George Orwell's 1984

I've read this book wanting to fully understand the concept "Orwellian". I was always able to conceputualize the idea of "Big Brother" but never really full understood.

This book certainly fufilled that quest for knowledge, and masterfully described a dystopian outome potentially arising from a outbreak of fascism. A perfect example of storytellying using a relatively plausible future arising from the Nazi regime and the rise 20th century authoritarianism.

Simultaneously holds up as a totalitarian dystopia (better than Brave New World, a fitting comparison in some cringe ways), and so entrenched in our cultural understanding that it falls flat today. In line with Orwell's other writing, the focus is on the pressure on people in the upper class to revise their own memory and to brazenly rewrite history as a matter of policy.