In Fiction
- Tom Wolfe includes a description of the Hare Krishnas along with the Maha Mantra in his book the The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968).
- In the comic strip Bloom County (1986), a Hare Krishna devotee asks Opus the Penguin for some money, but Opus misunderstands "Prayer Temples for Hare Krishnas" as "Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts!", causing the Hare Krishna to say, "Just cough up some dough, Mac!" Berkeley Breathed wrote in one of the Bloom County books that the reaction was so overwhelmingly strong he made Opus a permanent member of the cast.
- In The Face on the Milk Carton series (1990), Hannah, Janie's kidnapper, is a Hare Krishna. The movement is described within the first book in the context of a cult.
- In The Tax Inspector (1991) by Booker Prize author Peter Carey, one of the main characters, Johnny, is a Hare Krishna.
- The Hare Krishna Maha Mantra appears in Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy (1994).
- In the novel Bee Season (2000) by Myla Goldberg, the character Aaron Naumann joins the local ISKCON temple after rejecting Judaism.
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