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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.

  1. 1.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke

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  2. 3.
    All Tomorrow's Parties
    by William Gibson

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  3. 4.
    Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)
    by Richard K. Morgan

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  4. 5.
    Always Coming Home (California Fiction)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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  5. 7.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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  6. 13.
    Bend Sinister
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  7. 14.
    Book of Dave, The
    by Will Self

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  8. 15.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  9. 16.
    A Canticle for Leibowitz
    by Walter M. Miller Jr.

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  10. 18.
    The Children of Men
    by P.D. James

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  11. 21.
    CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
    by George Saunders

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  12. 22.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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  13. 23.
    Cloud Atlas: A Novel
    by David Mitchell

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  14. 24.
    Count Zero
    by William Gibson

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  15. 25.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler

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  16. 28.
    The Dispossessed
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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  17. 34.
    Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
    by Orson Scott Card

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  18. 36.
    Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
    by Ray Bradbury

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  19. 39.
    The Fifth Sacred Thing
    by Starhawk

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  20. 44.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  21. 45.
    The Giver
    by Lois Lowry

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  22. 46.
    The Glass Bees (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Ernst Junger

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  23. 47.
    Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book)
    by Jonathan Lethem

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  24. 48.
    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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  25. 51.
    I Am Legend (ties into movie)
    by Richard Matheson

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  26. 52.
    Idoru
    by William Gibson

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  27. 61.
    Kallocain
    by Karin Boye

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  28. 64.
    The Lathe of Heaven: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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  29. 65.
    Level 7 (Library of American Fiction)
    by Mordecai Roshwald

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  30. 68.
    The Long Walk
    by Stephen King

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  31. 69.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

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  32. 70.
    Lost Souls
    by Poppy Z. Brite

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  33. 74.
    Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
    by Stanislaw Lem

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  34. 76.
    Metropole
    by Ferenc Karinthy

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  35. 78.
    Mona Lisa Overdrive (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by William Gibson

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  36. 79.
    Moscow - 2042
    by Vladimir Voinovich

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  37. 81.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

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  38. 82.
    Never Let Me Go
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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  39. 84.
    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  40. 85.
    Nova Express
    by William S. Burroughs

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  41. 86.
    Oryx and Crake
    by Margaret Atwood

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  42. 87.
    Parable of the Sower
    by Octavia E. Butler

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  43. 88.
    Parable of the Talents
    by Octavia E. Butler

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  44. 91.
    The Postman (Bantam Classics)
    by David Brin

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  45. 95.
    Riddley Walker
    by Russell Hoban

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  46. 96.
    The Road (rough cut)
    by Cormac Mccarthy

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  47. 97.
    The Running Man
    by Stephen King

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  48. 99.
    A Scanner Darkly (Gollancz SF)
    by Philip K. Dick

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  49. 100.
    Seed to Harvest
    by Octavia E. Butler

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  50. 102.
    The Sheep Look Up
    by John Brunner

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  51. 103.
    The Shockwave Rider
    by John Brunner

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  52. 107.
    Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Neal Stephenson

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  53. 108.
    The Space Merchants
    by Frederik Pohl

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  54. 109.
    Specimen Days: A Novel
    by Michael Cunningham

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  55. 110.
    The Stepford Wives
    by Ira Levin

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  56. 112.
    Swan Song
    by Robert McCammon

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  57. 117.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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  58. 118.
    The Unit
    by Ninni Holmqvist

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  59. 120.
    V for Vendetta
    by Alan Moore

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  60. 122.
    Virtual Light
    by William Gibson

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  61. 123.
    The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction)
    by Anthony Burgess

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  62. 124.
    War with the Newts (European Classics)
    by Karel Capek

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  63. 125.
    We (Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin

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  64. 126.
    Welcome to the Monkey House
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  65. 127.
    Earth Abides
    by George R. Stewart

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  66. 128.
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    The Year of the Flood: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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Created by Shannon on Dec 27, 2007.