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1984

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist

DystopianSci-fiPolitical

Government / national · 1959

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Animal Farm

George Orwell

Animal Farm is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is

SatirePolitical fictionPolitical

Government / national · 1959

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Before Night Falls

Reinaldo Arenas

MemoirNon-fictionLGBTQ+Political

Government / national · 1992

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El Monte

Lydia Cabrera

Non-fictionPolitical

Government / national · 1960 · lifted

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Fuera del juego

Heberto Padilla

Literary fictionPolitical

Government / national · 1968 · lifted

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Las palabras perdidas

Jesús Díaz

Literary fictionPolitical

Government / national · 1993 · lifted

Out of the Game

Out of the Game

Heberto Padilla

poetryPolitical

Government / national · 1968 · lifted

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The Palace of the White Skunks

Reinaldo Arenas

Literary fictionLGBTQ+Political

Government / national · 1972

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Three Trapped Tigers

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Literary fictionPoliticalOther

Government / national · 1968 · lifted