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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro is one of my absolute favourite books. It presents a wonderful portrait of a man evaluating his past, present and future, all of which is told with a startlingly convincing narrative. I was recommended it by an English teacher in college, and it remains one of my favourites.
This is another of my favorites, and one that I think is seriously overlooked time and time again. I especially liked the questions concerning loyalty, personal accountability, and missed opportunities that Stevens has to face. Basically I'm a big sadsack and I like sadsack things.
It's the ending that always gets me. (SPOILER)When he finds out that unfortunately he has missed his chance with Mrs. Kenton which feels quite crushing even to the reader. Yet then at the end he has a chat with that man and discuss how the evening is the best time of day, which gives you hope that he might be able to live the (I was going to say the remains of his days but that's far too corny!) rest of his life for himself, and not for other people.

I found Brave New World to be depressing in a different way. I found it to have a bigger effect on me emotionally than Nineteen Eighty-Four. Both classics of their genre though.