Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

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1. The Best Dystopian BooksReading list

   Brave New World is one of the most well-known dystopian novels. The story is set in a future society that is controlled by the government. People are born into different castes and are given specific roles to play in society. The novel explores the idea of a utopia and how it can be turned into a dystopia.

2. Michael PittsInterview

   1984 by George Orwell. Reading this novel sets out a scene of a future in a world of perpetual war and total government surveillance. Looking out how our world is rapidly changing with conflict in the Middle East in Africa and a dictator in North Korea it’s not hard to imagine and see what might happen. 1984 reflects…

3. Chloe BrotheridgeInterview

   My dad gave me his dog eared and annotated copy of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley at 15 and I read it 8 times. I thought I was so cool.

4. Vilma GonzalezInterview

   That’s a really tough one. I’m a big fan of literary fiction, so books like Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Yeah…

5. Adam MartinakisInterview

   Strangely, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley had a strong impact on my life and my work as well.

6. The Best Books for Fans of Philip K. DickReading list

   Long before 1984 or Brave New World, there was We, a 1924 Russian novel so dangerous to the Soviet regime that it was banned and had to be smuggled out of the country for publication. Set in a glass-walled totalitarian city called OneState, where citizens are known only by numbers and every action is monitored, the…

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