Stand 29.05.2013 English literature Students of English are required to read literature in English regularly throughout their studies so that by the end of your studies you should have read at least 16 (Grund-und Hauptschule) / 18 (Realschule) fulllength works. Among these should be at least three works from the 17th 19th century, two plays and no more than five young-adult (YA) novels. The following list is meant as a guide only. The list also includes shortstory and poetry collections. One collection counts as one “full-length” work. If you read other books, you may, of course, include them on your personal list. I. Novels 17th – 19th century British Isles Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park Ballantyne, R(obert) M(ichael), Coral Island Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre Carroll, Lewis, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Collins, Wilkie, The Moonstone, The Woman in White Cusk, Rachel, The Lucky Ones Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe; Moll Flanders Dickens, Charles, Oliver Twist; David Copperfield, Hard Times, Great Expectations; Bleak House Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans), Middlemarch Fielding, Henry, Tom Jones Gaskell, Mary, North and South Hardy, Thomas, Jude the Obscure; Tess of the D’Urbervilles Richardson, Samuel, Pamela Scott, Sir Walter, Ivanhoe Smollet, Tobias, The Adventures of Roderick Random Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein Sterne, Lawrence, Tristram Shandy Stevenson, R.L., Treasure Island; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver’s Travels Thackeray, William, Vanity Fair Wilde, Oscar, The Picture of Dorian Gray Wyss ,J.D. Swiss Family Robinson … USA Chopin, Kate, The Awakening Cooper, James Fennimore, The Pioneers (The Last of the Mohicans) Crane, Stephen, The Red Badge of Courage Dreiser, Theodor, Sister Carrie Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter Irving, Washington, Rip van Winkle ; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow James, Henry, The Portrait of a Lady Melville, Herman, Moby Dick Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's Cabin Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (The Prince and the Pauper) 20th – 21st century British Isles Ali, Monica, Brick Lane Amis, Kingsley, Lucky Jim Banville, John, Birchwood (The Sea) Barnes, Julian, England, England; The Sense of an Ending Bennett, Alan, The Uncommon Reader Burgess, Anthony, A Clockwork Orange Byatt, Antonia, Possession (A Whistling Woman) Chatwin, Bruce, The Songlines (The Black Hills) Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness (Lord Jim) Doyle, Arthur Conan, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Roddy, The Barrytown Trilogy (The Snapper, A Star Called Henry) Faulks, Sebastian, Birdsong, Charlotte Gray Fielding, Helen, Bridget Jones’s Diary Forster, E.M., Howards End, Room with a View Fowles, John, The French Lieutenant’s Woman Frayn, Michael, Spies; Skios Golding, William, Lord of the Flies Greene, Graham, The Power and the Glory (The Heart of the Matter) Hornby, Nick, High Fidelity (Fever Pitch, About a Boy, A Long Way Down) Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World Ishiguro, Kazuo, The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer: Heat and Dust Joyce, James, Ulysses (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) Kipling, Rudyard, Kim Lawrence, D.H., Sons and Lovers (Women in Love) Lessing, Doris, The Golden Notebook, The Fifth Child Lewycka, Marina: A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian Lodge, David, Changing Places (Nice Work,Author, Author, The British Museum is Falling Down) MacLaverty, Bernard, Cal; Lamb, Grace Notes, Anatomy School Mantel, Hillary, Wolf Hall; Bringing up the Bodies Manning, Olivia,The Balkan Trilogy McCourt, Frank, Angela’s Ashes (Teacher Man) McEwan, Ian, Amsterdam (Atonement; Saturday; On Cecil Beach) Nicholls, David , One Day Orwell, George, 1984 Prawer-Jhabvala, Ruth, Heat and Dust Rankin, Ian: Doors Open Rushdie, Salman, The Satanic Verses (Midnight Children) Scott, Paul, The Raj Quartet, Staying on Seth, Vikram, Two Lives, A Suitable Boy