Books like Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
12 books with a reading profile close to Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Deep, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 text)
by Mary Shelley
Also deep · horror, science fiction
Victor Frankenstein, a natural philosophy student in Ingolstadt, assembles a living human form from scavenged body parts using laboratory chemistry and galvanism.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
Also deep · philosophy, horror
In London’s high society, the artist Basil Hallward paints a portrait of a handsome young man named Dorian Gray.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, horror
Gabriel John Utterson, a London lawyer, grows concerned when his friend Dr.
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1984
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction
In 1948, George Orwell envisioned a future where the Party exercises total dominion over the fictional superstate Oceania.
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Brave New World
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.
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, science fiction
A Square, a mathematician and resident of a two-dimensional world, narrates his discovery of higher spatial realities.
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Slaughterhouse-Five The Children's Crusade
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction
Billy Pilgrim, an ill-suited American chaplain’s assistant, survives the 1945 firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war held in an underground meat locker.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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.
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We
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.
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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, science fiction
Aldous Huxley depicts a future World State where biological engineering and psychological conditioning replace natural birth and individual thought.
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Songs of innocence and of experience
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, classic literature
William Blake’s hand-colored collection contrasts two differing states of the human soul.
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