Underworld," he has written, "proves, once and for all, or so I must hope, the incompatibility of the political paranoid vision with great fiction."
Wood

20 "great" novels that are also politically paranoid:

1) The Crying of Lot 49, Pynchon
2) The Stigmata of Palmer Edritch, Dick
3) The Castle, Kafka
4) The Tin Drum, Grass (though oskar had a reason to be paranoid, so it might not count)
5) Mumbo Jumbo, Reed
6) The Piano Teacher, Jelinek (the politics might be a little unclear here)
7) Mao II, DeLillo
8) The Cold Six Thousand, Ellroy
9) Catch 22, Heller
10) The White Album, Didion (is this a novel or something else)
11) Anil's Ghost, Ondaatje
12) The Handmaids Tale, Atwood
13) 1984, Orwell
14) The Abbess of Crewe, Spark
15) The Quiet American, Greene
16) The Master and Magerita, Bugalov
17) Hunger, Hamsun
18) War Of the Newts, Capek
19) Waiting for the Barbarians, Coetezee
20) V For Vendetta, Moore
Wood might accept one of these