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  • Cover of A Clockwork Orange
    A Clockwork OrangeSeries

    series · 4 books · 1962

    completed

    Challenging in tone, about surveillance, set in big city.

    “After his crimes catch up with him, Alex is made the subject of a controversial state program meant to forcibly reform his behavior, and the novel uses his ordeal to question whether imposed goodness is worth the loss of free will.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with A Clockwork Orange →

    similar bytotalitarianismdarknear futurescience fictiondystopiaour world

  • Cover of Fahrenheit 451
    Fahrenheit 451Series

    series · 2 books · 1951

    completed

    About books and reading.

    “Set in a future where books are outlawed and firemen exist to burn them, it follows fireman Guy Montag as doubts about his job push him toward the very literature he's supposed to destroy.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Fireman →

    similar bytotalitarianismnear futurescience fictiondystopianorth america+1 more

  • Cover of Nineteen Eighty-Four
    Nineteen Eighty-FourSeries

    series · 4 books · 1949

    Dystopia.

    Start with Nineteen Eighty-Four →

    similar bydystopia+4 more

  • Cover of Stand on Zanzibar
    Stand on ZanzibarNovel

    John Brunner · standalone novel · 1968

    Challenging in tone, about genetic engineering and surveillance, set in big city.

    similar bydarknear futureour worldscience fictiondystopia+1 more

  • Cover of Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
    Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

    series · 9 books · 1962

    completed

    Science fiction, set in near future.

    “Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Man in the High Castle →

    similar bynear futurescience fiction+4 more

  • Cover of Left Behind
    Left BehindUniverse

    universe · 63 books · 1995

    About faith and religion.

    “Pilots vanish from their cockpits, drivers from moving cars, children from their beds, clothing left folded where the faithful stood.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days →

    similar bynear futurescience fictiondystopiaour worldtense+4 more

    includes Left Behind: The Kids, Left Behind Prequels, Left Behind: Apocalypse Dawn