4.20 avg rating — 5,529,614 ratings

"Orwell's classic about the totalitarian state that gave us "Big Brother" and other "orwellian" vocabulary."

4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings

"A government credit card replaces cash. 1984 meets Brave New World in today's Cyberage. "

3.98 avg rating — 2,093,673 ratings

"Huxley's question: Is freedom worth trading in for wealth, security and personal pleasure?"

3.63 avg rating — 188 ratings

"You've seen the movie, now read the book! Then look at the news with renewed vigilance."

3.97 avg rating — 2,870,369 ratings

"Government censorship by book burning in this 1953 classic."

3.94 avg rating — 400,862 ratings

"An innocent man is accused by a secretive government in this classic psychological tale that prefigures the Patriot Act and Total Information Awareness."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 774,858 ratings

"Authoritarianism vs. free will, even for an immoral individual?"

3.81 avg rating — 24,965 ratings

"Another classic- from 1935-that reads eerily like a post-9/11 novel, complete with government interference with the press and disregard for privacy rights."

4.15 avg rating — 2,454,314 ratings

"Democracy and women's rights are not necessarily eternal."

3.99 avg rating — 890,535 ratings

"The bureaucratic rule: damned if you do, damned if you don't."

3.62 avg rating — 256 ratings

"Suspense drives the reader on as the dangers increase until... No, I won’t spoil it for you! But once begun, it’s hard to put down, close, turn off, or whatever you do to read now!"