Animal Farm
British novelist, 1903–1950.
Animal Farm is a 1945 novella by George Orwell.
In comic novels and satire, dystopian
On 5 of the 16 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- George Orwell
- First published
- 1945
- Length
- 144 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Comic novels and satire, Fable, Political, Dystopian
Is Animal Farm worth reading?
5 of the 16 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library) and The Big Read top 100 (BBC).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library, 1998) | No. 31 | See the list |
| All-Time 100 Novels (Time, 2005) | Listed | See the list |
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 93 | See the list |
| The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture, 2015) | No. 62 | See the list |
| The Big Read top 100 (BBC, 2003) | No. 46 | See the list |
Best edition of Animal Farm
The edition we link to is the William Collins paperback (2025), 144 pages.
- Publisher
- William Collins (paperback, 2025)
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN
- 9780008322052
How critics and readers rate Animal Farm
Readers rate it most highly: it earned 34% of the points available on readers' and booksellers' lists, against 27% on critics' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Animal Farm
If you liked Animal Farm, try Nineteen Eighty-Four, Lord of the Flies or Brave New World.
