British Literature Reading List

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart Charles Dickens, David Copperfield Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim J.P. Donleavey, The Ginger Man Kingsley Amis, The Green Man Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet Jane Austen, Persuasion Roddy Doyle, Paula Spenser Jane Austin, Mansfield Park Roddy Doyle, Bullfighting Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Roddy Doyle, The Deportees Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility Roddy Doyle, Smile Jane Austen, Emma Roddy Doyle, The Van John Banville, The Sea Roddy Doyle, The Snapper John Banville, Athena Roddy Doyle, The Dead Republic Pat Barker, Regeneration Roddy Doyle, The Commitments Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door Roddy Doyle, The Guts Pat Barker, The Ghost Road George Eliot, Middlemarch Pat Barker, Another World Anne Enright, The Gathering Pat Barker, Union Street Richard Flanagan, Gould’s Book of Fish Pat Barker, Double Vision C.S.Forester, Lieutenant Hornblower Pat Barker, Life-Class C.S.Forester, Hornblower and the Atropos Pat Barker, the Silence of the Girls C.S.Forester, Hornblower and the Hotspur Pat Barker, Border Crossing C.S.Forester, Mr. Midshipman Hornblower Kevin Barry, Beatlebone C.S.Forester, Hornblower and the Atopos Kevin Barry, City of Bohane E.M.Forster, A Passage to India Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier E.M.Forster, A Room with a View Sebastian Barry, The Whereabouts of Eneas E.M.Forster, Howard’s End McNulty John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman Sebastian Barry, Days Without End John Fowles, The Magus Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture Brian Friel, Selected Plays Colin Bateman, Belfast Confidential Tara French, Faithful Place Samuel Beckett, Murphy Tara French, The Likeness Samuel Beckett, Molloy Alexandra Fuller,Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Maeve Binchy, Tara Road Tonight Karen Blixen, Out of Africa John Galsworthy, The Forsythe Saga John Boyne, the Absolutist Nadine Gordimer, July’s People John Boyne, The Heart’s Invisible Furies Nadine Gordimer, Burger’s Daughter John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky Robert Graves, I Claudius Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Robert Graves, Claudius the God Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project Robert Graves, Homer’s Daughter Anna Burns, Milkman Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory A.S. Byatt, Babel Tower Graham Greene, The Quiet American Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd Express Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure J.M. Coetzee, The Master of Petersburg Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Ubervilles J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello Anne Haverty, One Day as a Tiger J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians Aldous Huxley, Brave New World J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day Brian Coughlin, Wattle & Daub Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf Cressida Cowell, How to Train Your Dragon James Joyce, Dubliners Jim Crace, All that Follows James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist Jim Crace, Quarantine James Joyce, Ulysses Jim Crace, The Pesthouse James Joyce, Finnegans Wake Jim Crace, Harvest A.L.Kennedy, Original Bliss Jim Crace, Being Dead D.H.Lawrence, Sons and Lovers Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory D.H.Lawrence, Lady Chatterly’s Lover Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker T.E.Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark John LeCarre, The Night Manager Frank Delaney, Ireland John LeCarre, Our Game Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook Charles Dickens, Hard Times Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing Charles Dickins, Dombey & Son C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters Charles Dickens, Great Expectations C.S.Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend C.S.Lewis, Perelandra Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickelby C.S.Lewis, That Hideous Strength Charles Dickens, Bleak House C.S.Lewis, Till We Have Faces Richard Llewelyn How Green Was My Valley Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies David Lodge, Paradise News Detective Agency David Lodge, Thinks Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for David Lodge, Author, Author Beautiful Girls David Lodge, Deaf Sentence Alexander McCall Smith, In the Company of David Lodge, Therapy Cheerful Ladies Martin MacDonough, The Lieutenant of Somerville & Ross, Some Experiences of an Inishmoor Irish R.M. Deirdre Madden, One by One in the Darkness Wole Soyinka, A Dance of the Forests David Malouf, Remembering Babylon Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped David Malouf, Ransom Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island Hillary Mantell, Wolf Hall Bram Stoker, Dracula Beryl Markham, West with the Night William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Colm Toibin, South Thing Colm Toibin, House of Names Patrick McCabe, Breakfast on Pluto J.R.R.Tolkien, Lord of the Rings Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault Colum McCann, This Side of Brightness William Trevor, After Rain Colum McCann, Dancer Amos Tutuola, The Palm Wine Drinkard Colum McCann, TransAtlantic Thrity Umriger, The Space Between Us Colum McCann, Apeirogon ngugi wa thiong'o Decolonizing the Mind Colum McCann, Thirteen Ways of Looking H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Frank McCourt, Tis T.H.White, The Once and Future King John McGahern, Amongst Women Jeanne Winterson, The Passion Ian McKeon, Amsterdam Virginia Woolf, The Waves Ian McKeon, The Comfort of Strangers Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway Ian McKeon, Atonement Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse Ian McKeon, On Chesil Beach Percival Wren, Beau Geste Ian McKeon, Enduring Love Ian McKeon, The Innocent David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas David Mitchell, Slade House V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River V.S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas Shiva Naipaul, North of South Trevor Noah, Born a Crime Edna O'Brien, Down By The River Edna O’Brien, A Fanatic Heart Edna O’Brien, Wild Decembers Edna O’Brien, A Pagan Place Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O’Brien, The Poor Mouth Patrick O’Brian, Master and Commander Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days Julia O'Faolain, Women in the Wall Michael Ondaatje Anil’s Ghost George Orwell, 1984 George Orwell, Animal Farm George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar Ruth Rendell, Two Down and One Across Ruth Rendell, From Doon with Death Dilys Rose, Red Tides Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children Edward Rutherford, Sarum Edward Rutherford, London Edward Rutherford, New York Edward Rutherford, Princes of Ireland Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche Seigfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Anita Shreve, Body Surfing Alexander McCall Smith, The Full Cupboard of Life