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- Some of my favorite obscure books are
-What Not by Rose MACAULAY (all caps just because I pasted it). It's a dystopian future book written during WW1. I've read that it's a inspiration for clockwork orange, 1984, and brave new world but much less well known. To be honest I find that it's the most relatable of all those dystopian books.
-The Story of B By Daniel Quinn (also My Ishmael and Ishmael but less well known then those). They represent a fundamentally different way of viewing the world we inhabit.
-The Foxes Of Harrow By Frank Yerby (Idk how well known it is though). This one is like those classic English lit books but focused on an enterprising Irish charlatan who goes down to New Orleans to build a life in the years leading up to the civil war.
- To anyone who like dystopian books I find that the most succinct of the early genre is Rose Macaulay's What Not.
It's a little harder to parse then the others because it was written in world war 1.
I think it's really interesting as the earliest example I've found of this kind of story telling.
