A world gone mad
Explore a curated reading list of fiction books about a world gone mad, featuring dystopian classics like Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, A Clockwork Orange, and The Tin Drum.
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
Marlow sails down the Congo in search of Kurtz, a company agent who has, according to rumors, become insane in the jungle isolation.
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Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
In the mid-1960s, the publication of Pynchon's V and The Crying of Lot 49 introduced a brilliant new voice to American literature. Gravity's Rainbow, his convoluted, allusive novel about a metaphysical quest, published in 1973, further confirmed Pynchon's reputation as one of the greatest writers of the century.