Shafak, Elif, The Bastard of Istanbul. Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein. Shields, Carol,
The Stone Diaries. Simpson, Joe, Touching the Void. Smith, Zadie, White Teeth.
KS 4 & 5 Reading List Austen, Jane, Pride & Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart Adams, Douglas, A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Half of a Yellow Sun; The Purple Hibiscus Adiga, Aravind, The White Tiger Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Asimov, any novel/short story Atwood, Margaret, Alias Grace, The Handmaid’s Tale Barker, Pat, Regeneration Bradbury, Ray, The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451 Bronte, Anne, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights Bryson, Bill, Small Island Camus, Albert, The Outsider Carter, Angela, The Bloody Chamber; Wise Children Carver, Raymond, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Chang, Jung, Wild Swans Charriere, Henri, Papillon Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians Collins, Wilkie, The Moonstone, The Woman in White Conan Doyle, Arthur, The Hound of the Baskervilles Cunningham, Michael, The Hours De Bernieres, Louis, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin De Botton, Alain, The Consolations of Philosophy De Cervantes, Miguel, Don Quixote Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles, Oliver Twist; Nicholas Nickelby; Great Expectations; Sketches by ‘Boz’ Du Maurier, Daphne, Rebecca Durell, Gerald, My Family and Other Animals Elliot, George, Middlemarch Ellroy, James, LA Confidential Eugenides, Jeffrey, The Virgin Suicides; Middlesex Faulks, Sebastian, Birdsong; A Week in December Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary Foer Saffran, Jonathan, Everything is Illuminated; Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Forsyth, Frederick, The Day of the Jackal Fowler, John, The French Lieutenant’s Woman Frazier, Charles, Cold Mountain Golden, Arthur, Memoirs of a Geisha Golding, William, The Lord of the Flies Gordimer, Nadine, July’s People Green, Graham, Brighton Rock Guterson, David, Snow Falling on Cedars Hardy, Thomas, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, Far From the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlett Letter Heller, Joseph, Catch 22 Hemingway, Ernest, A Farewell to Arms Herbert, Frank, Dune Hill Susan, The Woman in Black Hosseini, Khaled, The Kite Runner; A Thousand Splendid Suns Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World; Island; Eyeless in Gaza
Ishiguro, Kazuo, Never Let Me Go; The Remains of the Day James, Henry, Portrait of a Lady Kafka, Franz, The Metamorphosis Kafka, Franz, The Trial Kayson, Susanna, Girl, Interrupted Kerouac, Jack, On The Road Kesey, Ken, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Kidd, Sue Monk, The Secret Life of Bees Kingsolver, Barbara, The Poisonwood Bible Krakauer, Jon, Into Thin Air; Into the Wild Lawrence, D. H., Sons and Lovers Le Guin, Ursula K., The Left Hand of Darkness Lee, Harper, To Kill A Mockingbird Lessing, Doris, Memoirs of a Survivor; The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook Levy, Andrea, Small Island Lewycka, Maria, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Macarthy, Cormac, The Road Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude Martell, Yan, The Life of Pi Melville, Herman, Moby Dick Mc Ewan, Ian, Enduring Love, Atonement McCourt, Frank, Angela’s Ashes Mitchell, David, Cloud Atlas Morrison, Toni, Beloved; The Bluest Eye Munro, Alice, Runaway; Too Much Happiness Murakami, Haruki, Kafka on the Shore, After Dark Murdoch, Iris, The Sea, the Sea Nabokov, Vladimir, Pnin; Lolita Naipaul, V. S., A Bend in the River O’ Brien, The Things They Carried Ondaatje, Michael, The English Patient Orwell, George, 1984; A Homage to Catalonia; Down and Out in Paris and London; Burmese Days Perkins-Gilman, Charlotte, The Yellow Wallpaper
Piercy, Marge, Woman on the Edge of Time Plath, Sylvia, The Bell Jar Poe, Edgar Allen, short stories Pratchett, Terry, The Discworld Series Rankin, Ian, Knots and Crosses Remarque, Erich, Maria, All Quiet on the Western Front Rice, Anne, Interview With the Vampire Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance Roth, Phillip, American Pastoral, Everyman Rhys, Jean, The Wide Sargasso Sea (read after Bronte’s Jean Eyre) Salinger, J. D., The Catcher in the Rye Sassoon, Siegfried, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer Shafak, Elif, The Bastard of Istanbul Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein Shields, Carol, The Stone Diaries Simpson, Joe, Touching the Void Smith, Zadie, White Teeth Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Stevenson, Robert Louis, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stoker, Bram, Dracula Styron, William, Sophie’s Choice; The Confessions of Nat Turner Swift, Graham, Waterland Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver’s Travels Tan, Amy, A Fine Balance Tolkien, J. R. R. , The Lord of the Rings Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace; Anna Karenina Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Yates, Richard, Revolutionary Road Walker, Alice, The Colour Purple Waugh, Evelyn, A Handful of Dust Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Vindication of the Rights of Women Wells, H. G., The War of the Worlds Wilde, Oscar, The Picture of Dorian Gray Winterson, Jeanette, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit Wolf, Tobias, This Boy’s Life
Poetry
Drama
Armitage, Simon, The Book of Matches; Seeing Starts; Black Roses; The Killing of Sophie Lancaster Auden, W. H. , Collected Poems Duffy, Carol Ann, The World’s Wife Elliot, T.S. The Wasteland Frost, Robert, North Boston Hardy, Thomas, Wessex Poems Larkin, Philip, The Less Deceived; The Whitsun Weddings; High Windows Mew, Charlotte, Selected Poems Nichols, Grace, I Is a Long Memoried Woman Plath, Sylvia, Ariel Hughes, Ted, Birthday Letters Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass
Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot Brecht, Bertolt, The Caucasian Chalk Circle Chekov, Anton, Uncle Vanya Hansberry, Lorraine, A Raisin in the Sun Lonesco, Eugene, The Bald Prima Donna McDonagh, Martin, The Lieutenant of Innismore Miller, Arthur, The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons Nichols, Peter, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Penhall, Joe, Blue Orange Pinter, Harold,The Dumb Waiter Samuels, Diane, Kindertransport Shaw, George, Bernard, Pygmalion Sophocles, Antigone Thomas, Dylan, Under Milk Wood Wertenbaker, Timberlake, Our Country’s Good Williams, Tennessee, A Streetcar Named Desire; The Glass Menagerie
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