Sillitoe, Alan, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Smith, Zadie, White Teeth Spark, Muriel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Tolkien, J.R.R., The Lord of the Rings (The Hobbit) Wells, H.G., The Time Machine Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway (Orlando, To the Lighthouse) USA Acosta, Oscar Zeta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie Alexie, Sherman, Reservation Blues (The Lone Ranger or Tonto Fistfight in Heaven) Anaya, Rudolpho, Bless Me, Ultima Auster, Paul, Moon Palace (Brooklyn Follies) Baldwin, James, Go Tell It on the Mountains Bellow, Saul, Herzog (The Adventures of Augie March) Boyle, T.C., Tortilla Curtain Capote, Truman, In Cold Blood Carter, Stephen L., The Emperor of Ocean Park Cisneros, Sandra, Caramelo, House on Mango Street Crane, Hart, The Bridge DeLillo, Don, Falling Man Diaz, Junot, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, This is How you Lose Her Doctorov E. L., Ragtime, (The March) Dos Passos, John, USA Trilogy Dreiser, Theodore, Sister Carrie Eggers, Dave, Zeitoun Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man Erdrich, Louise, Beet Queen, (Love Medicine; The Master Butcher’s Singing Club) Eugenides, Jeffrey Middlesex (The Virgin Suicides) Faulkner, William, The Sound and the Fury (As I Lay Dying) Fitzgerald, F.Scott, The Great Gatsby Foer, Jonathan, Everything is Illuminated; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Ford, Richard, The Sports Writer; Canada Franzen, Jonathan, The Corrections, Freedom Guterson, David, Snow Falling on Cedars Harding, Paul, Tinkers Hegi, Ursula, Stones from the River Heller, Joseph, Catch-22 Hemingway, Ernest, The Sun Also Rises (For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms) Hillerman, Tony, The Leaphorn Mysteries (The Blessing Way, Dance Hall of the Dead, Skinwalkers) Hong Kingston, Maxime, Woman Warrior Hosseini, Khaled, The Kite Runner; A Thousand Splendid Suns Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God Hustvedt, Siri, What I Loved Johnson, Adam, The Orphan Master’s Son Kesey, Ken, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Kinkaid, Jamaica, Lucy (Annie John) Lahiri, Jumpha, The Namesake, Lee, Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird Lewis, Sinclair, Elmer Gantry London, Jack, Call of the Wild Malamud, Bernhard, The Assistant McCarten, Anthony, Death of a Superhero McCarthy, Cormac: The Orchard Keeper, The Road McCarthy, Mary, The Group McCullers, Carson, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Momoday, Scott, House Made of Dawn Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita Morrison, Toni, Beloved (Mercy) Monk Kidd, Sue, The Secret Life of Bees Oates, Joyce Carol, Bellefleur (Them) Piercey, Marge, Woman at the Edge of Time Plath, Silvia, The Bell Jar Prejean, Helen, Dead Men Walking Proulx, Annie, The Shipping News Pynchon, Thomas, Gravity’s Rainbow Roth, Philip, The Human Stain; (Indignation; The Humbling) Salinger, Jerome David, The Catcher in the Rye Sapphire, Push Selasi, Taiye, Ghana Must Go Shriver, Lionel, We Need to Talk About Kevin Silko, Leslie Marmon, Ceremony Stegner, Wallace, Crossing to Safety Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men Stockett, Kathryn, The Help Styron, William, The Confessions of Nat Turner (Sophie’s Choice) Tan, Amy, The Joy Luck Club Tyler, Anne, The Accidental Tourist Updike, John, Rabbit, Run Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse Five Walker, Alice, The Color Purple, Meridian) Welch, James, The Indian Lawyer (Winter in the Blood) Wharton, Edith, Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence Wright, Richard, Native Son II. Short Stories Short stories by Sherman Alexie, Sherwood Anderson, James Baldwin, Donald Barthelme, Saul Bellow, Ambrose Bierce, T. C. Boyle, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Kate Chopin, Louis Chu, Sandra Cisneros, Stephen Crane, Margaret Drabble, Louise Erdrich, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nadine Gordimer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Washington Irving, Shirley Jackson, James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, Jumpha Lahiri, D.H. Lawrence, Ursula LeGuin, Doris Lessing, Bernard MacLaverty, Bernard