A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Ishmael flees his village in Sierra Leone after Rebel forces attack. He witnesses first hand the cost of war and eventually partakes in the violence as a boy soldier.



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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

A futuristic society is controlled with the use of propaganda through sleep-learning and reproductive technology.

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Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

Siddhartha, a Brahmin, leaves home to seek his own path to enlightenment.

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Anthem by Ayn Rand

Equality 7-2521 lives in a future society where individualism is nonexistent and only that which is beneficial to the collective brotherhood is encouraged.  Equality 7-2521 stumbles upon a subway tunnel from the Unmentionable Times and discovers "the power of the sky." This discovery is viewed as a hindrance to their society's carefully balanced equilibrium.

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Reader's note: While I do not support the personal philosophies of Ayn Rand, I do applaud her vision created in "Anthem." The stressing of both the importance of individuality and the negative effects which accompany a totalitarian government are applauded.