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Recommended Reading List For English A ' Levels

This list provides recommended reading for English 'A' levels, including classic authors such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Orwell, and Virginia Woolf. It includes particular book titles for each author but notes that the list is not exhaustive and is meant to provide suggestions to explore various possibilities in the library. The goal is that students will find books on the list they will re-read in 20 years.

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Recommended Reading List For English A ' Levels

This list provides recommended reading for English 'A' levels, including classic authors such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Orwell, and Virginia Woolf. It includes particular book titles for each author but notes that the list is not exhaustive and is meant to provide suggestions to explore various possibilities in the library. The goal is that students will find books on the list they will re-read in 20 years.

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Recommended Reading List for English A Levels

This list is by no means exhaustive (although it would take you a while to get through it all!),
nor are there any guarantees that you will enjoy all the books included. It is merely a list of
suggestions that will give you somewhere to start when faced with a whole library full of
possibilities. With any luck, there is something on the list that you will still be re-reading in
20 years time! Dont even get me started on drama and poetry...

Author

Chinua Achebe
Richard Adams
Kingsley Amis
Martin Amis
Margaret Atwood
Jane Austen
Iain Banks
Louis de Bernieres
John Braine
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Anita Brookner
Anthony Burgess
Angela Carter
Wilkie Collins
Joseph Conrad
Charles Dickens
Margaret Drabble
George Eliot
William Faulkner
Sebastian Faulks
F. Scott Fitzgerald
E.M. Forster
John Fowles
Mrs Gaskell
William Golding
Robert Graves
Graham Greene
Thomas Hardy
L.P. Hartley
Nathanial Hawthorne
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway

Particularly recommended titles (feel free


to extend this to other titles by the same
author.)
Things Fall Apart
Watership Down, The Plague Dogs
Lucky Jim
Times Arrow, London Fields
The Handmaids Tale, Cats Eye, Alias Grace
Any titles by this author.
Complicity, The Wasp Factory
Any titles by this author.
Room at the Top
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Hotel du Lac
A Clockwork Orange
The Passion of New Eve
Any titles by this author
The Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent
Any titles by this author.
The Millstone, The Garrick Year
Any titles by this author.
As I Lay Dying
Birdsong
The Great Gatsby
Any titles by this author.
The French Lieutenants Woman, The
Collector
North and South
The Lord of the Flies
I Claudius, Claudius the God, Goodbye To All
That
Any titles by this author.
Any titles by this author.
The Go-Between
The Scarlet Letter
Catch-22
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Farewell to Arms

Peter Barry
Susan Hill
Aldous Huxley
Kazuo Ishiguru
Henry James
James Joyce
Ken Kesey
Milan Kundera
D.H. Lawrence
T.E. Lawrence
John Le Carre
Harper Lee
Doris Lessing
Iain McEwan
Toni Morrison
Alice Munro
Iris Murdoch
George Orwell
Boris Pasternak
Alan Paton
Mervyn Peake
Sylvia Plath
Mary Renault
Luke Rhinehart
Jean Rhys
Salman Rushdie
J.D. Salinger
Paul Scott
Alan Sillitoe
John Steinbeck
Bram Stoker
Patrick Suskind
William Makepeace Thackerey
Leo Tolstoy
Anthony Trollope
Franz Kafka
Alice Walker
Evelyn Waugh
Oscar Wilde
Jeanette Winterson
Virginia Woolf

Beginning Theory (non-fiction)


Im The King of the Castle
Brave New World
The Remains of the Day
Any titles by this author.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
The Joke
Any titles by this author.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Any titles by this author.
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Summer Before Death
The Child in Time, Enduring Love
Beloved, Song of Soloman, The Bluest Eye,
Sula
The Runaway
The Sandcastle
Animal Farm, 1984
Dr Zhivago
Cry, The Beloved Country
The Ghormenghast Trilogy
The Bell Jar
Any titles by this author.
The Dice Man
Wide Sargasso Sea
Midnights Children, Haroun and the Sea of
Stories
Catcher in the Rye
The Jewel in the Crown
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Any titles by this author.
Dracula
Perfume
Vanity Fair
Anna Karinina
Any titles by this author.
The Trial
The Color Purple
Any titles by this author.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Mrs Dalloway

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