Books like “Animal Farm”

What to read after “Animal Farm” by George Orwell: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 1962
Similar atmosphere: “Satire” and “Dystopia”
- Satire
- Dystopia
Alex, a teenager who loves violence and classical music, leads his gang through nights of brutal crime. When the state captures him, it offers to cure his impulses with an experimental treatment, making him the subject of a system that manufactures both good and evil.
2
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 1932
Similar atmosphere: “Satire” and “Dystopia”
- Satire
- Dystopia
In a future where citizens are engineered for contentment and kept calm with a drug called soma, Bernard Marx and the Savage John discover the cost of a stable, pleasure-driven society. John's arrival from a reservation exposes the emptiness behind the World State's comfort.
3
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · 1953
Similar atmosphere: “Satire” and “Dystopia”
Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books in a future where reading is a crime and screens fill every quiet moment. After a young neighbour asks him whether he is happy, curiosity makes him hide a book of his own, and he begins to question everything his job stands for.
4
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata · 2016
Similar atmosphere: “Satire”
- Satire
Keiko has worked at the same Tokyo convenience store for eighteen years and is content there, until the people around her begin pressuring her to want a normal life. Deadpan and sharp, the novel follows her attempt to perform the life others expect, by staging a relationship she does not want.
5
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1924
Similar atmosphere: “Satire” and “Dystopia”
In the glass city of OneState, citizens live by a strict timetable and are known only by numbers. When the mathematician D-503 begins to keep a private journal, a woman named I-330 draws him into a movement that wants to tear down the walls of the ordered world.
6
The Chrysalids
John Wyndham · 1955
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
In a post-nuclear Labrador, communities destroy deformed crops and animals and kill, sterilize or banish people who do not match the true form. A boy who can speak with his mind hides his gift among friends, until discovery forces them to flee toward a fabled safe place.
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The Poisoned Chocolates Case
Anthony Berkeley · 1929
Similar atmosphere: “Satire”
- Satire
A box of poisoned chocolates kills a man at his club, and the police can find no culprit. Six members of the Crimes Circle, an armchair detective society, each offer a different solution to the same murder, until amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham tests their theories against the facts.
8
Anthem
Ayn Rand · 1938
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
- Rebellion
In a future run by the collective, the word I has no meaning and all work is done for the good of all. Equality 7-2521 breaks the rules by doing forbidden research and falling in love, then flees a society that cannot allow an individual to exist.
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Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica · 2017
Similar atmosphere: “Satire” and “Dystopia”
- Satire
- Dystopia
After a virus makes all animal meat deadly, Argentina legalises the farming of humans for food. Marcos works the slaughter line and keeps his feelings out of it, until he is given a live woman as a gift and begins to treat her as a person.
10
Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons · 1932
Similar atmosphere: “Satire”
- Satire
Practical Flora Poste, newly orphaned, moves in with her gloomy rural relatives at Cold Comfort Farm. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she sets about tidying their tangled lives, one absurd cousin at a time, in a comic send-up of romantic country novels.
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1985
Similar atmosphere: “Dystopia”
- Dystopia
- Rebellion
In the Republic of Gilead, women have lost their names, jobs and freedom. Offred is a Handmaid, valued only for the child she may bear for a commander and his wife. Remembering the life she had before, she searches for small acts of defiance and a way to survive.
12
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol · 1842
Similar atmosphere: “Satire”
- Satire
Chichikov arrives in a provincial Russian town and charms its officials and landowners. He has come to buy serfs who have died but are still listed on the tax rolls, and his odd scheme draws him into the vanity and corruption of the society around him.