Wider Reading List
for Key Stage 5
More Able
Crime Novels
Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time (1951)
John le Carré: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963)
Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night (1935)
Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca (1938)
Raymond Chandler: Farewell My Lovely (1940)
Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (1868)
Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
Josephine Tey: The Franchise Affair (1948)
Hillary Waugh: Last Seen Wearing ... (1952)
Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose (1980)
Geoffrey Household: Rogue Male (1939)
Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye (1953)
Francis Iles: Malice Aforethought (1931)
Frederick Forsyth: The Day of the Jackal (1971)
Dorothy L. Sayers: The Nine Tailors (1934)
Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None (1939)
John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Collected Sherlock Holmes Short Stories (1892-1927)
Dorothy L. Sayers: Murder Must Advertise (1933)
Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Mystery & Imagination (1852)
Edmund Crispin: The Moving Toyshop (1946)
Margery Allingham: The Tiger in the Smoke (1952)
Peter Lovesey: The False Inspector Dew (1982)
Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White (1860)
Barbara Vine: A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986)
Dashiell Hammett: The Glass Key (1931)
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
John le Carré: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974)
E. C. Bentley: Trent's Last Case (1913)
Ian Fleming: From Russia, with Love (1957)
Ed McBain: Cop Hater (1956)
Colin Dexter: The Dead of Jericho (1981)
Patricia Highsmith: Strangers on a Train (1950)
Ruth Rendell: A Judgement in Stone (1977)
John Dickson Carr: The Hollow Man (1935)
Anthony Berkeley: The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929)
Ellis Peters: A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977), The Leper of Saint Giles (1981)
Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)
Graham Greene: Brighton Rock (1938)
Raymond Chandler: The Lady in the Lake (1943)
Scott Turow: Presumed Innocent (1987)
Ruth Rendell: A Demon in My View (1976)
John Dickson Carr: The Devil in Velvet (1951)
Barbara Vine: A Fatal Inversion (1987)
Michael Innes: The Journeying Boy (1949)
P. D. James: A Taste for Death (1986), Devices and Desires (1989), Innocent Blood (1980)
Jack Higgins: The Eagle Has Landed (1975)
Mary Stewart: My Brother Michael (1960)
Peter Lovesey: Bertie and the Tin Man (1987)
Susan Moody: Penny Black (1984)
Len Deighton: Game, Set & Match (1984-1986)
Dick Francis: The Danger (1983)
Reginald Hill: Underworld (1988)
Mary Stewart: Nine Coaches Waiting (1958)
Paula Gosling: A Running Duck (1978)
Michael Gilbert: Smallbone Deceased (1950)
Lionel Davidson: The Rose of Tibet (1962)
Dorothy L. Sayers: Strong Poison (1930)
Michael Innes: Hamlet, Revenge! (1937)
Tony Hillerman: A Thief of Time (1989)
Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon: A Bullet in the Ballet (1937)
Reginald Hill: Dead Heads (1983)
Graham Greene: The Third Man (1950)
Anthony Price: The Labyrinth Makers (1974)
Margaret Millar: Beast in View (1955)
Sarah Caudwell: The Shortest Way to Hades (1984)
Desmond Bagley: Running Blind (1970)
Richard Condon: The Manchurian Candidate (1959)
Caroline Graham: The Killings at Badger's Drift (1987)
Nicholas Blake: The Beast Must Die (1938)
Agatha Christie: Death Comes as the End (1945)
Christianna Brand: Green for Danger (1945)
Cyril Hare: Tragedy at Law (1942)
John Fowles: The Collector (1963)
J. J. Marric: Gideon's Day (1955)
Lionel Davidson: The Sun Chemist (1976)
Alistair MacLean: The Guns of Navarone (1957)
Julian Symons: The Colour of Murder (1957)
John Buchan: Greenmantle (1916)
Erskine Childers: The Riddle of the Sands (1903)
Peter Lovesey: Wobble to Death (1970)
Dashiell Hammett: Red Harvest (1929)
Ken Follett: The Key to Rebecca (1980)
Ed McBain: Sadie When She Died (1972)
H. R. F. Keating: The Murder of the Maharajah (1980)
Simon Brett: What Bloody Man Is That? (1987)
Gavin Lyall: Shooting Script (1966)
Edgar Wallace: The Four Just Men (1906)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment (1866)
Tragedy
Shakespeare: Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, The Winter's Tale, Julius
Caesar, Coriolanus, Anthony and Cleopatra, Love's Labour's Lost, Titus Andronicus, King Lear
Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
John Green: The Fault in our Stars
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound
Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy
Alexandre Dumas: The Lady of the Camellias
Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge
Aristotle: The Poetics
Alexander Pushkin: Eugene Onegin
Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy
Euripides: Medea
Nicholas Sparks: The Last Song
