Books like 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.
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The Illustrated Man
A drifter whose body is covered in tattoos that move and tell stories after dark meets a young man on a country road, and each picture becomes one of eighteen stories, from a nursery that comes to life to the last night of the world.
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.
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 Handmaid's Tale
In a theocratic dystopia, a woman is valued only for her fertility, forced to bear children for the ruling class.
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.
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.
Player Piano
In a near-future where machines do all the work, a factory manager discovers that full employment was the only thing keeping civilisation from eating itself.
Parable of the Sower
As civilisation collapses from climate change and inequality, a young woman with a dangerous gift of empathy leads survivors north towards a new beginning.
Uglies
In a future city where everyone has an operation at sixteen that makes them beautiful, Tally Youngblood can hardly wait for hers, until her friend Shay runs away and Tally is given a choice: find her and betray her, or never turn pretty at all.
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.
Our Missing Hearts
Bird Gardner, twelve, lives in a quiet America where laws against un-American behaviour have made Asian Americans suspects, and three years after his mother, a Chinese-American poet, left without a word, a letter from her arrives.
A Song for a New Day
After attacks and a pandemic have banned public gatherings, Luce, who played the last big concert, plays illegal shows, while Rosemary, who has never seen live music, is hired to find bands for a company that streams them.