List of dystopian literature

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This is a list of novels commonly viewed as dystopian literature.

The majority of the listed works are not controversial, in the sense that their dystopian character is generally acknowledged. However, some are not universally classified as dystopias. Such debates frequently surround works that do not show the classic characteristics of dystopian fiction, such as a government that seeks total control of individuals' lives.

Contents 1 19th century 2 20th century 2.1 1900s 2.2 1910s 2.3 1920s 2.4 1930s 2.5 1940s 2.6 1950s 2.7 1960s 2.8 1970s 2.9 1980s 2.10 1990s 3 21st century 4 See also 5 References

[edit] 19th century

• A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation, in the Year of Our Lord, 19-- (1835) by Oliver Bolokitten^[1]
• Paris in the 20th Century (1863) by Jules Verne^{[citation needed]}
• A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) by James De Mille^{[citation needed]}
• Ceasar's Column (1890) by Ignatius L. Donnelly^{[citation needed]}
• The Time Machine (1895) by H. G. Wells^{[citation needed]}
• When The Sleeper Wakes (1899) by H. G. Wells^[2]

[edit] 20th century

[edit] 1900s

• The First Men in the Moon (1901) by H. G. Wells^[2]
• The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London^[2]
• The Machine Stops (1909) by E. M. Forster^[2]
• Die Andere Seite (1909) by Alfred Kubin^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 1910s

[edit] 1920s

• R.U.R. (1920) by Karel Čapek ^[3]
• We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin^[2]
• The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 1930s

• Brave New World (1932) and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley^[2]
• The Shape of Things to Come (1933) by H. G. Wells^{[citation needed]}
• It Can't Happen Here (1935) by Sinclair Lewis^{[citation needed]}
• War with the Newts (1936) by Karel Čapek
• Swastika Night (1937) by Katharine Burdekin^{[citation needed]}
• Anthem (1938) by Ayn Rand^[2]

[edit] 1940s

• Darkness at Noon (1940) by Arthur Koestler^[4]
• ""If This Goes On—"" (1940) by Robert A. Heinlein^[2]
• Kallocain (1940) by Karin Boye^{[citation needed]}
• Ravage (1943) by René Barjavel^{[citation needed]}
• The Road to Serfdom (1944) by Friedrich Hayek
• That Hideous Strength (1945) by C. S. Lewis^{[citation needed]}
• Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell^{[citation needed]}
• Bend Sinister (1947) by Vladimir Nabokov^[5]
• Ape and Essence (1948) by Aldous Huxley^[2]
• "The Lottery" (1948) by Shirley Jackson^{[citation needed]}
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell^[6]

[edit] 1950s

• Limbo, (vt. Limbo 90) (1952) by Bernard Wolfe^[2]
• Player Piano (also known as Utopia 14) (1952) by Kurt Vonnegut^[7]
• Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury^[2]
• The Space Merchants (1953) by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth
• Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding^{[citation needed]}
• The Chrysalids (1955) by John Wyndham^{[citation needed]}
• One (also published as Escape To Nowhere) (1955) by David Karp^{[citation needed]}
• Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand^{[citation needed]}
• The Glass Bees (1957) by Ernst Junger^{[citation needed]}
• Kazohinia (1958) by Sándor Szathmári^{[citation needed]}
• Level 7 (1959) by Mordecai Roshwald^{[citation needed]}
• Naked Lunch (1959) by William S. Burroughs^[8]
• Time Out of Joint (1959) by Philip K. Dick^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 1960s

• Facial Justice (1960) by L. P. Hartley^[9]
• A Wrinkle in Time (1960) by Madeleine L'Engle^{[citation needed]}
• Harrison Bergeron (1961) by Kurt Vonnegut^{[citation needed]}
• A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess^{[citation needed]}
• The Wanting Seed (1962) by Anthony Burgess^{[citation needed]}
• Cloud On Silver (US title Sweeney's Island) (1964) by John Christopher^[10]
• Nova Express (1964) by William S. Burroughs^[2]
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (1965) by Harlan Ellison^{[citation needed]}
• Make Room! Make Room! (1966) by Harry Harrison^[2]
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967) by Harlan Ellison^{[citation needed]}
• Logan's Run (1967) by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson^{[citation needed]}
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick^{[citation needed]}
• Stand on Zanzibar (1968) by John Brunner^[2]
• "Welcome to the Monkey House" (1968) by Kurt Vonnegut^{[citation needed]}
• The Jagged Orbit (1969) by John Brunner^[2]

[edit] 1970s

• This Perfect Day (1970) by Ira Levin^[11]
• The Lathe of Heaven (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin^[12]
• Smith's Dream (1971) by C. K. Stead^{[citation needed]}
• The World Inside (1971) by Robert Silverberg^{[citation needed]}
• Metropole (1971) by Ferenc Karinthy
• The Sheep Look Up (1972) by John Brunner^[2]
• Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (1973) by Stanislaw Lem^{[citation needed]}
• The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin^[13]
• Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974) by Philip K. Dick^[14]
• Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) by Doris Lessing^{[citation needed]}
• The Shockwave Rider (1975) by John Brunner^[2]
• Z for Zachariah (1975) by Robert C. O'Brien^{[citation needed]}
• A World Out of Time (1976) by Larry Niven^{[citation needed]}
• 1985 (1978) by Anthony Burgess^{[citation needed]}
• The Yawning Heights (1978) by Aleksandr Zinovyev^{[citation needed]}
• Alongside Night (1979) by J. Neil Schulman^[15]
• The Long Walk (1979) by Stephen King^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 1980s

