that He's running for president in this satirical novel.

Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
A jaded speechwriter finds himself managing a campaign for MP with a very reluctant candidate who has been assured that he will lose the election. However nothing is written in stone in Canadian politics…

Domestic Affairs: a Campaign Novel by Bridget Siegel
A young woman finds optimism, disillusionment, and ethical challenges as she works on a presidential campaign.

Taft 2012 by Jason Heller
President William Taft mysteriously appears in 2012, 100 years after his term ended and causes havoc with the 2012 presidential election.

Speculative Fiction:

The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick
Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, believes that the discovery of a parallel universe is the solution to the the Earth's overpopulation problem. Unfortunately the other planet already has inhabitants.

Feed by Mira Grant
I really enjoyed this book set in a post-zombie-apocalypse world. A trio of bloggers discovers horrifying evidence that someone is manipulating the presidential election by causing zombie attacks.

Red, White, and Blood by Christopher Farnsworth
Nathaniel Cade, a vampire who has served presidents for centuries, must track down an immortal serial killer who is disrupting the presidential campaign.