Reading List

Reading List

Plays

• Albee, Edward, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
• Beckett, Samuel, Endgame
• Christie, Agatha, The Mousetrap
• Hansberry, Lorraine, A Raisin in the Sun
• Miller, Arthur, The Crucible
• Miller, Arthur, Death of a Salesman
• Miller, Arthur, A View from the Bridge
• Osborne, John, Look Back in Anger
• Priestly, J.B., An Inspector Calls
• Russell, Willy, Educating Rita
• Shaffer, Peter, Amadeus
• Shakespeare, William, any tragedy or comedy
• Shaw, Bernard, Arms and the Man
• Shaw, Bernard, Mrs Warren’s Profession
• Shaw, Bernard, Pygmalion
• Synge, John Millington, The Playboy of the Western World
• Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest
• Williams, Tennessee, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Williams, Tennessee, The Glass Menagerie

• Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart
• Achebe, Chinua, A Man of the People
• Adiga, Aravind, The White Tiger
• Amis, Kingsley, Lucky Jim
• Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Atwood, Margaret, A Handmaid’s Tale
• Atwood, Margaret, Alias Grace
• Austen, Jane, any novel
• Baldwin, James, If Beale Street Could Talk
• Barnes, Julian, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
• Behr, Mark, The Smell of Apples
• Boyle, John, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
• Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451
• Brink, André, A Dry White Season
• Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights
• Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre
• Brown, Christy, My Left Foot
• Burgess, Anthony, A Clockwork Orange
• Cain, James M., The Postman Always Rings Twice
• Capote, Truman, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• Carroll, Lewis, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
• Carter, Angela, Nights at the Circus
• Chatwin, Bruce, Utz
• Coetzee, J.M., Disgrace
• Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness
• Cormier, Robert, After the First Death
• Cunningham, Michael, The Hours
• DeLillo, Don, White Noise
• Desai, Anita, Fasting, Feasting
• Dickens, Charles, any novel
• Dirie, Waris, Desert Flower
• Disher, Garry, The Divine Wind
• Doyle, Roddy, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
• Drabble, Margaret, The Millstone
• Du Maurier, Daphne, Rebecca
• Emecheta, Buchi, Second-Class Citizen
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby
• Forster, E.M., A Room with a View
• Frazier, Charles, Cold Mountain
• Garland, Alex, The Beach
• Golding, William, Lord of the Flies
• Greene, Graham, Doctor Fisher of Geneva
• Greene, Graham, The End of the Affair
• Greene, Graham, Our Man in Havana
• Greene, Graham, The Quiet American
• Greene, Graham, The Tenth Man
• Greene, Graham, The Third Man
• Guterson, David, Snow Falling on Cedars
• Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• Hartley, L.P., The Go-Between
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter
• Hegi, Ursula, Stones From the River
• Hemingway, Ernest, any novel
• Highsmith, Patricia, The Talented Mr Ripley
• Hinton, S.E., The Outsiders
• Hornby, Nick, A Long Way Down
• Hornby, Nick, About a Boy
• Hornby, Nick, High Fidelity
• Hosseini, Khaled, A Thousand Splendid Suns
• Hosseini, Khaled, The Kite Runner
• Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World
• Ishiguro, Kazuo, The Remains of the Day
• James, Henry, Daisy Miller
• James, Herny, The Turn of the Screw
• Kanon, Joseph, Los Alamos
• Kesey, Ken, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Kleinbaum, N.H., Dead Poets Society
• Lahiri, Jhumpa, The Namesake
• Lee, Harper, To Kill A Mockingbird
• Lessing, Doris, The Fifth Child
• Lessing, Doris, The Grass is Singing
• Mac Laverty, Bernard, Cal
• Mac Laverty, Bernard, Lamb
• Malouf, David, Remembering Babylon
• Martell, Yann, Life of Pi
• McCourt, Frank, Angela’s Ashes
• Min, Anchee, Red Azalea
• Moore, Brian, Lies of Silence
• Morrison, Toni, Beloved
• Morrison, Toni, The Bluest Eyes
• Morrison, Toni, Sula
• Morton, Rhue, The Wave
• Orwell, George, Animal Farm
• Orwell, George, 1984
• Pelzer, Dave, A Child Called ”It”
• Prawer Jhabvala, Ruth, Heat and Dust
• Prejean, Helen, Dead Man Walking
• Roy, Arundhati, The God of Small Things
• Safran Foer, Jonathan, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• Salinger, J.D., The Catcher in the Rye
• Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein
• Shigekuni, Julie, A Bridge Between Us
• Shute, Nevil, On the Beach
• Spark, Muriel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• St John, Madeleine, A Stairway to Paradise
• Steinbeck, John, Of Mice and Men
• Stevenson, Robert Louis, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• Swarup, Vikas, Q&A
• Tan, Amy, The Joy Luck Club
• Tartt, Donna, The Secret History
• Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Upfield, Arthur W., The Bachelors of Broken Hill
• Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse-Five
• Waterhouse, Keith, Billy Liar
• Waugh, Evelyn, The Loved One
• Webb, Charles, The Graduate
• Wells, H.G., The Time Machine
• Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence
• Woolf, Virginia, A Room of One’s Own
• Wright, Richard, Black Boy