• Republic (ca. 380) by Plato, Translated by G.M.A. Grube, Revised by C.D.C. Reeve [+*]
1510s
• Utopia (1516) by Thomas More [+^#]
1600s
• The City of the Sun (1602) by Tommaso Campanella [+^#]
1620s
• The New Atlantis (1627) by Francis Bacon [$^#]
1710s
• Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe [^]
1720s
• Gulliver’s Travels; or, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships (1726, amended 1735) by Jonathan Swift [^#]
1750s
• Micromégas (1752) by Voltaire [$^#]
1820s
• The Last Man (1826) by Mary Shelley [+^#]
1870s
• The Coming Race, or Vril, the Power of the Coming Race (1871) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton [^] • Erewhon: or, Over the Range (1872) by Samuel Butler [+^]
1880s
• The Republic of the Future (1887) by Anna Bowman Dodd • Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888) by Edward Bellamy [^] • In the Year 2889 (1889) by Jules Verne, Michel Verne [$+^#]
1890s
• News from Nowhere (1890) by William Morris [^] • The War of the Worlds (1898) by H. G. Wells [+#] • When The Sleeper Wakes (1899) by H. G. Wells [+#]
1900s
• Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son (1901) by Samuel Butler • The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) by G. K. Chesterton [^] • A Modern Utopia (1905) by H. G. Wells [+^#] • The Jungle (1906) by Upton Sinclair [+^] • The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London [+^#] • The Machine Stops (1909) by E. M. Forster [$+^]
1910s
• The Scarlet Plague (1912) by Jack London [^] • The Machine (1912) by Upton Sinclair [!^] • The World Set Free (1914) by H. G. Wells [^]
1920s
• We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Translated by Clarence Brown • The Driver (1922) by Garet Garrett • The Waste Land (1922) by T. S. Eliot [π+*] • Men Like Gods (1923) by H. G. Wells • The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka [+] • Metropolis (1926) by Thea Von Harbou
1930s
• Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley [+*] • The Shape of Things to Come (1933) by H. G. Wells • It Can’t Happen Here (1935) by Sinclair Lewis [+#] • Invitation to a Beheading (1938) by Vladimir Nabokov • Anthem (1938) by Ayn Rand [+*^]
1940s
• Swastika Night (1940) by Katharine Burdekin • The Aerodrome (1941) by Rex Warner • By the Waters of Babylon (1943) by Stephen Vincent Benét • Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell [+*] • Bend Sinister (1947) by Vladimir Nabokov • The Lottery (1948) by Shirley Jackson [$] • Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell [+]
1950s
• The Illustrated Man (1951) by Ray Bradbury [+] • Player Piano (also known as Utopia 14) (1952) by Kurt Vonnegut • Childhood’s End (1953) by Arthur C. Clarke [*] • Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury • The Syndic (1953) by C. M. Kornbluth • I Am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson • Night (1955) by Elie Wiesel [+*] • Minority Report and Other Stories (1956) by Philip K. Dick • Howl (1956) by Allen Ginsberg [π+*] • Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand [+*] • On the Beach (1957) by Nevil Shute • Alas, Babylon (1959) by Pat Frank
1960s
• A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960) by Walter M. Miller, Jr. • A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess [+] • The Wanting Seed (1962) by Anthony Burgess • Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick • The Simulacra (1964) by Philip K. Dick • Farnham’s Freehold (1964) by Robert A. Heinlein • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) by Robert A. Heinlein [*] • Logan’s Run (1967) by William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson • The Zap Gun (1967) by Philip K. Dick • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick [+*]
1970s
• Lathe of Heaven (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin • The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (1973) by Ursula K. Le Guin [$+*] • City of Churches (1973) by Donald Barthelme [$#] • I Brought a Little City (1974) by Donald Barthelme [$#] • The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin • The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) by Doris Lessing • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) by Philip K. Dick • Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia (1976) by Samuel R. Delany • The Crisis (1977) by Donald Barthelme [$#] • A Scanner Darkly (1977) by Philip K. Dick • 1985 (1978) by Anthony Burgess • The Stand (1978/1990) by Stephen King
1980s
