Currently, the world is experiencing a lot of problems and issues. In such circumstances, it can become difficult to keep the spirits up. Utopian literature is set in an idealistic world where things are how they are supposed to be. It’s full of inspiring and uplifting content. It shows a kind of perfect world in which people are living an improved version of the life. The opposite of this is dystopian literature. 

These stories have characters living in a world where things have gone wrong on a macro level. While dystopian literature may be the popular one, utopian literature has also stood the test of time. It is also being studied as a subject in many philosophy departments at many top universities in the world. 

If you ever want to visit a world that is perfect in its way, read some utopian novels that we have listed below. E-books are available everywhere for your convenience. You can read them online or download them. Don’t forget your partner, Windstream Internet, for seamless downloading.  Your journey will be fast, and uninterrupted. Call on Windstream customer service number for their pocket-friendly plans. 

Here’s a list of great Utopian novels and books.

• Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

In the world of Childhood’s End, the overlords have taken over the Earth. But they have a different way of taking over. Instead of choosing violence to assert dominance, they choose peace. Thus starts the Golden Age of humanity where there are no wars, crimes, poverty, or suffering. But this creates issues of its own. When all the problems are gone, what is the need for human ingenuity or creativity? 

The people start getting restless and urge for change and some movement. But going against the peace built by the overlords can mean the end of civilization once and for all.

• The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin

This utopian novel by Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed, was published in May 1974. One thing to consider before reading this book is that this was the era of the Cold War (between the US and the former Soviet Union). The book has taken themes from this conflicting era. The main character is a physicist, Shevek, who lives on a planet of anarchists. 

He is a smart man who wants to look for answers to questions. He wants to know the cause of hatred and wants to tear down the walls that have separated his planet from the rest of civilization in the universe. To do this, he has to make a dangerous journey to the mother planet, Urras.

• Island by Aldous Huxley

Published in 1962, Island was the last novel by Aldous Huxley. In this novel he transports us to a Pacific Island. Here, he shows that for the last 120 years, an ideal society has been formed and successfully flourished. Naturally, this prosperity also attracts the enmity of other societies that haven’t found the right way just yet. 

Actions are going to be taken to take over this island. For this, Franby, lands on the shore after his shipwrecks. He had come for his ambitions but his time with the locals change his perspective. The values of locals are going to change him and his thought process forever, for the better.   

• The Amateurs by Liz Harmer

Have you ever wanted to escape to a world where there is only peace and happiness? Ever wished that someone would make a gadget that would help you escape? Well, in Liz Harmer’s novel The Amateurs, exactly this happens. A company called PINA has created a device called Port. Using this, people can transport to any place setting at any time they want. 

As so happens, people who leave don’t come back. Either they don’t want to or, ominously, they are unable to do so. Anyways, the Earth is almost abandoned, and left behind are very few people. One of them is an artist who awaits the return of her lover. The other one is the right-hand man of the genius behind Ports and is determined to find the truth.

• Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Almost all of us have watched so many movies about Gulliver’s Travels but none of them come close to the source material. The main character, Gulliver, travels across four different kinds of worlds. Each of them has its forms of society and its satirical depiction. In the first world, Lilliput, everyone is small. Their morals for trivial matters are similarly small. 

In the second world, Gulliver is a miniature size while everyone is huge. In the third world, science and huge resources are used for weird minor things. This satirical world uses science for things like softening marble or extracting sunbeams from cucumbers. In the fourth world, horses rule the world of humans.

Conclusion

Reading utopian literature can be so refreshing. It has a world where things are at the right place or are being placed at the right spot. This literature can often blur the line between wanting utopia as a reality or staying away from it. Nonetheless, it is fun to read about a world that may never be possible to achieve.