Sixth Form Recommended Reading:
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Title Author Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albe Brick Lane Monica Ali The House of Spirits Isabel Allende Alias Grace Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale Any titles by this author Jane Austen If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin Complicity Iain Banks The Crow Road The Wasp Factory Regeneration Pat Barker Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis de Bernières Room at the Top John Braine Any titles by this author Anne Bronte Any titles by this author Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess In Cold Blood Truman Capote Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John le Carré The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories Angela Carter Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler The Girl with the Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier The Awakening Kate Chopin The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
LRC Recommended Reading 6th Form 1 of 6 June 2020
Title Author Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad The Greatest Show on Earth Richard Dawkins Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Philip K Dick All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Room Emma Donoghue Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis Invisible Man Ralph Ellison As I Lay Dying William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury Birdsong Sebastian Faulks Charlotte Gray Tom Jones Henry Fielding The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald Howard’s End E M Forster A Passage to India A Room with a View The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank Cold Mountain Charles Frazier Sophie’s World Jostein Gaarder Mary Barton Elizabeth Gaskell North and South Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman Brighton Rock Graham Greene The End of the Affair The Other Boleyn Girl Philippa Gregory The Red Queen The White Queen A Time to Kill John Grisham The Client The Firm
LRC Recommended Reading 6th Form 2 of 6 June 2020
Title Author Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy Tess of the D’Urbervilles Chocolat Joanne Harris Enigma Robert Harris Hannibal Thomas Harris Red Dragon The Silence of the Lambs A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking The Scarlet Letter Nathanial Hawthorne Catch-22 Joseph Heller A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea Dune Frank Herbert The Talented Mr Ripley Patricia Highsmith Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman About a Boy Nick Hornby Fever Pitch High Fidelity The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Brave New World Aldous Huxley Cider House Rules John Irving Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day The Portrait of a Lady Henry James The Turn of the Screw Finnegans Wake James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Ulysses The Perfect Storm Sebastian Junger Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Pigeon English Stephen Kelman Schindler’s Ark Thomas Keneally
LRC Recommended Reading 6th Form 3 of 6 June 2020
Title Author On the Road Jack Kerouac One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey IT Stephen King The Shining The Stand The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi Women in Love D H Lawrence To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee Rosemary’s Baby Ira Levin The Stepford Wives The Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude Game of Thrones George R R Martin No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy The Road Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt Atonement Ian McEwan
Enduring Love If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things Jon McGregor Watchmen Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern Beloved Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye Song of Solomon The Sandcastle Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea A Bend in the River V S Naipaul Miguel Street One Day David Nicholls The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger Any title by this author George Orwell Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk
LRC Recommended Reading 6th Form 4 of 6 June 2020
Title Author Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak Gormenghast Trilogy Mervyn Peake Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence Doris Pilkington The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Good Omens Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon The Fountainhead Ayn Rand Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie Cosmos Carl Sagan The Catcher in the Rye J D Salinger The Jewel in the Crown Paul Scott The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold We Need to Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner Alan Sillitoe Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Touching the Void Joe Simpson White Teeth Zadie Smith East of Eden John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath The Pearl The Help Kathryn Stockett Dracula Bram Stoker Perfume Patrick Suskind Anita and Me Meera Syal The Goldfinch Donna Tartt The Secret History Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S Thompson The Lord of the Rings Trilogy J R R Tolkien Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy War and Peace Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut The Color Purple Alice Walker
LRC Recommended Reading 6th Form 5 of 6 June 2020
Title Author Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh The Martian Andy Weir The Time Machine H G Wells The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse Native Son Richard Wright The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham
LRC Recommended Reading 6th Form 6 of 6 June 2020