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

Novels

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