Lillian Hellman: The Children's Hour
Agatha Christie: Three Act Tragedy
Marcus Zusak: The Book Thief
Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveller's Wife
Nicholas Sparks: A Walk to Remember
Lucian Bane: Mercy
Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl
Paul Hawkins: The Girl on the Train
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
Homer: The Odyssey
James Joyce: Ulysses
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty Four
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
George Eliot: Middlemarch
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
Virgil: The Aeneid
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
Kathryn Stockett: The Help
Cecilia Ahern: P.S. I Love You
Prose Fiction
Peter Ackroyd: The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
Beryl Bainbridge: Master Georgie (1998)
Arnold Bennett: Anna of the Five Towns (1902)
Andrew Drummond: An Abridged History (2004)
Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton (1848)
G. & W. Grossmith: The Diary of a Nobody (1892)
Michael Redhill: Consolation (2006)
Herman Melville: Redburn (1849)
William Morris: News from Nowhere (1891)
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
Prose Non-Fiction
Victorian non-fiction
Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy (1869)
Thomas Carlyle: Selected Writings (Penguin)
John Clare: Selected Letters (OUP)
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857)
Edmund Gosse: Father and Son (1907)
Marx and Engels: The Communist Manifesto (1848)
John Ruskin: Selected Writings (Penguin)
The Brontës: A Life in Letters (ed. Barker)
Henry Thoreau: Walden (1854)
Oscar Wilde: De Profundis (1905)
Modern non-fiction
Peter Ackroyd: Dickens (1990)
Juliet Barker: The Brontës (1994)
Jonathan Bate: John Clare (2003)
Quentin Bell: A New and Noble School (1982)
Winston Churchill: My Early Life (1930)
Terry Eagleton: Heathcliff and the Great Hunger (1996)
Richard Ellman: Oscar Wilde (1988)
Lytton Strachey: Eminent Victorians (1918)
Kate Summerscale: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2008)
Claire Tomalin: Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (2006)
Drama
Anonymous: Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn (1840)
J.M. Barrie: The Admirable Crichton (1902)
Dion Boucicault: The Streets of London (1864)
John Walker: The Factory Lad (1825)
Brian Friel: The Home Place (2005)
Patrick Hamilton: Gaslight (1939)
David Hare: The Judas Kiss (1998)
Arthur Wing Pinero: The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1893)
Harold Pinter: The French Lieutenant's Woman (screenplay) (1981)
George Bernard Shaw: Mrs Warren's Profession (1894), Arms and the Man (1898)
Tom Stoppard: The Invention of Love (1997)
Tom Taylor: The Ticket-of-Leave Man (1863)
Oscar Wilde: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), An Ideal Husband (1895), The Importance of Being Earnest
(1895)
Poetry
Matthew Arnold
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Arthur Clough
Emily Dickinson
Gerald Manley Hopkins
A.E. Housman
George Meredith
Christina Rossetti
Algernon Swinburne
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Walt Whitman
Texts in Translation
Anton Chekhov: Uncle Vanya (1897)
Feodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment (1866)
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary (1857), Sentimental Education (1869)
Nikolai Gogol: The Government Inspector (1836)
Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People (1882)
August Strindberg: Miss Julie (1888)
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (1875)
Emile Zola: Germinal (1885), La Bête Humaine (1890)
(denotes post 1990)
Prose Fiction
Any of the 10 named texts for Unit 2
Ben Elton: The First Casualty (Bantam, 2005)
Adam Thorpe: Nineteen Twenty-One (Vintage, 2001)
Irene Rathbone: We That Were Young (1932)
Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room (1921)
Ford Maddox Ford: Parade's End (1924-28)
Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Prose Non-Fiction
Memoirs
Robert Graves: Goodbye to All That (Penguin, 1929)
Edmund Blunden: Undertones of War (Penguin, 1928)
Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth (Virago, 1933)
History and Testimony
Richard Holmes: Tommy (Harper Perennial, 2005)
ed. Max Arthur: Forgotten Voices (Ebury Press, 2002)
Lyn Macdonald: Somme (Penguin, 1983)
Ben MacIntyre: A Foreign Field (Harper Collins, 2001)
Max Arthur: Last Post (Phoenix, 2005)
Correlli Barnett: The Great War (BBC, 1979)
Richard Van Emden: The Trench (Bantam, 2002), Boy Soldiers of the Great War (Headline, 2006)
Allison and Fairley: The Monocled Mutineer (Quartet Books, 1978)
Diaries, Letters and Biography
Ed. Bishop: Chronicle of Youth (Vera Brittain's War Diary) (Gollancz, 1981)
Ed. Bishop and Bostridge: Letters from a Lost Generation (Abacus, 1998)
Palmer and Wallis: A War in Words (Pocket Books, 2003)
Michael Walsh: Brothers in War (Ebury Press, 2006)
