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Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit
451
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse
Five, Cat’s Cradle, Player Piano
George Orwell 1984
Philip K Dick The Man
in the High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? A Scanner Darkly, We
Can Remember It For You Wholesale
Cormac McCarthy The
Road
Kazuo Ishiguro Never
Let Me Go, The Remains of the Day, When We Were Orphans
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
John Wyndham Chocky,
The Day of the Triffids
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
Neil Gaiman American Gods
Isaac Asimov I, Robot
H G Wells The Time
Machine, The Invisible Man
Anthony Burgess A
Clockwork Orange
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
James Joyce Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist As A
Young Man
C. Achebe Things Fall
Apart
Richard Adams Watership
Down, The Plague Dogs
Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim
Louis de Bernieres
anything
Charlotte Bronte Jane
Eyre
Emily Bronte Wuthering
Heights
Angela Carter The
Passion of New Eve
Wilkie Collins anything
Joseph Conrad The Heart
of Darkness, the Secret Agent
Charles Dickens anything
George Elliot anything
William Faulkner As I
Lay Dying
Sebastian Faulks Birdsong
F. Scott Fitzgerald The
Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night
E.M. Forster anything
John Fowles The French
Lieutenant’s Woman, The Collector
Mrs Gaskell North and
South, Wives and Daughters
William Golding The
Lord of the Flies
Robert Graves I
Claudius, Claudius the God, Goodbye to all that
Graham Greene anything
Thomas Hardy anything
Joseph Heller Catch-22
Ernest Hemingway For
Whom the Bell Tolls, Farewell to Arms
Ken Kesey One Flew Over
the Cuckoo’s Nest
D.H. Lawrence anything
John Le Carre anything
Harper Lee To Kill a
Mockingbird
Toni Morrison Beloved
B. Pasternak Dr Zhivago
Sylvia Plath The Bell
Jar
J.D. Salinger Catcher
in the Rye
Alan Sillitoe Saturday
Night and Sunday Morning, The Loneliness of
the Long Distance Runner
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – A
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Gulag Archipelago, Cancer Ward
John Steinbeck anything
Bram Stoker Dracula
Patrick Suskind Perfume
William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair
Alice Walker The Color
Purple
Evelyn Waugh anything
Oscar Wilde The Picture
of Dorian Gray
P.G. Wodehouse anything
Virginia
Woolf Mrs Dalloway, To The Lighthouse
Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Sign
of Four
Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Jane Austen Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and
Sensibility, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey
Anne Bronte The Tenant
of Wildfell Hall
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime
and Punishment
Edgar Allen Poe Tales of Mystery and Imagination, The Raven
Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver’s
Travels
