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Emily Kittelson'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.

  1. 1.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke
  2. 2.
    After
    by Francine Prose
  3. 3.
    All Tomorrow's Parties
    by William Gibson
  4. 4.
    Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)
    by Richard K. Morgan
  5. 5.
    Always Coming Home (California Fiction)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin
  6. 6.
    Ambient (Jack Womack)
    by Jack Womack
  7. 7.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  8. 8.
    Ape and Essence
    by Aldous Huxley
  9. 9.
    Atomised
    by Michel Houellebecq
  10. 10.
    Bar Code Rebellion
    by Suzanne Weyn
  11. 11.
    The Bar Code Tattoo
    by Suzanne Weyn
  12. 12.
    Bear v. Shark: The Novel
    by Chris Bachelder
  13. 13.
    Bend Sinister
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  14. 14.
    Book of Dave, The
    by Will Self
  15. 15.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  16. 17.
    A Canticle for Leibowitz
    by Walter M. Miller Jr.
  17. 18.
    Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
    by Ignatius Donnelly
  18. 19.
    The Children of Men
    by P.D. James
  19. 20.
    The Chrysalids (New York Review Books Classics)
    by John Wyndham
  20. 21.
    Chung Kuo: The Middle Kingdom
    by David Wingrove
  21. 22.
    CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
    by George Saunders
  22. 23.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess
  23. 24.
    Cloud Atlas: A Novel
    by David Mitchell
  24. 25.
    Count Zero
    by William Gibson
  25. 26.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler
  26. 27.
    Dhalgren
    by Samuel R. Delany
  28. 29.
    The Dispossessed
    by Ursula K. Le Guin
  29. 30.
    Divided Kingdom
    by Rupert Thomson
  30. 31.
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    by Philip K. Dick
  31. 32.
  32. 33.
    The Domination
    by S.M. Stirling
  33. 34.
    Drowning Towers
    by George Turner
  34. 35.
    Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
    by Orson Scott Card
  35. 36.
    The Ethos Effect
    by L. E. Modesitt Jr.
  36. 37.
    Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
    by Ray Bradbury
  37. 38.
    Fatherland: A Novel
    by Robert Harris
  38. 39.
    Feed
    by M.T. Anderson
  39. 40.
    The Fifth Sacred Thing
    by Starhawk
  40. 41.
    The First Men in the Moon (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  41. 42.
    Flashforward
    by Robert J. Sawyer
  42. 43.
    Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
    by Philip K. Dick
  43. 44.
    Foundation and Earth
    by Isaac Asimov
  44. 45.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  45. 46.
    The Giver (Readers Circle (Laurel-Leaf))
    by Lois Lowry
  46. 47.
    The Glass Bees (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Ernst Junger
  47. 48.
    Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book)
    by Jonathan Lethem
  48. 49.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood
  49. 50.
    Heathern (Jack Womack)
    by Jack Womack
  50. 51.
    Hex
    by Rhiannon Lassiter
  51. 52.
    I Am Legend
    by Richard Matheson
  52. 53.
    Idoru
    by William Gibson
  53. 54.
    The Immortals
    by Tracy Hickman
  54. 55.
    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace
  55. 56.
    In the Country of Last Things
    by Paul Auster
  56. 57.
    Invitation to the Game
    by Monica Hughes
  57. 58.
    Iron Heel
    by Jack London
  58. 59.
    It Can't Happen Here (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Sinclair Lewis
  59. 60.
    The Jagged Orbit
    by John Brunner
  60. 61.
    Jennifer Government
    by Max Barry
  61. 62.
    Kallocain
    by Karin Boye
  62. 63.
    Lanark (Harvest Book)
    by Alasdair Gray
  63. 64.
    The Last Book In The Universe
    by Rodman Philbrick
  64. 65.
    The Lathe of Heaven: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin
  65. 66.
    Level 7 (Library of American Fiction)
    by Mordecai Roshwald
  67. 68.
    Logan's Run
    by William F. Nolan
  68. 69.
    The Long Walk
    by Stephen King
  69. 70.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding
  70. 71.
