Sixth Form Recommended Reading list
Achebe Chinua
Ackroyde Peter
Allende Isabel
Allingham Margery
Amis Kingsley
Arnott Jake
Ashworth Angela
Atkinson Kate
Atwood Margaret
Austen Jane
Bach Richard
Bainbridge Beryl
Ballard J.G.
Balzac H. de
Banks Iain
Bates H.E.
Bambara Toni Cade
Barker Pat
Barnes Julian
Bauby Jean Dominique
Beauvoir Simone de
Beard Jo Ann
Bedford Sybil
Bellow Saul
Berendt John
Bernieres Louis de
Binding Tim
Birch Carol
Bowen Elizabeth
Boyd Rosie
Boyd William
Bradbury Malcolm
Bradbury Ray
Bragg Melvyn
Bronte Ann
Bronte Charlotte
Bronte Emily
Brookner Anita
Bryson Bill
Buck Pearl S.
Bunyan John
Burgess Anthony
Byatt A.S.
Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God
The Great Fire of London
The House of the Spirits
Dancers in Mourning
Lucky Jim
The Long Firm
Once Upon a House on Fire
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
The Handmaid’s Tale; Cat’s Eyes; Alias Grace
Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park
Illusions; The Messiah; A Bridge Across Forever
Harriet Said; The Bottle Factory Outing;
The Empire of the Sun; Rushing to Paradise
Eugenie Grandet; Old Goriot
Crow Road; The Wasp Factory; Black Dogs
The Jacaranda Tree; The Darling Buds of May
These Bones Are Not My Child
Regeneration; Union Street; Another World
The History of the World in 10 and a half Chapters
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Blood of Others
The Boys of My Youth
Jigsaw
Henderson, the Rain King; Hertzog; Ravelstein
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Island Madness
The Fogline
The Heat of the Day; The House in Paris
Rosie
The Ice Cream War; The Blue Afternoon
The History Man
Golden Apples of the Sun; Fahrenheit 451
The Maid of Buttermere; The Soldier’s Return
The Tennant of Wildfell Hall; Agnes Grey
Jane Eyre; Villette; Shirley
Wuthering Heights
Hotel du Lac; Undue Influence; Visitors
A Walk in the Woods; Notes From A Small Island
The Good Earth; Letter From Peking
Pilgrim’s Progress
A Clockwork Orange
Possession; The Game; Angels and Insects
Calvino Italo
Camus Albert
Capote Truman
Carey Peter
Carr W.H.
Carson Michael
Carter Angela
Cary Joyce
Chatwin Bruce
Cheek Mavis
Coe Jonathan
Coelho Paul
Coetzee J.M.
Colegate Isabel
Collins Wilkie
Compton-Burnett Ivy
Conrad Joseph
Conroy Pat
Conroy Frank
Crane Stephen
Cunningham Michael
Dava Sorel
Deane Seamus
Defoe Daniel
Desai Anita
Dickens Charles
Disraeli Benjamin
Dobyns Stephen
Doctorow E.L.
Doolittle Hilda
Dostoyevski F.
Doyle Roddy
Drabble Margaret
Dunmore Helen
Durrell Lawrence
Eidson Thomas
Eliot George
Elton Ben
Endo Shusaku
Esquivel Laura
Faulkner William
Faulks Sebastian
Fielding Helen
Fiest Raymond E.
Fischor Tibor
Fitzgerald Scott
Invisible Cities; Ancestors
The Outsider; The Plague
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Oscar and Lucinda
A Month in the Country
Sucking Sherbert Lemons
The Magic Toyshop; Wise Children
The Horse’s Mouth; Mister Johnson
Songlines; On the Black Hill
Aunt Margaret’s Lover; Janice Gentle Gets Sexy
The House of Sleep; What a Carve Up!
