Books like Animal Farm
Animals overthrow their farmer and establish an egalitarian society that gradually becomes a dictatorship worse than the one they replaced.
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Glory
In the animal kingdom of Jidada, the Old Horse who has ruled for decades is overthrown by his own deputy, and Destiny, a young goat back from exile, watches what happens next.
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
A battery hen named Sprout escapes the coop, raises a wild duckling as her own, and gives everything to see it fly.
Penguin Island
A short-sighted abbot mistakes a colony of great auks for people and baptises them, and heaven has to turn them into humans; their history then follows France's from Charlemagne to the Dreyfus affair.
I Am a Cat
A nameless cat belonging to a Tokyo schoolteacher observes his owner and his owner's Meiji-era circle of scholars, businessmen and gossips with the cool contempt of his species.
Heart of a Dog
A stray dog in 1920s Moscow is surgically transformed into a human, and the resulting creature becomes a savage satire of the New Soviet Man.
Mario and the Magician
On holiday at an Italian seaside resort in the late 1920s, a German family goes to the show of Cipolla, a hunchbacked hypnotist who bends his audience to his will.
The Pearl
Kino, a poor pearl diver on the Gulf of California, finds the Pearl of the World and believes it will pay for a doctor for his baby son, Coyotito.
Seeing
The sequel to Blindness: the city holds an election where every ballot is cast blank, and the government's response reveals that democracy's greatest threat is its own defenders.
The Alchemist
An Andalusian shepherd boy travels from Spain to the Egyptian pyramids following a recurring dream, learning that the treasure he seeks was always within reach.
The Moon Is Down
An invading army takes a small coastal mining town in an unnamed northern country almost without a shot, and its colonel tries to run it peacefully through the town's mayor.
Lord of the Flies
British schoolboys stranded on a deserted island build a society that collapses into savagery, revealing the darkness beneath civilisation's veneer.
Children of the Alley
The history of a Cairo alley told as allegory: Gabalawi, its founder, shut away in his great house, while his descendants fight over his estate generation after generation.