ASHLYNS SCHOOL YEAR 12-13 SUGGESTED READING LIST
Classics Midnight’s Children / Salman Rushdie Great Expectations / David Copperfield / Charles Dickens Stardust / Neil Gaiman War of the Worlds / The Time Machine / H G Wells Historical Middlemarch / Mill on the Floss / George Eliot The Help / Kathryn Stockett Little Women / Louisa May Alcott The Book Thief / Markus Zusak Pride and Prejudice / Emma / Jane Austen Bird Song / Sebastian Faulks Tess of the D’Ubervilles / Thomas Hardy Name of the Rose / Umberto Eco Vanity Fair / W.M. Thackeray The Kite Runner / Khaled Hosseini The Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde Catch-22 / Joseph Heller On the Road / Jack Kerouac Wolf Hall / Hilary Mantel East of Eden / Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee Small Island / Andrea Levey Far from the Madding Crowd / Thomas Hardy The Colour Purple / Alice Walker 1984 / Animal Farm / George Orwell Remains of the Day / Kazuo Ishiguro The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald Anna Karenina / War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy Brideshead Revisited / Evelyn Waugh Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys Our Man in Havana / Graeme Greene The Duchess of Malfi / John Webster The Catcher in the Rye / J D Salinger Wild Swans / Jung Chang Rebecca / Daphne Du Maurier Beloved / Toni Morrison Howard’s End / E M Forster Captain Corelli’s Mandolin / Louis De Bernieres Madame Bovary / Gustav Flaubert A Suitable Boy / Vikram Seth A Thousand Splendid Suns / Khaled Hosseini Biography / Autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / Jean-Dominique Bauby Horror Angela’s Ashes / Frank McCourt Dracula / Bram Stoker A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius / Dave Eggers Frankenstein / Mary Shelley The Woman in Black / Susan Hill Crime & Mystery / Adventure The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / Steig Larsson Novels in Verse / Poetry Perfume / Patrick Suskind Clap when you Land / Elizabeth Acevedo The Secret History / Donna Tartt A Poem for Every Day of the Year / Allie Esiri Life of Pi / Yann Martel Meantime / Carol Ann Duffy The Whitsun Weddings / Philip Larkin Dystopian Fiction The Giver / Lois Lowry Short Stories / Anthologies The Day of the Triffids / John Wyndham A Change is Gonna Come / Various Authors Plague 99 / Jean Ure Proud / Various Authors Dune / Frank Herbert The Thing around your Neck / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury Love Hurts / Various Authors Station Eleven / Emily St John Mandel Smoke and Mirrors / Neil Gaiman The Death of Grass / John Christopher The Road / Cormac McCarthy The Handmaid’s Tale / Margaret Atwood The Booker Prize for Fiction Joint Winners 2019 Never Let Me Go / Kazuo Ishiguro The Testaments / Margaret Atwood Brave New World / Aldous Huxley Girl, Woman, Other / Berardine Evaristo
Science Fiction The Booker Prize Shortlist for 2020 I, Robot / Isaac Asimov The New Wilderness / Diane Cook 2001 : A Space Odyssey / Arthur C Clarke This Mournable Body / Tsitsi Dangarembga Burnt Sugar / Avni Doshi Real Life Issues The Shadow King / Maaza Mengiste Americanah / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Shuggie Bain / Douglas Stuart White Teeth / Zadie Smith Real Life / Brandon Taylor The Perks of Being a Wallflower / Stephen Chbosky
Fantasy / Magical Realism Cloud Atlas / David Mitchell One Hundred Years of Solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez The House of the Spirits / Isabel Allende Kafka on the Shore / Haruki Murakami The Unbearable Lightness of Being / Milan Kundera Chocolat / Joanne Harris