Perhaps not EA-related, but as a refreshing change from the apparent focus on villains in both “literary” and “genre” fiction, I’d recommend Anna Funder’s ‘All That I Am’ and ‘Stasiland’. They are based on the stories of resistors to the Nazi regime and the East German GDR regime, respectively. ‘Stasiland’ is non-fiction (long-form journalism) and also includes stories from informers/ex-Stasi police, but most of the focus is on the resistors. ‘All That I Am’ is based on the life of a person whom the author, Anna Funder, knew personally.
Perhaps not EA-related, but as a refreshing change from the apparent focus on villains in both “literary” and “genre” fiction, I’d recommend Anna Funder’s ‘All That I Am’ and ‘Stasiland’. They are based on the stories of resistors to the Nazi regime and the East German GDR regime, respectively. ‘Stasiland’ is non-fiction (long-form journalism) and also includes stories from informers/ex-Stasi police, but most of the focus is on the resistors. ‘All That I Am’ is based on the life of a person whom the author, Anna Funder, knew personally.