Animal Farm-(and other recommended reading)

[Cheeto717]

I just read Animal Farm by George Orwell and thought it was an awesome book. I love reading and wondered if you guys had any other books you thought were awesome and would recommend to me.

 

[Bible_Belt]

http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/1/

http://www.huxley.net/bnw/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Monkey_House

 

[piranha45]

hunchback of notre dame

 

[BacardiGuy]

If you're into the whole utopian/dystopian literature thing you'll probably like these:
Brave New World
1984
The Giver
Fahrenheit 451

 

[diplomatic_lies]

Brave New World is really good.

1984's become a bit of a cliche now, but its still interesting, especially with today's current events.

 

[Centaurion]

You should look into russian writers. 'War and Peace is the best novel I've ever read.

Epic historical novel by Leo Tolstoy, originally published as Voyna i mir in 1865-69. This panoramic study of early 19th-century Russian society, noted for its mastery of realistic detail and variety of psychological analysis, is generally regarded as one of the world's greatest novels. War and Peace is primarily concerned with the histories of five aristocratic families--particularly the Bezukhovs, the Bolkonskys, and the Rostovs--the members of which are portrayed against a vivid background of Russian social life during the war against Napoleon (1805-14). The theme of war, however, is subordinate to the story of family existence, which involves Tolstoy's optimistic belief in the life-asserting pattern of human existence. The heroine, Natasha Rostova, for example, reaches her greatest fulfillment through her marriage to Pierre Bezukhov and her motherhood. The novel also sets forth a theory of history, concluding that there is a minimum of free choice; all is ruled by an inexorable historical determinism

in addition it shows how everything goes tits up because of a woman!

 

[Jariel]

1984 is a must!!

I also recommend "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell. It's just a short essay, but had a profound change on my way of thinking.