Totalitarian


1984
The Handmaid's Tale
Animal Farm
The Orphan Master's Son
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
V for Vendetta
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Special Reports series
48 books — 12 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodDivergent by Veronica RothThe Maze Runner by James DashnerFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury1984 by George Orwell
Dystopia (and then you die)
28 books — 9 voters

Francis A. Schaeffer
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions.
Francis A. Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

Legacy Letter from Beta Metani-Marashi Palm Coast, Florida – October 15, 2025 To my children, my grandchildren, and those who will come after, I did not survive communism so you could live in its shadow. I did not cross oceans, endure loss, or rebuild my life twenty times so you could forget what tyranny looks like when it wears a friendly face. I was raised in a world where truth was punished, faith was forbidden, and family was fractured. We were told what to think, what to say, even what t ...more
Zybejta Beta Metani'Marashi

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