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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Publisher: Signet Classics | Format: Paperback | Page Count: 328
O'Brien is the rare villain who hands the hero a book - Goldstein's The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism - and the trap is the reading itself. The forbidden text turns out to be partly authored by the regime that forbids it. Orwell's insight is the bleakest on this list: the bookshelf can be a controlled space, and the thrill of subversive reading can be manufactured by the people you think you are subverting.
