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Might I suggest Walkaway by Cory Doctorow, my favorite book. The structure is like a Kim Stanley Robinson novel where there's a group of characters but the real character is the birth of a post scarcity society, namely the one in Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.
I loved it because it answered the problem I had with anarchism: what happens when a psychopath decides to take your shit? The answer is--in a post scarcity society--you walk away. You can always make new shit, better shit, grander shit.
I don't want to get into spoilers, but there was one thing that always was bugging me about this premise. Like, what if X situation happens? Wouldn't you know it, X situation happens. He interrogates the premise to its logical conclusion.
I would kill to see this novel made into a decent TV series.