Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 — the temperature at which paper ignites and burns. Bradbury's philosophical dystopia paints a bleak picture of the development of a post-industrial society: it is a future world where all written publications are ruthlessly destroyed by a special firemen squad, and the storage of books is prosecuted by law, interactive television successfully serves universal dumbing down, punitive psychiatry decisively deals with the rare dissenters, and an electric dog goes hunting for incorrigible dissidents...

A novel that brought its creator worldwide fame.