CJMayer's "Twentysomething Dystopian Novels"

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I’m not sure if all of these qualify as dystopian but close enough. I suppose you can never be sure until you read them. Not in any particular order and certainly not comprehensive.

  1. 1.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  2. 2.
    1984
    by George Orwell

  3. 3.
    Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by William Golding

  4. 4.
    The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Cormac McCarthy

  5. 5.
    The Stand
    by Stephen King

  6. 6.
    Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood (York Notes Advanced)
    by Margaret Atwood

  7. 7.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  8. 8.
    Armageddon's Children (The Genesis of Shannara, Book 1)
    by Terry Brooks

  9. 9.
    The Chrysalids (Connections)
    by John Wyndham

  10. 10.
    The Time Machine (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

  11. 11.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

  12. 12.
    Player Piano: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  13. 13.
    A Clockwork Orange (Essential.penguin)
    by Anthony Burgess

  14. 14.
    We (Modern Library Classics)
    by Yevgeny Zamyatin

  15. 15.
    The Running Man
    by Stephen King

  16. 16.
    Anthem
    by Ayn Rand

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

  18. 18.
    Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

  19. 19.
    The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
    by Franz Kafka

  20. 20.
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    by Philip K. Dick

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Created by CJMayer on Mar 16, 2008.
 

Comments

Glad to see _We_ included. — 4 years ago

You might also consider adding The Trial.

Also, “fahrenheit” is misspelled.




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