5 best-selling dystopia books like What Not (MIT Press / Radium Age) by Rose Macaulay

Cover of What Not (MIT Press / Radium Age) by Rose Macaulay

What Not (MIT Press / Radium Age)

By: Rose Macaulay

3.52

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

An early novel by Rose Macaulay about a government program of compulsory selective breeding in a dy…

"Every war makes other wars more likely."

-Rose Macaulay, What Not (MIT Press / Radium Age)

"Every war makes other wars more likely."

-Rose Macaulay, What Not (MIT Press / Radium Age)

If you liked the dystopia plot in What Not (MIT Press / Radium Age) by Rose Macaulay , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Too Much Happiness: Stories

By: Alice Munro

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In these ten stories, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into st… read more

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  • fiction
"It was comparable to getting sick from bad ventilation"

-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

"Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person."

-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

"It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence."

-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

"You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never."

-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

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2. Ex-wife

By: Ursula Parrott

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and nev… read more

Similar categories in Ursula Parrott's Ex-wife book and Rose Macaulay's What Not (MIT Press / Radium Age)

  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Henry VIII by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

3. Henry VIII

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.50

Format: None pages,

Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's Henry VIII book and Rose Macaulay's What Not (MIT Press / Radium Age)

  • classics
  • fiction
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4. Angel

By: Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Taylor

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Paperback

Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of ro… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels

5. The Machine Stops

By: E.M. Forster

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction

6. Del color de la leche

By: Nell Leyshon

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Elias Canetti escribio que en escasas ocasiones las personas logran liberarse de las cadenas que la… read more

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7. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

By: James Tiptree Jr.

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas touch upon human nature and perception, metaphys… read more

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8. Light a Penny Candle

By: Maeve Binchy

4.24

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the bois… read more

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9. The Kraken Wakes

By: John Wyndham

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fir… read more

Similar categories in John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes book and Rose Macaulay's What Not (MIT Press / Radium Age)

  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"I don't care. I don't mind working hard when there's hope. It was having no more hope that was too much for me."

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get …"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"What is more, nobody has ever actually proved him wrong. His chief trouble was that he usually provided such large, indigestible slabs that they stuck in all gullets—even mine, and I would class myse…"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

10. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

By: Kate Wilhelm

3.00

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, throu… read more

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11. Consider Her Ways and Others

By: John Wyndham

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Consider Her WaysJane Waterleigh has no memory of her past wakes up and discovers that she is a mot… read more

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12. The Fawn

By: Magda Szabó

4.18

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Eszter Encsy, a now accomplished actress, finds herself thinking about her impoverished and frustra… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • 20th century
  • fiction
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13. Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

By: Jasper Fforde

4.50

Format: 459 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an exclusive edition… read more

Similar categories in Jasper Fforde's Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2) book and Rose Macaulay's What Not (MIT Press / Radium Age)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"Choice," went the Word of Munsell, "leads only to dithering and unhealthy speculation over alternative outcomes. The choice to have no choice is the best choice of all."

-Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

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14. El abismo del olvido

By: Paco Roca

4.81

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Paco Roca viaja a nuestro pasado con El abismo del olvido para recuperar junto al periodista Rodrig… read more

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  • politics
"La democracia se cimentó sobre el olvido"

-Paco Roca, El abismo del olvido

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15. All the Horses of Iceland

By: Sarah Tolmie

3.53

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

A hypnotic historical fantasy with gorgeous and unusual literary prose, from the captivating author… read more

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  • fiction
"While Eyvind never became a literate man, he saw as he went on that books contained words that could transform men into priests and kings and healers."

-Sarah Tolmie, All the Horses of Iceland

"That was the way it was with languages, Eyvind had observed once he left home and realized how many there were: some he could see into and some he could not. Listening to them was like looking down i…"

-Sarah Tolmie, All the Horses of Iceland

Cover of Expiación by Elizabeth von Arnim

16. Expiación

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Todo el mundo adora a Milly, la mujer de Ernest Bott. Y es que es la esposa encantadora, amable, d… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth von Arnim's Expiación book and Rose Macaulay's What Not (MIT Press / Radium Age)

  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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17. The House of Broken Bricks

By: Fiona Williams

3.83

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ain’t nothing wrong with being broken. Nothing at all. You’re like these houses, not a whole brick … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature
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18. Nueva Amazonia

By: Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New A Foretaste of the Future (1889) is a novel by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett. In June 1889, Briti… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
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19. Middlewest

By: Skottie Young

4.23

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

When a violent storm levels his sleepy Middlewest town, Abel and his childhood companion, Fox, must… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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20. Troy Chimneys

By: Margaret Kennedy

3.97

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

A Victorian gentleman is forced by illness to entertain himself with the family archive, and he unc… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
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21. What Not (MIT Press / Radium Age)

By: Rose Macaulay

3.52

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

An early novel by Rose Macaulay about a government program of compulsory selective breeding in a dy… read more

Similar categories in Rose Macaulay's What Not (MIT Press / Radium Age) book and Rose Macaulay's What Not (MIT Press / Radium Age)

  • classics
  • british literature
  • politics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
"Every war makes other wars more likely."

-Rose Macaulay, What Not (MIT Press / Radium Age)

15 Top fiction books like What Not (MIT Press / Radium Age) by Rose Macaulay

Transform Your Habits

Too Much Happiness: Stories

Alice Munro

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Ex-wife

Ursula Parrott

3.96

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Henry VIII

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.50

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Angel

Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Taylor

3.76

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Sultana's Dream

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain , Durga Bai

3.72

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A Crystal Age

William Henry Hudson

3.89

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Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self: The Givens Collection

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

4.33

Transform Your Habits

After London: or, Wild England

Richard Jefferies

3.71

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