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Best utopia, dystopia, and other world fiction
Utopia, dystopia, other world, sci-fi, etc. What drops you off into another world?
Tags: dystopia, fiction, sci-fi, and utopia

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1984
1984
by George Orwell 339 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood 226 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Brave New World
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley 215 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury 203 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Giver
The Giver
by Lois Lowry 185 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm
by George Orwell 155 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle, Peter Sis (Illustrator) 100 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess 90 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Road
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy 76 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien 75 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins 74 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Oryx and Crake
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood 72 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding 69 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Watchmen
Watchmen
by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons (Illustrator) 51 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
by J.R.R. Tolkien 49 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Stand
The Stand
by Stephen King, Bernie Wrightson (Illustrator) 47 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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We
We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin 45 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Uglies Trilogy
The Uglies Trilogy
by Scott Westerfeld 44 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Watership Down
Watership Down
by Richard Adams 45 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro 44 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Ender's Game
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card 44 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Anthem
Anthem
by Ayn Rand 43 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta
by Alan Moore, David Lloyd 41 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C.S. Lewis 35 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Blindness
Blindness
by José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator) 32 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Snow Crash
Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson 33 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Time Machine
The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells 30 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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I Am Legend
I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson 29 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Trial
The Trial
by Franz Kafka, Edwin Muir (Translator) 27 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler 25 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
by Ursula K. LeGuin 26 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Unwind
Unwind
by Neal Shusterman 25 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Utopia
Utopia
by Thomas More 25 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Gathering Blue
Gathering Blue
by Lois Lowry 25 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Children of Men
The Children of Men
by P.D. James 25 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Host
The Host
by Stephenie Meyer 24 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The City of Ember
The City of Ember
by Jeanne DuPrau 23 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
38
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J.K. Rowling 23 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Feed
Feed
by M.T. Anderson 23 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
by Madeleine L'Engle, Peter Sis (Illustrator) 22 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Sparrow
The Sparrow
by Mary Doria Russell 20 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Neuromancer
Neuromancer
by William Gibson 20 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa (Translator) 20 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Time Traveler's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads author) 19 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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A Wind in the Door
A Wind in the Door
by Madeleine L'Engle, Peter Sis (Illustrator) 19 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift 19 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Battle Royale
Battle Royale
by Koushun Takami 18 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick 18 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Foundation
Foundation
by Isaac Asimov 17 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Uglies
Uglies
by Scott Westerfeld 16 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Twilight
Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer 16 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Lost Horizon: A Novel
Lost Horizon: A Novel
by James Hilton 16 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The House of the Scorpion
The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer 16 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Gate to Women's Country
The Gate to Women's Country
by Sheri S. Tepper 15 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Life As We Knew It
Life As We Knew It
by Susan Beth Pfeffer 15 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka 15 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Woman on the Edge of Time
Woman on the Edge of Time
by Marge Piercy 13 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick 13 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr. 13 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Castle
The Castle
by Franz Kafka, David Fishelson (Editor) 13 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Messenger
Messenger
by Lois Lowry 13 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Island
Island
by Aldous Huxley 12 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Many Waters
Many Waters
by Madeleine L'Engle 12 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand 11 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Player Piano
Player Piano
by Kurt Vonnegut 10 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Breaking Dawn
Breaking Dawn
by Stephenie Meyer 10 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Pretties
Pretties
by Scott Westerfeld 10 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Wild Seed
Wild Seed
by Octavia E. Butler 9 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks 9 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Chrysalids
The Chrysalids
by John Wyndham 9 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Postman
The Postman
by David Brin 8 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Eye of the World
The Eye of the World
by Robert Jordan 8 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Bad Beginning
The Bad Beginning
by Lemony Snicket 9 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Day of the Triffids
The Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham 9 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. LeGuin 8 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Gormenghast Novels: Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone
The Gormenghast Novels: Titus Groan, Gormenghas...
by Mervyn Peake, Quentin Crisp (Introducer) 8 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker 8 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Penal Colony
The Penal Colony
by Franz Kafka 8 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Herland
Herland
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 8 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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His Dark Materials Trilogy
His Dark Materials Trilogy
by Philip Pullman 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Gun, with Occasional Music
Gun, with Occasional Music
by Jonathan Lethem 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Perdido Street Station
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Logan's Run
Logan's Run
by William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson 7 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
by Hermann Hesse 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
by Philip K. Dick 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Beauty
Beauty
by Sheri S. Tepper 6 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Vurt
Vurt
by Jeff Noon 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Supernaturalist
The Supernaturalist
by Eoin Colfer 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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A Wizard of Earthsea
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. LeGuin 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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An Acceptable Time
An Acceptable Time
by Madeleine L'Engle 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Jennifer Government
Jennifer Government
by Max Barry 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Last Book In The Universe
The Last Book In The Universe
by Rodman Philbrick 5 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Red Mars
Red Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Swan Song
Swan Song
by Robert R. McCammon 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World
by Haruki Murakami 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Biting the Sun
Biting the Sun
by Tanith Lee 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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The Book of Three
The Book of Three
by Lloyd Alexander 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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comments (showing 1-17 of 17) (17 new)

