Animal Farm by George Orwell (A book I didn't read in High School) 

This was one of my all time favourite novels. Read it once a month for a whole year when I was 16. Read it again recently, and while I prefer it to 1984, I recognise that there are better books.

If you haven’t read “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin you should. Orwell was a better essayist than fiction writer.

Animal Farm got me an A in AP English!!