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CJMayer's "Twentysomething Dystopian Novels"

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. Brave New World (P.S.)
by Aldous Huxley
  
2. 1984
by George Orwell
  
3. Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by William Golding
  
4. The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
by Cormac McCarthy
  
5. The Stand
by Stephen King
  
6. The "Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood (York Notes Advanced)
by Neil McEwan
  
7. Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
  
8.
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 Armageddon's Children
by Terry Brooks
  
9. The Chrysalids (Connections)
by John Wyndham
  
10. The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
  
11. Neuromancer
by William Gibson
  
12. Player Piano
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
13. A Clockwork Orange (Essential.penguin)
by Anthony Burgess
  
14. We (Modern Library Classics)
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  
15. The Running Man
by Stephen King
  
16. Anthem
by Ayn Rand
  
17. A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
  
18. Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
by Frank Herbert
  
19. The Trial
by Franz Kafka
  
20. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
  
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Created by CJMayer on Mar 16, 2008.