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Shannon's "Dystopia Novels: A Reading List"

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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1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke
  
3. All Tomorrow's Parties
by William Gibson
  
4. Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)
by Richard K. Morgan
  
5. Always Coming Home (California Fiction)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
  
7. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
13. Bend Sinister
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
14. Book of Dave, The
by Will Self
  
15. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
  
16. A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
  
18. The Children of Men
by P.D. James
  
21. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
by George Saunders
  
22. A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
  
23. Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell
  
24. Count Zero
by William Gibson
  
25. Darkness at Noon: A Novel
by Arthur Koestler
  
27. The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
by Neal Stephenson
  
28. The Dispossessed
by Ursula K. Le Guin
  
34. Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
by Orson Scott Card
  
36. Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
by Ray Bradbury
  
39. The Fifth Sacred Thing
by Starhawk
  
44. Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
by Mary Shelley
  
45. The Giver
by Lois Lowry
  
46. The Glass Bees (New York Review Books Classics)
by Ernst Junger
  
47. Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book)
by Jonathan Lethem
  
48. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
  
51. I Am Legend (ties into movie)
by Richard Matheson
  
52. Idoru
by William Gibson
  
61. Kallocain
by Karin Boye
  
64. The Lathe of Heaven: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
  
65. Level 7 (Library of American Fiction)
by Mordecai Roshwald
  
66. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
  
68. The Long Walk
by Stephen King
  
69. Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
  
70. Lost Souls
by Poppy Z. Brite
  
74. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
by Stanislaw Lem
  
76. Metropole
by Ferenc Karinthy
  
78. Mona Lisa Overdrive (Bantam Spectra Book)
by William Gibson
  
79. Moscow - 2042
by Vladimir Voinovich
  
81. Neuromancer
by William Gibson
  
82. Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
  
84. Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
  
85. Nova Express
by William S. Burroughs
  
86. Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
  
87. Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
  
88. Parable of the Talents
by Octavia E. Butler
  
91. The Postman (Bantam Classics)
by David Brin
  
95. Riddley Walker
by Russell Hoban
  
96. The Road (rough cut)
by Cormac Mccarthy
  
97. The Running Man
by Stephen King
  
99. A Scanner Darkly (Gollancz SF)
by Philip K. Dick
  
This is Shannon's list. Only Shannon can edit it. You can make your own version of this list.
Created by Shannon on Dec 27, 2007.