(Bodleian Library University of Oxford, 2006): A Month at the Front, Diary of an Unknown Soldier
Literary Criticism and Cultural Commentary
Paul Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford, 1975)
Adrian Barlow: The Great War in British Literature (Cambridge, 2000)
Dominic Hibberd: Wilfred Owen (Weidenfield and Nicholson, 2002)
B. Berganz: Heroes Twilight (Constable, 1965)
Samuel Hynes: A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture (Pimlico, 1992), The Edwardian
Turn of Mind: First World War and English Culture (Pimlico, 1992)
Collections
Cardinal, Goldman and Hattaway: Womens' Writing on the First World War (Oxford, 1999)
Ed. Marlow: The Virago Book of Women and the Great War (Virago, 1999)
Drama
R. C. Sherriff: Journey's End (Heinemann, 1928)
Peter Whelan: The Accrington Pals (Methuen, 1982)
Stephen MacDonald: Not About Heroes (Faber, 1982)
Joan Littlewood: Oh! What a Lovely War (Methuen, 1965)
Curtis, Elton, etc: Blackadder Goes Forth (Penguin, 1989)
Alan Bleasdale: The Monocled Mutineer (Hutchinson, 1986)
Nick Whitby: To the Green Fields and Beyond (Faber, 2000)
G.B. Shaw: Heartbreak House (1919), O'Flaherty V.C. (1915)
Somerset Maugham: For Services Rendered (1932)
Malleson: Black 'ell (1916)
F. McGuinness: Observe the Sons of Ulster marching Towards the Somme (Faber, 1986)
Sean O'Casey: The Silver Tassie (1929)
Poetry
Giddings: The War Poets (Bloomsbury, 1988)
ed. Catherine Reilly: Scars Upon My Heart (Virago, 1981)
ed. Jon Stallworthy: War Poetry (Oxford, 1984)
Christopher Martin: War Poems (Collins Educational, 1990)
ed. Jon Silkin: Men Who March Away (ed. Parsons, 1965)
various: The Wordsworth Book of First World War Poetry (Wordsworth editions, 1995)
ed. Noakes: Voices of Silence (The Alternative Book of 1st World War Poetry) (Sutton, 2006)
Rita Dove: American Smooth (Not Welcome Here Section) (Norton, 2004)
ed. George Walter: The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (Penguin, 2006)
ed. Martin Stephen: Never Such Innocence (Everyman, 1993)
ed. Dominic Hibberd: The Winter of the World (Constable, 2008)
Texts in Transalation
Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (Vintage, 1929)
Dugain: The Officers' Ward (Phoenix House, 1999)
Palmer and Wallis: A War in Words (2003)
Cardinal etc: Womens' Writing on the First World War (OUP, 1999)
Barbusse: Under Fire (Penguin,1916)
Ernst Junger: Storm of Steel (Penguin, 1920)
Prose Non-Fiction
Autobiographies and Biography, Diaries
Maya Angelou: Autobiography, especially I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Virago, 1969)
Diana Souhami: The Trials of Radclyffe Hall (Virago, 1999)
Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Abacus, 1994)
Memoirs and Interviews
Silvia Calamati: Women's stories from the North of Ireland (Beyond the Pale Publications, 2002)
Bobby Sands: Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song (Mercier Press, 1982)
Malcolm X: Malcolm X Talks to Young People (Pathfinder, 1964-1965)
Alice Walker: The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (Phoenix, 1996)
Travelogues
Salman Rushdie: The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey (Vintage, 1987)
History and cultural commentary, essays and speeches
David Beresford: Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike (Harper Collins,
1987)
Beverley Bryan, Suzanne Scafe, Stella Dadzie : The Heart of the Race (Virago, 1985)
Germaine Greer: The Female Eunuch (Harper Perennial, 1970)
Martin Luther King Jr.: I Have A Dream: Writings And Speeches That Changed The World (Harper, 195668)
Adhaf Soueif: Mezzaterra-Fragments from the Common Ground (Bloomsbury, 2004)
Amrit Wilson: Dreams, Questions, Struggles South Asian Women in Britain (Pluto Press, 2006)
Laws
Parliament: 'Section 28 of the Education Act' 1988
Literary Criticism
Ralph Ellison: Shadow and Act (Vintage, 1967)
Dolly A. McPherson: Order out of Chaos: The Autobiographical Works of Maya Angelou (Virago, 1990)
Kate Millet: Sexual Politics (Virago, 1977)
Amrit Wilson: Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain (Virago, 1978)
Richard Wright: Blueprint for Negro Writing + (1937)
Jeremy Hawthorn ed.: The British Working Class Novel in the Twentieth Century (Hodder Arnold, 1984)
Drama
Brendan Behan: The Hostage (Methuen, 1958)
Sudhar Bhuchar: Child of the Divide (Methuen Modern Plays)
Jim Cartwright: Road (Methuen Modern Plays, 1986)
Caryl Churchill: All plays (some will be post 1990)
Claire Dowie: Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? (Methuen Modern Plays, 1996)
Brian Friel: Dancing at Lughnasa (Faber, 1990)
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun (Methuen Modern Plays, 1959)
Sarah Kane: Complete Plays (Methuen Drama, 1998-2006)
Tony Kushner: Angels in America (Nick Herne Books, 1992)
Martin McDonagh: Beauty Queen of Leenane (Methuen, 1996)
Sean O'Casey: Three Dublin Plays: Juno and the Paycock + (1924), The Plough and the Stars + (1926),
Shadow of a Gunman + (1923) (Faber)
