Books like A Clockwork Orange
If you liked A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Brave New World
Because shares tags: dystopia, classics, satire.
Huxley's Brave New World retold: hatcheries, soma, Bernard and Lenina, John the Savage, and the lighthouse.
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The Master and Margarita
Because shares tags: classics, satire.
Devil Woland visits 1930s Moscow while Master writes Pilate and Margarita bargains.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Because shares tags: classics, satire.
Jack and Algernon invent Ernest to court Gwendolen and Cecily until fiction collapses.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Because shares tags: classics, crime.
Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Because shares tags: classics, satire.
Raoul Duke and Gonzo binge Vegas covering Mint 400 and drug conference.
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Oliver Twist
Because shares tags: classics, crime.
An orphan flees the workhouse for London's thieves, and Dickens indicts a cruel society.
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The Screwtape Letters
Because shares tags: classics, satire.
A senior devil advises his nephew Wormwood on tempting an ordinary Englishman away from faith and attention.
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Because shares tags: classics, crime.
Hastings reunites with refugee Poirot at Styles Court after Emily Inglethorp is poisoned in her locked room.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Because shares tags: dystopia, classics.
Bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires escaped androids in ruined San Francisco while doubting what empathy still means.
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A Study in Scarlet
Because shares tags: classics, crime.
Watson meets Holmes in Baker Street, a Brixton body bears the word Rache, and a Utah revenge tale explains it.
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Watchmen
Because shares tags: dystopia, classics.
A full retelling of Alan Moore's Watchmen: a retired hero's death in 1985 America sparks a sprawling plot with an exiled god and a shocking…
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The Time Machine
Because shares tags: classics, dystopia.
Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate.
