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If you're going to read anytihng by Ayn Rand, I would suggest Anthem, which is more directly dystopian, and a lot shorter than anything else. Reading long Rand works is like being shouted at continually for days.
A little dated, but "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis is a tale of fascism coming to the US. There's also Kafka, of course, although I'm not sure that fits what you're looking for...
On the Sci-Fi front, Ira Levin (author of Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives) wrote a future Utopian/Dystopian novel called This Perfect Day. Very similar in tone to Brave New World. There's also "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas", a short story by Ursula K. LeGuin (A Wizard of Earthsea). It's more of a parable than anything else. She also wrote The Dispossessed, which is a longer exploration of "Utopia"
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