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Utopia Books
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Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,074,016 ratings — published 1932
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 153 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,804,021 ratings — published 1993
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.55 — 82,928 ratings — published 1516
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.26 — 150,669 ratings — published 1974
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,448,795 ratings — published 1949
Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.85 — 35,964 ratings — published 1962
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.29 — 6,868 ratings — published 1888
Herland (The Herland Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 66 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.48 — 25,984 ratings — published 1915
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.32 — 411,938 ratings — published 2016
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,830,941 ratings — published 1953
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,893,667 ratings — published 2008
Ecotopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.59 — 6,132 ratings — published 1975
The City of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.22 — 2,981 ratings — published 1602
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,541,083 ratings — published 1945
News from Nowhere (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.30 — 2,734 ratings — published 1890
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 40 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,712,735 ratings — published 2010
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,146,963 ratings — published 2009
Woman on the Edge of Time (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.91 — 18,723 ratings — published 1976
Walden Two (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 36 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.52 — 7,921 ratings — published 1948
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.22 — 184,140 ratings — published 2021
The New Atlantis (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.08 — 4,529 ratings — published 1626
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,375,470 ratings — published 2011
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.97 — 225,775 ratings — published -400
The Time Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.89 — 564,651 ratings — published 1895
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,955 ratings — published 2014
Uglies (Uglies, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.84 — 707,816 ratings — published 2005
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,417,444 ratings — published 1985
Childhood’s End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.12 — 173,389 ratings — published 1953
The High Auction (Wisdom Revolution, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.69 — 16,574 ratings — published 2021
A Modern Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.36 — 1,090 ratings — published 1905
Erewhon (Erewhon, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.28 — 4,585 ratings — published 1872
Matched (Matched, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.62 — 814,599 ratings — published 2010
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Library Binding)
by (shelved 23 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.37 — 52,919 ratings — published 1973
Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.38 — 234,421 ratings — published 2018
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.38 — 85,771 ratings — published 2022
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,196,121 ratings — published 1954
News from Nowhere and Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.47 — 928 ratings — published 1890
Lost Horizon (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.95 — 24,885 ratings — published 1933
The Oldest Dance (Wisdom Revolution, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.70 — 13,547 ratings — published 2021
The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.16 — 171,932 ratings — published 2019
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,621,508 ratings — published 2012
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.59 — 298,641 ratings — published 1726
Men Like Gods (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,339 ratings — published 1923
Pretties (Uglies, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.83 — 279,838 ratings — published 2005
Sultana's Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,447 ratings — published 1905
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as utopia)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,140,850 ratings — published 2013
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.19 — 262,002 ratings — published 1993
Always Coming Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,621 ratings — published 1985
Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as utopia)
avg rating 4.05 — 592 ratings — published 2005
“But who would build the roads if there were no government?
You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this country and 7 billion people on the planet would just sit around in their houses and think “Gee, I’d like to go visit Fred, but I can't because there isn’t a flat thing outside for me to drive on, and I don’t know how to build it and the other 300 million or 7 billion people can’t possibly do it because there aren’t any politicians and tax collectors. If they were here then we could do it. If they were here to boss us around and steal our money and really inefficiently build the flat places, then we would be set. Then I would be comfortable and confident that I could get places. But I can’t go to Fred’s house or the market because we can’t possibly build a flat space from A to B. We can make these really small devices that enable us to contact people from all over the word that fits in our pockets; we can make machines that we drive around in, but no, we can’t possibly build a flat space.”
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You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this country and 7 billion people on the planet would just sit around in their houses and think “Gee, I’d like to go visit Fred, but I can't because there isn’t a flat thing outside for me to drive on, and I don’t know how to build it and the other 300 million or 7 billion people can’t possibly do it because there aren’t any politicians and tax collectors. If they were here then we could do it. If they were here to boss us around and steal our money and really inefficiently build the flat places, then we would be set. Then I would be comfortable and confident that I could get places. But I can’t go to Fred’s house or the market because we can’t possibly build a flat space from A to B. We can make these really small devices that enable us to contact people from all over the word that fits in our pockets; we can make machines that we drive around in, but no, we can’t possibly build a flat space.”
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“Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed architectural blueprint of how an alternative system would work, down to the nature of its financial instruments, energy supplies, and policies of sewer maintenance. Next, you are likely to be asked for a detailed program of how this system will be brought into existence. Historically, this is ridiculous. When has social change ever happened according to someone’s blueprint? It’s not as if a small circle of visionaries in Renaissance Florence conceived of something they called “capitalism,” figured out the details of how the stock exchange and factories would someday work, and then put in place a program to bring their visions into reality. In fact, the idea is so absurd we might well ask ourselves how it ever occurred to us to imagine this is how change happens to begin.”
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utopia-fiction, utopian, utopian-fiction, ya-utopia, and ya-utopian
