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St. Gregory’s Catholic High School English Literature A Level Pre-Reading Suggestions Modern Reads (Post WW2) Classic English Literature Texts Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Emma Jane Austen I Know Why the Maya Angelou Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Caged Bird Sings The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte A Clockwork Anthony Burgess Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Orange Possession A.S. Byatt Collected Poems Robert Browning In Cold Blood Truman Capote The Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey Bleak House Charles Dickens The Bloody Angela Carter Collected Poems Emily Dickinson Chamber The Collector John Fowles Songs and Sonnets John Donne The Magus John Fowles Middlemarch George Eliot Brighton Rock Graham Greene The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Catch-22 Joseph Heller The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald High Fidelity Nick Hornby Howard’s End E.M. Forster Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy The World John Irving Brave New World Aldous Huxley According to Garp On the Road Jack Kerouac The Wings of the Dove Henry James If This is a Man Primo Levi A Portrait of the Artist as a James Joyce Young Man All the Pretty Cormac McCarthy Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence Horses Enduring Love Ian McEwan Women in Love D.H. Lawrence Beloved Toni Morrison Dr Faustus Christopher Marlow Lolita Vladimir Nabukov The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie Plays and Sonnets William Shakespeare Everything is Jonathan Safran East of Eden John Steinbeck Illuminated An Equal Music Vikram Seth The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck White Teeth Zadie Smith Dracula Bram Stoker The Prime of Miss Muriel Spark Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh Jean Brodie Music and Silence Rose Tremain The Picture of Dorian Grey Oscar Wilde The Colour Purple Alice Walker Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf Collected Poems William Butler Yeats .

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