Utopia Reading List
(in progress)

  1. Adams, Patch > Gesundheit!
  2. Albert, Michael, and Robin Hahnel > Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century
  3. Alcott, Louisa May > Transcendental Wild Oats
  4. Alpert, Dr. Richard, Ph.D. into Baba Ram Dass > Be Here Now
  5. Andreski, Stanislav > Prospects of a Revolution in the U.S.A.
  6. Aristophanes > The Birds;  Ecclesiazusae
  7. Atwood, Margaret > A Handmaid's Tale
  8. Augustine, Saint > City of God
  9. Auster, Paul > In the Country of Lost Things
  10. Bacon, Francis > New Atlantis; "Of Plantations"
  11. Ballard, J.G. > Concrete Island
  12. Beckett, Samuel > The Lost Ones
  13. Bellamy, Edward > Looking Backward
  14. Bernard, Kenneth > From the District File
  15. Berneri, Marie > Journey Through Utopia
  16. Berry, Wendell > Recollected Essays 1965-1980
  17. Best, Fred, ed. > The Future of Work
  18. Bogdanov, Alexander > Red Star
  19. Boguslaw, Robert > The New Utopians: A Study of System Design and Social Change
  20. Bookchin, Murray > Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future
  21. Bova, Ben > THX-1138
  22. Brün, Herbert > My Words and Where I Want Them
  23. Bradbury, Ray > Fahrenheit 451
  24. Breton, Andre > Ode to Charles Fourier
  25. Bryant, Dorothy > The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You (previously The Comforter)
  26. Burdekin, Katharine (Murray Constantine) > Swastika Night
  27. Burgess, Anthony > A Clockwork Orange
  28. Butler, Samuel > Erewhon, Erewhon Revisited
  29. Cage, John > Themes and Variations
  30. Callenbach, Ernest > Ecotopia; Ecotopia Emerging
  31. Campanella, Thomas > The City of the Sun
  32. Capra, Fritjof > The Web of Life
  33. Castiglione > The Courtier
  34. Chianese, Robert L., ed. > Peaceable Kingdoms: An Anthology of Utopian Writings
  35. Coursen, H.R. > The Golden Haze: A Story of the Future
  36. Dalos, Gy"rgy > 1985
  37. Davis, Rebecca Harding>"The Harmonists"
  38. Delany, Samuel > Heavenly Breakfast
  39. Dick, Philip K. > Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner)
  40. Diderot > Rameau's Nephew
  41. Eakins, William K. > Key West, 2720 A.D.
  42. Eldershaw, M. Barnard > Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow
  43. Eliot, Robert > The Shape of Utopia
  44. Engels, Frederick > Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
  45. Ernst, Morris L. > Utopia 1976
  46. Fairbanks, Zoe > Benefits
  47. Figgis, N.P. > The Fourth Mode
  48. Forster, E.M. > The Machine Stops
  49. Fourier, Charles > Design for Utopia
  50. Freud, Sigmund > Civilization and its Discontents
  51. Fuller, Buckminster > Utopia or Oblivion; etc.
  52. Geoghegan, Vincent > Utopianism and Marxism
  53. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins > Herland; Ourland
  54. Gold, Jerome > The Prisoner's Son: Homage to Anthony Burgess
  55. Golding, William > Lord of the Flies
  56. Goodman, Paul & Percival > Communitas
  57. Graves, Robert > Watch the North Wind Rise
  58. Griggs, William M. > The Megalight Connection
  59. Gropius, Walter > The New Architecture and the Bauhaus
  60. Grzimek, Martin > Shadowlife
  61. Harrington, James > Oceana
  62. Hauser, Marianne > The Talking Room
  63. Hawthorne, Nathaniel > A Blithedale Romance; The Elixir of Life Manuscripts; Septimus Felton
  64. Hayden, Dolores > Seven American Utopias; The Grand Domestic Revolution
  65. Herbert, Frank> The Plague
  66. Hilton, James > Lost Horizons
  67. Hine, Robert > California's Utopian Colonies
  68. Holloway, Mark > Heaven's on Earth
  69. Hossain, Rokeya Sakhawat > Sultana's Dream
  70. Howells, William Dean > Traveller from Alturia
  71. Huxley, Aldous > Brave New World; Brave New World Revisited; Island; Ape and Essence
  72. Jackson, LAura Riding > Progress of Stories
  73. Johnson, J.W. [ed] > Utopian Literature
  74. Johnson, Samuel > Rasselas
  75. Jonke, Gert > Geometric Regional Novel
  76. Kanter, Rosabeth Moss > Communes: Creating and Managing the Collective Life
  77. Kateb, George > Utopia and its Enemies
  78. Keats, John > Prometheus Unbound
  79. Keniston, Kenneth > The Uncommitted
  80. Kerouac, Jack > Heaven and Other Poems
  81. Kessler, Carol Farley>Daring to Dream