Malamud, Katherine Mansfield, William Somerset Maugham, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O’Connor, Tillie Olsen, Jane Anne Philips, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, Leslie Silko, Isaac B. Singer, James Thurber, Mark Twain, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, Virginia Woolf, … Short story collections: Butzko, Ellen (ed.), Caught between Cultures Jaramillo, Luis, The Doctor’s Wife Munroe, Alice, Dear Life, A View From Castle Rock III. Plays British Isles Ayckbourn, Alan, Absurd Person Singular Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot (Endgame) Bond, Edward, Saved Brenton, Howard, Bloody Poetry Churchill, Caryl, Top Girls Eliot, T.S., Murder in the Cathedral Frayn, Michael, Copenhagen Hare, David, Teeth ‘n Smile, The Power of Yes Osborne, John, Look Back in Anger Pinter, Harold, The Birthday Party (The Caretaker, The Dumb Waiter) Shaffer, Peter, Amadeus Shakespeare, William, Tragedies (Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, …) Shakespeare, William, Comedies (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It,The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado about Nothing, …) Shaw, G.B., Pygmalion (Saint Joan) Stoppard, Tom, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Synge, J.M., The Playboy of the Western World Thomas, Dylan, Under Milk Wood Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest USA Albee, Edward, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Baldwin, James, Blues for Mr. Charlie Hansberry, Lorraine, A Raisin in the Sun Jones, LeRoi (Baraka, Amiri), The Slave Kopit, Arthur, Indians Kushner, Tony, Angels in America Mamet, David, Glengarry Glen Ross, (Oleanna) Miller, Arthur, Death of a Salesman,The Crucible Norman, Masha, ‘night Mother O'Neill, Eugene, A Long Day's Journey into Night Shepard, Sam, Buried Child (True West) Uhry, Alfred, Driving Miss Daisy Wasserstein, Wendy, The Heidi Chronicles Wilder, Thornton, Our Town Williams, Tennessee, A Streetcar Named Desire, (The Glass Menagerie) Wilson, August, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences IV. Poetry Arnold, Matthew, Poems Auden, W.H., Poems Blake, William, Songs of Innocence and Experience Browning, Elizabeth, Poems Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Lyrical Ballads Cummings, E.E., The Complete Poems Dickinson, Emily, Poems Eliot, T.S., The Waste Land Frost, Robert, Poems Ginsberg, Allen, Kaddish and Other Poems Heaney, Seamus, Poems (Bye Child) Hesse, Mechthild (Hg.) The Poetry Box Hopkins, Gerard Manley, Poems Hughes, Langston, The Dream Keeper Keats, John, Poems Plath, Sylvia, The Collossus Oliver, Mary, Swan Poe, Edgar Allan, Poems Wordsworth, William, Lyrical Ballads Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass Sexton, Anne, Live or Die Shakespeare, William, Sonnets Shelley, Percy Bysshe, Poems Spenser, Edmund, The Faerie Queen Stevens, Wallace, Collected Poems Tennyson, Alfred Lord, In Memoriam Thomas, Dylan, Collected Poems Williams, William Carlos, Selected Poems Yeats, William Butler, Collected Poems V. Literature from other English speaking countries Africa West and East Africa Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart Aidoo, Ama Ata, The Dilemma of a Ghost Naidoo, Beverley, The Other Side of Truth (Chain of Fire) Okigboe, Ifeanyichuku Christopher, Collected Poems Okri, Ben, Songs of Enchantment P’Bitek, Okot, Song of Lawino (The Horn of My Love) Selasi, Taiye, Ghana Must Go Soyinka; Wole, Death and the King’s Horseman Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa, Petals of Blood South Africa Gordimer, Nadine, Burger’s Daughter Fugard, Athol, Blood Knot and other Plays Coetzee, John Maxwell, Disgrace; (Life and Times of Michael K) Slovo, Gillian, Red Dust Australia and New Zealand Carey, Peter, Oscar and Lucinda; Illywhacker, The True History of the Ned Kelley Gang; Peter and Olivier in America Grenville, Kate, The Secret River (Searching for the Secret River, The Lieutenant) Herrick, Stephen, By the River; The Simple Gift (YA) Malouf, David, Johnny Marsden, John, Letters from the Inside (YA) Marshal, James Vance, Walkabout Moloney, James, Angela (Gracey)(YA) Richardson, Henry