recommend me a book that is not Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

For my online classes I have to analyze two books that are very different to each other. Aspects like being in different genres, being written by authors from different backgrounds, being intended for different demographics etc.

I've been meaning to read Brave New World for a while, so that's one book solved. Feel free to tell me your favourite books that are very different from in one or more of these regards!

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Never Let Me Go or Handmaid's Tale are dystopias but very different in style which should provide a lot of points to analyze

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      He said very different you fricking moron also NLMG is the worst ishiguro book

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        based ishigurogay, I wholeheartedly agree with picrel

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How similar or loose do the novels actually have to be?

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The American Historical Review 2004 109:5

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No longer human

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Read confederacy of dunces. It’s pretty different from brave new world

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You could compare it to HG Wells “Men Like Gods” which is what it’s a parody of

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Read one of Orwell's fictions (e.g. 1984) and one of his non-fictions (e.g. Down and Out in London and Paris).

    Compare the societies within. One leaves you free to be destitute, the other revokes freedom but preserves life.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No longer human

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Football: it's a Funny Old Game

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I, the Jury.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What's that about?

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Chrome Yellow, but that's pretty similar to BNW. In fact he's lays out a lot of the groundwork by ruthlessly mocking the protag and describing a proto-BNW society as somebody's musings at some fair.
    It's more of a dark comedy, a satirical take on english country novel, sort of a hateful and less funny Jeeves and Wooster type thing.
    I might have sold it wrong, but it's a fun read and kind of THE thing to compare and contrast.
    The only other thing I've read of his is Antic Hay, which is similarly mean and satirical but imo less interesting.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Oh sorry, I read you as meaning "a book by Aldous Huxley that is not Brave New World", but you meant "a book that is not Aldous Huxley's Brave New world" and in fact wanted something extremely different.

      I suggest the Tao te Ching. It's short, by someone whose background is extremely different, not fiction at all, but does deal with sort of the fate and purpose of humanity.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Same. Same came here to recommend Chrome yellow or Time must have a Stop. The latter is also a social novel, and really fricking good.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Halo 3 ODST - The Novelization

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That game never had a novelization

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It did.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    cunc

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Call of the Crocodile. Or Call of the Arcade. Either one is fine because you can read them in any order.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sorry, I'm american and therefore can't think of any other book beside BNW and 1984

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You should really pick some work of fantasy, like Tolkien or something. Considering you have a sci-fi dystopia and need something different, something compelling would be an epic fantasy with a satisfyingly good ending. Plus, I think Tolkien talks about the exact opposite themes that Huxley does, in this book at least. The fiction is secondary in Huxley's work while there's a philosophical and sociological dimension to it. The other pick is merely moralistic at times and has an aestheticist approarch to storytelling. Tolkien made a world which was made specifically to immerse into it, while Huxley warns and advises against his.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Obviously Moby Dick

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    "The Tempest" by Bill Shakes

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Simic - Brothers and idols

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