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Hello I just recently read Huxley's Brave New World and really enjoyed it. Has anyone read anything similar that they'd recommend?

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 & George Orwell's 1984 are the obvious

Ok thanks I've read 1984 but not Fahrenheit 451 I'll give it a shot. Watched this film last night called The man from earth. It's about a guy who lived through 14000 years of history. The concept and script are so cool that even the suspect B movie acting didn't ruin it. I've been trying to find if the screenwriter based it on something earlier like a novel or short story.

I'm not great with knowing what most consider similar but here are my suggestions that I think go hand in hand
- Animal Farm
-I second Fahrenheit 451
-Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut
-Slaughterhouse-Five - Vonnegut - pretty much anything by him
-Anthem - Ayn Rand
-The Road- Cormac McCarthy
-The Giver - Louis Lowery
-Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
~ and not a huge Hunger Game fan but I think it fits in the genre

Brave New World is one book I'd enjoyed reading in my literature classroom, where there're many to bounce ideas and interpretations with, and to discover the endless moments of insight buried throughout the book. We had read it alongside George Orwell's 1984, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland. Another dystopian text that I came across recently is a series by the name of 'The Juliette Chronicles', by Tahereh Mafi. A lighter read that falls somewhere near the lines of young romantic fiction; but nevertheless with a well created, possible future of human kind. (:

Brave New World is already happening. Check out what Obama is doing, breaking more laws than Nixon without getting impeached. Talk about literature mirroring reality.

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In addition to Fahrenheit 452, read Ray Bradbury's short stories. There are a lot of them that are reverent of the past, sometimes to the point of condemning the future for being different.