Books Hall of Fame

Basically all the books that got a 5/5 on my all book list

1. The Giver - Lois Lowry

=> first ever book that got me into reading the classic novels (first read in year 8)
=> good introduction to the more utopia/dystopia novels
=> makes you think deeply about the importance of colour and emotion

2. 1984 - George Orwell

=> personal favourite book of all time
=> newspeak (importance of language) and the concept of freedom being slavery
=> control by fear and power (in contrast to Brave New World)

3. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

=> everyone has their own Personal Legends and the world will conspire to help you
=> makes you want to think about your own Personal Legends

4. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

=> the concept of utopia as a "good place that does not exist"
=> most probable dystopian society that could occur in modern society

5. The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock - TS. Eliot

=> my favourite poem (probably biased because its the poem that i analysed the most)
=> presents the modernistic view of society - "pool that stands and drains"

6. Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

=> a story of a spiteful man... challenges the fundamental needs of utopia
=> give a man the ultimate utopia and they will ruin it just to see something unexpected

7. 12 Rules For Life - Jordan B Peterson

=> the only non-fiction book on this list
=> provides principles to which you can translate into action