The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Utopia

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
50 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
65 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 British English
221 The Republic Plato -379 Greek Ancient greek
563 The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin 1974 American English
625 The Histories of Herodotus Herodotus -450 Greek Ancient greek
727 Erewhon Samuel Butler 1872 British English
828 Lost Horizon James Hilton 1933 British English
881 Utopia Thomas More 1516 British Latin
886 Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1915 American English
981 News from Nowhere William Morris 1890 British English
1000 Chevengur Andrey Platonov 1928 Russian Russian
1384 The Birds Aristophanes -414 Greek Ancient greek
1605 The Foundation Pit Andrey Platonov 1930 Russian Russian
1774 Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke 1953 British English
1944 The Pursuit of the Millennium Norman Cohn 1957 British English
2064 The Egghead Republic Arno Schmidt 1957 German German
2073 The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1852 American English
2171 Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman 2001 British English
2398 The Blazing World Margaret Cavendish 1666 British English
2892 Seven Days In New Crete Robert Graves 1949 British English
2899 City Clifford D. Simak 1952 American English
2973 The Female Man Joanna Russ 1975 American English
3293 Looking Backward, 2000 1887 Edward Bellamy 1888 American English
3566 Sultana's Dream Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain 1905 Bangladeshi Bengali
3638 Die Insel Felsenburg Johann Gottfried Schnabel 1731 German German
3818 The Beach Alex Garland 1996 British English
3870 Walden Two B. F. Skinner 1948 American English
4159 The Assemblywomen Aristophanes -391 Greek Ancient greek
4898 Lord Of The World Robert Hugh Benson 1907 British English
5392 New Atlantis Francis Bacon 1627 British English
5811 The City Of The Sun Tommaso Campanella 1623 Italian Latin
5904 The First Men In The Moon H. G. Wells 1901 British English
5982 Ecotopia Ernest Callenbach 1975 American English
6204 A Geração Da Utopia Pepetela 1992 Angolan Portuguese
6716 Track Ernst Bloch 1949 German Unknown
7101 Les Guerilleres Monique Wittig 1969 French French
7216 What Is To Be Done? Nikolay Chernyshevsky 1863 Russian Russian
7950 Woman On The Edge Of Time Marge Piercy 1976 American English
8361 Anarchy, State And Utopia Robert Nozick 1974 American English
9655 Terror Y Utopía Karl Schlögel 2018 German German
10235 The New Naturals Gabriel Bump 2023 American English
10312 Eros And Civilization Herbert Marcuse 1955 German English
10642 The Black Utopians Aaron Robertson 2024 Unknown English
13541 Island Aldous Huxley 1962 British English
13552 Noon, 22nd Century Arkady Strugatsky 1961 Russian Russian
14160 Beyond This Horizon Robert A. Heinlein 1942 American English
14968 Player Piano Kurt Vonnegut 1952 American English
15643 Planet Magnon Leif Randt 2015 German German
15725 Altneuland Theodor Herzl 1902 German German
15897 Best Science Fiction Stories of H. G. Wells H. G. Wells 1933 British English
15897 Islandia Austin Tappan Wright 1942 American English
17113 Looking Backward, From The Year 2000 Mack Reynolds 1987 American English
17113 The Crater, Or Vulcan's Peak James Fenimore Cooper 1847 American English
17113 The Fifth Sacred Thing Starhawk 1993 American English
17113 Red Plenty Francis Spufford 2010 British English
16850 The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Ursula K. Le Guin 1973 American English
17113 The Magic Kingdom Russell Banks 2022 American English
16956 The Other Side Alfred Kubin 1909 Austrian English
17007 The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions Larry Mitchell 1977 American English
17113 For Us The Living Bruce Lancaster 1983 Unknown English
17113 Al Qaeda And What It Means To Be Modern John Gray 2003 British English