• Neuromancer (The Sprawl Trilogy, Book One) (1984) by William Gibson • The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood [*] • The Postman (1985) by David Brin [+] • Galapagos (1985) by Kurt Vonnegut [+#] • The Nuclear Age (1985) by Tim O'Brien • And Still the Earth (1985) by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, Translated by Ellen Watson • The Last Election (1986) by Pete Davies • When Gravity Fails (Marid Audran Trilogy, Book One) (1987) by George Alec Effinger • In the Country of Last Things (1987) by Paul Auster
1990s
• Darcy’s Utopia (1990) by Fay Weldon • The Children of Men (1992) by P. D. James • Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson • Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996) by Orson Scott Card • Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo [+] • Blindness (1997) by José Saramago
2000s
• Altered Carbon (2002) by Richard K. Morgan • Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book One) (2003) by Margaret Atwood • Metro 2033 (The Metro Series, Book One) (2005) by Dmitry Glukhovsky • The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy [+*] • Next (2006) by Michael Crichton • World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006) by Max Brooks • METAtropolis: The Dawn of Uncivilization (2008) by John Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, Karl Schroeder, Edited by John Scalzi [+*] • World Made By Hand: A World Made By Hand Novel, Book One (2008) by James Howard Kunstler • The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games Trilogy, Book One) (2008) by Suzanne Collins [+*] • The City and the City (2009) by China Miéville • Catching Fire (The Hunger Games Trilogy, Book Two) (2009) by Suzanne Collins [+*]
2010s
• Mockingjay (The Hunger Games Trilogy, Book Three) (2010) by Suzanne Collins [+*] • Super Sad True Love Story (2010) by Gary Shteyngart [+*] • Invasion: Alaska (Invasion America, Book One) (2011) by Vaughn Heppner • 1Q84 (2011) by Haruki Murakami, Translated by Jay Rubin and J. Philip Gabriel • The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman, Book One) (2012) by Ben H. Winters [*]
Notes: (+) = already own; (*) = read once before; ($) = short story; (!) = play; (π) = poem; (^) = available on Librivox or ProjectGutenberg; (#) = finished reading.
Save The Hunger Games Trilogy, the sequels in a series were not added to the list, since the likeliness that I will read these sequels are still contingent on the quality of and utility derived from initial books on the list. The chances are high that I will read them, though.
• The Witch of Hebron (A World Made By Hand Novel, Book Two) (2010) by James Howard Kunstler • A History of the Future (A World Made By Hand Novel, Book Three) (2014) by James Howard Kunstler
• METAtropolis: Cascadia (2010) by Jay Lake, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ken Scholes, Karl Schroeder, Tobias Buckell, Edited by Jay Lake • METAtropolis: Green Space (2013) by Jay Lake, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, Seanan McGuire, Tobias S. Buckell, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ken Scholes, Edited by Jay Lake
• The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book Two) (2009) by Margaret Atwood • MaddAddam (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book Three) (2013) by Margaret Atwood
• Invasion: California (Invasion America, Book Two) (2012) by Vaughn Heppner • Invasion: Colorado (Invasion America, Book Three) (2013a) by Vaughn Heppner • Invasion: New York (Invasion America, Book Four) (2013b) by Vaughn Heppner
• Metro 2034 (The Metro Series, Book Two) (2009) by Dmitry Glukhovsky • Metro 2035 (The Metro Series, Book Three) (2014) by Dmitry Glukhovsky
• Countdown City (The Last Policeman Trilogy, Book Two) (2013) by Ben H. Winters • World of Trouble (The Last Policeman Trilogy, Book Three) (?) by Ben H. Winters
• A Fire in the Sun (Marid Audran Trilogy, Book Two) (1989) by George Alec Effinger • The Exile Kiss (Marid Audran Trilogy, Book Three) (1991) by George Alec Effinger
• Count Zero (The Sprawl Trilogy, Book Two) (1986) by William Gibson • Mona Lisa Overdrive (The Sprawl Trilogy, Book Three) (1988) by William Gibson
Some Non-Fiction Works:
• Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1878) by Friedrich Engels, Translated by Edward Aveling [^] • Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882) by Ignatius L. Donnelly [^] • Utopia of Usurers (1917) by G. K. Chesterton [^] • The Limits of Growth (1972) by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, William W. Behrens III [+] • The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War (1988) by Stewart Home • Social Contract Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (2005) by Fredric Jameson • Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction (2010) by Lyman Tower Sargent
