Lists of Bests: mightydin's "Dystopia Novels: A Reading List" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/65875 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. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:12:39 GMT en-us 0 50 135 50 0 2001: A Space Odyssey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86794 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86794"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1841490555.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur C. Clarke</div> After http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/311 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/311"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060080833.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francine Prose</div> All Tomorrow's Parties http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12104 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12104"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0425190447.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Gibson</div> Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel (Takeshi Kovacs Novels) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/616486 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/616486"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345457692.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard K. Morgan</div> Always Coming Home (California Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23816 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23816"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520227352.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ursula K. Le Guin</div> Ambient http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24085 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24085"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802134947.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Womack</div> Animal Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13919 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13919"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0451526341.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Ape and Essence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/234525 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/234525"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0929587782.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45604762_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> Atomised http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/111041 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/111041"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099283360.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michel Houellebecq</div> Bar Code Rebellion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/545770 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/545770"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439803853.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Suzanne Weyn</div> The Bar Code Tattoo (Point Thriller) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83243 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83243"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439395623.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Suzanne Weyn</div> Bear v. Shark: The Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20869 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20869"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743219473.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chris Bachelder</div> Bend Sinister http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18700 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18700"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679727272.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122553699_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Book of Dave, The http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4397016 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4397016"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21KN5XhGjfL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Will Self</div> Brave New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060929871.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> Brave New World Revisited (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2019603 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2019603"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060898526.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> A Canticle for Leibowitz http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1218054 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1218054"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060892994.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter M. Miller Jr.</div> Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2305070 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2305070"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1426412304.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V62304971_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ignatius Donnelly</div> The Children of Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2350221 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2350221"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307279901.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by P.D. James</div> The Chrysalids http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3856878 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3856878"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41hvLOWutTL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Wyndham</div> Chung Kuo: The Middle Kingdom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961725 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961725"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440613868.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Wingrove</div> CivilWarLand in Bad Decline http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31226 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31226"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573225797.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60737735_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Saunders</div> A Clockwork Orange http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393312836.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> Cloud Atlas: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8947 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8947"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375507256.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39328843_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Mitchell</div> Count Zero http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962240 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962240"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0441013678.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Gibson</div> Darkness at Noon: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2186057 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2186057"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416540261.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Koestler</div> Dhalgren http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9134 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9134"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375706682.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel R. Delany</div> The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15914 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15914"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553380966.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neal Stephenson</div> The Dispossessed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1696 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1696"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061054887.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ursula K. Le Guin</div> Divided Kingdom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/981413 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/981413"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400076595.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rupert Thomson</div> Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7797 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7797"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345404475.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44916704_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip K. Dick</div> Doc and Fluff: The Dystopian Tale of a Girl and Her Biker http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89201 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/89201"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1555833691.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pat Califia</div> The Domination http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84041 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/84041"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671577948.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by S.M. Stirling</div> Drowning Towers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/919791 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/919791"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/038078601X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Turner</div> Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25406 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25406"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812550706.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Orson Scott Card</div> The Ethos Effect http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/633115 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/633115"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0765347121.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1110486639_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. E. Modesitt Jr.</div> Fahrenheit 451: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21100 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21100"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743247221.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Bradbury</div> Fatherland: A Novel (Mortalis) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2010054 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2010054"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812977211.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Harris</div> Feed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22162 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22162"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0763622591.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by M.T. Anderson</div> The Fifth Sacred Thing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15874 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15874"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553373803.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43044250_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Starhawk</div> The First Men in the Moon (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/365786 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/365786"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141441089.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H.G. Wells</div> Flashforward http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25485 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25485"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812580346.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert J. Sawyer</div> Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18852 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18852"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/067974066X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192804_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip K. Dick</div> Foundation and Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16207 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16207"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553587579.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Asimov</div> Frankenstein (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39622 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39622"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743487583.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Shelley</div> The Giver http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12522 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12522"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440237688.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39215717_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lois Lowry</div> The Glass Bees (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28189 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28189"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0940322552.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernst Junger</div> Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71556 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71556"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156028972.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Lethem</div> The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10315 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10315"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/038549081X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Heathern http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24100 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24100"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802135633.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Womack</div>