I would suggest the political novels of Rex Warner, written in the runup to WW2: The Wild Goose Chase, The Professor, and The Aerodrome. He was something like a British Kafka, or what Orwell might have been if he'd had more flair and imagination. There are less than 100 ratings for all these books together, and the first (my fave) gets no reviews and 7 ratings, mostly poor. It won't take much googling to show you how little use Goodreads is for books like this.