A book that's known rather more for its reincarnation as a notorious movie adaptation than the debate it proposed about free will, there's Anthony Burgess' 'A Clockwork Orange', still tarred in the collective memory for its realistic depiction of effects of violence on mortal flesh and a supposed endorsement of a thuggish youth cult.
I'd recommend it for the skillful use of an invented street slang (nadsat) in telling a cautionary tale that examines on the state's use of aversion therapy to cure its street gang problems, and its implications for the right - and ability - of individuals to make their own decisions. In presenting his argument, Burgess manages to present the not unconsidered perspective of a bright, though apparently sociopathic (if not psychotic) fifteen-year-old gang member and his posse of droogs (whose fondest pursuit is of theft and "pretty polly", rape, and the unflinching administration of "ultra-violence" on even the most vulnerable) in a convincingly sympathetic light.
As the question that opens each of the book's three parts asks, "What's it to be then, eh?"
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