One of JG Ballards best novels is High-Rise, a sort of Lord of the Flies in an apartment tower. It's a lovely skewering of the social mores of proper English people, as well as a musing on the thin veneer of polite society. Only tangentially related, but it's a good read. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70256.High_Rise
Ballard is awesome, though most of his real gold is in his short stories (a rare writer who really got into the format rather than treated it as a side line). A lot of interesting "ideas" related to science and society get explored, such as overpopulation, the psychology of insomnia, medical experiments, etc.