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman (Penguin, 1949)
Mark Ravenhill: Citizenship (Methuen Modern Plays, 2006)
Ntozake Shange: Shange Plays 1- (Includes For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the
Rainbow is Enough)
Timberlake Wertenbaker: Our Country's Good (Methuen, 1988)
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (Methuen, 1947)
International Connections (contributor Jackie Kay): New Plays for Young People (Faber 2003)
Poetry
Simon Armitage: Dead Sea Poems (Faber, 1995)
W.H Auden: e.g 'The Quarry', 'Funeral Blues', 'Refugee Blues' + (1930s)
Gillian Clarke: Letter From a Far Country (1985)
Carol Ann Duffy: The Other Country (Anvil, 1990)
Allan Ginsberg: Howl (City Lights Pocket Poet Series, 1956)
Langston Hughes: Collected Poems + (Vintage, 1930-1960)
Jackie Kay: Life Mask (Bloodaxe Books, 2005)
Liz Lockhead: Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems (Polygon, 1984
Audre Lorde: Any – (some will be post 1990)
Grace Nichols: The Fat Black Woman's Poems (Virago, 1984)
Adrienne Rich: The School Among the Ruins (Norton, 2004)
Lemn Sissay: Morning Breaks in the Elevator (Payback Press, 1999)
Gertrude Stein: Tender Buttons + (Dover, 1914)
Alice Walker: Revolutionary Petunias and other Poems (Harcourt Brae Jovanovitch, 1970)
Benjamin Zephaniah: Too Black, Too Strong (Bloodaxe Books, 2001)
Edited by Lemn Sissay: The Fire People: A Collection of Contemporary Black British Poets (Payback Press,
1998)
Agnes Meadows: Woman (Waterways, 2003)
Gillian Clarke: A Recipe for Water (Carcaret, 2009)
Alice Oswald: The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile (Faber, 1996)
Grace Nichols: I Have Crossed an Ocean (Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2010)
Carol Ann Duffy: Love Poems (Picador, 2010)
Jackie Kay: Darling (Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2007)
Liz Lochhead: The Colour of Black and White (Polyfon, 2003)
Lenin Sissay: Rebel Without Applause (Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1992)
Texts in Translation
Novels
Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits (Chile/Spanish) (Black Swan, 1985)
Alexandra Kollontai: Love of Worker Bees + (USSR/Russian) (Virago, 1930)
Manuel Puig: Kiss of the Spider Woman (Argentina/Spanish) (Vintage, 1976)
Alexander Solzenichen: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (USSR/Russian) (Penguin, 1962)
Poetry
Pablo Neruda: Residence on Earth + (Chile/Spanish) (Souvenir Press, 1933)
Drama
Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage and her Children + (German) (Methuen, 1940)
Federico Garcia Lorca: The House of Bernarda Alba + (1936), Yerma + (1934), Blood Wedding + (1933)
(Spanish) (Penguin)
Non fiction
autobiography/diary/travelogue
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Dutch) (Penguin, 1947)
Che Guevara: The Motorcycle Diaries (Argentina/Spanish) (Harper Perennial, 1952)
Nawal al-Saadawi: Memoirs from the Women's Prison (Egypt/Arabic) (1984)
Gothic
Louisa May Alcott: A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)
Aleksey Nikolayevich Apukhtin: Between Life and Death (1895)
Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey (1818)
Yevgeny Baratynsky: The Ring (1832)
Konstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov: Apparition (1810)
Ambrose Bierce: The Death of Halpin Frayser (1891) and The Spook House
Algernon Blackwood: The Willows (1907)
Anastasia Blackwell: The House on Black Lake (2010)
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: Society's Judgement (1840)
Robert Bloch: Black Bargain (1942) and Psycho (1959)
Poppy Z. Brite: Lost Souls (1992) and Exquisite Corpse (1996)
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre (1847) and Villette (1850)
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Charles Brockden Brown: Wieland (1798), Ormond; or, the Secret Witness (1799) and Arthur Mervyn; or,
Memoirs of the Year 1793 (1799)
Valery Bryusov: In the Mirror (1902) and The Fiery Angel (1908)
Mrs Carver: The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey (1797)
Robert W. Chambers: The King in Yellow/Yellow Sign (1895)
Alexander Vasilyevich Chayanov: The Tale of the Hairdresser's Mannequin (1918), Venediktov (1921) and
The Venetian Mirror (1923)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: Ward No. 6 (1892) and The Black Monk (1894)
Marcus Clarke: For the Term of his Natural Life (1874)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads (1798) and Christabel (1816)
Robert Cormier: The Chocolate War (1974)
Thomas de Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)
August Derleth: The Lonesome Place (1948)
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist (1838), Bleak House (1854), Great Expectations (1861) and The Mystery of
Edwin Drood (1870)
Daphne du Maurier: Jamaica Inn (1936), Rebecca (1938) and Don't Look Now (1970)
George du Maurier: Trilby (1894)
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin: The Red Flower (1883)
