One of my favourite dystopian novels, which I believe every student should read, is George Orwell’s 1984. Even he might be surprised how accurate his fictional cautionary tale turned out to be. Earlier this year, Alberta banned more than 150 books from school shelves, including two popular dystopian novels: Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale and George Orwell’s 1984. Because as Orwell says, “Who controls the past controls the future. Please, please, please read dystopian novels.