Fahrenheit 451

The terrifyingly prophetic novel of a post-literate future... Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the source of all discord and unhappiness, the printed book. Montag never questions the destruction or his own bland life, until he is shown a past where people didn't live in fear and a present where one sees the world through ideas. Montag starts hiding books in his home.
Soon they'll make him run for his life.