Some books that share certain features with A Clockwork Orange:
1984 by George Orwell
Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, the Thought Police--George Orwell's world-famous novel coined new and potent
words of warning for us all.
Alive with Swiftian wit and passion, it is on
e of the most brilliant satires on totalitarianism and the power-hungry ever written.
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
There aren't many
books, particularly written as recently as 1961, that have contributed a phrase so thoroughly to the English language as this one. Describing inherently paradoxical traps as a catch-22 is now common slang; this is where it started.
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created
the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. B
ernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress
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Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in t
he Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent". Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his 16-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island, is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954.
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
A Gothic horror story of quite exceptional quality...macabre, bizarre ...quite impossible to put down.
The narrator of Iain Banks's novel, 16-year-old Frank Cauldhame, is looking to explain a mystery. He lives with his taciturn father in an isolated house on the north-east coast of Scotland. His father dissembles and has secrets. He has a study, which is always locked; Frank has never seen inside it. At intervals in the narrative he tries the door, hoping that one day his father will forget to lock it. In the way of a fairy-tale or a gothic yarn, we know that we will enter this mysterious chamber before the novel ends.
