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1984
"1984," published by George Orwell in 1949, depicts a totalitarian superstate that surveils and controls its citizens' thoughts through pervasive propaganda, constant surveillance, and the deliberate manipulation of language and historical record. The novel introduced numerous terms and concepts that entered everyday English usage far beyond literary discussion, including "Big Brother," "doublethink," "thoughtcrime," and "Orwellian" itself, giving it a rare linguistic influence matched by very few other novels in history. Orwell wrote the novel while seriously ill with tuberculosis in the final years of his life, drawing on his experiences with wartime propaganda and his opposition to totalitarian movements across the political spectrum, and the book has seen recurring surges in sales during periods of political anxiety about government surveillance and misinformation. 1984's combination of its lasting linguistic influence and its recurring relevance during moments of political anxiety has made it one of the most culturally significant novels of the 20th century.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
"To Kill a Mockingbird," published by Harper Lee in 1960, follows young Scout Finch in Depression-era Alabama as her father, lawyer Atticus Finch, defends a Black man falsely accused of rape, and it became one of the most widely read and taught novels in American schools. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961, and its unflinching treatment of racial injustice in the segregated South, filtered through a child narrator's perspective, gave it a moral clarity that made it a staple of American secondary-school curricula for generations afterward. Harper Lee published almost nothing else for over half a century, and the eventual 2015 release of "Go Set a Watchman," an earlier draft featuring an older Scout and a markedly different portrayal of Atticus, reignited public debate about the original novel's characters and Lee's own literary legacy. To Kill a Mockingbird's combination of its Pulitzer-winning moral seriousness and its decades-long status as a defining fixture of American classroom reading has made it one of the most significant novels in American literary history.
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