Utopia

I choose Peter Greenaway's "The Book of Utopias."

"This is a book of ideal societies. With the front cover bound in gold leather and back bound in black slate, it has five hundred pages, six hundred and sixty-six indexed entries and a preface by Sir Thomas More. The first entry is a consensus description of Heaven and the last is one of Hell. There will always be someone on earth whose Utopian idea will be Hell. In the remaining pages of the book, ever known and every imagined political and social community is described and evaluated and twenty-five pages are devoted to tables where the characteristics of all societies can be isolated, permitting a reader to sort and match his own Utopian ideal."