Reading List

I will sort out the format of this list soon!  In the meantime, please add your reading suggestions to the comment section below. 

This list is not exhaustive- it is merely an introduction to books and authors that I have read and think you might like. Suggestions welcome! Author Book(s) Douglas Adams Maya Angelou Herbert Ashbury Gangs of New York Nina Bawden Ray Bradbury Farenheit 451 Charlotte Bronte Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita Raymond Chandler (Crime Fiction) Kate Chopin Short Stories Wilkie Collins Tom Clancy Joseph Conrad Roald Dahl Dickens Anton Chekhov Roddy Doyle George Elliot Henry Fielding Tom Jones E. M. Forster A Room with a View Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm Graham Greene Thomas Hardy Joseph Heller Catch 22 Nick Hornby Fever Pitch Aldous Huxley Brave New World Henry James James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Kafka Elmore Leonard Primo Levi Michelle Magorian A Little Love Song Maupassant Short Stories Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Short novels!) Frank McCourt Angela’s Ashes Toni Morrison Beloved George Orwell Alan Paton Cry The Beloved Country Mary Shelley Frankenstein Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alan Sillitoe The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (short stories) Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie John Steinbeck Robert Louis Stevenson Jekyll and Hyde Bram Stoker Dracula Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels Mildred D Taylor Thackeray Turgenev First Love Oscar Wilde Dorian Gray Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited / Short stories Tom Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities John Wyndham Day of the Triffids Books in lower school section Lian Hearn Across the Nightingale Floor Mal Reet Keeper Malorie Blackman Noughts and Crosses