Reading List

Recommended Titles

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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