Dystopian Novel

Dystopian Novel:-

1. Mundus Alter et Idem- by Joseph Hall

2. Gulliver's Travel (1726) - Jonathan Swift

3. Erewhon (1872) - by Samuel Butler

4. The Begum's Fortune (1879)- by Jules Verne

5. The Fixed Period (1882)- by Anthony Trollope

6. The Time Machine (1895)- by H. G. Wells

7. When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)- by H.G. Wells

8. The First Man in the Moon (1901) - by H. G. Wells

9. The Machine Stops (1909)- by E. M. Forster

10. The Trial (1925) - by Franz Kafka

11. No Traveller Returns (1931)- by John Collier

12. Brave New World- by Aldous Huxley

13. It Can't Happen Here (1935)- by Sinclair Lewis

14. Invitation to a Beheading (1938)- by Vladimir Nabokov

15. Animal Farm (1945)- by George Orwell

16. The Hideous Strength (1945) - by C. S. Lewis

17. Bend Sinister (1947)- by Vladimir Nabokov

18. Ape and Essence (1948)- by Aldous Huxley

19. 19. Nineteen Eighty Four (1948)- by George Orwell

20. Fahrenheit 451 (1953)- by Ray Bradbury

21. Love Among the Ruins (1953) - by Evelyn Waugh

22. Lord of the Files (1962)- by William Golding

23. A Clockwork Orange (1962)- by Anthony Burgess

24. The Wanting Seed (1962)- by Anthony Burgess

25. The Handmaid's Tale (1985)- by Margaret Atwood

26. Oryx and Crake (2003)- by Margaret Atwood

27. The Plot Against America (2009)- by Philip Roth.

28. The Year of the Flood (2009)- by Margaret Atwood

29. Maddaddam (2013)- by Margaret Atwood

30. The Heart Goes Last (2015)- by Margaret Atwood

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