Handel, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (Ned Kelley) White, Patrick, Voss New Zealand Frame, Janet, Living in the Maniototo Grace, Patricia, Potiki Hulme, Keri, The Bone People Ihimaera, Witi Tame, The Matriarch Jones, Lloyd, Mr Pip Mahy, Margaret, Memory (YA) Wendt, Albert, Leaves on the Bayan Tree Canada Atwood, Margaret, The Blind Assassin (The Handmaid’s Tale, Surfacing, Alias Grace) Davies, Robertson, The Deptford Trilogy Galloway, Steven, The Cellist of Sarajevo Highway, Tomson, The Rez Sisters Martell, Yann, Life of Pi Montgomery, Lucy Maud, Anne of Green Gables Munroe, Alice, The Moons of Jupiter Ondatjee, Michael, The English Patient, The Cat’s Table Caribbean Braithwaited, Edward Kamau, The Arrivants Diaz, Junot, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Naipaul, V.S., The Enigma of Arrival (A House for Mr. Biswas; Half a Life) Philips, Caryl, Cambridge Rhys, Jean, Sargasso Sea Senior, Olice, Summer Lightning and Other Stories Walcot, Derek, Omeros (Collected Poems) India and Pakistan Adiga, Aravind: White Tiger; Between Assassinations Anand, Mulk Raj, Untouchable Desai, Anita, Clear Light of Day Desai, Kiran,The Inheritance of Loss Hamid, Mohsin, The Reluctant Fundamentalist; How to Get Filthy Rich in Asia Kapur, Manju: Difficult Daughters Lahiri, Jumpha, The Namesake (Interpreter of Maladies) Mistry, Rohinton, A Fine Balance Narayan, R.K., The Guide (God’s Little Soldiers) Prawer-Jhabvala, Ruth, Heat and Dust Rai, Bali, (Un-)Arranged Marriage Rao, Raja, The Serpent and the Rope (Kanthapura) Roy, Arundhati, The God of Small Things Sheth, Kashmira, Koyal Dar, Mango Sweet Whelan, Gloria, Homeless Bird VI. Non-fiction (Travel literature, autobiographies, biographies, memoirs, interviews, journals) Ambrose, Stephen, Undaunted Courage Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Bakeless, John (ed.), The Journals of Lewis and Clark Bradford, William, Of Plymouth Plantation Bryson, Bill, Notes from a Small Island, Made in America, … Bukowski, Charles: Ham on Rye Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez, The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca Chatwin, Bruce, In Patagonia (Anatomy of Restlessness) Coetzee, J.M., Youth Corwin, Miles, And Still We Rise Dahl, Roald, Boy De Crevecoeur, Jean Letters from an American Farmer (III. What is an American?) Didion, Joan, The White Album Dirie, Waris, Desert Flower Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Du Bois, W.E.B., The Souls of Black Folk Eggers, Dave, Zeitoun Eisenstein, Bernice, I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Nature Franklin, Benjamin, The Autobiography Fitzherbert, Katrin: True to Both Myselves Goleman, Daniel, Emotional Intelligence Hegi, Ursula, Tearing the Silence Hoffman, Eva, Lost in Translation Jacobs, Harriet, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Johnston, Lou Ann, Dangerous Minds Kerouac, Jack, On the Road King, Martin Luther, Letter from Birmingham Jail ( I Have a Dream) Kluger, Ruth, Still Alive Lincoln, Abraham, The Gettysbury Address Macolm X, Macolm X Manzoor, Safraz, Greetings from Bury Park McCourt Frank, Angela’s Ashes (‘Tis; Teacher Man) Myers, Walter Dean, Bad Boy Obama, Barack, Dreams from my Father Obama, Barack, The Audacity of Hope Pepys, Samuel, The Diary of Samuel Pepys Raban, Jonathan, Hunting Mister Heartbreak. Rodriguez, Luis, Always Running Rodriguez, Richard, Hunger of Memory Sanghera, Jasvinder, Shame Singer, Isaac, Love and Exile Sobel, Dava, Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter Sontag, Susan, Illness as Metaphor Theroux, Paul, The Great Railway Bazaar,The Kingdom by the Sea Thoreau, Henry, Civil Disobedience (Walden) Turner, Frederick J., The Significance of the Frontier in American History Twain, Mark, The Innocents Abroad Uchida, Yoshiko, Journey to Topaz: A Story of Japanese-American Evacuation Wiesel, Elie, Night Wright, Richard, Black Boy VII. Children’s Literature and Young Adult Literature/Teenage Fiction (old and modern) Aiken, Joan: Midnight is a Place Alcott, Louisa, Little Women Alexie, Sherman, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian Almond, David, Skellig Andersen, Laurie Halse, Fever 1793 (Speak) Baum, Frank L., The Wizard