Read The Dispossessed

An envoy on a planet where people have no fixed sex; Le Guin's thought experiment.

A city whose happiness depends on one child kept in a cellar, and the few citizens who leave rather than accept the terms.

Experience the dystopian classic by George Orwell

Ged learns the true names of things and hunts his own shadow; the Earthsea cycle begins.

The pigs take over the farm; all animals are equal, but some more than others.

Solzhenitsyn's literary investigation of the camps from 227 witnesses; the abridged edition is enough.

Socrates on justice, the philosopher-king and the cave; the book Western philosophy replies to.

Machiavelli's advice to a ruler: better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.