    Lost Souls
    by Poppy Z. Brite
  71. 72.
    The Machine Stops
    by E. M. Forster
  72. 73.
    Make Room! Make Room!
    by Harry Harrison
  73. 74.
    The Man in the High Castle
    by Philip K. Dick
  74. 75.
    Market Forces
    by Richard K. Morgan
  75. 76.
    Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
    by Stanislaw Lem
  76. 77.
    The Memoirs of a Survivor
    by Doris Lessing
  77. 78.
    Metropole
    by Ferenc Karinthy
  78. 79.
    Mockingbird (Del Rey Impact)
    by Walter Tevis
  79. 80.
    Mona Lisa Overdrive
    by William Gibson
  80. 81.
    Moscow - 2042
    by Vladimir Voinovich
  81. 82.
    Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
    by William S. Burroughs
  82. 83.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson
  83. 84.
    Never Let Me Go
    by Kazuo Ishiguro
  84. 85.
    News From Nowhere (Oxford World's Classics)
    by William Morris
  85. 86.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell
  86. 87.
    Nova Express
    by William S. Burroughs
  87. 88.
    Oryx and Crake
    by Margaret Atwood
  88. 89.
    Parable of the Sower
    by Octavia E. Butler
  89. 90.
    Parable of the Talents
    by Octavia E. Butler
  90. 91.
  91. 92.
    Player Piano: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  92. 93.
    The Postman
    by David Brin
  93. 94.
    Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
    by Chuck Palahniuk
  95. 96.
    Return to Isis
    by Jean Stewart
  96. 97.
    Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition
    by Russell Hoban
  97. 98.
    The Road
    by Cormac McCarthy
  98. 99.
    The Running Man
    by Stephen King
  99. 100.
    R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Penguin Classics)
    by Karel Capek
  100. 101.
    Scanner Darkly Film Tie in (Sf Masterworks)
    by Philip K Dick
  101. 102.
    Seed to Harvest
    by Octavia E. Butler
  102. 103.
    Shade's Children
    by Garth Nix
  103. 104.
    The Sheep Look Up
    by John Brunner
  104. 105.
    The Shockwave Rider
    by John Brunner
  105. 106.
    The Shore of Women
    by Pamela Sargent
  106. 107.
    The Sleeper Awakes (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  107. 108.
    Sleepwalking
    by Nicola Morgan
  108. 109.
    Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Neal Stephenson
  109. 110.
    The Space Merchants
    by Frederik Pohl
  110. 111.
    Specimen Days: A Novel
    by Michael Cunningham
  111. 112.
    The Stepford Wives
    by Ira Levin
  112. 113.
    The Supernaturalist.
    by Eoin Colfer
  113. 114.
    Swan Song
    by Robert McCammon
  114. 115.
    Swastika Night
    by Katharine Burdekin
  115. 116.
    This Other Eden
    by Ben Elton
  116. 117.
    The Time Machine (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  117. 118.
    Time Out of Joint
    by Philip K. Dick
  118. 119.
    The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
    by Franz Kafka
  119. 120.
    Utopia X
    by Wilson
  120. 121.
    V for Vendetta
    by Alan Moore
  121. 122.
    Veracity
    by Mark Lavorato
  122. 123.
    Virtual Light
    by William Gibson
  123. 124.
    The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction)
    by Anthony Burgess
  124. 125.
    War with the Newts (European Classics)
    by Karel Capek
  125. 126.
    We
    by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  126. 127.
    Welcome to the Monkey House: Stories
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  127. 128.
    When Gravity Fails
    by George Alec Effinger
  128. 129.
    When the Sleeper Awakes
    by H. G, Wells
  129. 130.
    Woman on the Edge of Time
    by Marge Piercy
  130. 131.
    The World Inside
    by Robert Silverberg
  131. 132.
    A World Out of Time
    by Larry Niven
  132. 133.
    Yawning Heights
    by Aleksandr Zinov'ev
  133. 134.
    The Year of the Flood: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood
  134. 135.
    The Unit
    by Ninni Holmqvist
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