The Alchemist; Valkyries
Disgrace
The Shooting Party
The Woman in White; Armdale etc
The Present and the Past; Brothers and Sisters
The Heart of Darkness; Lord Jim; Nostromo
The Prince of Tides; Beach Music
Body and Soul
The Red Badge of Courage
A Home at the End of the World
Longitude
Reading in the Dark
Moll Flanders; A Journal of the Plague Year
A Village by the Sea
Bleak House; Great Expectations; Hard Times
Sybil
The Two Deaths of Senora Puccini
Ragtime; City of God; Billy Bathgate
Her
The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment
The Van; The Snapper; Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
The Garrick Year; The Radiant Way
Talking to the Dead; Love of Fat Men
The Alexandrine Quartet
All God’s Children; St Agnes Stand; Hannah’s Gift
Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda; Silas Marner
Another Eden; Gridlock
The Girl I Left Behind
Like Water for Chocolate
As I Lay Dying; Go Down Moses
Birdsong; Charlotte Grey
Bridget Jones’s Diary
A Darkness at Sethanon; Magician
Under the Frog
The Great Gatsby; The Beautiful and the Damned
Flaubert Gustav
Foreman Amanda
Forster E.M.
Forster Margaret
Fowles John
Franck Dan
Franklin Miles
Furst Alan
Gardam Jane
Garland Alex
Gaskell Elizabeth
Gibbons Stella
Glaister Lesley
Golden Arthur
Golding William
Gordimer Nadine
Graves Robert
Gregory Philippa
Greene Graham
Gutterson David
Hamilton Jane
Handke Peter
Hardy Thomas
Harris Robert
Harrison Kathryn
Hartley L.P.
Hawks Tony
Head Bessie
Heller Joseph
Hemingway Ernest
Hesse Herman
Highsmith Pat
Hill Susan
Hoeg Peter
Holtby Winifred
Houston Pam
Huxley Aldous
Irving John
Isherwood Christopher
Ishiguro Kazuo
James Clive
James Henry
James P.D.
Jerome K. Jerome
Johnson B.S.
Johnson Jennifer
Madame Bovary; Salambo
Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire
A Passage to India; Howard’s End; Room With a View
Mothers’ Boys; Shadow Baby
The French Lieutenant’s Woman; The Magus
Separation
My Brilliant Career; My Career Goes Bung
Dark Star
Bilgewater; Faith Fox
The Beach
North and South; Wives and Daughters
Cold Comfort Farm
Honour Thy Father; Easy Peasy
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Inheritors; The Spire
My Son’s Story; Jump; July’s People
I, Claudius; Claudius the God; Wife to Mr Milton
A Respectable Trade
The Power and the Glory; Brighton Rock;
Snow Falling on Cedars
Map of the World
The Left-Handed Woman
Tess; Jude the Obscure; Far From The Madding Crowd
Archangel
A Thousand Orange Trees
The Go-Between; Eustace and Hilda
Walking Round Ireland With a Fridge
A Question of power; The Collector of Treasures
Catch 22
For Whom the Bell Tolls; A Farewell to Arms
Steppenwolf; The Glass Bead Game
The Talented Mr Ripley
Strange Meeting; Air and Angels
Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow
Poor Caroline
Cowboys Are My Weakness
Brave New World
The Cider House Rules; Widow For A Year
Goodbye to Berlin; Mr Norris Changes Trains
The Remains of the Day
The Silver Castle
The Wings of a Dove; What Maisie Knew
The Children of Men; Original Sin
Three Men in a Boat
Albert Angelo; The Unfortunates
How Many Miles to Babylon?
Joyce James
Karl & Hamalian
Kavanagh P.J.
Keane Fergal
Kerouac Jack
Kesey Ken
Keneally Thomas
Kundera Milan
Kureishi Hanif
Laclos
Lapierre Dominique
Lamer Mary
Larkin Philip
Lawrance D.H.
Le Carre John
Lehmann Rosamund
Lessing Doris
Lethem Jonathan
Levi Primo
Lewis C.S.
Lively Penelope
Llosa Mario Vargos
Lomax Eric
Macaulay Rose
Maclaverty Bernard
Malouf David
Mann Thomas
Manning Olivia
Marquez Gabriel G.
