# Anthem

**Author:** Ayn Rand
**Lexile:** 880L
**Grade range:** Grades 8–12
**Age range:** 13–18
**First published:** 1938
**Page count:** 105
**Genre:** Dystopian Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780451191137`
**ISBN-10:** `0451191137`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/anthem
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

In a future collectivist society where the word "I" has been erased and people are known only by numbers, a young man called Equality 7-2521 rediscovers electricity, individual love, and ultimately the forbidden idea of the self. Ayn Rand's short 1938 dystopia is frequently assigned in grades 8-12 for studying individualism versus collectivism and as an accessible companion to longer dystopias.

## Themes

- individualism
- freedom
- identity
- collectivism
- power

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