Books like

Books like 1984

12 books with a reading profile close to 1984 by George Orwell. Deep, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction

In a future World State, the population is decanted in hatcheries and predestined into a rigid caste system ranging from Alphas to Epsilons.
2

We

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, science fiction

D-503 is a mathematician and the chief engineer of the Integral, a spacecraft designed to bring the ideology of the One State to other planets.
3

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction

Shevek is a physicist living on Anarres, a barren moon where a society of Odonian anarchists survives through collective labor and the rejection of private property.
4

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction

Guy Montag is a fireman in a future society where the government mandates the destruction of all printed literature.
5

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, science fiction

Set in a radioactive, post-apocalyptic San Francisco, the narrative follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter tasked with retiring six runaway Nex-7 androids.
6

Cat’s Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Also deep · philosophy, science fiction

John, a narrator seeking to document what prominent Americans did on the day Hiroshima was bombed, travels to the impoverished Caribbean island of San Lorenzo.
7

Solaris

by Stanisław Lem

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction

Psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at a research station hovering above Solaris, a planet entirely covered by a sentient, gelatinous ocean.
8

Island

by Aldous Huxley

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary

The story follows Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist who shipwrecks on the forbidden Pacific island of Pala.
9

The dark tower, and other stories

by C.S. Lewis

Also deep and contemplative · science fiction, literary

This posthumous collection centers on an unfinished sequel to Out of the Silent Planet, titled The Dark Tower.
10

Resurrection

by Leo Tolstoy

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary

Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov serves as a juror in a murder trial, only to recognize the defendant as Maslova, a woman he seduced and abandoned years earlier.
11

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary

Arkady Kirsanov returns from university to his father's estate in 1859, bringing his friend Yevgeny Bazarov, a medical student and self-declared nihilist who rejects authority, art, and tradition.
12

Antigone

by Jean Anouilh

Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary

Jean Anouilh's play, first staged in occupied Paris in 1944, retells Sophocles.

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