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Brave New World

author:	Aldous Huxley (1932)
date added:	2015-04-08
date read:	2011-01-01
pages:	288
author:	gender:male, origin:british
genre:	scifi
rating:	★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Cover of Brave New World.

Fun fact: It took me three tries to finish Brave New World, because the last third (or so) just had me tune out. It’s interesting to contrast this work – of Huxley’s youth, all convinced of things gravitating towards terribleness – to Island. He wrote Island much later in life, and it shows. What if … people could just feel good, for a while? That would be … good?

Cover of Shades of Grey.

Shades of Grey

by Jasper Fforde · published 2009 · read 2012-04-01

★★★★☆

Same concept, but more … colourful.

Cover of The Handmaid's Tale.

The Handmaid’s Tale

by Margaret Atwood · published 1985 · read 2017-12-21

★★★★☆

In some ways a feminist Brave New World.

1984

by George Orwell · published 1949 · read 2010-02-01

★★★★☆

Another of the big dystopian novels.

Cover of Fahrenheit 451.

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury · published 1953 · last read 2023-12-05

★★★☆☆

Another old dystopian novels.

Cover of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

by Philip K. Dick · published 1974 · read 2016-12-08

★★★☆☆

Similar caste system, only capitalism-based.

Cover of Red Rising.

Red Rising

by Pierce Brown · published 2014 · read 2017-07-13

★★★☆☆

More caste systems.

Cover of The Last Starship from Earth.

The Last Starship from Earth

by John Boyd · published 1967 · read 2020-06-01

★★☆☆☆

This book has a very strong caste system – more American and recognisable, but still very dystopian.