of Oz Boyne, John: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Burnett Hodgson, Frances, The Secret Garden (A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy) Carroll, Lewis, Alice in Wonderland Chbosky, Stephen, The Perks of Being a Wallflower Colgan, Trevor, The Stretford Enders Collins, Suzie, The Hunger Games Condie, Alli, Matched, Crossed Cooper, Susan, King of Shadows Cormier, Robert, The Chocolate War (I Am the Cheese) Crew, Linda, Children of the River Curtis, Christopher Paul, The Watsons Go to Birmingham. Cushman, Karen, Catherine Called Birdy Dahl, Roald, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Mathilda, Witches …) DiCamillo, Kate, The Tale of Despereaux Doherty, Berlie, Dear Nobody (The Snake Stone, Children of Winter, Street Child; Deep Secret, Abela ) Dowd, Siobhan, The London Eye Mystery (A Swift Pure Cry) Doyle, Roddy, A Greyhound of a Girl Erdrich, Louise, The Birchbank House. (The Game of Silence) Emecheta, Buchi, The Moonlight Bride. Fleischman, Paul, Seedfolks (Bull Run) Frost, Helen, Keesha’s House (Spinning Through the Universe; The Braid) Gaiman, Neil, Coraline, The Graveyard Book Gavin, Jamila, Coram Boy George, Elizabeth Craighead, The Witch of Blackbird Pond; Julie and the Wolves Graham, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows Gündisch, Karin, How I Became an American Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Heneghan, James, Torn Away (Wish Me Luck, The Grave; Payback) Henkes, Kevin, Olive’s Ocean Herrick, Steven: A Simple Gift (By the River) Hesse, Karen, Out of the Dust (Letters from Rifka, Witness, A Light in the Storm) Hobbs, Will, Crossing the Wire Holm, Jennifer: Boston Jane Horowitz, Anthony: Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Series) Irwin, Hadley, Kim/Kimi Jaramillo, Ann: La Linéa Larson, Kirby: Hattie Big Sky Larson, Reif, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet Lasky, Kathryn, Beyond the Great Divide. Levoy, Myron, Alan and Naomi Lewis, C.S., The Chronicles of Narnia Lowry, Lois, The Giver (Gathering Blue, Messenger, Son, Silent Boy, Number the Stars; The Willoughbys .) Lutzeier, Elizabeth, Bound for America. MacDonald, George, At the Back of the North Wind Magorian, Michelle, Good Night, Mr. Tom. Meier, Stephenie: Twilight Milne, A. A., The House at Pooh Corner Moloney, James: Angela Montgomery, L. M., Anne of Green Gables Morpurgo, Michael: War Stories of Conflict Myers, Walter Dean, Monster Nelson, Blake, Paranoid Park Nicholson, William, The Wind Singer Norton, Mary, The Borrowers Oates, Joyce Carol, Big Mouth and Ugly Girl (Freaky Green Eyes; Sexy) O’Dell, Scott, My Name Is Not Angelica. Patterson, Katherine, Lyddie Paolini, Christopher, Eragon Paulsen, Gary, Soldier’s Heart; Hatchet; Woods Runner Peck, Richard, A Long Way From Chicago (A Year Down Under) Potter, Beatrix, The Complete Tales Pullman, Philip, The Dark Materials (also available as a play) Taylor, Mildred, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (The Road to Memphis) Rai, Bali, (Un-)Arranged Marriage Rees, Celia, Witch Child Rockport, Joyce: To Spoil the Sun Rowling, J.K., Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Sachar, Louis, Holes Schmidt, Gary, The Wednesday Wars; Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Sedgewick, Marcus, The Foreshadowing Sleator, William, House of Stairs Snicket, Lemony, The Bad Beginning Strasser, Todd: Give a Boy a Gun Swindells, Robert, Abomination (Stone Cold) Tolkien, J.R.R., The Hobbit Trueman, Terry, Inside Out (Stuck in Neutral; No Right Turn) Voigt, Cynthia, Homecoming Walsh, Jill Paton, A Parcel of Patterns Whelan, Gloria, Homeless Bird Wilder, Laura Ingalls, Little House in the Big Woods Wilson, Angela, The First Part Last Woodson, Jacqueline, Locomotion Yep, Laurence, Dragonwings, (Dragon’s Gate ) Yolen, Jane, The Devil’s Arithmetic Zusak, Markus, The Book Thief Young Adult Short Story Collections (edited by) Bode, Janet: Death is Hard to Live With Cart, Michael (Ed.) Tomorrowland; Necessary Noise Cresswell, Helen: The Puffin Book of Funny Stories Gallo, Donald: Ultimate Sports Heggum, Lisa (Ed.), All Sleek and Skimming Horowitz, Anthony: The Puffin Book of Horror Stories Scieszka, Jon: Guys Read