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Doom of the Griffiths (1858), The Grey Woman and Lois the Witch
Theophile Gautier: The Mummy's Foot (1863)
William Godwin: The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) and St. Leon: A Tale of the 16th Century (1799)
Nikolay Ivanovich Gretsch: Black Woman (1834)
Alexander Grin: Krysolov (1924) and The Grey Motor Car (1925)
Susan Hill: The Woman in Black (1983)
E.T.A. Hoffmann: The Devil's Elixir (1815), The Entail (1817)[6] and Gambler's Luck (1819)
James Hogg: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)
William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland (1907)
Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)
Evan Hunter: Last Summer (1968)
Caitlin Kiernan: Silk (1998)
Raymond Kennedy: Lulu Incognito (1988)
Stephen King: 'Salem's Lot (1975) and The Shining (1977)
Stephen King and Ridley Pearson: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2002)
Lady Caroline Lamb: Glenarvon (1816)
Francis Lathom: The Midnight Bell (1798)
Sheridan Le Fanu: Uncle Silas (1864) and In a Glass Darkly (1872)
Dennis Lehane: Shutter Island (2003)
Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera (1910)
Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov: The White Eagle (A Ghost Story) (1880)
Ira Levin's Rosemary: Baby (1967) and The Stepford Wives (1972)
Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk (1796) and The Castle Spectre (1797)
Fritz Lieber: The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1949)
Thomas Ligotti: Vastarien (1987)
George Lippard: The Quaker City (1844)
H.P. Lovecraft: The Outsider (1921), The Rats in the Walls (1923), The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
Frederick Marryat: The Phantom Ship (1839)
Richard Marsh: The Beetle: A Mistery (1897)
Richard Matheson: Long Distance Call (1953), I am Legend (1954) and A Stir of Echoes (1958)
Patrick McGrath: The Grotesque (1989)
Thomas Love Peacock: Nightmare Abbey (1818)
Mervyn Peake: Gormenghast trilogy (1946-1955)
Edgar Allan Poe: Berenice (1835), Ligeia (1838), The Fall of the House of Usher (1839), The Narrative of
Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1839), The Masque of the Red Death (1842), The Oval Portrait (1842),
The Pit and the Pendulum (1842), The Black Cat (1843) and The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Antony Pogorelsky: The Lafertovo Poppy-Cake Seller (1825) and Monastyrka (1830-31)
Nikolai Polevoy: The Voices from the Other World (1829) and The Bliss of Madness (1833)
John William Polidori: The Vampyre (1819)
Jan Potocki: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1805)
W.H. Pugmire: Tales of Sesqua Valles (1997)
Alexander Pushkin: The Undertaker (1831) and The Queen of Spades (1834)[13]
Orest Somov: Tales of Buried Treasure (1829), The Werewolf (1829) and Kiev Witches (1833)
Christian Heinrich Spiess: Das Petermännchen (1793)
Robert Lawrence Stine: Goosebumps (1992)
Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
Bram Stoker: Dracula (1897) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911)
Peter Straub: Julia (1975)
Other Genres
PROSE FICTION
Peter Ackroyd: The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
Beryl Bainbridge: Master Georgie (1998)
Arnold Bennett: Anna of the Five Towns (1902)
Andrew Drummond: An Abridged History (2004)
Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton (1848)
G. & W. Grossmith: The Diary of a Nobody (1892)
Michael Redhill: Consolation (2006)
Herman Melville: Redburn (1849)
William Morris: News from Nowhere (1891)
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
PROSE NON-FICTION
Victorian non-fiction
Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy (1869)
Thomas Carlyle: Selected Writings (Penguin)
John Clare: Selected Letters (OUP)
Elizabeth Gaskell: The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857)
Edmund Gosse: Father and Son (1907)
Marx and Engels: The Communist Manifesto (1848)
John Ruskin: Selected Writings (Penguin)
The Brontës: A Life in Letters (ed. Barker)
Henry Thoreau: Walden (1854)
Oscar Wilde: De Profundis (1905)
Modern non-fiction
Peter Ackroyd: Dickens (1990)
Juliet Barker: The Brontës (1994)
Jonathan Bate: John Clare (2003)
Quentin Bell: A New and Noble School (1982)
Winston Churchill: My Early Life (1930)
Terry Eagleton: Heathcliff and the Great Hunger (1996)
Richard Ellman: Oscar Wilde (1988)
Lytton Strachey: Eminent Victorians (1918)
Kate Summerscale: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2008)
Claire Tomalin: Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (2006)
Drama
Anonymous: Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn (1840)
J.M. Barrie: The Admirable Crichton (1902)
Dion Boucicault: The Streets of London (1864)
John Walker: The Factory Lad (1825)
Brian Friel: The Home Place (2005)
Patrick Hamilton: Gaslight (1939)
David Hare: The Judas Kiss (1998)
Arthur Wing Pinero: The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1893)
Harold Pinter: The French Lieutenant's Woman (screenplay) (1981)
George Bernard Shaw: Mrs Warren's Profession (1894) & Arms and the Man (1898)
Tom Stoppard: The Invention of Love (1997)
Tom Taylor: The Ticket-of-Leave Man (1863)
Oscar Wilde: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) & An Ideal Husband (1895) & The Importance of Being Earnest
(1895)
Poetry
Matthew Arnold
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Arthur Clough
Emily Dickinson
Gerald Manley Hopkins
A.E. Housman
George Meredith
Christina Rossetti
Algernon Swinburne
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Walt Whitman
Texts In Translation
Anton Chekhov: Uncle Vanya (1897)
Feodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment (1866)
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary (1857) & Sentimental Education (1869)
Nikolai Gogol: The Government Inspector (1836)
Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People (1882)
August Strindberg: Miss Julie (1888)
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (1875)
Emile Zola: Germinal (1885) & La Bête Humaine (1890)
(denotes post 1990)
PROSE FICTION
Any of the 10 named texts for Unit 2
Ben Elton: The First Casualty (Bantam, 2005)
Adam Thorpe: Nineteen Twenty-One (Vintage, 2001)
Irene Rathbone: We That Were Young (1932)
Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room (1921)
Ford Maddox Ford: Parade's End (1924-28)
Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms (1929)
PROSE NON-FICTION
Memoirs
Robert Graves: Goodbye to All That (Penguin, 1929)
Edmund Blunden: Undertones of War (Penguin, 1928)
Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth (Virago, 1933)
History and Testimony
Richard Holmes: Tommy (Harper Perennial, 2005)
ed. Max Arthur: Forgotten Voices (Ebury Press, 2002)
Lyn Macdonald: Somme (Penguin, 1983)
Ben MacIntyre: A Foreign Field (Harper Collins, 2001)
Max Arthur: Last Post (Phoenix, 2005)
Correlli Barnett: The Great War (BBC, 1979)
Richard Van Emden: The Trench (Bantam, 2002) & Boy Soldiers of the Great War (Headline, 2006)
Allison and Fairley: The Monocled Mutineer (Quartet Books, 1978)
Diaries, Letters and Biography
ed. Bishop: Chronicle of Youth (Vera Brittain's War Diary) (Gollancz, 1981)
Ed. Bishop and Bostridge: Letters from a Lost Generation (Abacus, 1998)
Palmer and Wallis: A War in Words (Pocket Books, 2003)
Michael Walsh: Brothers in War (Ebury Press, 2006) (Bodleian Library University of Oxford, 2006): A Month
at the Front, Diary of an Unknown Soldier
Literary Criticism and Cultural Commentary
Paul Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford, 1975)
Adrian Barlow: The Great War in British Literature (Cambridge, 2000)
Dominic Hibberd: Wilfred Owen (Weidenfield and Nicholson, 2002)
B. Berganz: Heroes Twilight (Constable, 1965)
Samuel Hynes: A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture (Pimlico, 1992) & The Edwardian
Turn of Mind: First World War and English Culture (Pimlico, 1992)
Collections
Cardinal, Goldman and Hattaway: Womens' Writing on the First World War (Oxford, 1999)
ed. Marlow: The Virago Book of Women and the Great War (Virago, 1999)
Drama
R. C. Sherriff: Journey's End (Heinemann, 1928)
Peter Whelan: The Accrington Pals (Methuen, 1982)
Stephen MacDonald: Not About Heroes (Faber, 1982)
Joan Littlewood: Oh! What a Lovely War (Methuen, 1965)
Curtis, Elton, etc: Blackadder Goes Forth (Penguin, 1989)
Alan Bleasdale: The Monocled Mutineer (Hutchinson, 1986)
Nick Whitby: To the Green Fields and Beyond (Faber, 2000)
G.B. Shaw: Heartbreak House (1919) & O'Flaherty V.C. (1915)
Somerset Maugham: For Services Rendered (1932)
Malleson: Black 'ell (1916)
F. McGuinness: Observe the Sons of Ulster marching Towards the Somme (Faber, 1986)
Sean O'Casey: The Silver Tassie (1929)
Poetry
Giddings: The War Poets (Bloomsbury, 1988)
ed. Catherine Reilly: Scars Upon My Heart (Virago, 1981)
ed. Jon Stallworthy: War Poetry (Oxford, 1984)
Christopher Martin: War Poems (Collins Educational, 1990)
ed. Jon Silkin: Men Who March Away (ed. Parsons, 1965)
various: The Wordsworth Book of First World War Poetry (Wordsworth editions, 1995)
ed. Noakes: Voices of Silence (The Alternative Book of 1st World War Poetry) (Sutton, 2006)
Rita Dove: American Smooth (Not Welcome Here Section) (Norton, 2004)
ed. George Walter: The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (Penguin, 2006)
ed. Martin Stephen: Never Such Innocence (Everyman, 1993)
ed. Dominic Hibberd: The Winter of the World (Constable, 2008)
TEXTS IN TRANSLATION
Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (Vintage, 1929)
Dugain: The Officers' Ward (Phoenix House, 1999)
Palmer and Wallis: A War in Words (2003)
Cardinal etc: Womens' Writing on the First World War (OUP, 1999)
Barbusse: Under Fire (Penguin, 1916)
Ernst Junger: Storm of Steel (Penguin, 1920)
PROSE FICTION
Any of the ten named prose texts for Unit 2, or any other novel by Morrison.
