Best book to compare to 1984?

[CanadaBoy]

Theme wise, I need to read 1984 and another book so that I can compare there simalarities in an essay

Thanks :D

[JBI]

Brave New World by Aldus Huxley. These two are usually paired together.

[bluevictim]

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is another obvious comparison.

[The Atheist]

And the handiest of all, Animal Farm

[CanadaBoy]

Thanks alot for the books,

I have googled them and I found something interesting on "We":

George Orwell began Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) some eight months after he read We in a French translation and wrote a review of it.[8] Orwell is reported as "saying that he was taking it as the model for his next novel."[9] Brown writes that for Orwell and certain others, We "appears to have been the crucial literary experience."[10] Shane states that "…Zamjatin's influence on Orwell is beyond dispute…".[11]Russell, in an overview of the criticism of We, concludes that "1984 shares so many features with We that there can be no doubt about its general debt to it", however there is a minority of critics who view the similarities between We and 1984 as "entirely superficial". Further, Russell finds "that Orwell's novel is both bleaker and more topical than Zamyatin's, lacking entirely that ironic humour that pervades the Russian work."[12]

[ole32]

Fahreheit 451