For FUTURE PERFECT (2007-2011):

FICTION:

• 1984, by George Orwell
• Foucault’s Pendulum, by Umberto Eco
• We, by Yvgeny Zamiatin
• Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (and Brave New World Revisited)
• It Can’t Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis
• Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
• Children of Men, by PD James
• The Running Man, by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)
• Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
• Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Time Machine, by HG Wells
• The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien
• The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick
• Brighton Rock, by Graham Greene
• The Ministry of Fear, by Graham Greene
• Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
• V for Vendetta, by Alan Moore & David Lloyd (graphic novel) (and film)
• Jennifer Government, by Max Barry
• Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
• The Iron Heel, Jack London
• The Matrix (films)
• Minority Report (film)
• 12 Monkeys (film)

NONFICTION:

• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay
• The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli
• Supercapitalism: the Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life, by Robert Reich
• Declaration of Independence, by Howard Zinn
• Encyclopedia of Political Anarchy, by Kathlyn Gay
• Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, by Gore Vidal
• Essays by George Orwell: Politics and the English Language; Politics vs. Literature; Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
• Underground London, by Stephen Smith
• London’s War: A Traveler’s Guide to World War II, by Sayre Van Young
• With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change, by Fred Pearce
• Hell and High Water…, by Joseph Romm
• The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman
• The Long Emergency, by James Howard Kunstler
• Are We Rome?…, by Cullen Murphy
• Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe, by William Rosen
• Dark Ages America: the Final Phase of Empire, by Morris Berman
• The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholars Version, by Robert J. Miller
• The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
• God is Not Great…, by Christopher Hitchens
• Kingdom Coming: the Rise of Christian Nationalism, by Michelle Goldberg
• The Family…, by Jeff Sharlet
• Lost Moon: the Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, by James Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger
• Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness, by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner
• Memory: the Key to Consciousness, by Richard F. Thompson and Stephen A. Madigan
• The Quantum Zoo: a Tourist’s Guide to the Neverending Universe, by Marcus Chown
• A Beginners Guide to Reality…, by Jim Baggott
• The Fabric of Reality: the Science of Parallel Universes and its Implications, by David Deutsch
• About Time: Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution, by Paul Davies
• The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design, by Leonard Susskind
• Mind in Motion: the Fiction of Philip K. Dick, by Patricia S. Warrick
• The Future as Nightmare: HG Wells and the Anti-Utopians, by Mark Robert Hillegas
• Notes from the Holocene: a Brief History of the Future, by Dorion Sagan
• Cosmic Jackpot: Why our Universe is Just Right for Life, by Paul Davies
• What Nietzsche Really Said, by Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins
• The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy, by Bryan Magee
• The Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Rapture for the Geeks: When AI outsmarts IQ, by Richard Dooling
• Endgame, by Derrick Jensen