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart (Penguin, 1958)
James Baldwin: Go Tell it on the Mountain (Penguin)
Nadine Gordimer: July's People (Bloomsbury, 1981)
Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness + (Virago, 1928)
Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God + (Virago, 1937)
Andrea Levy: Small Island (Headline, 2004)
Patrick McCabe: Breakfast on Pluto (Picador, 1998)
Anne Michaels: Fugitive Pieces (Bloomsbury, 1996)
Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things (Harper Perennial, 1997)
Robert Tressell: The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists + (Flamingo, 1914)
Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting (Vintage, 1993)
Jeanette Winterson: Oranges are not the only fruit (Vintage, 1984)
Richard Wright: Native Son + (Vintage, 1940)
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse 5 (Vintage, 1969)
Rose Tremain: The Road Home (Chatto and Windus)
Kathryn Stockett: The Help (Penguin, 2009)
PROSE NON-FICTION
Autobiographies and Biography, Diaries
Maya Angelou: Autobiography, especially I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Virago, 1969)
Diana Souhami: The Trials of Radclyffe Hall (Virago, 1999)
Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Abacus, 1994)
Memoirs and Interviews
Silvia Calamati: Women's stories from the North of Ireland (Beyond the Pale Publications, 2002)
Bobby Sands: Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song (Mercier Press, 1982)
Malcolm X: Malcolm X Talks to Young People (Pathfinder, 1964-1965)
Alice Walker: The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (Phoenix, 1996)
Travelogues
Salman Rushdie: The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey (Vintage, 1987)
History and cultural commentary, essays and speeches
David Beresford: Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike (Harper Collins,
1987)
Beverley Bryan, Suzanne Scafe, Stella Dadzie: The Heart of the Race (Virago, 1985)
Germaine Greer: The Female Eunuch (Harper Perennial, 1970)
Martin Luther King Jr.: I Have A Dream: Writings And Speeches That Changed The World (Harper, 195668)
Adhaf Soueif: Mezzaterra-Fragments from the Common Ground (Bloomsbury, 2004)
Amrit Wilson: Dreams, Questions, Struggles South Asian Women in Britain (Pluto Press, 2006)
Laws
Parliament: 'Section 28 of the Education Act' 1988
Literary Criticism
Ralph Ellison: Shadow and Act (Vintage, 1967)
Dolly A. McPherson: Order out of Chaos: The Autobiographical Works of Maya Angelou (Virago, 1990)
Kate Millet: Sexual Politics (Virago, 1977)
Amrit Wilson: Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain (Virago, 1978)
Richard Wright: Blueprint for Negro Writing + (1937)
Jeremy Hawthorn ed.: The British Working Class Novel in the Twentieth Century (Hodder Arnold, 1984)
Drama
Brendan Behan: The Hostage (Methuen, 1958)
Sudhar Bhuchar: Child of the Divide (Methuen Modern Plays)
Jim Cartwright: Road (Methuen Modern Plays, 1986)
Caryl Churchill: All plays (some will be post 1990)
Claire Dowie: Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? (Methuen Modern Plays, 1996)
Brian Friel: Dancing at Lughnasa (Faber, 1990)
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun (Methuen Modern Plays, 1959)
Sarah Kane: Complete Plays (Methuen Drama, 1998-2006)
Tony Kushner: Angels in America (Nick Herne Books, 1992)
Martin McDonagh: Beauty Queen of Leenane (Methuen, 1996)
Sean O'Casey: Three Dublin Plays: Juno and the Paycock + (1924), The Plough and the Stars + (1926),
Shadow of a Gunman + (1923) (Faber)
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman (Penguin, 1949)
Mark Ravenhill: Citizenship (Methuen Modern Plays, 2006)
Ntozake Shange: Shange Plays 1- (Includes For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the
Rainbow is Enough)
Timberlake Wertenbaker: Our Country's Good (Methuen, 1988)
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (Methuen, 1947)
International Connections (contributor Jackie Kay): New Plays for Young People (Faber 2003)
Poetry
Simon Armitage: Dead Sea Poems (Faber, 1995)
W.H Auden: e.g 'The Quarry', 'Funeral Blues', 'Refugee Blues' + (1930s)
Gillian Clarke: Letter From a Far Country (1985)
Carol Ann Duffy: The Other Country (Anvil, 1990)
Allan Ginsberg: Howl (City Lights Pocket Poet Series, 1956)
Langston Hughes: Collected Poems + (Vintage, 1930-1960)
Jackie Kay: Life Mask (Bloodaxe Books, 2005)
Liz Lockhead: Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems (Polygon, 1984)
Audre Lorde: Any – (some will be post 1990)
Grace Nichols: The Fat Black Woman's Poems (Virago, 1984)
Adrienne Rich: The School Among the Ruins (Norton, 2004)
Lemn Sissay: Morning Breaks in the Elevator (Payback Press, 1999)
Gertrude Stein: Tender Buttons + (Dover, 1914)
Alice Walker: Revolutionary Petunias and other Poems (Harcourt Brae Jovanovitch, 1970)
Benjamin Zephaniah: Too Black, Too Strong (Bloodaxe Books, 2001)
Edited by Lemn Sissay: The Fire People: A Collection of Contemporary Black British Poets (Payback Press,
1998)
Agnes Meadows: Woman (Waterways, 2003)
Gillian Clarke: A Recipe for Water (Carcaret, 2009)
Alice Oswald: The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile (Faber, 1996)
Grace Nichols: I Have Crossed an Ocean (Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2010)
Carol Ann Duffy: Love Poems (Picador, 2010)
Jackie Kay: Darling (Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2007)
Liz Lochhead: The Colour of Black and White (Polyfon, 2003)
Lenin Sissay: Rebel Without Applause (Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1992)
TEXTS IN TRANSLATION
Novels
Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits (Chile/Spanish) (Black Swan, 1985)
Alexandra Kollontai: Love of Worker Bees + (USSR/Russian) (Virago, 1930)
Manuel Puig: Kiss of the Spider Woman (Argentina/Spanish) (Vintage, 1976)
Alexander Solzenichen: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (USSR/Russian) (Penguin, 1962)
Poetry
Pablo Neruda: Residence on Earth + (Chile/Spanish) (Souvenir Press, 1933)
Drama
Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage and her Children + (German) (Methuen, 1940)
Federico Garcia Lorca: The House of Bernarda Alba + (1936), Yerma + (1934), Blood Wedding + (1933)
(Spanish) (Penguin)
Non fiction autobiography/diary/travelogue
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Dutch) (Penguin, 1947)
Che Guevara: The Motorcycle Diaries (Argentina/Spanish) (Harper Perennial, 1952)
Nawal al-Saadawi: Memoirs from the Women's Prison (Egypt/Arabic) (1984)
Art
Modern Art museum, Oxford
Roche Court, Salisbury
Tate Modern, London
The Sculpture Park, Farnham, Surrey (www.thesculpturepark.com/)
Reading Museum (in Reading Town Hall)
Business Studies
Adam Lashinsky: Inside Apple
John Murray: Pub
Sue Stockdale: Secrets of Successful Women Entrepreneurs: How Ten Leading Business Women Turned a
Good Idea into a Fortune
Karren Brady: Strong Woman: Ambition, Grit and a Pair of Heels
Hillary Devet: Bold as Brass My Story
Duncan Bannantyne: Anyone can do it: My Story
Peter Jones: Tycoon
James Caan: The Real Deal: My Story from Brick Lane to Dragons’ Den
Theo Paphitis: Enter the Dragon
Stewart Lansley: Top Man: How Philip Green Built his High Street Empire
James Dyson: Against the Odds: An Autobiography
Cohen & Greenfield: Ben & Jerry’s Double-dip: Lead with your Values and Make Money Too
Daniel Gross: Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time
Innocent: A Book about Innocent: Our Story and Things we’ve Learned
Sams & Fairley: Sweet Dreams: The Story of Green & Blacks
Peter Thornton: Thorntons: My Life in the Family Business
Howard Schultz: Pour Your Heart into it: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
These books are suggestions only and many will be available in the library – or choose your won business.
