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10 Dystopian Books You Need to Read to Understand Today's America

"All too often, life can feel like a dystopian novel. Endless wars engulfing the Middle East, a semi-zombified population glued to their Twitter feeds, a creeping state surveillance . . . you know the drill.
But it's one thing to say that life feels like a generic dystopia, and another entirely to buy a specific book and find the horrors of our modern world described perfectly by someone who has been dead for 20 years.
Whether you're a liberal or a conservative, below you'll find 10 novels from 10 authors which, taken together, explain all you need to know about the malaise afflicting modern America. The books are ranked from the merely good (#1) to the jaw-droppingly prescient (#10)."
Opinions are not necessarily my own. I don't think 1984 was "jaw-droppingly prescient."
Update, 6/15/21: actually, I've done some more thinking and now I believe that 1984 was indeed prescient, what with "ignorance is strength" and endless, unseen war.
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Kallocain (Karin Boye)
Kallocain
1
Karin Boye
Player Piano (Kurt Vonnegut)
Player Piano
2
Kurt Vonnegut
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
We
3
Yevgeny Zamyatin
War With the Newts (Karel Čapek)
War With the Newts
4
Karel Čapek
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman)
Amusing Ourselves to Death
5
Neil Postman
The Atrocity Exhibition (J. G. Ballard)
The Atrocity Exhibition
6
J. G. Ballard
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451
7
Ray Bradbury
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
8
Margaret Atwood
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
9
Aldous Huxley
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
10
George Orwell
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