Maupin Armistead
McCabe Patrick
Mcarthy Cormac
McEwan Ian
Mehta Gita
Melville Herman
Michaels Anne
Miller Andrew
Miller Sue
Mills Magnus
Mitford Nancy
Moggach Deborah
Monsarrat Nicholas
Moore George
Morrison Toni
Murdoch Iris
Nabokov
The Dubliners; Ulysees
The Naked I
The Perfect Stranger
Letter to Daniel
On the Road; Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Schindler’s Ark; A Dutiful Daughter
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Buddah of Suburbia
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
City of Joy
Fortune’s knave
A Girl in Winter
Sons and Lovers; Women in love; The Rainbow
The Honourable Schoolboy
Invitation to the Waltz; The Weather in the Streets
The Golden Notebook; Briefing For a Descent into Hell
Motherless Brooklyn
If This is a Man; The Truce; The Periodic Table
The Allegory of Love; The Dark Tower
The Road to Lichfield; Moon Tiger
The Storyteller
The Railwayman
Dangerous Ages; Told by an Idiot
Lamb; Cal; Grace Notes
The Great World; Child’s Play
Death in Venice; The Magic Mountain
Fortunes of War
News of a Kidnapping; Love in a Time of Cholera
Tales of the City
The Butcher Boy
All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing
A Child in Time; Enduring Love; Amsterdam
A River Sutra
Moby Dick; Billy Budd Sailor
Fugitive Pieces
Casanova
The Good Mother
The Restraint of Beasts
Love in a Cold Climate
Tulip Fever
The Cruel Sea
Esther Waters
Beloved; Song of Solomon
The Sea, the Sea; A severed Head; The Unicorn
Ada; Lolita
Naipaul V.S.
Narayan R. K.
Ninez Sigrid
O’Brien Edna
O’Brien Flann
O’Flaherty Liam
Okri Ben
Ondaatje Michael
Orwell George
Palliser Charles
Parsons Tony
Paton Walsh Jill
Peacock Thomas Love
Peake Mervyn
Pears Tim
Picardie Ruth
Plath Sylvia
Prawer Ruth Jhabvala
Priestley J.B.
Pushkin Alexander
Pym Barbara
Raphael Frederick
Remarque Eric
Rhys Jean
Rowling J.K.
Rushdie Salman
Sahgal Nayantara
Salinger J.D.
Schlink Bernhardt
Scott Paul
Seth Vikram
Shields Carol
Simpson John
Smiley Jane
Smith Dodie
Smith Stevie
Smedley Agnes
Soltzhenitsyn A.
Spark Muriel
Steinbeck John
Stendhal
Stewart Chris
Suskind Patrick
Swift Graham
Swift Jonathan
A Bend in the River; In a Free State
The Maneater of Malgudi
A Feather on the Breath of God
Country Girls; Girl with Green Eyes
At Swim-Two Birds; The Third Policeman
The Informer; Famine
The Famished Road; Astonishing the Gods
The English Patient; Anil’s Ghost
Animal Farm; 1984; The Road to Wigan Pier
The Quincunx
Man and Boy
Knowledge of Angels
Nightmare Abbey; Crochet Castle
Titus Groan Trilogy
In the Place of the Fallen Leaves; A Revolution of
the Sun
Just Before I Say Goodbye
The Bell Jar
Heat and Dust; A Backward Place
Angel Pavement
The Queen of Spades
A Few Green Leaves; Excellent Women
The Glittering Prizes
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Wide Sargasso Sea
Harry Potter Trilogy
Midnight’s Children
Rich Like Us
The Catcher in the Rye
The Reader
The Jewel in the Crown
A Suitable Boy; An Equal Music
The Stone Diaries; Mary Swann
Strange Places, Questionable People
A Thousand Acres
I Capture the Castle
Novel on Yellow Paper; The Holiday
Daughter of Earth
Cancer Ward; The Gulag Archipeligo
Loitering With Intent
The Grapes of Wrath; Cannery Row; Of Mice and Men
Scarlet and Black
Driving Over Humans
Perfume
Last Orders; Waterland
Gulliver’s Travels
Syal Meera
Tartt Donna
Tan Amy
Thackeray William
Theroux Paul
Tobin Colm
Tolstoy Leo
Trapido Barbara
Tremaine Rose
Trevor William
Trollope Anthony
Trollope Joanna
Turgenev
Tyler Anne
Unsworth Barry
Uris Leon
Vine Barbara
