Shannon's "Dystopia Novels: A Reading List"

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These are societies that, like "Brave New World," were intended to be Utopias, at least for some.

Note: With some exceptions, short story collections, young adult fiction and series have been eliminated if so identified. Also, I have striven to include high-quality books only.

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    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke

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    After
    by Francine Prose

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    All Tomorrow's Parties
    by William Gibson

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    Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)
    by Richard K. Morgan

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  5. 5.
    Always Coming Home (California Fiction)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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    Ambient
    by Jack Womack

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    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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  8. 8.
    Ape and Essence
    by Aldous Huxley

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    Atomised
    by Michel Houellebecq

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  10. 10.
    Bar Code Rebellion
    by Suzanne Weyn

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    The Bar Code Tattoo (Point Thriller)
    by Suzanne Weyn

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  12. 12.
    Bear v. Shark: The Novel
    by Chris Bachelder

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  13. 13.
    Bend Sinister
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  14. 14.
    Book of Dave, The
    by Will Self

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  15. 15.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  16. 16.
    Brave New World Revisited (P.S.)
    by Aldous Huxley

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  17. 17.
    A Canticle for Leibowitz
    by Walter M. Miller Jr.

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    Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
    by Ignatius Donnelly

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    The Children of Men
    by P.D. James

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    The Chrysalids
    by John Wyndham

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  21. 21.
    Chung Kuo: The Middle Kingdom
    by David Wingrove

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    CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
    by George Saunders

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    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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  24. 24.
    Cloud Atlas: A Novel
    by David Mitchell

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  25. 25.
    Count Zero
    by William Gibson

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  26. 26.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler

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    Dhalgren
    by Samuel R. Delany

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    The Dispossessed
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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    Divided Kingdom
    by Rupert Thomson

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    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    by Philip K. Dick

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    The Domination
    by S.M. Stirling

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    Drowning Towers
    by George Turner

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    Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
    by Orson Scott Card

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  35. 36.
    The Ethos Effect
    by L. E. Modesitt Jr.

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    Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
    by Ray Bradbury

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    Fatherland: A Novel (Mortalis)
    by Robert Harris

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    Feed
    by M.T. Anderson

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    The Fifth Sacred Thing
    by Starhawk

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    The First Men in the Moon (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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    Flashforward
    by Robert J. Sawyer

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    Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
    by Philip K. Dick

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    Foundation and Earth
    by Isaac Asimov

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  44. 45.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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    The Giver
    by Lois Lowry

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  46. 47.
    The Glass Bees (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Ernst Junger

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    Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book)
    by Jonathan Lethem

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  48. 49.
    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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  49. 50.
    Heathern
    by Jack Womack

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Created by Shannon on Dec 27, 2007.
 

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tsamuel
Chesterfield County

Like the list — 1 year ago

I think you are still creating this one but I have already adopted it. I will wait to see.