Herland

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

Wells argues that a workable utopia must be planned, global and open to revision, then narrates one. Part novel and part political essay, it is his fullest statement on how a better society might be organised.

H. G. Wells

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