Walker Alice
Waugh Evelyn
Weldon Fay
Welsh Irvine
Welty Eudora
Wesley Mary
West Rebecca
Wharton Edith
White Antonia
Wilde Oscar
Wilson Angus
Winterson Jeanette
Woolfe Viginia
Yen Mah Adeline
Zola Emile
Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee; Anita and Me
The Secret History
The Kitchen God’s Wife; The Hundred Secret Senses
Vanity Fair
The Black House; Chicago Loop
The Heather Blazing
War and Peace; Anna Karenina
Temples of Delight; Noah’s Ark; Juggling
The Cupboard
Fools of Fortune; Death in Summer; Felicia’s Journey
The Warden; The Way We Live Now
The Choir; A Village Affair; The Rector’s Wife
Torrents of Spring
The Accidental Tourist; A Patchwork Planet
Sacred Hunger; Morality Play
Exodus; Mila 18
Asta’s Books; The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy
The Colour Purple; The Temple of my Familiar
Brideshead Revisited; Decline and Fall
Letters To Alice; The Heart of the Country
Trainspotting; Filth
The Ponder Heart; The Optimist’s Daughter
The Camomile Lawn; Jumping the Queue
The Birds Fall Down
The Age of Innocence; House of Mirth
Frost in May
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; Written on the Body
To the Lighthouse; The Waves; Mrs Dalloway
Falling Leaves
The Earth; Nana
Non-Fiction
Abse Danny
Ackroyde Peter
Angelou Maya
Baldwin James
Bates H.E.
Behan Brendan
Blythe R.
Brittain Vera
Brown Christy
Campbell Ffyona
Carter Angela
Cassidy Sheila
Chang Jung
Chatwin Bruce
Connor/Kingman
Dew Josie
Diddion Joan
Fiennes Ranulph
Forster E.M.
Forster Margaret
Frazer Alexander
Gaskell
Geldof Bob
Granta 10
Granta 14
Graves Robert
Ignatieff Michael
Keene Fergal
Keenan Brian
Lee Laurie
Lee Fermor-Patrick
Leng Flavia
Lewis Norman
Lipmann Maureen
Lomax Eric
Lumley Joanna
Mandela Nelson
McCarthy/Morell
Moorehouse Geoffrey
Morrison Blake
Newby Eric
Nicolson Nigel
Orwell George
Pepys Samuel
Ash on A Young Man’s Sleeve
Biography of Dickens
I Know Why Caged Birds Sing
The Fire Next Time; Going To Meet the Man
The Ripening World
Borstal Boy
Akenfield
Testament of Youth
My Left Foot
On Foot Through Africa
Nothing Sacred
Audacity to Believe
Wild Swans
What Am I Doing Here?
The Search for the Virus
Travels in a Strange Place; Cycling Across the USA
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Mind Over Matter
Selcted Essays
Daphne du Maurier
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Life of Charlotte Bronte
Is That It?
Travel Writing
Autobiography
Goodbye To All That
The Russian Album
Letter To Daniel
An Evil Cradling
As I Walked Out One Mid-Summer Morning
A Time For Gifts
Daphne du Maurier – A Daughter’s Memoir
Goddess in the Stone
How Was it For You?
The Railway Man
Stare Back and Smile
The Long Walk Back to Freedom
Some Other Rainbow
The Fearful Void
When Did You Last See Your Father?
The Last Grain of Rice; A Traveller’s Life
Portrait of a Marriage
The Road to Wigan Pier; Inside the Whale
Diary
Picardie Ruth
Robb Brian
Rushdie Salman
Stark Freya
Taylor Alice
Theroux Paul
Thomas Dylan
Thompson Flora
Thubron Colin
Unsworth Barry
Waugh Evelyn
Weldon Fay
Whitelaw Billie
Woods Donald
Woolfe Virginia
Yen Mah Adeline
Just Before I Say Goodbye
River Phoenix; A Short Life
The Jaguar Smile
The Valley of the Assassins
Through the Fields to School; Country Days
The Great Railway Bazaar
Letters
Lark rise to Candleford
Emperor; The Hills of Adonis; Behind the Wall
Sacred Hunger; Losing Nelson
When the Going was Good; Brideshead Revisited
letters to Alice
Billie Whitelaw – Who He?
Asking For Trouble
Womwne and Writing; A Room of One’s Own
Falling Leaves