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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. (Laura Hillenbrand)
A novel inspired by real biography of Louis Zamperini
Genre: Biography
Plot:
A former Olympic star survived a plane crash in the Pacific Theater and spent forty seven days drifting on a raft. Then survived more than two and a half years as a prisoner of war in three Japanese camps.

Nineteen Eighty Four (George Orwell)
Genre: A dystopian social science fiction novel
Plot:
The story takes place in an imagined future. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a totalitarian superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The newspaper editor Winston Smith, is a persistent and skillful worker and Outer Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters into a forbidden relationship with a colleague, Julia, and starts to remember what life was like before the Party came to power.