AWARD WINNERS

The Power - Naomi Alderman The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky The Shock of the Fall - Nathan Filer The Humans - Matt Haig Children of Men - P. D. James Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salin-

ger Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders Salt to the Sea - Ruta Sepetys Homefire - Kamila Shamsie

BEACH READS

Simon Vs Homo Sapiens - Becky Albertalli Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher How Hard Can Love Be - Holly Bourne Gone (Series) - Michael Grant Turtles All the Way Down - John Green The Dry - Jane Harper The House of Silk - Anthony Horowitz Line of Fire - Andy McNab Holding Up the Universe - Jennifer Niven

ENGLISH

Sixth Form Reading List

Books to Impress University Interviewers

Further Reading

PRE - 20th CENTURY CLASSICS

Emma - Jane Austen

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

 Hard Times - Charles Dickens

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Middlemarch - George Eliot

Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

MODERN FICTION

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

Hagseed (The Tempest Retold) - Margaret Atwood

The Outsider - Albert Camus

Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller

Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel

His Bloody Project - Graham Macrae Burnet

Last Orders - Graham Swift

GOTHIC

The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Vathek - William Beckford Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier Tales of Terror and Mystery - Arthur Connan Doyle The Radleys - Matt Haig Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Woman in Black - Susan Hill The Turn of the Screw - Henry James The Monk - Mathew Lewis Beloved - Toni Morrison Selected Tales - Edgar Ellen Poe The Vampyre - John William Polidori The Italian - Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - R. L. Stevenson The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

CONFLICT

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe Brick Lane - Monica Ali Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee The Green Road - Ann Enright We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves -

Karin Joy Fowler The Pickup - Nadine Gordimer The Secret River - Kate Grenville Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi After The Fire - Will Hill A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing Small Island - Andrea Levy Atonement - Ian McEwan The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd Release - Patrick Ness Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Beck - Mal Peet The Bookseller of Khabul - Asne Seierstadt Family Life - Akhil Sharma White Teeth - Zadie Smith Do Not Say We Have Nothing - Madeleine

Thien The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas House of Names - Colm Toibin

Exam Texts

Recommended Reading

YEAR 12

The Tempest - William Shakespeare Maud - Alfred Lord Tennyson The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter

YEAR 13

The Tempest - William Shakespeare Maud -Tennyson Dracula - Bram Stroker A Doll’s House - Henrik Ibsen Gothic - a variety of extracts

Coursework Texts

The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini Translations - Brian Friel Conflict Poetry

Critical Theory

The Tempest: York Notes Advanced William Shakespeare (2003)

Tennyson’s Poetry: A Critical Study Guide - Titius Halliwell Grove (2012)

Dracula: York Notes Advanced (2006) A Doll’s House: Multiple Critical Per-

spectives (2007) A Doll’s House: York Notes Advanced

(2008) The Gothic Tradition - David Stevens

(2000) Gothic Fiction (Readers’ Guides to Es-

sential Criticism) Angela Wright Gothic (The New Critical Idiom) - Fred

Botting (2013)

Recommended Reading