KEY STAGE 5 - READING LIST

Suggested reading for all sixth formers. It is important whatever subjects you are studying in the sixth form that you keep reading widely. This is a comprehensive list, recommended to English students but from which you could find ideas. Those studying English should read widely from this list.

Must Try Should try Could try A Thousand Splendid Suns/Khaled Hosseini A Room With A View/ E.M. Forster Beloved/Toni Morrison American Psycho/ Bret Easton Ellis Age Of Innocence/Edith Wharton Clockwork Orange/ Anthony Burgess Atonement/Ian McEwan Bonfire Of Vanities/Tom Wolfe Cry, The Beloved Country/Alan Paton Behind The Scenes At The Museum/ Kate Atkinson Brave New World/Aldous Huxley For Whom The Bell Tolls/ Ernest Hemingway Birdsong/ Sebastian Faulks Buddha Of Suburbia/Hanif Kureishi God Of Small Things/Arundhati Roy Brighton Rock/ Graham Greene Count Of Monte Cristo/ Alexandre Dumas Gormenghast/Mervyn Peake Captain Corelli’s Mandolin/ Louis De Bernieres Dubliners/James Joyce Grapes Of Wrath/John Steinbeck Catch-22/Joseph Heller Empire Of The Sun/ J.G. Ballard Handmaid’s Tale/ Margaret Atwood Catcher In The Rye/J.D. Salinger Forest/Edward Rutherfurd Jewel In The Crown/Paul Scott Color Purple/Alice Walker French Lieutenant’s Woman/ John Fowles Knowledge Of Angels/Jill Paton Walsh Daughter Of Time/Josephine Tey Gallows Thief/Bernard Cornwell Midnight’s Children/Salman Rushdie Dracula/Bram Stoker Great Expectations/ Charles Dickens Mrs Dalloway/Virginia Woolf Frankenstein/Mary Shelley Ice-Cream War/ William Boyd Name Of The Rose/ Umberto Eco Great Gatsby/ F. Scott Fitzgerald In Desolate Heaven/ Robert Edric Nice Work/David Lodge Heart Of Darkness/ Joseph Conrad Ladysmith/ Giles Foden Oscar And Lucinda/ Peter Carey I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings/ Maya Angelou Last Orders/Graham Swift Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha/ Roddy Doyle Jane Eyre/ Charlotte Bronte Like Water For Chocolate/ Laura Esquivel Perfume/Patrick Suskind Last King Of Scotland/ Giles Foden Middlemarch/ George Elliot Picture Of Dorian Gray/Oscar Wilde Nineteen Eighty Four/George Orwell One Hundred Years Of Solitude/ Gabriel Garcia Marquez Portrait Of A Lady/Henry James North And South/ Elizabeth Gaskell Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit/Jeanette Winterson Possession/ A.S. Byatt On The Road/ Jack Kerouac Past Mortem/Ben Elton Siege Of Krishnapur/ J.G. Farrell Pride And Prejudice/ Jane Austen Remains Of The Day/Kazuo Ishiguro The English Patient/Michael Ondaatje Regeneration/ Pat Barker Secret Scripture/Sebastian Barry The Rainbow/D. H. Lawrence Schindler’s Ark/ Thomas Keneally Spies/ Michael Frayn The Sea, The Sea/ Iris Murdoch Strange Meeting/Susan Hill Time’s Arrow/ Martin Amis The Turn of the Screw/ Henry James Suite Francaise/Irene Nemirovsky Tooth And Nail (Inspector Rebus Series)/ Ian Rankin Things Fall Apart/ Chinua Achebe Tess Of The D’Urbervilles/ Thomas Hardy Wild Swans/ Jung Chang Trainspotting/Irvine Welsh The Bell Jar/Sylvia Plath Wolf Hall/Hilary Mantel Unbearable Lightness Of Being/Milan Kundera The Go-Between/ L.P. Hartley White Teeth/Zadie Smith Wasp Factory/ Iain Banks Wide Sargasso Sea/Jean Rhys Wuthering Heights/ Emily Bronte Yellow Wallpaper/ Charlotte Perkins Gilman