3.99 avg rating — 2,078,082 ratings

"Closest to the current plague of mindless mass media mediocrity and the undercurrent anxiety of genetic manipulation, it is dystopia on the doorstep, yet a tenderness remains decades after reading."

3.85 avg rating — 854,848 ratings

"Heart and soul and wrenchingly sad, made more piercing because of the beautiful innocence of the characters as children growing to realisation and acceptance."

4.20 avg rating — 5,465,220 ratings

"The definitive dystopian novel, it is a supremely thoughtful, logical, heartless, disheartening definition of the greyness of life extrapolated from the obscenities of Stalin's brutal Totalitarian Soviet Russia and bestial Nazi Germany, and a warning of a future where the domination of State - with particular reference to the Old Labour Party of GB - subsumes all the soul of humanity in its psychosis for power, power, and nothing but the eternal prolongation of power."

4.02 avg rating — 4,554,703 ratings

"The only novel that has left me truly angry."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 769,927 ratings

"The shocking violence of this world where criminality is a streetwise thing, it is memorable for its Nadzat, Beethoven and gang uniforms. But it does draw significantly on Orwell's 1984."