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1984 has become timeless and perpetually relevant. I'd also recommend Animal Farm if you haven't read it already. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (one of my favorite 20th-century science fiction authors) is also a great read that lives in a similar vein.
Don't forget a Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
I haven't read that one yet, but I bought it for my Kobo yesterday.
It's good, a far more likely scenario than 1984. They use something other than terror to keep everyone in line. Definitely worth the read.
Breve New World is probably the most overrated Huxley book. Island is a much better summation of Huxley’s final perspective, and it is about as far from Brave New World as you can get. That said, I think BNW is still a good book, but it shouldn’t be seen as Huxley’s greatest work, nor did he see it as such.
I'll have to read it than, I've only read a Brave New World.