Utopia
-- NonFiction --

• The New Law of Righteousness by Gerrard Winstanley
  (1649... diggers, levellers)

• The Law of Freedom in a Platform: Or True Magistracie Restored by Gerrard Winstanley
  (1652... diggers, levellers)

• The Book of the New Moral World by Robert Owen
  (1845, non-fiction)

• National Evils and Practical Remedies by James Silk Buckingham
  (1848, non-fiction)

• Strange Cults & Utopias of 19th-Century America by John Humphrey Noyes
  (1870, non-fiction... actual communities... first published in Philadelphia under the title History of American Socialisms )

• Ideal Commonwealths edited by Henry Morley
  (1886, non-fiction)

• Garden Cities of To-morrow by Sir Ebenezer Howard
  (1898, non-fiction... an early utopian view of suburbs... first published under the title To-morrow -- a Peaceful Path to Real Reform , London)

• The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth as revealed in the writings of Gerrard Winstaley, the Digger by Lewis H.Berens
  (1906, non-fiction... diggers, levellers)

• Etienne Cabet et les Origines du Communisme Icarien by J.Prudhommeaux
  (1907, non-fiction)

• Harrington and His Oceana: A study of a Seventeenth Century Utopia and its Influences in America by Hugh F.R.Smith
  (1914, non-fiction)

• The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature before 1700 by Geoffroy Atkinson
  (1920, non-fiction)

• The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature from 1700 to 1920 by Geoffroy Atkinson
  (1922, non-fiction)

• The Story of Utopias by Lewis Mumford
  (1922, non-fiction... first published in the US... an overview of utopias... very readable)

• The History of Utopian Thought by Joyce Oramel Hertzler
  (1923, non-fiction)

• The Works of Gerrard Winstanley edited by G.H.Sabine
  (1941, non-fiction... diggers, levellers)

• Gerrard Winstanley, Selections from his works edited by Leonard Hamilton
  (1944, non-fiction... diggers, levellers)

• Nowhere and Somewhere: How History Makes Utopias and How Utopias Make History by Arthur E.Morgan
  (1946, non-fiction)

• Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life by Percival and Paul Goodman
  (1947, non-fiction)

• Journey Through Utopia by Marie Louise Berneri
  (1950, non-fiction... an excellent critique from an anarchist perspective... highly recommended)

• Heavens on Earth by Mark Holloway
  (1951, non-fiction... Utopian Communities in America 1680-1880)

• California's Utopian Communities by Robert V.Hine
  (1953, non-fiction)

• Utopia and Experiment: Essays in the Sociology of Cooperation by Henrik F.Infield
  (1955, non-fiction)

• Paths to Utopia by Martin Buber
  (1958, non-fiction)

• A Season in Utopia: The Story of Brook Farm by Edith Roelkler Curtis
  (1961, non-fiction)

• Utopia and Its Enemies by George Kateb
  (1963, non-fiction... a study of antiutopianism... evaluates the main contemporary currents of attack on the utopian ideal and includes an analysis of modern utopian thought)

• The Children of the Dream: Communal Child-Rearing and its Implications for Society by Bruno Bettelheim
  (196?, non-fiction... kibbutz)

• Between Dystopia and Utopia by Constantinos A.Doxiadis
  (June 1966, non-fiction...Faber and Faber, London, UK)
  "Now we witness technological progress, but we do not know where it leads as we do not have any conception of the dreamland that we want and can create. But dreams are necessary and they must precede the technological achievements. Progress is based on dreams which mobilize the mind, cause discussions, start movements, and lead to realizations." --Constantinos A.Doxiadis (page 48).

• Utopias and Utopian Thought edited by Frank E.Manuel
  (1966, non-fiction, essays)

• Science in Utopia: A Mighty Design by Nell Eurich
  (1967, non-fiction... can technology usher in utopia?... historical survey of the development of science in the utopian solution, and its apparent failure to fulfill the promise... worthwhile reading for utopians)

• Utopia or Oblivion by R.Buckminster Fuller
  (1969, non-fiction... realistic solutions to world problems... most highly recommended)

• Utopia or Else... by René Dumont
  (1973, non-fiction... population, hunger, resources)

• The Hog Farm and Friends by Wavy Gravy [Hugh Romney]
  (1974, non-fiction, memoirs...Links Books, New York, US pbk... Foreword by Ken Kesey... commune, social living, counterculture, alternative lifestyle, 1960s)

• New World Utopias: A Photographic History of the Search for Community by Paul Kagan
  (1975, non-fiction, illustrated...Penguin Books, Baltimore, Maryland, US... communities in the American West from 1870 to 1970...
  documents actual communities... the photos are a definite extra treat!)

• Utopias on Puget Sound 1885-1915 by Charles Pierce Lewarne
  (1975, non-fiction... communities)

• Utopias of the Classical World by John Ferguson
  (1975, non-fiction... first published in London... real utopian societies, social history, anthropology... systematic survey of utopianism in classical thought, from Homer to Augustine)

• Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier by Robert Fishman
  (1977, non-fiction... architecture, garden cities, town planning)

• Alternative Communities in Nineteenth Century England by Dennis Hardy
  (1979, non-fiction... communities)

• Ideology and Utopia edited by Karl Mannheim
  (1984, non-fiction)

• Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference edited by Jane L.Donawerth, Carol A.Kolmerten
  (1994, non-fiction)

• Revolt from the Center: Utopia or Big Brother? by Meyer, Peterson, Sorensen
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Heterotopia: Postmodern Utopia and the Body Politic edited by Tobin Siebers
  (10 March 1995, non-fiction...The University of Michigan Press, Michigan, US, ISBN 0472105574)

• Utopia: Die Bedeutung von Schule, Unterricht und Lernen in utopischen Konzepten by Hans-Ulrich Grunder
  (1996, non-fiction...Schneider Verlag, Hohehgehren, Germany, ISBN 3871168602)

• Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European Renegades by Peter Lamborn Wilson
  (1996, non-fiction, social history... available online, courtesy of Mike Payson)

• People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia by Michael I.Niman
  (199?, non-fiction...University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee, US... Rainbow Tribe, Rainbow Family, social history)

• Mothers and Masters in 20th Century Utopian and Anti-Utopian Literature by Mary Elizabeth Theis
  (August 1997, non-fiction)

New additions are welcome (include: Title, Author, Date, Publisher).

"Pirate Utopias and the Temporary Autonomous Zone" by Hakim Bey
(published in Mondo 2000 , No.5)

"Utopia, Dystopia, and Ideology in the Science Fiction of Octavia Butler" by Hoda Zaki
(in Science Fiction Studies , Volume 17, Part 2, 1990... also see Octavia Butler)

"Visit Port Watson!" by Anonymous
(non-fiction?... re-issued in the anthology Semiotext(e) SF 14 edited by Peter Lamborn Wilson, Rudy Rucker, Robert Anton Wilson, Autonomedia, Brooklyn, New York, US, pbk, 1989... utopia?)

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