Utopian / Dystopian fiction
Explore the best dystopian and utopian fiction books with our curated list. Discover classic and modern novels that imagine perfect societies or terrifying futures, from Orwell to Atwood.
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Utopia
by Thomas More
Revised introduction; new chronology and further reading Translated with an Introduction by Paul Turner.
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Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels …
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
by Samuel Johnson
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah, and the much-travelled philosopher Imlac. …
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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
by Aldous Huxley
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the …
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Island
by Aldous Huxley
A shipwrecked journalist discovers the beauty and serentity promoted by science on the island of Pala.
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Animal Farm and 1984
by George Orwell
George Orwell's classic satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government is accompanied by "1984," his …
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A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
A vicious 15-year-old hoodlum is the central character of this modern classic, first published in 1963 and later made into a Stanley Kubrick film. Contains …
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
One of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time in display-worthy hardcover: A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by …
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V for Vendetta
by Alan Moore
In an alternate future in which Germany wins World War II and Britain becomesa fascist state, a vigilante named "V" stalks the streets of London …
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Brazil
by Terry Gilliam
The cult movie classic Brazil has spawned documentaries, books and websites; this is the never before published first (and very different) screenplay, with Terry Gilliam's …
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The Iron Heel
by Jack London
Written in 1908, this visionary novel about class struggle anticipates the political upheavals of the 1930s and beyond.
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Judge Dredd
by John Wagner
For almost thirty years, one man has dominated the British comic scene. He is judge, jury and executioner, a merciless far-future lawman delivering justice with …
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The Rape of the Lock
by Alexander Pope
A reproduction of the 1896 edition of Pope's mock-heroic satiric poem "The Rape of the Lock," complemented by the decorative and ornamental illustrations of Aubrey …
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated …