READING LIST FOR ORAL MATURA EXAMINATION
Every student is to read “7 points worth” of novels and/or plays plus one short story or
(longer) poem. In addition, you will have to know the books read in class.
Other books than those on the list can be chosen, although you will have to check back with
me. The difficulty rating is given as a guide only and without guarantee.
Author
Adams, Richard
Albee, Edward
Anderson, Sherwood
Asimov, Isaac
Asimov, Isaac
Atwood, Margaret
Austen, Jane
Austen, Jane
Austen, Jane
Ayckbourn, Alan
Barrie, James, M.
Beckett, Samuel
Beckett, Samuel
Beecher-Stowe, Harriet
Bellow, Saul
Berendt, John
Bradbury, Ray
Briley, John
Bronte, Charlotte
Bronte, Emily
Buchan, John
Bukowski, Charles
Burgess, Anthony
Capote, Truman
Capote, Truman
Carrol, Lewis
Carter, Angela
Cave, Nick
Chopin, Kate
Clarke, Arthur C.
Clarke, Arthur C.
Clarke, Arthur C.
Clarke, Arthur C.
Collins, Wilkie
Conan Doyle, Arthur
Conrad, Joseph
Cooper, James, F.
Cooper, James, F.
Cooper, James, F.
Crane, Steven
Coupland, Douglas
Defoe, Daniel
Title
Watership Down
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Winesburg, Ohio
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
The Handmaid’s Tale
Emma
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Absurd Person Singular
Peter Pan
Endgame
Waiting for Godot
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Herzog
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Fahrenheit 451
Cry Freedom
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Post Office
A Clockwork Orange
In Cold Blood
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Heroes and Villains
And the Ass Saw the Angel
The Awakening
2001 A Space Odyssey
2010 Odyssey Two
3001 Odyssey Three
2001 The Final Odyssey
The Woman in White
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Heart of Darkness
The Deerslayer
The Last of the Mohicans
The Pathfinder
The Red Badge of courage
Generation X
Moll Flanders
Points
3
1
3
3
3
3
3
3
4
1
2
1
1
3
3
3
2
3
3
4
2
2
3
3
2
4
2
3
Difficulty
B
C
C
B
B
C
D
D
D
C
A
C
C
D
D
C
B
C
C
D
C
C
D
C
C
E
D
2
2
1
1
3
2
3
3
3
3
2
3
3
C
C
B
B
D
C
D
C
C
C
C
D
C
Defoe, Daniel
Dick, Philipp K.
Dick, Philipp K.
Dickens, Charles
Du Maurier, Daphne
Eliot, George
Eliot, George
Eliot, George
Ellroy, James
Ellroy, James
Ellroy, James
Fielding, Helen
Fitzgerald, Scott
Forster, E. M.
Forster, E. M.
Gibson, William
Gibson, William
Gibson, William
Golding, William
Greene, Graham
Greene, Graham
Greene, Graham
Greene, Graham
Greene, Graham
Greene, Graham
Haddon, Mark
Hardy, Thomas
Hardy, Thomas
Hardy, Thomas
Hardy, Thomas
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Heller, Joseph
Heller, Joseph
Hemingway, Ernest
Hemingway, Ernest
Highsmith, Patricia
Highsmith, Patricia
Huxley Alduous
Irving, John
Irving, John
Ishiguro, Kazuo
James, Henry
Joyce, James
Joyce, James
Keneally, Thomas
Kipling, Rudyard
Kosinski, Jerzy
Lawrence, D. H.
