Reading List
Novels
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's travels
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Samuel Johnson, Rasselas
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Mark Twain, The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
George Eliot, Silas Marner
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The scarlet letter
Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English opium-eater
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
H.G. Wells, The time machine
Henry James, Daisy Miller
Richard Wright, Black boy
Richard Wright, Oncle Tom's children
John Steinbeck, Of mice and men
John Steinbeck, The pearl
Paul Auster, Leviathan
Paul Auster, The sound of music
Paul Auster, Mr Vertigo
Ernest Hemingway, Fiesta
Ernest Hemingway, A farewell to arms
William Golding, Lord of the flies
George Orwell, 1984
Willa Cather, My Antonia
Fitzgerald, The great Gatsby
J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee, The life and times of Michael K.
Nick Hornby, How to be good
Nick Hornby, About a boy
Nick Hornby, High fidelity
Nick Hornby, A long way down
Aldous Huxley, Brave new world
Graham Greene, Dr Fischer of Geneva or the bomb party
T.C. Boyle, The tortilla curtain
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
J.D. Salinger, The catcher in the rye
John Howard Griffin, Black like me
Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner (Do Androids dream of electric sheep?)
Ethan Hawke, Ash Wednesday
John Marsden, Letters from the inside
Sue Townsend, The secret diary of Adrian Mole
Doris Pilkington, Rabbit-proof fence
John Briley, Cry freedom
Sue Monk Kidd, The secret life of bees
Waris Dirie, Desert flower
Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a pearl earring
Jack London, The call of the wild
Patricia Tyrrell, The bones in the womb
Zana Muhsen, Sold
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The hound of the Baskervilles
Gene Brewer, K-Pax
Judith Moore, Fat girl
Khaled Hosseini, The kite runner
Charles Webb, The graduate
Pearl S. Buck, The good earth
Sherman Alexie, The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian
Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat
Plays
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s fan
Bernhard Shaw, Major Barbara
Bernard Shaw, Arms and the man
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Arthur Miller, The crucible
Arthur Miller, Death of a salesman
Tennessee Williams, A streetcar named desire
Willy Russell, Educating Rita
J.B. Priestley, An Inspector calls
Eugene O’Neill, Long day’s journey into night
Short Stories
Ernest Hemingway, In our time
David Sedaris, Naked
T.C. Boyle, Greasy lake
Sherman Alexie, The lone ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven
Non-Fiction
Marlo Morgan, Mutant message down under
Farley Mowat, Never cry wolf
John Perkins, Confessions of an economic hitman
Dale Carnegie, The leader in you
John Gray, Men are from Mars, women are from Venus
Tom Hodgkinson, How to be idle
Andre Agassi, Open
Brother Andrew, God’s smuggler
Lance Armstrong, Every second counts
George W. Bush, Decision points