380s (BC)
• Republic (ca. 380) by Plato, Translated by G.M.A. Grube, Revised by C.D.C. Reeve [+*]
1510s
• Utopia (1516) by Thomas More [+^#]
1600s
• The City of the Sun (1602) by Tommaso Campanella [+^#]
1620s
• The New Atlantis (1627) by Francis Bacon [$^#]
1710s
• Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe [^]
1720s
• Gulliver’s Travels; or, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships (1726, amended 1735) by Jonathan Swift [^#]
1750s
• Micromégas (1752) by Voltaire [$^#]
1820s
• The Last Man (1826) by Mary Shelley [+^#]
1870s
• The Coming Race, or Vril, the Power of the Coming Race (1871) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton [^]
• Erewhon: or, Over the Range (1872) by Samuel Butler [+^]
1880s
• The Republic of the Future (1887) by Anna Bowman Dodd
• Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888) by Edward Bellamy [^]
• In the Year 2889 (1889) by Jules Verne, Michel Verne [$+^#]
1890s
• News from Nowhere (1890) by William Morris [^]
• The War of the Worlds (1898) by H. G. Wells [+#]
• When The Sleeper Wakes (1899) by H. G. Wells [+#]
1900s
• Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son (1901) by Samuel Butler
• The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) by G. K. Chesterton [^]
• A Modern Utopia (1905) by H. G. Wells [+^#]
• The Jungle (1906) by Upton Sinclair [+^]
• The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London [+^#]
• The Machine Stops (1909) by E. M. Forster [$+^]
1910s
• The Scarlet Plague (1912) by Jack London [^]
• The Machine (1912) by Upton Sinclair [!^]
• The World Set Free (1914) by H. G. Wells [^]
1920s
• We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Translated by Clarence Brown
• The Driver (1922) by Garet Garrett
• The Waste Land (1922) by T. S. Eliot [π+*]
• Men Like Gods (1923) by H. G. Wells
• The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka [+]
• Metropolis (1926) by Thea Von Harbou
1930s
• Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley [+*]
• The Shape of Things to Come (1933) by H. G. Wells
• It Can’t Happen Here (1935) by Sinclair Lewis [+#]
• Invitation to a Beheading (1938) by Vladimir Nabokov
• Anthem (1938) by Ayn Rand [+*^]
1940s
• Swastika Night (1940) by Katharine Burdekin
• The Aerodrome (1941) by Rex Warner
• By the Waters of Babylon (1943) by Stephen Vincent Benét
• Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell [+*]
• Bend Sinister (1947) by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Lottery (1948) by Shirley Jackson [$]
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell [+]
1950s
• The Illustrated Man (1951) by Ray Bradbury [+]
• Player Piano (also known as Utopia 14) (1952) by Kurt Vonnegut
• Childhood’s End (1953) by Arthur C. Clarke [*]
• Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
• The Syndic (1953) by C. M. Kornbluth
• I Am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson
• Night (1955) by Elie Wiesel [+*]
• Minority Report and Other Stories (1956) by Philip K. Dick
• Howl (1956) by Allen Ginsberg [π+*]
• Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand [+*]
• On the Beach (1957) by Nevil Shute
• Alas, Babylon (1959) by Pat Frank
1960s
• A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960) by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess [+]
• The Wanting Seed (1962) by Anthony Burgess
• Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick
• The Simulacra (1964) by Philip K. Dick
• Farnham’s Freehold (1964) by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) by Robert A. Heinlein [*]
• Logan’s Run (1967) by William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson
• The Zap Gun (1967) by Philip K. Dick
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick [+*]
1970s
• Lathe of Heaven (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (1973) by Ursula K. Le Guin [$+*]
• City of Churches (1973) by Donald Barthelme [$#]
• I Brought a Little City (1974) by Donald Barthelme [$#]
• The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) by Doris Lessing
• Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) by Philip K. Dick
• Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia (1976) by Samuel R. Delany
• The Crisis (1977) by Donald Barthelme [$#]
• A Scanner Darkly (1977) by Philip K. Dick
• 1985 (1978) by Anthony Burgess
• The Stand (1978/1990) by Stephen King
1980s
• Neuromancer (The Sprawl Trilogy, Book One) (1984) by William Gibson
• The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood [*]
• The Postman (1985) by David Brin [+]
• Galapagos (1985) by Kurt Vonnegut [+#]
