I highly recommend 'We' by Yevgeny Zamyatin. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)</a>
This is just a placeholder for those who haven't had a chance to read the book recently - I know lots of us are too busy with code or design to read as much as we would like.