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