• The Nuclear Age (1985) by Tim O'Brien
• And Still the Earth (1985) by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, Translated by Ellen Watson
• The Last Election (1986) by Pete Davies
• When Gravity Fails (Marid Audran Trilogy, Book One) (1987) by George Alec Effinger
• In the Country of Last Things (1987) by Paul Auster
1990s
• Darcy’s Utopia (1990) by Fay Weldon
• The Children of Men (1992) by P. D. James
• Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson
• Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996) by Orson Scott Card
• Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo [+]
• Blindness (1997) by José Saramago
2000s
• Altered Carbon (2002) by Richard K. Morgan
• Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book One) (2003) by Margaret Atwood
• Metro 2033 (The Metro Series, Book One) (2005) by Dmitry Glukhovsky
• The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy [+*]
• Next (2006) by Michael Crichton
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006) by Max Brooks
• METAtropolis: The Dawn of Uncivilization (2008) by John Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, Karl Schroeder, Edited by John Scalzi [+*]
• World Made By Hand: A World Made By Hand Novel, Book One (2008) by James Howard Kunstler
• The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games Trilogy, Book One) (2008) by Suzanne Collins [+*]
• The City and the City (2009) by China Miéville
• Catching Fire (The Hunger Games Trilogy, Book Two) (2009) by Suzanne Collins [+*]
2010s
• Mockingjay (The Hunger Games Trilogy, Book Three) (2010) by Suzanne Collins [+*]
• Super Sad True Love Story (2010) by Gary Shteyngart [+*]
• Invasion: Alaska (Invasion America, Book One) (2011) by Vaughn Heppner
• 1Q84 (2011) by Haruki Murakami, Translated by Jay Rubin and J. Philip Gabriel
• The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman, Book One) (2012) by Ben H. Winters [*]
Notes: (+) = already own; (*) = read once before; ($) = short story; (!) = play; (π) = poem; (^) = available on Librivox or ProjectGutenberg; (#) = finished reading.
Save The Hunger Games Trilogy, the sequels in a series were not added to the list, since the likeliness that I will read these sequels are still contingent on the quality of and utility derived from initial books on the list. The chances are high that I will read them, though.
• The Witch of Hebron (A World Made By Hand Novel, Book Two) (2010) by James Howard Kunstler
• A History of the Future (A World Made By Hand Novel, Book Three) (2014) by James Howard Kunstler
• METAtropolis: Cascadia (2010) by Jay Lake, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ken Scholes, Karl Schroeder, Tobias Buckell, Edited by Jay Lake
• METAtropolis: Green Space (2013) by Jay Lake, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, Seanan McGuire, Tobias S. Buckell, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ken Scholes, Edited by Jay Lake
• The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book Two) (2009) by Margaret Atwood
• MaddAddam (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book Three) (2013) by Margaret Atwood
• Invasion: California (Invasion America, Book Two) (2012) by Vaughn Heppner
• Invasion: Colorado (Invasion America, Book Three) (2013a) by Vaughn Heppner
• Invasion: New York (Invasion America, Book Four) (2013b) by Vaughn Heppner
• Metro 2034 (The Metro Series, Book Two) (2009) by Dmitry Glukhovsky
• Metro 2035 (The Metro Series, Book Three) (2014) by Dmitry Glukhovsky
• Countdown City (The Last Policeman Trilogy, Book Two) (2013) by Ben H. Winters
• World of Trouble (The Last Policeman Trilogy, Book Three) (?) by Ben H. Winters
• A Fire in the Sun (Marid Audran Trilogy, Book Two) (1989) by George Alec Effinger
• The Exile Kiss (Marid Audran Trilogy, Book Three) (1991) by George Alec Effinger
• Count Zero (The Sprawl Trilogy, Book Two) (1986) by William Gibson
• Mona Lisa Overdrive (The Sprawl Trilogy, Book Three) (1988) by William Gibson
Some Non-Fiction Works:
• Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1878) by Friedrich Engels, Translated by Edward Aveling [^]
• Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882) by Ignatius L. Donnelly [^]
• Utopia of Usurers (1917) by G. K. Chesterton [^]
• The Limits of Growth (1972) by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, William W. Behrens III [+]
• The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War (1988) by Stewart Home
• Social Contract Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (2005) by Fredric Jameson
• Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction (2010) by Lyman Tower Sargent