I liked the book 1984 a lot, even even it was scary.
I agree, it is a dystopian novel by George Orwell. It freaked me out for many days.
Another book I liked by Orwell was Animal Farms, that was more like really depressing.
Animal Farm is an allegorical novel which is a bit different from 1984. I personally liked 1984 more.
Yes Animal farm was more about communism, 1984 a bout totalitarianism and Big Brother I think, but I read them a long time ago.
The common themes in both are things like awareness of social injustice and opposition to totalitarianism. These are important issues today. 
 With all the communication been monitored 1984 seem more relevant today than when it was written.
I agree, censorship and surveillance is a big issue nowadays than before. George Orwell seems to have predicted this decades ago.
Yes I guess the reason his books are classics now,  do you remember any other books written by him?
Four" (1949). His non-fiction works, including "The Road to Wigan Pier" (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the north of England, and "Homage to Catalonia" (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics and literature, language and culture. In 2008, "The Times" ranked George Orwell second among "The 50 greatest British
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic, whose work is characterised by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
As a writer, Orwell produced literary criticism and poetry, fiction and polemical journalism; and is best known for the allegorical novella "Animal Farm" (1945) and the dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-