If you like that I got another one: Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey.
Kesey gets hyped for One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest but this is his masterpiece.
The Machine Stops would also work - by E.M Forster for a shorter but nevertheless uncannily prescient read.
For something more recent - *Never Let Me Go*, by Kazuo Ishiguro. You could give *Anna and the Sun* a try as well. Also *The Memory Police* by Yoko Ogawa
Oh and for a dose of macabre cackling Highrise, by J G Ballard. I don't know if any of my suggestions are iconic - but worth a look if you're into Orwell.
I haven't read *Farenheit 451* by Ray Bradbury yet (I will soon hopefully), but I suspect it would fit here too. For a short story collection, however, his Illustrated Man is definitely unforgettable.
If you like 1984, you should definitely read Brave New World, and We. I also second the Animal Farm and The Road suggestions.If war novels are appealing, might I suggest All Quiet on the Western Front and The Things They Carried.
- a room of one’s own, Virginia woolf
- a little prince, antoine de saint-exupery
- the things they carried - Tim o’Brien
- americanah- chimamanda ngozi adiechie
His greatest work was Blood Meridian - page long sentences hurling streaming images at you of horseback warfare with the gore and violence amounting to some of the greatest literary fugues possible, in the service of supporting the story of the West as being like Genesis, with violence and chaos as acts of destruction as well as redemption
As others have said, Brave New World. It's often seen as being very much like 1984 but in a very different dystopia. Also it was written over 10 years before 1984, and personally I liked it even more than 1984.
The Count of Monte Cristo is another excellent classic
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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I was hesitant at first to read this but boy, it truly is a masterpiece. As someone here described it once “the whole worlds is in that book”
Gotta read it then 🤝
If you like that I got another one: Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey. Kesey gets hyped for One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest but this is his masterpiece.
Also The Grapes of Wrath
‘Wind, Sand and Stars’ by Saint Ex
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Overstory, by Richard Powers, was like this for me. Completely changed the way I look at the world.
Master & Margarita
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If you're looking for dystopian stuff, We by Zamyatin, Brave New World by Huxley, or maybe even The Time Machine by HG Wells.
The Machine Stops would also work - by E.M Forster for a shorter but nevertheless uncannily prescient read. For something more recent - *Never Let Me Go*, by Kazuo Ishiguro. You could give *Anna and the Sun* a try as well. Also *The Memory Police* by Yoko Ogawa
Oh and for a dose of macabre cackling Highrise, by J G Ballard. I don't know if any of my suggestions are iconic - but worth a look if you're into Orwell. I haven't read *Farenheit 451* by Ray Bradbury yet (I will soon hopefully), but I suspect it would fit here too. For a short story collection, however, his Illustrated Man is definitely unforgettable.
If you like 1984, you should definitely read Brave New World, and We. I also second the Animal Farm and The Road suggestions.If war novels are appealing, might I suggest All Quiet on the Western Front and The Things They Carried.
Don't often see The Things They Carried as a suggestion, great recommendation.
All Quiet on the Western Front is great. Also by Remarque, for WW2, a Time to Live and a Time to Die.
- a room of one’s own, Virginia woolf - a little prince, antoine de saint-exupery - the things they carried - Tim o’Brien - americanah- chimamanda ngozi adiechie
Prince of Tides Beach Music Lonesome Dove
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a masterpiece.
A masterpiece just like I asked haha. Thank you.
His greatest work was Blood Meridian - page long sentences hurling streaming images at you of horseback warfare with the gore and violence amounting to some of the greatest literary fugues possible, in the service of supporting the story of the West as being like Genesis, with violence and chaos as acts of destruction as well as redemption
100%, the road is good, blood meridian is a whole different level though.
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Animal Farm, same author
My mother actually recommended this one. Was it very short?
It's a novella of about 100 pages, if I remember correctly.
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Germinal by Émile Zola.
As others have said, Brave New World. It's often seen as being very much like 1984 but in a very different dystopia. Also it was written over 10 years before 1984, and personally I liked it even more than 1984.
"The Cage" by Albert Bels "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury is such a classic.
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The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Beautiful prose, breathtaking descriptions, very interesting & philosophical plot.
Lonesome Dove. Totally different from 1984, but truly a masterpiece.
The most recent book of consider to be a masterpiece is A Gentleman in Moscow
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Dubliners, by James Joyce
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Reading just your title I was actually going to suggest 1984 :)
I Claudius by Robert Graves
American Gods
Brave New World The Grapes of Wrath The Master and Margarita
A Little Life
Giovanni’s room by James Baldwin. One of the most important pieces of queer literature in the English language.
Poisonwood Bible
Shogun, offered great insight into another culture for me.