Brave New World

Set in a futuristic World State, Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel imagines citizens engineered into a social hierarchy based on intelligence, genetically bred, shaped by sleep-learning and conditioning, and kept content with drugs. Dates are counted After Ford, the society's deity, and the story takes place in 632 AF. Lenina and Bernard are among its citizens. Huxley wrote it in four months in 1931 while living in Sanary-sur-Mer, France, partly as a parody of the hopeful utopias of H. G. Wells. Published in 1932, it was ranked fifth on the Modern Library list of the best English novels of the 20th century.

Yuval Noah Harari called it the most prophetic novel of the last century and said many readers today could easily take it for a utopia. It also appears on Jordan B. Peterson's book list.