Read widely over the summer weeks to broaden your experience of Literature. Here are some suggestions in case of need!Don't forget to read the set texts also though. See the list on the page entitled, 'Set Texts' but make sure you look at Literature AS and not A2
Modern Prose Post-Modern and Experimental
The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Christie Malry's Own Double Entry BS Johnson Engleby Sebastian Faulks The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles The Corrections Jonathan Franzen The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon The Secret History Donna Tartt White Noise Don DeLillo The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Beloved Toni Morrison In Translation Atonement Ian McEwan The Outsider Albert Camus Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Vernon God Little DBC Pierre Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow Peter Hoeg The Children's Book A S Byatt Bonjour Tristesse Francoise Sagan Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky English Classics The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Persuasion Jane Austen Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Non-Fiction A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess The Brontes Juliet Barker Anything by Charles Dickens Chaos: Making a New Science James Gleick Middlemarch George Eliot In Cold Blood Truman Capote A Passage to India E M Forster Romantic Affinities: Portrait of an Age: 1780- Tess of the D'Urbevilles Thomas Hardy 1830 Rupert Christiansen Brave New World Aldous Huxley A Year in the Life of Shakespeare James Shapiro* 1984 George Orwell Dracula Bram Stoker Humour Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh* Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf Diary of a Nobody G and W Grossmith Catch 22 Joseph Heller American The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Any P G Wodehouse Revolutionary Road Richard Yates The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Drama Washington Square Henry James Any Shakespearean play* The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller The Shipping News Annie Proulx The Iceman Cometh Eugene O'Neill The Catcher in the Rye J D Salinger The Rivals Sheridan The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain The Man of Mode George Etherege The Colour Purple Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard Ethan Frome Edith Wharton Lady Windermere's Fan Oscar Wilde Short Stories Poetry The Dubliners James Joyce Romantic: Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth and The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories Angela Carter Coleridge. Short Stories 1896-1904 Anton Chekov The Whitsun Weddings Philip Larkin Selected Poems Alfred Lord Tennyson * Texts with a strong link to AS set texts |
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