Speaking of old novels you should (re)read…

Posted by Angelé Sionna on January 28, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Finally, I guess, everyone’s re-reading 1984. Good! I re-read it this past summer and did my part to advertise its application to modern day. Glad to see the appreciation of this classic dystopian novel alive and well again.

Here’s a list of other must-read classics (or re-reads) to put on your list after you finish 1984 and want to think about things some more through the lens of fiction…

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Handmade’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Running Man by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

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