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message 1: by MICHAEL (new)

73 foundation definitely deserves a higher rating


message 2: by Chanel (new)

767519 The Color Purple? Not utopian, dystopian or other worldly.


message 3: by Summer (new)

227351 Great list. I have gleaned a few books for my TBR. Although, The Color Purple does not belong at all and I'm not sure I understand why L'Engle and Tolkein are on here.



message 4: by Steffi (new)

1065805 How are Tolkien's books utopian or dystopian??


Nophoto-u-25x33 how is it that not one phillip k. dick novel made it to this list?


message 6: by Carolyn (new)

1356784 Why clutter this list with the 'other world' fiction class? "Best" Utopia/Dystopia is a good enough rumble without muddying the waters so much.
Also, who the heck put 'The Color Purple', 'Lemony Snicket', and the L'Engle stuff on here? Seems to be the wrong group for them.


message 7: by Emily (new)

1316533 Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings do not belong on this list.


message 8: by Ubik (new)

1569308 I highly recommend Land under England to anyone who has not yet read it. Amazing utopian/dystopian novel...my favorite in fact.


message 9: by Zarakoda (last edited Feb 04, 2009 05:06PM) (new)

1469669 I think one of L'Engle's books belongs on there, least A Wrinkle in Time, with the whole planet (Camatroz? something like that) where they're ruled and controlled by It - definitely dystopia.


message 10: by Clara (new)

1978379 Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings were probably put on the list in the "other world" category.


message 11: by arianna (new)

1461115 Steffi wrote: "How are Tolkien's books utopian or dystopian??"

i guess they are under the other worldy heading...




message 12: by arianna (new)

1461115 Summer wrote: "Great list. I have gleaned a few books for my TBR. Although, The Color Purple does not belong at all and I'm not sure I understand why L'Engle and Tolkein are on here.
"


"Utopia, dystopia, other world, sci-fi, etc. What drops you off into another world?"

I guess the phrase "what drops you off into another world?" can be very broad as far as fiction goes


message 13: by arianna (new)

1461115 Genericusername wrote: "how is it that not one phillip k. dick novel made it to this list?"

Add it~!


message 14: by Luz (new)

2413077 I recomend the book Ender's Game for those who have not read it. Its a book must read because it shows it doesnt matter smart you are but if you have the skills to play the game right.


message 16: by Oscar (new)

1849216 How is "gormeghast" not up there?


message 17: by Becca (last edited 26 days ago, 08:42PM) (new)

Nophoto-u-25x33 I think its funny that people are asking why Harry Potter and LOTR are up there, and not asking why Twilight is up there...


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