English Literature Cormac McCarthy: Outer Dark Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory OCR Recommended Reading Toni Morrison: Beloved List Dystopia: American Literature: Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale F Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-Four John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath H G Wells: The Time Machine Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Willa Cather: My Ántonia J G Ballard: The Drowned World
Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence Doris Lessing: Memoirs of a Survivor
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury P.D. James: The Children of Men
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms Cormac McCarthy: The Road Richard Wright: Native Son Women in Literature Gothic: Jane Austen – Sense and Sensibility
Angela Carter – The Bloody Chamber and Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway Other Stories Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
Bram Stoker – Dracula Dystopia George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss
William Beckford: Vathek Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Ann Radcliffe: The Italian D H Lawrence: Women in Love
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Watching God
William Faulkner: Light in August Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye Omeros – Derek Walcott
Jeanette Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Of Mutability – Jo Shapcott Only Fruit Poems of 1912-1913 – Thomas Hardy
The Immigrant Experience Ariel – Sylvia Plath
Mohsin Hamid – The Reluctant The Blue Book – Owen Sheers Fundamentalist Look We Have Coming to Dover – Daljit Henry Roth – Call It Sleep Nagra
Upton Sinclair: The Jungle The Waste Land and Other Poems – T S Eliot Philip Roth: Goodbye Columbus Drama Timothy Mo: Sour Sweet Serious Money – Caryl Churchill Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake Indian Ink - Tom Stoppard Monica Ali: Brick Lane Dunsinane - David Grieg Andrea Levy: Small Island Look Back in Anger - John Osborne Kate Grenville: The Secret River The Glass Menagerie -Tennessee Williams John Updike: Terrorist Arcadia - Tom Stoppard
Poetry Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee Selected Poems – Wilfred Owen Jerusalem - Jez Butterworth Selected Poems – Elizabeth Jennings After Mrs Rochester - Polly Teale Selected Poems – E E Cummings The Weir - Conor Macpherson Book of Matches – Simon Armitage Antigone - Owen McCafferty Beowulf – Seamus Heaney The History Boys - Alan Bennett District and Circle – Seamus Heaney Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller North – Seamus Heaney Racing Demon - David Hare Selected Poems – W B Yeats Agamemnon - Steven Berkoff