This sort of meme makes me both crazy and happy. The instructions are as follows: “Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Tag 15 friends, including me because I’m interested in seeing what books my friends choose.” The list is in order of how I thought of it, not how I read it. Reply in a comment if you so desire. (Thanks for the tag, Jen!)
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Bridge by Iain Banks
- Justine by Lawrence Durrell
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Demian by Hermann Hesse
- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
- Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- White Apples by Jonathan Carroll
- Black Wine by Candas Jane Dorsey
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
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I can’t think of “1984″ without thinking of “Brave New World,” either. The edition of “Brave New World” I have has a brilliant forward that reads, in part, “’1984′ envisions a future where no one is permitted to read a book. ‘Brave New World’ envisions a future where no one wants to.”
I’d say that so far the future is 80% Huxley, 20% Orwell. And that you really dig dystopias.