Summer Reading 2019: 12th AP English

Depicts life in a totalitarian regime in the year of 1984. Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the Party that controls all human thought and action.

Aldous Huxley's tour de force is a satiric vision of a "utopian" future- where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this days as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertainment.