Books like Brave New World
In a World State where people are bred in hatcheries, conditioned for their place and kept content with the drug soma, a few misfits and a young man raised on a reservation begin to question what happiness costs.
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1984
A man in a totalitarian superstate falls in love, commits thoughtcrime, and discovers that the Party's true weapon is not punishment but the erasure of truth itself.
The Giver
A boy in a seemingly perfect community discovers that the sameness everyone lives under conceals a horrifying truth about what was sacrificed for stability.
High-Rise
The tenants of a brand-new forty-story London tower block gradually descend, floor by floor, into a tribal warfare that none of them wants to leave.
The Handmaid's Tale
In a theocratic dystopia, a woman is valued only for her fertility, forced to bear children for the ruling class.
We
In the One State, a city of glass a thousand years from now where every hour is scheduled, D-503, the mathematician building the spaceship Integral, begins a journal in praise of its perfect order, and then he meets I-330.
Fahrenheit 451
A fireman whose job is to burn books begins to read them, and the act of thinking for himself makes him an enemy of the state.
Super Sad True Love Story
In a near-future New York where everyone rates each other and books are dying, an ageing schlub falls for a young Korean-American woman.
The Compound
Lily, bored and beautiful and in no hurry to return to a world that is falling apart, wakes in a remote desert compound as one of twenty contestants on a hit reality show, where the last one left wins and every task earns another luxury, or a necessity like food or a front door.
A Clockwork Orange
A teenage thug in a future England narrates his ultraviolent nights in a private Russian-English slang, then gets reconditioned by the state until even his taste for Beethoven hurts.
The Memory Police
On a nameless island, objects and memories disappear one by one under the eye of the Memory Police, and a young novelist hides a friend who still remembers.
The Children of Men
In a near-future England where humanity has become infertile, a disillusioned historian is drawn into a resistance movement against a totalitarian government.
Beautiful You
Penny Harrigan, a junior lawyer, is swept up by the billionaire C. Linus Maxwell, who launches a line of sex toys that leaves women around the world unable to leave their homes, in a satire of consumer culture and desire.