utopian type novels?

Question

I'm looking for new Utopian novels. Even distopic novels would be fine.

Already read: Utopia, Herland, The Giver Series, Uglies Series

Most books I've never read gets 10 pts.

Thanks

Answer 1

brave new world, i think its also sci fi

Answer 2

Utopian books:
1. Thomas Morus, "Utopia"
2. Parts from Francois Rabelais, "Gargantua and Pantagruel"
3. George Orwell, "1984" (distopic novel)
4. Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World" (distopic novel)

Answer 3

The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guinn
The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells

Answer 4

Morris, News from Nowhere
Bellamy, Looking Backward
Callenbach, Ecotopia
Le Guin, Always Coming Home

Answer 5

Art clarke--the City and the Stars
George Orwell--1984
Stanislaw Lem--The Futurolgical Congress

Sorry they're all Distopic, but such is my nature.

Answer 6

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley?

Answer 7

"The Gate to Women's Country" by Sherry Tepper.
"The Dispossessed" & "The Left hand of Darkness" by Ursula Le Guin.
"1984" by George Orwell.
The whole "Foundation" series by Isaac Asimov.

I've read many, many more, but I can't remember them right now...

Answer 8

well it depends on how old you are. i read these books when i was in 9th grade level. these are mostly dystopias, and intense.

1984
Brave New World
Handmaid's Tale
Lord of the Flies
A Clockwork Orange
Animal Farm
Anthem
A Time Machine

Answer 9

The Chronicles of Narnia.

Answer 10

K... Here is a list from reference.com.
Some that I could think of that aren't on the list are:
Watership Down
Lost Horizon
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Candide also has some sections about El Dorado

Utopian:

Plato's Republic (400 BC) was, at least on one level, a description of a political utopia ruled by an elite of philosopher kings, conceived by Plato. a Gutenburg text of the book
The City of God (written 413–426) by Augustine of Hippo, describes an ideal city, the "eternal" Jerusalem, the archetype of all "Christian" utopias.
Utopia (1516) by Thomas More a Gutenburg text of the book
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton, a utopian society is described in the preface.
The City of the Sun (1623) by Tommaso Campanella
The New Atlantis (1627) by Francis Bacon
Oceana (1656) by James Harrington
The section in Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift depicting the calm, rational society of the Houyhnhms, is certainly utopian, but it is meant to contrast with that of the yahoos, who represent the worst that the human race can do.
Voyage en Icarie (1840) by Etienne Cabet
Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler
Looking Backward (1888), by Edward Bellamy
Freiland (1890) by Theodor Hertzka
News from Nowhere (1891), by William Morris; see also the Arts and Crafts Movement founded to put his ideas into practice a Gutenberg text of the book

Intermere (1901) by Wiliam Alexander Taylor.
A large number of books by H.G. Wells, including A Modern Utopia (1905)
Herland (1915), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; an exclusively female utopia and its journey towards "bi-sexuality" as presented by one of three male explorers who "discover" the country.
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) can be considered an example of pseudo-utopian satire (see also dystopia). One of his other books, Island (1962), demonstrates a positive utopia.
Islandia (1942), by Austin Tappan Wright
B. F. Skinner's Walden Two (1948)
The Cloud of Magellan (1955) by Stanislaw Lem
Andromeda Nebula (1957) is a classic communist utopia by Ivan Efremov
The Dispossessed (1974), a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, is sometimes said to represent one of the few modern revivals of the utopian genre, though it is notable that one of the major themes of the work is the ambiguity of different notions of utopia. Le Guin presents a utopian world in which ditches do need digging, and sewers need unblocking — this drudgery is divided among all adults, and is contrasted, in the language of the utopia, with their everyday, more satisfying work.
Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) by Marge Piercy is a feminist science fiction novel in which the protagonist must act to win the utopian future over an alternative, dystopian, one.
Ecotopia (novel) (1975) by Ernest Callenbach
The Three Californias Trilogy (especially The Pacific Edge (1990)) and the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
most of the stories in Future Primitive - The New Ecotopias (1994), edited by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Hedonistic Imperative (1996), an online manifesto by David Pearce, outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.
The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You (1997) by Dorothy Bryant
Equilibrium (2002), is a film and describes a future in which feelings are forbidden.
Xen: Ancient English Edition, (2004) is a novel about a true Utopia, with a bias toward Matriarchy, in the distant future of Earth, "translated" by D.J. Solomon
Ensaio sobre a Lucidez ("Treatise on Lucidity") by Jos頓aramago (2004), describes a city where there is 83% of blank votes at an election.
Globus Cassus, (2004), is a project for the transformation of the Earth into a large, hollow structure inhabited on the inside, which would be organised by new types of societies and political systems.


Dystopic:
1984 by George Orwell
Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
The Children of Men by P.D. James
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Chung Kuo by David Windgrove
Dayworld by PHillip Jose Farmer
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Doc and Fluff by Pat Califia
Die Andere Seite by Alfred Kubin
The Domination by S. M. Stirling
Elvissey by Jack Womack
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Feed by M. T. Anderson
A Friend of the Earth by T. C. Boyle.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
"Harrison Bergeron'" by Kurt Vonnegut
The Iron Heel by Jack London
Incal (and spinoffs) by Alejandro Jodorowsky
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
The Jagged Orbit by John Brunner
Jennifer Government by Max Barry
Kallocain by Karin Boye
Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald
Logan's Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
Neuromancer by William Gibson.
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Running Man by Richard Bachman, a pseudonym for Stephen King.
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
Time out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
The Trial by Franz Kafka
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle