I've recently read... A Wise Mans Fear by Patrick Rothfuss The Last Gate by Orson Scott Card How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel by Charles Yu River Marked by Patricia Briggs
None are overtly political in nature.
Is that new, or have we read it already? I just re-read "Dragon" and "Issola," because they're the ones we have sitting around. The baby kept coming up and nattering about the artwork on the covers; he's not used to lizards' having wings.