By Smauel Butler

The nineteenth-century English philosopher satirizes the hypocraisy of his own society through sketches depicting an imaginary world.

By Mary Beth Keane
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Betty Petreshock, Reference Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
With Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, April 8, 2014. 7:30 PM.

A fictionalized telling of the life of Typhoid Mary, an Irish immigrant who moved to New York at the turn of the century.

By Starhawk

A world without poverty or hunger that honors the Four Sacred Things that sustain life--earth, air, fire, and water--is poised to clash with a nightmare society of authoritarian regimes and food and water shortages.

By Susan Sontag

Poland's greatest living actress leads a utopian community to the wilds of 1876 California, where she will struggle to maintain love, hope, and idealism in the harsh reality of the American West.

By Aldous Huxley

The author's last novel introduces a supposedly Utopian Pacific island where drug use and open sex are encouraged, and children are not at the mercy of one set of parents. In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and - to his amazement - give him hope.

By Edward Bellamy
Series Julian West

A wealthy Bostonian awakes from a hypnotic trance to find himself in a futuristic cooperative commonwealth.

By James Hilton

Following a plane crash in the Himalayan mountains, a lost group of Englishmen and Americans stumble upon the dream-like, utopian world of Shangri-La, where life is eternal and civilization refined.

By Lisa Tucker

Having been raised in utopian isolation by her once-famous Hollywood father, twenty-three-year-old Dorothea leaves their New Mexico sanctuary in search of her missing brother and discovers terrifying truths about her family's past.

By Ernest Cline
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, June 9, 2014. 7 PM.

Immersing himself in a mid-twenty-first-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.

By Ernest Cline

Monday, June 9, 2014. 7 PM.

Immersing himself in a mid-twenty-first-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.

By Ernest Cline
Series Ready Player Novels #2
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film.