English - S4_5_6 Reading Lists

S4/5/6 Reading Lists

Novels
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Master and Magarita by Mikhail Bulghakov The Outsider by Albert Camus Heart of Darkness The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad A Tale of Two Cities David Copperfield Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky White Noise by Don DeLillo	Silas Marner by George Eliot Lord of the Flies by William Golding For Whom the Bell Tolls Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway Brave New World by Aldous Huxley On the Road by Jack Kerouac Beloved Jazz by Toni Morrison Homage to Catalonia The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell Vineland by Thomas Pynchon Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Slaughter House 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Short Stories These come in collections and therefore these are recommended by writer or genre:
Writer: Raymond Craver Roald Dahl Maupassant Dorothy Parker Edgar Alan Poe Somerset Maugham	Genre: Ghost stories Adventure The Uncanny/Gothic
Plays It is preferable that students see the plays mentioned – or others – as we emphasise the text is for dramatic interpretation.
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett The Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo Knives in Hens by David Harrower Mary Queen of Scots got her Head Chopped off by Liz Lochhead The Crucible A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller Look Back in Anger by John Osborne Romeo and Juliet The Tempest Macbeth by William Shakespeare Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Autobiography
The Diary of Ann Frank If This is a Man by Primo Levi Malcolm X Boy by Roald Dahl
Travel Writing
The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl.
Poetry Poetry is usually published in either individual volumes or anthologies. A good anthology should be the starting point and as preferences are discovered these can be pursued.
A selection of poets: W.H. Auden Elizabeth Barrett-Browning John Betjamin Robert Browning Thomas Hardy John Hegely Ted Hughes	Rudyard Kipling Philip Larkin Louis MacNeice Wilfred Owen Christina Rossetti Siegfried Sassoon Alfred Lord Tennyson Derek Walcott W.B. Yeats and many others…

The above is only a guide to what should be read. It is in no way comprehensive, but tries to give students a flavour of the range of material that should be read. Most of the recommendations are from either the 19^th or 20^th century, but if you require guidance on writers from other times then do not hesitate to ask.