Anthem (version 3)

In a future so dark even the word "I" has been abolished, one man discovers the most dangerous concept in human history: the self. Equality 7-2521 has been raised to believe that collectivism is strength and individuality is sin. He works as a street sweeper, forbidden to excel, forbidden to think forbidden thoughts. But he has found something: an ancient word, scratched into the ruins of the old world, and with it, the unbearable, glorious truth that he is not "we" - he is "I." When his secret is discovered, when the council sentences him to death for the crime of thinking, he must run. Not just from his executioners, but from everything he was taught to believe. Rand's compact dystopian fable, written after her escape from Soviet Russia, functions as both a terrifying warning and a passionate defence of individual consciousness. It is the story of one man's rebirth - and the most radical act of selfhood in all of fiction. For anyone who has ever felt the tension between who they are told to be and who they truly are.