Julia

When I was reading 1984 in middle school, I never really considered what the story would look like from another character's perspective. Julia is a captivating shift of perspective on the classic, and the first half of this novel brilliantly acts as exposition to a side of the Orwellian world that was sorely missing. The second half languishes a little, and the ending doesn't quite land the way that Orwell's does, but I was glad to have had this glimpse into a different side of a story that is part of the modern canon.