Authors chosen by The Atlantic have a bit of narrow-mindedness.
Greatest books of all time? And they eliminate
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
Oedypus Rex
The Divine Comedy
Not to speak of The Bible.
Or, in modern times:
The Lord of the Rings
Brideshead Revisited
Good call on those last two for the 20th Century list. The intellectuals loathe LOTR.
The list is of best fiction, that is why the Bible is excluded.
“Brave New World”
People forget it was written in the early part of the last century, long before socialistic governments had become the norm.
“1984” presents a vision of the future where citizens are kept in line by governmental brute force. “Brave New World” though, presents a vision where citizens are controlled by government paternalism, which results in a voluntary self-enslavement to the government.
Every modern story of a dystopian future has its roots in “Brave New World.”
And, it’s easy to see “Brave New World’s” vision of the future slowly coming to pass.