1984

(contains some spoilers)
George Orwell is illustrating Winston Smith, the main character of 1984 as the last seed of hope. According to Wikipedia, George Orwell originally planned to name the book The Last Man in Europe but later changed the title.
Winston just might have been the'last man' in Europe. in this book, 'man' means
a person who hasn't yet lost their true conscience, their true-to-human human mind, and someone who overlooks the setups, evil doings, lies  and brainwashing that the Party create and overtake. Throughout the plot, the reader can have a thorough lookout on how Winston starts off hating the Party but in the process of finding someone with similar thoughts to him, getting betrayed by the people he trusted and getting his cover blown, you can see how the Party eliminates mindsets like his. You can see how minutely they plot his capture and watch his every move, facial expression and thought, and in the end captures him and puts him in the ministry of love. In the ministry of Love, he is  tortured and brainwashed. Through beating, starving and putting him through drastic pain, he confesses to crimes he did not commit, admits that 2+2=5, and is slowly brainwashed to the point that he is convinced that the Party will not stop for power. He is convinced that every document that he falsely corrected had never existed, he is convinced that the past belongs to whoever writes it, whoever has a hold of power.
The saddest thing in my personal opinion, is that he starts to think(as a result of the brainwashing) that the flashes of memories that he used to have, the ones he had about his mother and his little sister, where he took chocolate from his starving baby sister's hands, where he saw the last happy memory of the three of them, sitting in their small living room with a dusty board game in front of them, laughing as they slid down two squares and sometimes went up a square. When Winston convinced himself that these memories were nothing but hallucinations, it was like the last bit of hope , the last bits of the true past were gone. Those memories were swimming in the surface of his conscious mind, waiting to be pulled out and put into the light so they could help recover the world from lies and nothingness. When he was forced to pushed those memories down, it was like the last shred of hope had vanished and the world in the reign of Big Brother would last for ever.
At the end, Winston appears sitting in a cafe, as an alcoholic. It makes the reader wonder if there will ever be, and how there might ever be hope for the fictional world of Oceania.
In the end his joy for his own spontaneous love of big brother represents Winston's final destruction, his final breakdown that the ministry of love intended to accomplish. It is old Winston's last defeat and the new Winston's, and the Party's final victory.

Inventing Elliot

by Graham Gardner

Elliot's life wasn't always the way it was- before the incident, he was just a regular kid with regular friends living a normal life. But after what happened to his dad, his life had started to rapidly go downhill. Elliot and his mother were forced to live their lives as if nothing had happened while his father just sat on the couch staring at the TV screen. Every minute. Every day. Elliot constantly got bullied in school, and he felt he could not do anything about it. He made no effort. It felt as if he was living as an already-dead person.
That's when he moves to another town, transfers to Holminster High, and tries to start a new life. Things are different in Holminster high. A group called the'Guardians' rule over the school, and soon enough Elliot finds himself trapped in a position he doesn't know how to get out of. In his 'new' life, he tries to invent a new Elliot, as he tries to push the past Elliot away. But he knows that the old Elliot will always be a part of him, because that is who he was and what he would always be.
This book handles the biggest problem that exists and will exist in schools all over the world. Many kids suffer from the physical, verbal, and psychological violence that they are given in their everyday lives. Just like Elliot, they feel like they can do nothing about the problem. This book will help readers to understand that there is a solution to this undying problem, and that the problem can only be solved if one is brave enough to face the task. Also, readers will understand through this book... how much it hurts to be bullied. They can experience this through Elliot's eyes as he realizes that moving and transferring schools is not the real solution to the problem.

SPOILER ALERT
This book ends with Elliot turning the doorknob to the principal's office. Of course, this means he finally realized getting an adult's help, letting them know what's going on might just help solve the problem. Maybe he knew it all along, but he was just afraid to confront the fact, afraid to work up the courage to put the truth into action.

Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

Les Miserables is a must read classic. In this book there are a few rants on history by the author, but it is one of the greatest novels of all time.


If you find the book hard to understand, i recommend seeing the movie first, although the movie slightly alters some parts of the story.

Jean Valjean is a character you will find yourself looking up to. Even as a peasant and an ex- convict who continually has to run away from Inspector Javert, he manages to turn his life around and also find the new light of his life, and live in complete honesty and nobleness.
The book illustrates the poverty on the streets of Europe and criticizes the French political system at the time.  Victor Hugo manages to link many character's lives together in to one dazzling story. His tale of injustice, heroism and love will touch the heart of every reader and let them criticize the history and meaning behind this story.

Life of Pi

Yann Martel 
This story starts as an Indian father takes his family and his zoo on the deck of the Tsimtsum. One stormy night, the boats  sinks and our main character, the son of the indian father,Piscine Molitor Patel climbs- or, falls- aboard on a lifeboat with an orangutan, a hyena, a broken legged zebra and a bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
Life of Pi is about a boy and a tiger on their adventure on the wide pacific ocean. They face sharks, an acidic and carnivorous island, hunger, and everything that is thrown their way. 
Is this book worth reading? definitely. This is a must read, expanding the reader's imagination, with a slightly mysterious ending that the reader themselves must solve.
Is this book worth buying? I recommend just borrowing in a library.

-SPOILER-
Do not read if you have not read to the end of the book yet!

At the point where Pi and Richard Parker is stranded in the middle of the vast ocean, I started to think that it was amazing how the author could illustrate such a blank part of the story where only hunger and starvation was half of what was going on. The parts where nothing was actually going on except the main character's narration was fascinating because you could see inside the mind of someone who was struggling to survive in the middle of nowhere with a bengal tiger beneath him. 
The ending was a bit confusing, but at the end of the book, during the interview, Pi Patel says "So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?" I think we can agree that the story with animals was much more thrilling and adventurous. The author is asking the reader which ending they prefer, expanding their imagination and belief. Through this the author leaves the ending up to us, and we find the answer in how we see the world, and how we want to see it.
The way the author said'Tigers exist, lifeboats exist, oceans exist. Because the three have never come together in your narrow, limited experience, you refuse to believe that they might', I came to realize how narrow our imagination can come down to, only believing in what we see and can prove. Also it brought an urge for adventure and experience in
me and I am sure it can do the same to any other reader. 

Belly Up

Stuart Gibbs

       Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Fitzroy has discovered-or suspects- that the hippopotamus at  Fun Jungle has been not what most people think as just dead, but murdered. Who would want to murder a hippo who lives in the new zoo? He meets Summer McCraken, who is the daughter of the owner of Fun Jungle, and the two of them reveal the truth on what had really happened.

Belly Up
Stuart Gibbs

       Reccomended to people who like mysteries

The Throne of Fire

The Throne of Fire
Rick Riordan

Rick Riordan
   Carter and Sadie Kane has fought Set- that had tried to cause chaos and take over/destroy the world-  but now they must face the real and bigger threat: the Chaos Snake Apophis. He has been trapped in his cage for centuries but now he is close to breaking free of his prison. Carter and Sadie must stop him before it;s to late, before he is released and will cause the world's end. In order to battle and defeat him, they must bring back and restore the sun god, Ra. But that won't be an easy task, in other words, hard and almost impossible. What will happen to Carter and Sadie? Read.

The Red Pyramid

The Red Pyramid
Rick Riordan

Rick Riordan
   Carter and Sadie Kane are siblings. Their mom has died and they do not know where their father has dissapeared to, when they last saw him at the museum. They learn a secret about their family- they have blood of a pharaoh,  and that they are powerful magicians with magical powers.
   They discover that their dad has accidentally unleashed many gods at the day they were at the british museum, and one of them named Set would try to destroy/ take over the world. And the Kane siblings must stop that.