The best George Orwell books
The top 3 according to 4 votes from people: Nineteen Eighty-Four · Animal Farm · The Road to Wigan Pier. (Updated Jun 5, 2021.)
Beyond 1984 and Animal Farm: Orwell's reportage, essays and early novels, ranked by readers' votes and critics' picks.
Top 12
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1
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949. Big Brother, Newspeak and the dystopia everyone quotes.
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2
Animal Farm
1945. The fable of the pigs who end up like their masters.
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The Road to Wigan Pier
1937. Life among northern England's miners.
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Shooting an Elephant
1936. The essay about the empire and a crowd's pressure.
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Homage to Catalonia
1938. His time in the Spanish Civil War with the POUM militia.
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6
Down and Out in Paris and London
1933. Poverty from the inside, washing dishes and tramping.
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7
Burmese Days
1934. A novel drawn from his years as a colonial policeman.
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Coming Up for Air
1939. A middle-aged man returns to the village of his childhood.
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9
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1936. A poet at war with money.
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10
A Clergyman's Daughter
1935. A woman who loses her memory and her place in the world.
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11
Politics and the English Language
1946. The classic essay against vague, dishonest prose.
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12
Why I Write
1946. His four motives for writing.
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