A Modern Utopia

The book that named the genre. More describes an island commonwealth with no private property and uses it to hold a mirror to the Europe of his own day.

Thomas More

A sleeper wakes in the year 2000 to find poverty and inequality abolished. Bellamy's vision of a cooperative future became a bestseller and shaped reform movements for decades.

Edward Bellamy

Three explorers stumble on a society of women that has run without men for two thousand years. Gilman uses their confusion to test how much of what we call human nature is only convention.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In a bureaucratic London of 1984 where nothing surprising happens anymore, a joke of a king revives medieval pageantry and one neighbourhood takes it seriously. A comic anti-utopia about the value of the local.

G. K. Chesterton