If Equality 7-2521’s secret journal, his stolen hours in the underground tunnel, and his defiance of the Council spoke to you, you’ll be riveted by the engineer D-503’s illicit diary in We. In the glass-walled OneState, citizens march in lockstep under the Benefactor until D-503’s encounter with the subversive I-330 fractures his obedient mind. As he helps build the starship Integral, he’s pushed toward the same dangerous word Equality claims—“I”—while facing a surgical “cure” meant to erase imagination. It’s the raw, proto-dystopia that maps eerily onto the Palace of Corrective Detention and the Scholars’ forbiddance in Anthem, but with its own bracing, poetic chill.

You enjoyed how Anthem asks whether comfort under the Councils is worth the price of the self, from Equality 7-2521’s lightning in a box to his flight into the Uncharted Forest. In Brave New World, Huxley pits Bernard Marx and John the Savage against a society that trades truth for stability—babies decanted in hatcheries, desires managed by soma, art and science deliberately blunted. Like Equality renaming himself Prometheus and rejecting the City’s creed, John insists on the “right to be unhappy,” forcing the same hard questions about what a human life should be.

If the moment Equality 7-2521 discovers the forbidden past—and the self—lit you up, Jonas’s apprenticeship to the Giver will hit the same nerve. In a placid Community that resembles the Councils’ City—strict assignments, suppressed emotion, tidy sameness—Jonas inherits memories of color, pain, music, and love. As Equality protects his glass box of light and chooses Liberty 5-3000, Jonas chooses a desperate escape to carry memory back to people who don’t know what they’ve lost. It’s that same intimate leap from “we” to “I,” rendered with spare force.

If you liked how Anthem stays close to Equality 7-2521—his tunnel, his capture at the Palace of Corrective Detention, his forest refuge—Never Let Me Go keeps you just as close to Kathy H. As she recalls Hailsham and her bonds with Ruth and Tommy, the awful design of their world emerges in small, personal revelations rather than grand exposé. Like Equality and the Golden One building a life beyond the City’s walls, Kathy’s private reckonings turn a vast dystopia into a tender, human-scale tragedy.

If Equality 7-2521 risking punishment to show his light to the Scholars—and then fleeing to keep knowledge alive—moved you, Guy Montag’s break from book-burning will, too. In Fahrenheit 451, Montag meets Clarisse, hides contraband books as Equality hid his invention, and seeks out Professor Faber and the river community to safeguard ideas. The choice to defy a culture that fears thought mirrors Prometheus and Gaea’s vow to rebuild a home of the mind, giving you that same bracing moral clarity.