Lee, Harper
Robinson Crusoe
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Ubik
Great Expectations
Rebecca
Middlemarch
The Mill on the Floss
Silas Marner
The Black Dahlia
L:A: Confidential
White Jazz
Bridget Jones’ Diary
The Great Gatsby
A Passage to India
Howards End
Count Zero
Mona Lisa Overdrive
Neuromancer
Lord of the Flies
A Burnt Out Case
The Quiet American
The Heart of the Matter
The Third Man
Dr Fischer of Geneva
The Human Factor
3
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
1
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
3
2
2
3
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 1
The Woodlanders
3
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
3
Jude the Obscure
4
The Return of the Native
4
The Scarlet Letter
4
The House of the Seven Gables
3
Catch-22
3
Good as Gold
3
The Old Man and the Sea
1
For Whom the Bell Tolls
3
The Cry of the Owl
2
The Talented Mr Ripley
3
Brave New World
3
The World According to Garp
3
A Son of the Circus
3
The Remains of the Day
3
The Turn of the Screw
3
The Dubliners
3
Ulysses
6
Schindler’s List
3
The Jungle Book
2
Being There
1
The Rainbow
3
To Kill a Mockingbird
3
C
B
B
D
C
C
C
C
D
D
D
B
B
D
D
E
E
E
B
C
C
C
B
C
C
A
D
D
D
D
D
D
D
D
B
C
C
C
C
D
C
C
C
C
F
C
C
B
C
B
LeFanu, Sheridan
Lewycka, Marina
Lewis, C.S.
Lewis, Matthew
London, Jack
Mailer, Norman
Mailer, Norman
Matheson, Richard
McCullers, Carson
McKee Charnas, Suzy
Melville, Herman
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Arthur
Ondaatje, Michael
Orwell, George
Orwell, George
Pullman, Philip
Radcliffe, Anne
Rice, Anne
Rice, Anne
Rowling, J. K.
Rowling, J.K.
Rowling, J. K.
Rowling, J. K.
Russell, Willy
Salinger, J.D.
Scott, Sir Walter
Selby, Hubert
Shaffer, Peter
Shaffer, Peter
Shakespeare, William
Shakespeare, William
Shakespeare, William
Shakespeare, William
Shakespeare, William
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Shaw, George Bernard
Shelley, Mary
Shute, Nevil
Steinbeck, John
Steinbeck, John
Steinbeck, John
Sterne, Laurence
Stevenson, Robert, Louis
Stevenson, Robert, Louis
Stoker, Bram
Stoppard, Tom
Strieber, Whitley
Swift, Jonathan
Carmilla
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Monk
Call of the Wild
The Naked and the Dead
Ancient Evenings
I am Legend
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
The Vampire Tapestry
Moby Dick
The Crucible
Death of a Salesman
The English Patient
Animal Farm
1984
Northern Lights
The Italian
Interview With the Vampire
Queen of the Damned
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askhaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood-Prince
Educating Rita
The Catcher in the Rye
Ivanhoe
Last Exit to Brooklin
Equus
Black Comedy
Hamlet
The Taming of the Shrew
Much ado about Nothing
The Merchant of Venice
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
Pygmalion
Arms and the Man
Frankenstein
On the Beach
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
The Pearl
Tristram Shandy
The Treasure island
Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde
Dracula
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
The Hunger
Gulliver’s Travels
1
2
3
3
2
4
4
1
2
3
4
2
2
B
B
B
D
B
C
C
B
B
B
E
C
C
1
3
2
3
3
3
1
2
2
2
1
1
B
C
B
C
C
C
B
B
B
B
C
B
2
1
1
3
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
3
3
1
3
1
3
3
2
3
1
3
4
C
C
C
E
E
E
E
E
E
B
B
C
B
C
D
B
D
C
C
C
B
B
E
Theroux, Paul
Theroux, Paul
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Trollope, Anthony
Twain, Mark
Twain, Mark
Updike, John
Vonnegut, Kurt
Vonnegut, Kurt
Vonnegut, Kurt
Wells, H. G.
Wells, H.G
Wells, H.G.
Wharton, Edith
Wharton, Edith
Wilde, Oscar
Wilde, Oscar
Wilder, Thornton
Wilder, Thornton
Williams, Tennessee
Williams, Tennessee
Chicago Loop
The Black House
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Kelly’s and the O’Kellys
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
The Witches of Eastwick
Slaughterhouse 5
The Sirens of Titan
Cat’s Cradle
The Island of Dr Moreau
The War of the Worlds
The Time Machine
The Age of Innocence
The House of Mirth
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Eight Day
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
A Streetcar Named Desire
2
3
1
4
3
1
3
2
3
3
3
2
2
1
2
2
1
3
1
2
2
2
C
C
B
D
B
B
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C