The official requirement for literature schoolexams is 6 books to be read by each student. Two will have been
discussed in class. For the other four books you have the booklist below to choose from.
You can choose freely from the categories Pre 1940 classics and Contemporary classics, but choice from
Popular classics and Non-fiction is limited to 1 title in total only. The non-fiction section is rather small, but
you can come up with other titles yourself, but you must always ask your teacher’s permission before putting a
book on your reading list!
Pre 1940 classics
Jane Austen
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Lewis Carroll
Daniel Defoe
Charles Dickens
Thomas Hardy
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
James Joyce
D.H. Lawrence:
Herman Melville
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
William Shakespeare
Jonathan Swift
Oscar Wilde
Sense And Sensibility
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Alice In Wonderland
Robinson Crusoe
all books, but no Christmas Carol!
Tess Of The d’urbervilles
The Scarlet Letter
The Sun Also Rises
A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
Women In Love
Billy Budd
The Great Gatsby
all titles, including the sonnets
Gulliver's Travels
The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Contemporary classics
Margaret Atwood
Ray Bradbury
J. Briley
Anthony Burgess
Truman Capote
Brett Easton Ellis
Ian Mcewan:
Michael Faber
Sebastian Faulks
John Fowles:
William Golding:
Mark Haddon
Joseph Heller
Khaled Hosseini
Aldous Huxley
Tama Janowitz
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey:
Jerzy Kosinski
Doris Lessing:
Yann Martell
Arthur Miller
Brian Moore
Toni Morrison
Vladimir Nabokov
Michael Ondaatje
George Orwell
Sylvia Plath
Philip Roth
The Handmaid's Tale
Farenheit 451
Cry Freedom
A Clockwork Orange
In Cold Blood
American Psycho
Atonement
The Crimson Petal And The White
Birdsong
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Lord Of The Flies
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time
Catch 22
The Kite Runner
Brave New World
Slaves Of New York
On The Road
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Painted Bird
The Grass Is Singing
Life Of Pi
Death Of A Salesman
Lies of Silence
Beloved
Lolita
The English Patient
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Bell Jar
Portnoy's Complaint
J.D. Salinger:
G.B. Shaw
Donna Tartt
J.R.R. Tolkien:
William Trevor
Kurt Vonnegut
Alice Walker
Tennessee Williams
Jeanette Winterson
Several authors
The Catcher In The Rye
Pygmalion
The Secret History
The Lord Of The Rings (Trilogy)
Fools Of Fortune
Slaughterhouse Five
The Color Purple
A Streetcar Named Desire
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
War poetry
Popular literature
Douglas Adams
Richard Adams
Anonymous
Maya Angelou
John Boyne
Dan Brown
Roald Dahl
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ben Elton
Helen Fielding
Janet Fitch
John Grisham
Susan Hill
Douglas Kennedy
Stephen King
Rudyard Kipling
Jerzy Kosinski
Ira Levin
C.S. Lewis
Lois Lowry
George Orwell
Jodi Picoult
Philip Pullman
John Steinbeck:
Frank McCourt
Stephenie Meyer
Sue Monk Kidd
J.K. Rowling
Morton Rhue
Nicholas Sparks
Sue Townsend
Robert James Waller
H.G. Wells
Irvine Welsh
Paul Zindel
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Watership Down
Go Ask Alice
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
The Boy With The Striped Pyjamas
The Da Vinci Code
Short stories
My Uncle Oswald
The Hound Of The Baskervilles
Dead Famous
Bridget Jones’s Diary
White Oleander
A Time To Kill
I’m The King Of The Castle
The Pursuit Of Happiness
It
The Jungle Book
Being There
The Boys From Brazil
Chronicles Of Narnia
The Giver
Animal farm
My Sister’s Keeper
His Dark Materials (trilogy)
Of Mice And Men
Angela’s Ashes
Twilight series
Secret Life Of Bees
Harry Potter series
The Wave
The Notebook
Message In A Bottle
Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole
The Bridges Of Madison County
The Time Machine
Trainspotting
The Pigman
Non-fiction
Barack Obama
The Audacity Of Hope
Dreams From My Father