Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Tim Robbins may be famous, but his audiobook narration is not the easiest to follow. In this classic story, Guy Montag is a fireman. With everything fireproof, the job of the fireman is to burn books rather than put out fires. They have even rewritten history to say that historical figures, like Ben Franklin, were similar firemen.
On one trip, the fireman encounter a person that wants to stay with their books. Montag also ends up with a book of his own. He is traumatized by the experience, and becomes attached to books. He later seeks others that like books and joins the underground. In the process he frames others and becomes sentimental towards books and knowledge. The fireman concept seems a little far-fetched, but it does play into the preachy nostalgia of the book.
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