Dystopian novels about memory and identity

Memory and identity are what dystopias try to overwrite. Erase the past, assign the self, and the person becomes governable. These books follow characters fighting to hold onto who they were against a system that would rather assign them who to be.

32 titles on this theme, earliest first.

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  AnthemAyn Rand · 1938
• The World of Null-A
  The World of Null-AA. E. van Vogt · 1945
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  Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell · 1949
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  Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury · 1953
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  The Lathe of HeavenUrsula K. Le Guin · 1971
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  The World InsideRobert Silverberg · 1971
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  Flow My Tears, the Policeman SaidPhilip K. Dick · 1974
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  The Handmaid's TaleMargaret Atwood · 1985
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  FatherlandRobert Harris · 1992
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  The GiverLois Lowry · 1993
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  The Memory PoliceYōko Ogawa · 1994
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  Amnesia MoonJonathan Lethem · 1995
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  Mortal EnginesPhilip Reeve · 2001
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  FeedM. T. Anderson · 2002
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  The House of the ScorpionNancy Farmer · 2002
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  In the Presence of Mine EnemiesHarry Turtledove · 2003
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  AsphaltCarl Hancock Rux · 2004
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  PrettiesScott Westerfeld · 2005
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  IncarceronCatherine Fisher · 2007
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  UnwindNeal Shusterman · 2007
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  SapphiqueCatherine Fisher · 2008
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  The HostStephenie Meyer · 2008
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  The Maze RunnerJames Dashner · 2009
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  The Scorch TrialsJames Dashner · 2010
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  DivergentVeronica Roth · 2011
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  The Death CureJames Dashner · 2011
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  Unravel MeTahereh Mafi · 2011
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  InsurgentVeronica Roth · 2012
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  AllegiantVeronica Roth · 2013
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  The EliteKiera Cass · 2013
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  Red RisingPierce Brown · 2014
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  The CircleDave Eggers · 2016