  82. Koestler, Arthur > Darkness at Noon
  83. Kohn, Alfie > No Contest > The Case Against Competition
  84. Kostelanetz, Richard > The Edge of Adaptation
  85. Le Corbusier > The City of Tomorrow and its Planning
  86. LeGuin, Ursula > The Dispossessed, Always Coming Home
  87. Lem, Stanislaw > Return From the Stars, Futurological Congress
  88. Lessing, Doris > Shikasta; The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, & Five; The Sirian Experiments
  89. Levitas > Concept of Utopias
  90. Lilly, John > The Scientist
  91. Lorie, Peter, and Sidd Murray-Clark > History of the Future: a Chronology
  92. Lovelock, James, and Michael Allaby > The Greening of Mars
  93. Lowry, Lois > The Giver
  94. Machiavelli > The Prince
  95. Mannheim, Karl > Ideology and Utopia
  96. Manuel & Manuel > Utopian Thought in the Western World
  97. Mason, Douglas R. > Eight Against Utopia
  98. Matiasz, G.A. > End Time > Notes on the Apocalypse
  99. May, Ina and the Farm Midwives > Spiritual Midwifery
  100. Mayer, Bernadette > Utopia
  101. McGrath, Thomas > Gates of Ivory, Gates of Horn
  102. Monroe, Robert > Journeys out of the Body
  103. More, Thomas > Utopia
  104. Morris, William > News from Nowhere
  105. Mumford, Lewis > The Story of Utopias
  106. Murphy, Richard (ed.) > Imaginary Worlds
  107. Negley & Patrick [eds.] > The Quest for Utopia
  108. Negley, Glenn > Utopian Literature: A Bibliography
  109. Niven, Larry: Ringworld
  110. Noyes, John Humphrey > History of American Socialism
  111. Ohle, David. Motorman. 1972.
  112. Orwell, George > 1984; Animal Farm; Keep the Aphidistra Flying
  113. Owens, Robert > Phalanx and New Harmony
  114. Papanek, Victor > Design for the Real World
  115. Pederson, Marguerite > The Cruise of the Skuld: Individuals Against the World of Mass Madness
  116. Perry, Elaine > Another Present Era
  117. Piercy, Marge > Woman on the Edge of Time
  118. Pitzer, Donald > America's Communal Utopias
  119. Plato > The Republic
  120. P.M. > B'olo B'olo
  121. Postman, Neil > Technopoly
  122. Reed, Kit > Little Sisters of the Apocalypse
  123. Rexroth, Kenneth & Ling Chung [eds.] > The Women Poets of China
  124. Rexroth, Kenneth > Communalism
  125. Robinson, Kim Stanley > Future Primitive > The New Ecotopias
  126. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques > Emile; The Social Contract
  127. Ruppert, Peter > Reader in a Strange Land: The Activity of Reading Literary Utopias
  128. Russ, Joanna > The Female Mind
  129. Sanders, Ed > Investigative Poetry
  130. Saroyan, William > Obituaries
  131. Sidney, Sir Philip > Arcadia
  132. Skinner, B. F. > Beyond Freedom and Dignity, Walden Two
  133. Slocum, Joshua > Sailing Alone Around the World
  134. Soleri, Paolo > Arcosanti > An Urban Laboratory?
  135. Stapleton, Olaf > Last and First Men; Starmaker
  136. Stein, Gertrude > Everybody's Autobiography
  137. Sukenik, Ronald >  98.6
  138. Swift, Jonathan > Gulliver's Travels
  139. Tafuri, Manfredo > Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development
  140. Thoreau, Henry David > Walden; "Life Without Principle"
  141. Todd, Nancy Jack, and John Todd > From Eco-Cities to Living Machines; Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming; Tomorrow is our Permanent Address
  142. Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin > Beyond the Planet Earth
  143. Turner, Victor > The Ritual Process
  144. Wager, W. Warren > A Short History of the Future
  145. Walsh, Chad > From Utopia to Nightmare
  146. Wells, H.G. > The Time Machine; A Modern Utopia, The Sleeper Awakes
  147. Williams, George Hunston > Wilderness & Paradise in Christian Thought
  148. Wittig, Monique > Les Guerriers
  149. Wright, Austin > Islandia
  150. Wurlitzer, Rudolph > Flats
  151. Yates, Francis > Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
  152. Zamiatin, Vevgeny > We
  153. Zohar > The Book of Splendor
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The Utopia Reading List begins with Bernadette Mayer's Utopia.
Any book that anyone believes is utopian (or dystopian) is added to the Utopia Reading List.
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