Make sure it’s a business that you have an interest in, so you are motivated to complete the research tast
thoroughly!
Computing
D. Page and N.P. Smart (online): What Is Computer Science? An Information Security Perspective
Charles Petzold: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Stephen Poole: Trigger Happy: The inner life of videogames
Robert X Cringely: Accidental Empires
Steven Levy: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition
Bruce Smith: Raspberry Pi Assembly Language (2nd edition)
Magazines
Computer Science for Fun
New Scientist
Wired
Dance
Linda Rickett Young: The Essential Guide to Dance
Jennifer Dunning: Alvin Ailey A Life in Dance
Jerome Robbins: That Broadway Man
Robert Cohan: The Dance Workshop
Judith Mackrell: Out of Line
50 Contemporary Choreographers
Janet Adshead: Dance Analysis Theory and Practice
Jacqueline Smith Autard: Dance Composition
Students can read a copy of The Dancing Times or Dance Journal which comes out monthly. (BBU and SCA
subscribe and bring our copies to the dance library in DA2)
Design & Technology
RM and Graphics GCSE/A Level:
AQA Design and Technology Resistant materials
Drawing for Designers designed for kids
Bauhaus
50 product designs: processes
Designs of the times
Eco Design handbook
The measure of man and women: human factors in design
Textiles GCSE/A Level:
Art and Design student handbook
Oxford dictionary of Art, this is modern art
The art of the Needle
Vivienne Westwood: Wearable Art and Design for the Body
Drama
Jean Benedetti: Stanislavski and the Actor
Andrew Gurr: The Shakespearean Stage
Cole & Chinoy: Actors on Acting
Jean Bennedetti: The Art of The Actor
Ethics & Philosophy
Any philosophy books, including Richard Dawkins’ books. We have our own mini library that all students
are allowed to borrow from.
Film & Media
Gill Branston & Roy Stafford: The Media Student's Book
James Monaco: How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond: The World of Movies, Media,
Multimedia: Language, History, Theory
Peter Ackroyd: Alfred Hitchcock
Michael Richardson: Surrealism and Cinema
Geography
Michael Palin: From Pole to Pole
G Martin: Game of Thrones
Geofiles and Geography Review (in the library)
National Geographic Magazine
Mathematics
Paul Erdos: The man who loved only numbers
Paul Nahin: An Imaginary tale: The story of “I” [the square root of minus one] & Dr Euler’s fabulous
formula: Cure many mathematical ills
Douglas Hofstadter: Godel, Escher, Bach, An eternal golden braid
Maurice Kline: Mathematics for the nonmathematician
Stephen Hawkings: God created the integers: The mathematical breakthroughs that changed history
Simon Singh: Fermat’s last theorem & The code book: The science of secrecy from ancient Egypt to
quantum cryptography
Eli Maor: To infinity and beyond
John Derbyshire: Prime obsession: Berhard Riemann and the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics
Modern Foreign Languages
Easy(ish) French authentic reads
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Le Petit Prince
Jacques Prévert: Any poems
René Goscinny: Le Petit Nicolas
Spanish classics (can be read in English)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: Don Quixote
Federico García Lorca: La Casa de Bernada Alba
Gabriel García Márquez: One hundred years of solitude
General wider reading in English by non-English authors
Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Homer: The Odyssey
Albert Camus: The Stranger (L'Etranger)
Victor Hugo: Les Misérables
Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House
Voltaire: Candide
Thomas Mann: Death in Venice and other tales
Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Françoise Sagan: Bonjour Tristesse
Jean de la Fontaine: Fables
Psychology
Siobhan Dowd: The London Eye Mystery
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
SJ Watson: Before I Go To Sleep
Jed Rubenfeld: The Interpretation Of Murder
Lionel Shriver: We Need To Talk About Kevin
Sport
Clive Woodward: ‘Winning’ biography
Mens Health and Mens Fitness magazines
Newspapers/online sporting news
PE review magazine
Coaching manuals – various sports online