ENGLISH READING LIST 2021 - 2022 OIB
NEW BOOKS
• Such a Fun Age, Kiley Read • Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell • I Am Not Your Baby Mama, Candice Brathwaite • The Five, Hallie Rubenhold • Sweet Sorrow, David Nicholls • Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart • Home Going, Yaa Gyasi • Airhead, Emily Maitliss • Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi • Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo • The Power, Naomi Alderman • Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
MODERN CLASSICS/FICTION
• The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger • Birdsong/Charlotte Gray, Sebastian Faulks • A Prayer for Owen Meany/The World According to Garp, John Irving • When We Were Orphans/The Remains of the Day/Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro • A Kestrel for a Knave, Barry Hines • Lord of the Flies, William Golding • The Great Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers • The Pearl/East of Eden/The Grapes of Wrath/The Long Valley, John Steinbeck • Rebecca/Jamaica Inn, Daphne Du Maurier • One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey • The Book Thief, Markus Zusak • The Shock of the Fall, Markus Zusak • White Teeth, Zadie Smith • Brighton Rock, Graham Greene • Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
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• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle • The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini • A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry • Vile Bodies/Brideshead Revisited/Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh • On the Road, Jack Kerouac • The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy • Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden • Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford • The Complete Series of Richard Hannay, John Buchan • The Light Between Oceans, M L Stedman • Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys • The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Sue Townsend • Tsotsi, Athol Fugard • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon
DYSTOPIAN/FANTASY/HORROR
• Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury • The Handmaid’s Tale/Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley • 1984, George Orwell • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick • I Am Legend, Richard Matheson • Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro • The Road, Cormac McCarthy • Noughts and Crosses, Malorie Blackman • Discworld (series), Terry Pratchett • Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card • Dracula, Bram Stoker • Frankenstein, Mary Shelley • The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
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