Utopian Novels Owned

I just started making a list of all of the Utopian novels I own and this is what I have found so far. I'm sure I have others as well.

1. A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
2. Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon
3. Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4. Wellspring of Magic by Jan Fields
5. The Demeter Flower by Rochelle Singer
6. Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold
7. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five
by Doris Lessing
8. The Ruins of Isis by Marion Zimmer Bradley
9. Dare to Dream Utopian Fiction by United States Women Before
1950 by Carol Farley Kessler 2nd Edition
10. Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
11. Always Coming Home by Ursula K. LeGuin

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12. Native Tongue by Suzette Hadin Elgin
13. Native Tongue II The Judas Rose by Suzette Hadin Elgin
14. Lost Horizon by James Hilton
15. Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D. Wyss
16. The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan
17. Committment Hour by James Alan Gardner
18. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
19. Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee
20. Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

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Okay, Beatles1964, now it seems like I'm just following your posts around...first lists of dystopias on the dystopian group, now this. :)

My utopias (most of these are pre-1940):
A Journey in Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor
The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
Looking Backward 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy
Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited by Samuel Butler
Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach
The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella
The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Island by Aldous Huxley
Mizora by Mary E. Bradley Lane
Utopia by Thomas More
The Republic by Plato
Millennium Hall by Sarah Scott
Walden Two by B.F. Skinner
In the Days of the Comet by H.G. Wells
A Modern Utopia by H.G. Wells

I also have The Book of the City of Ladies, though I haven't read it yet and this is the first mention I've seen of it being a utopia. Can St. Augustine's City of God possibly be considered a utopia, too? I also have that.

Daring to Dream is one of those utopian books that I really, really, really want to get my hands on (among others)...My favorite utopias are the feminist ones. One of my short papers for college English last year was a comparison of Herland, Mizora, and "The White Women" by Mary Coleridge.

SusieBookworm it's great to have you here. I haven't read The Book of the City of Ladies either. If it isn't a utopia then what is it? Dystopia? I've read Herland and really enjoyed it though the one guy was a real male chauvinist pig with his attituddes about women. I haven't read Lost Horizon but I do own the DVD version of the movie. I too enjoy reading femnist utopias.

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My impression of The Book of the City of Ladies is that it's just going through all the remarkable women of the time before Pizan was writing. I'm not sure if Pizan carries out her theme through a utopia or not.

Herland is one of my favorite books, as is Lost Horizon. :)

I picked up Visions of Utopia at a used bookstore today.

21. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
22. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
23. Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
24. The Gateway to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
25. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

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26. Glory Season by David Brin
27. The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
28. I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein
29. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
30. Venus of Dreams by Pamela Sargent
31. Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
32. Orlando by Virginia Woolf

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33. Crygender by Thomas T. Thomas
34. Lady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson

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35. The Memory of Earth Homecoming Volume 1 by Orson Soctt Card
36. Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein
37. Hanta Yo by Ruth Beebe Hill
38. The People in Pineapple Place by Ann Lindbergh
39. The Alchemyst The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
39. Shardik by Richard Adams
40. Carry the Wind by Terry C. Johnston

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1. A Million Open Doors by John Barnes
2. Kipling's Science Fiction by John Brunner
3. Future Perfect by Bruce Franklin
4. Utopian Fantasy by Richard Gerber
5. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
6. The Prince by Niccolo Macchiavelli
7. Before Armageddon by Michael Moorcock
8. Utopia by Thomas More
9. Candide by Voltaire
10. Orlando by Virginia Woolf

11) Thank you!!!! I was just about to add Sir Thomas More! Anyone else read his prose????

No problem! :-)
If I may be so bold, I would suggest Alberto Manguel's book/dictionnary, the Dictionary of Imaginary Places, because it is a listing of all imaginary, fantasy and utopian places in literature. For each entry, you get the books the entry refers to. I refer to it each time I need to refresh my memory or check on a place I found in a book. It is very good for reading suggestions, because you always want to know more about the places you read about.

Examples include: Hogwarts, Wonderland, Treasure Island, Shangri-La, the city of Ys, Kong's Skull Island, a 10 pages long entry on More's Utopia, Never-Never land, Earthsea, etc.

41. Hawaii by James A. Michener

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Susie Bookworm I have to tell you that I love the movie version of Lost Horizon. I own it in DVD and I have seen it several times. I also like the B & W version of the movie SHE based on the H. Rider Haagard novel. I plan on reading Lost Horizon & SHE. I've owned both books for years however I've never gotten around to readng them before now. My DVD version of SHE gives you the option to either see it in the original B & W version or the later Colourized version. Whenever I watch it I always see it in B & W. I'm not a fan of Colourized movies if the originals were shot in B & W.

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