I always find this difficult, but here goes:
One Flew Over The Cookoos Nest
This tells the story of a group of patients in a psychiatric ward ruled over in tyranny by a brutal head nurse. The plot is concerned with the arrival of a new patient on the ward who may or may not be insane and his valiant, tragic battle against the opressive regime on the ward. totally brilliant novel.
1984
Owells classic, darkly futuristic attack on opression and the death of civil liberty. Everyone should read this book- it's easily one of the most powerful, utterly terrifying novels ever written, yet also odly beutiful.
Of Mice and Men
This is, in my oppinion,the greatest novels ever on the subject of friendship. Set in depression era California, George is a landless labourer moving from ranch to ranch with his mentally retarded companion. Together they chase the almost impossible American Dream of buying a small farm together and escaping the hard and abusive lives they lead. A true classic. Beutiful, tragic, melancholy and utterly, utterly brilliant.