Welcome to law school – or welcome back. For this month, we’re highlighting some classic utopian and dystopian books. All of these are available to be checked out, and are on display on the third floor of the library.
First, the dystopias – the ones you’ve heard of and (maybe) the ones you haven’t:
Books featured:
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Kallocain by Karin Boye
- The Children of Men by P.D. James
- It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
- The Iron Heel by Jack London
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
And the utopias:
Books featured:
- Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
- Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Utopia by Thomas More
- News From Nowhere by William Morris
- Plato’s Republic
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