Life will always be stranger- bigly so

This political season, life has given up imitating art and struck out on its own, but there are those who still find good politics in books:

With campaign rhetoric thrumming and throbbing around us, along with deepening divisions around race, guns, sexuality, and national security; and since much of what we see/hear in the media is alarming, disappointing, and not infrequently inane; I thought we might offer up some alternatives for readers looking to sink their political minds into something intelligent, compelling, possibly even hopeful (if not exactly optimistic). I asked Millions staff writers: 

What is/are the best political fiction(s) you’ve read in the past decade?

Here's what they said.