Year 13 Recommended Reading List
Prose
The Scarlett Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sons & Lovers, D.H Lawrence
We Need To Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Emma, Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Wise Children, Angela Carter
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Brick Lane, Monica Ali
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Oranges are Not The Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H Lawrence
Maurice, E.M Forster
Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Maps for Lost Lovers, Nadeem Aslam
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Madame Bovary, Flaubert
A Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
Drama
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare
A View from the Bridge, Shakespeare
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Willams.
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams.
The Rover, Aphra Behn
Tis Pity She’s A Whore, John Ford.
The White Devil, John Webster.
Translations, Brian Friel
My Mother Said I Never Should, Caryl Churchill.
Poetry
14th Century
The Miller’s Tale, Chaucer
The Knight’s Tale, Chaucer
The Wife of Bath’s Tale, Chaucer
15th Century
Le Morte d’Arthur, Malory
Greensleeves, Anon
Rennaisance Era
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 1542)
Astrophil and Stella sonnets, Sir Philip Sidney (1554 – 1586) (Read a couple)
The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser (1552 – 1591)
My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing like the sun, Shakespeare (1565 – 1616)
The expense of spirit in a waste of Shame, Shakespeare (1565 – 1616)
16th - 17th Century
Jacobean (1603 – 1625)
The Metaphysicals
The Flea, John Donne (1572 – 1631)
The Sunne Rising, John Donne (1572 – 1631)
To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvel (1621 – 1678)
The Cavaliers
The Scrutiny, Richard Lovelace
A Satyr on Charles II, Rochester
17th Century
John Milton (1608 – 1674)
18th Century
The Augustans
The Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
The Romantics
Songs of Innocence and Experience, William Blake (1757 – 1827)
The Lucy Poems, William Blake (1757 – 1827)
Frost at Midnight, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1776 – 1849)
La Belle Dame sans Merci, John Keats (1795 – 1821)
Eve of St. Agnes, John Keats (1795 – 1821)
When I have fears, John Keats (1795 – 1821)
Bright Star, John Keats (1795 – 1821)
Beppo, Lord Byron (1788 – 1824)
19th Century
A Birthday, Christina Rossetti (1831 – 1894)
Remember, Christina Rossetti (1831 – 1894)
My Life Closed Twice, Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)
Love’s Stricken Way, Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1992)
In Memoriam, Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1992)
Poems for the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When you are old and grey and full of sleep, William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939)
Prayer for my daughter, William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939)
The Voice, Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928)
20th Century – The Edwardians
Wilfred Owen
Vera Brittain
20th Century – Modernism
The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock, TS Eliot (1888 – 1965)
O Tell me what you think about love, WH Auden (1907 – 1973)
Stop All The Clocks, WH Auden (1907 – 1973)
E.E. Cummings
20th Century – Post Modernism
Birthday Letters, Ted Hughes (1930 – 1998)
Syliva Plath (1932 – 1963)
Philip Larkin (1922 – 1985)
Wendy Cope (1945 - )
John Betjeman