Utopias and Dystopias

[Sirrah]

Hey all i've been currently been reading alot of Utopian and Dystopian novels, but im running out of titles. I've read alot of Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged), George Orwell (Animal Farm) and The Giver. So i am still looking for books of a similar topic of social ideals, failed or otherwise. If anyone has any such novels that they could reccomend to me i would greatly appreciate it.

 

[MoreCowbell]

Have you checked out Margaret Atwood? Especially the Handmaid's Tale...also a very short one (maybe novella?) by James Clavell called something like The Children's Story...you may find Swan Song by Robert McCammon interesting. If you do YA stuff you might dig The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer.

 

[sparkchaser]

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.

 

[Eva]

Brave New World.

The Telling, by LeGuin.

 

[cminus123]

Try reading Jesse Ball's books..... Dystopian .... Kaffka like, you wil enjoy his writting.

 

[Speranza]

The Running Man by Stephen King

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

And my personal favorite, Blindness by Jose Saramago.

 

[Disenthral]

The Man In The High Castle - Philip K. Dick

 

[Snork Maiden]

Utopia - Thomas More
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Children of Men - PD James
The Chrysalids - John Wyndam
The Time Machine - HG Wells
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
The Republic - Plato
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Country of the Blind - Christopher Brookmyre
The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzenitsyn
On the Beach - Nevil Shute
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Drowned World - JG Ballard
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban

 

[saliotthomas]

There was also a thread about this awhile ago but --> http://www.bookandreader.com/forums/f25/dystopias-10484.html

 

[JaneCash125]

Definitely Fahrenheit 451!

 

[Notibuti]

I'm surprised no one mentioned Jonathon Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

 

[jasmine99]

Lost Horizon-James Hilton