SIXTH FORM SUGGESTED READING
Pre-20th Century
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Wilkie Collins
Joseph Conrad
Daniel Defoe
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
Henry James
Herman Melville
Mary Shelley
Laurence Sterne
Bram Stoker
Jonathan Swift
William Thackery
Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion
Jane Eyre, Villette
Wuthering Heights
The Woman in White, The Moonstone
Heart of Darkness
Moll Flanders
The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, Bleak
House
Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the
D’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure
The Turn of the Screw
Moby Dick
Frankenstein
Tristram Shandy
Dracula
Gulliver’s Travels
Vanity Fair
20th Century
Kingsley Amis
Anthony Burgess
Joseph Conrad
EM Forster
John Fowles
Stella Gibbons
William Golding
Graham Greene
Aldous Huxley
James Joyce
DH Lawrence
Doris Lessing
CS Lewis
George Orwell
Sylvia Plath
Evelyn Waugh
Virginia Woolf
Lucky Jim
A Clockwork Orange, Earthly Powers
Heart of Darkness
A Passage to India, A Room with a View,
Howard’s End
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Magus
Cold Comfort Farm
The Inheritors
Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The
Heart of the Matter,Travels with My Aunt
Brave New World
Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow
The Good Terrorist
Out of the Silent Planet
1984, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
The Bell Jar
Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust
To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway
SIXTH FORM SUGGESTED READING
Contemporary
Peter Ackroyd
Monica Ali
Isabelle Allende
Martin Amis
Margaret Atwood
Iain Banks
Pat Barker
Julian Barnes
Hawksmoor
Brick Lane
Eva Luna
London Fields
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Crow Road
The Regeneration Trilogy
A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters,
Flaubert’s Parrot
William Boyd
Brazzaville Beach
Peter Carey
The History of the Kelly Gang
Angela Carter
Wise Children
Jonathan Coe
The Rotters’ Coe
Louis De Bernieres
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Sebastian Faulks
Birdsong, Charlotte Gray
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera
Kazuo Ishiguro
Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go
Thomas Keneally
Schindlers Ark
Matthew Kneale
English Passengers
Hanif Kureishi
The Buddha of Suburbia
Jan Martell
The Life of Pi
Ian McEwan
The Child in Time, Atonement, Enduring Love
Brian Moore
The Black Robe
Iris Murdoch
The Sea, The Sea; The Bell
Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient
Michelle Roberts
Daughters of the House
Arindhati Roy
The God of Small Thing
Will Self
Cock and Bull
Zadie Smith
White Teeth
Graham Swift
Waterland, Last Orders
Rose Tremain
Restoration, Music and Silence
Nigel Williams
The Wimbledon Poisoner
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Irvine Welsh
Trainspotting
SIXTH FORM SUGGESTED READING
American
Saul Bellow
Truman Capote
Raymond Carver
Don DeLillo
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Richard Ford
Jonathan Franzen
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Joseph Heller
E Hemingway
John Irving
Garrison Keillor
Jack Kerouac
Jay McInnery
Bernard Malamud
Toni Morrison
Edgar Allen Poe
Thomas Pynchon
Philip Roth
JD Salinger
Jane Smiley
John Steinbeck
Amy Tan
Paul Theroux
Hunter S Thompson
John Updike
Alice Walker
Edith Wharton
Tom Wolfe
Mr Samler’s Planet, Herzog
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
A New Path to the Waterfall
Underworld
The Great Gatsby
Wildlife
The Corrections
The Scarlet Letter
Catch 22
A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls
The World According to Garp
Lake Woebegone Days
On the Road
Bright Lights, Big City
The Fixer
Beloved, Jazz
Murders in the Rue Morgue and other Stories
The Crying of Lot 49
The Human Stain
The Catcher in the Rye
A Thousand Acres
The Grapes of Wrath, The Moon is Down
The Joy Luck Club
The Mosquito Coast
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Coup
The Color Purple
The Age of Innocence
Bonfire of the Vanities, The Man in Full
SIXTH FORM SUGGESTED READING
Non-Fiction
Vera Brittain
Bill Bryson
Jung Chang
Chomsky & Herman
Quentin Crisp
Peter Godwin
Robert Graves
Blaine Harden
Stephen Hawking
Jon Hersey
Nick Hornby
Fergal Keane
Brian Keenan
Naomi Klein
Laurie Lee
Janet Malcolm
Blake Morrison
George Orwell
Jonathan Raban
Will Self
Hunter S Thompson
Claire Tomalin
Jenny Uglow
A Testament of Youth
Notes from a Small Island, Mother Tongue, A
Short History of Nearly Everything
Wild Swans
Manufacturing Consent
The Naked Civil Servant
Mukiwa, When A Crocodile Eats The Sun
Goodbye to All That
Africa: Travels in a Fragile Continent
A Brief History of Time
Hiroshima
Fever Pitch
Letter to Daniel
An Evil Cradling
No Logo
A Moment of War
The Journalist and the Murderer
What If?
Inside the Whale
Passage to Juneau
Junk Mail, Feeding Frenzy
The Great Shark Hunt
The Unequalled Self
The Lunar Men
Theory
Jonathan Culler
Terry Eagleton
Jefferson & Robey
Rivkin & Ryan
Ellen Rooney
Edward Said
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Literary Theory: An Introduction
Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative
Introduction
Literary Theory: An Anthology
The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary
Theory
Orientalism; Culture and Imperialism
SIXTH FORM SUGGESTED READING
Language
Aitchison, J.
Baugh & Cable
Blake, N. F.
Bryson, B.
Cameron D.
Crystal, D.
Crystal, D.
Finn Garner, J.
Green, J.
Stilwell Peccei, J.
Tannen, D.
Thorne, S.
Trudgill, P.
Truss, L.
Linguistics
A History of the English Language
An Introduction to the Language of Literature
Mother Tongue: the English Language
The Myth of Mars and Venus
The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of English
Language
Language and The Internet
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
The Cassell Dictionary of Slang
Child Language: A Resource Book for Students
You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in
Conversation
Mastering Advanced English Language
Dialects
Eats Shoots and Leaves