• Mockingbird (1980) by Walter Tevis^{[citation needed]}
• Riddley Walker (1980) by Russell Hoban
• The Running Man (1982) by Richard Bachman^{[citation needed]}
• Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson^{[citation needed]}
• Dayworld (1985) by Philip José Farmer^[16]
• The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood^[2]
• Count Zero (1986) by William Gibson^[17]
• The Last Election (1986) by Pete Davies^{[citation needed]}
• Moscow 2042 (1986) by Vladimir Voinovich^{[citation needed]}
• The Shore of Women (1986) by Pamela Sargent^{[citation needed]}
• Ambient (1987) by Jack Womack^{[citation needed]}
• Drowning Towers (1987) by George Turner^{[citation needed]}
• In the Country of Last Things(1987) by Paul Auster^{[citation needed]}
• Obernewtyn Chronicles (1987-2008) by Isobelle Carmody^[18]
• Sea of Glass (1987) by Barry B. Longyear^{[citation needed]}
• The Domination (1988) by S. M. Stirling^{[citation needed]}
• Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) by William Gibson^{[citation needed]}
• Terraplane (1988) by Jack Womack^{[citation needed]}
• Chung Kuo (1989) by David Wingrove^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 1990s

• Heathern (1990) by Jack Womack^{[citation needed]}
• My Melancholy Face (1991) by Heinrich Böll
• Fatherland (1992) by Robert Harris^[19]
• The Children of Men (1992) by P.D. James^[20]
• The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993) by Starhawk^{[citation needed]}
• The Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry^[21]
• Invitation to the Game (1993) by Monica Hughes^{[citation needed]}
• Parable of the Sower (1993) by Octavia Butler^{[citation needed]}
• Virtual Light (1994) by William Gibson^{[citation needed]}
• Gun, with Occasional Music (1994) by Jonathan Lethem^[22]
• The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (1995) by Neal Stephenson^[23]
• Doc and Fluff (1996) by Pat Califia^{[citation needed]}
• Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace^{[citation needed]}
• Idoru (1997) by William Gibson^{[citation needed]}
• Shade's Children (1997) by Garth Nix^{[citation needed]}
• Among the Hidden (1998) by Margaret Peterson Haddix^{[citation needed]}
• Atomised (1998) by Michel Houellebecq^{[citation needed]}
• Parable of the Talents (1998) by Octavia Butler^{[citation needed]}
• All Tomorrow's Parties (1999) by William Gibson^{[citation needed]}
• Battle Royale (1999) by Koushun Takami^[24]
• The Lost Thing (1999) by Shaun Tan^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 21st century

• Gathering Blue (2000) by Lois Lowry^{[citation needed]}
• The Last Book in the Universe (2000) by Rodman Philbrick
• The Slynx (2000) by Tatyana Tolstaya^{[citation needed]}
• The Hex (2001) series by Rhiannon Lassiter^{[citation needed]}
• Noughts & Crosses Trilogy (2001-2005) by Malorie Blackman^{[citation needed]}
• Bear v. Shark (2002) by Chris Bachelder^{[citation needed]}
• Feed (2002) by M. T. Anderson^[25]
• Acidity (2003) by Nadeem F. Paracha^{[citation needed]}
• After (2003) by Francine Prose^{[citation needed]}
• The City of Ember (2003) by Jeanne DuPrau^{[citation needed]}
• Jennifer Government (2003) by Max Barry^{[citation needed]}
• Oryx and Crake (2003) by Margaret Atwood^[26]
• The Bar Code Tattoo (2004) by Suzanne Weyn^[27]
• Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell^[28]
• Market Forces (2004) by Richard Morgan^{[citation needed]}
• The Ethos Effect (2004) by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.^{[citation needed]}
• Messenger (2004) by Lois Lowry^{[citation needed]}
• The People of Sparks (2004) by Jeanne DuPrau^{[citation needed]}
• The Plot Against America (2004) by Philip Roth^{[citation needed]}
• Sleepwalking (2004) by Nicola Morgan^{[citation needed]}
• The Supernaturalist (2004) by Eoin Colfer^{[citation needed]}
• The Uglies series (2004-2007) by Scott Westerfeld^{[citation needed]}
• Utopia X (2004) by Scott Wilson^{[citation needed]}
• Divided Kingdom (2005) by Rupert Thomson^{[citation needed]}
• Love in the Time of the Apocalypse (2005) by Gregory Blecha^{[citation needed]}
• The Possibility of an Island (2005) by Michel Houellebecq^{[citation needed]}
• The Traveler (2005) by John Twelve Hawks^{[citation needed]}
• Bar Code Rebellion (2006) by Suzanne Weyn^[29]
• The Book of Dave (2006) by Will Self^[30]
• Prayers for the Assassin (2006) by Robert Ferrigno^{[citation needed]}
• Small-Minded Giants (2006) by Oísin McGann^{[citation needed]}
• twentytwelve (2006) by Andrew Keogh^{[citation needed]}
• The Elysium Commission (2007) by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.^{[citation needed]}
• Dr. Identity (2007) by D. Harlan Wilson^{[citation needed]}
• Rant (2007) by Chuck Palahniuk
• Unwind (2007) by Neal Shusterman^{[citation needed]}
• Veracity (2007) by Mark Lavorato^{[citation needed]}
• Truancy (2008) by Isamu Fukui^{[citation needed]}

[edit] See also

• List of dystopian films
• List of dystopian music, TV programmes, and games
• List of dystopian comics

[edit] References