Set texts 

• Othello – William Shakespeare  
• Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams 
• Frankenstein Mary Shelley  
• The Handmaid’s tale  
• Poems of the Decade – Various 
• Selected poems of Christina Rossetti  

NEA (two of): 

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Tennessee Williams  
• The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 
• The Color Purple – Alice Walker  
• Death of a Salesman  - Arthur Miller  

Dystopian Novels 

• 1984 – George Orwell 
• The Road – Cormac McCarthy 
• Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler 
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 
• Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury 
• Day of the Triffids / The Chrysalids – John Wyndham 
• Children of Men – PD James 
• The Power – Naomi Alderman 
• A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess 
• The Time Machine – HG Wells 
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip Dick 
• Riddley Walker – Russell Hoban 
• Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel 

Victorian Classics: 

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: A classic coming-of-age story with elements of romance, gothic and social commentary.  
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: A novel exploring themes of ambition, social class, and redemption, with a memorable cast of characters.  
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë: A passionate and dark love story set on the Yorkshire moors, known for its intense characters and atmosphere.  
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: A philosophical novel exploring themes of beauty, morality, and the corrupting influence of vanity.  
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray: A satire of English society during the Napoleonic Wars, focusing on the lives and ambitions of several characters, particularly Becky Sharp.  
• Middlemarch by George Eliot: A complex and richly detailed novel exploring the lives and relationships of various characters in a provincial town, with a focus on social and intellectual life.  
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins: A suspenseful mystery novel with elements of sensation fiction, featuring intricate plot twists and memorable characters.  
• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell: Explores the social and economic tensions between the industrial north and the agricultural south of England.  
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: A novella delving into the duality of human nature and the conflict between good and evil.  
• Dracula by Bram Stoker: A gothic horror novel that introduced the iconic vampire character and explores themes of good versus evil and the unknown.  
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy: A tragic novel about a young woman's struggle against social constraints and moral judgment.  
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë: A powerful novel exploring themes of domestic abuse and female independence.  
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: Imaginative and whimsical fantasy novels that have captivated readers for generations.  
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens: A complex novel exploring social issues, poverty, and injustice in Victorian England.  
• Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens: A social novel critiquing institutions and societal structures, with a focus on themes of imprisonment and freedom.  
• Silas Marner by George Eliot: A novel about a weaver's redemption and spiritual awakening.  
• Daniel Deronda by George Eliot: Explores themes of Jewish identity and social responsibility.  
• Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A sensation novel known for its suspenseful plot and exploration of female transgression.  
• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: A controversial novel that explores themes of social class, education, and marriage.  
• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot: A novel about a woman's struggle to find fulfillment in a patriarchal society.  
• Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens: A social novel exploring themes of wealth, class, and inheritance, with a complex plot and memorable characters.  

Modern Prose  

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Purple Hibiscus / Americanah 
• Adavind Adiga: The White Tiger 
• Monica Ali: Brick Lane 
• Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake 
• Tara Westover: Educated (memoir) 
• Anthony Doerr: All the Light We Cannot See 
• Andrea Levy: Small Island 
• Marcus Zusak: The Book Thief 
• Rose Tremain: The Road Home 
• Colm Toibin: Brooklyn 
• Joanna Quin: The Whalebone Theatre 
• Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart 
• Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin / Alias Grace / The Testaments  
• Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber (short stories) / Nights at the Circus 
• Daphne Du Maurier: Rebecca 
• Sebastian Faulks: Birdsong / Charlotte Gray 
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera 
• Graham Greene: Brighton Rock 
• Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go 
• James Joyce: Dubliners (short stories) 
• Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird 
• Ian McEwan: Atonement 
• Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon / Beloved  
• Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things 
• Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar 
• Annie Proulx: The Shipping News 
• Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea (prequel to Jane Eyre) 
• John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath 
• Jeanette Winterson: Oranges are not the only Fruit 
• Zadie Smith: White Teeth 
• Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway 
• Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory 
• A.S. Byatt: Possession  
• J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace 
• Louis de Bernieres: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 
• E.M. Forster: Howards End ,A Room with a View ,Where Angels Fear to Tread ,Maurice ,The Longest Journey, A Passage to India 
• L. P. Hartley: The Go-Between 
• Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms ,For Whom the Bell Tolls 
• Khaled Husseini: The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns 
• Kazuo Ishiguro:Remains of the Day ,Never Let Me Go 
• D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers ,The Rainbow ,Women in Love  
• Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall, Bringing Up the Bodies, The Mirror and the Light 
• Haruki Murakami: IQ84; Norwegian Wood 
• Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon ,Beloved 
• Jean Rhys: Voyage in the Dark , Wide Sargasso Sea 
• Donna Tartt: The Secret History 
• Jeanette Winterson: Oranges are not the only fruit 
• Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse , Mrs Dalloway , Orlando , Road to Wigan Pier 
• Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things 
• Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children, Shame ,The Satanic Verses 
• J. D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye 
• John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath , East of Eden, Of Mice and Men 
• Patrick Suskind: Perfume 

Non-Fiction 

• Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 
• Bill Bryson: The Lost Continent / Notes from a Small Island 
• Alan Bennett: Writing Home 
• Truman Capote: In Cold Blood 
• Jenny Diski: Skating to Antarctica 
• Anna Funder: Stasiland 
• Alexander Masters: Stuart: A Life Backwards 
• Helen Macdonald: H is for Hawk 
• Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 
• Solomon Northrop: Twelve Years a Slave 
• Jeannette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? 
• Xinran: What the Chinese Don’t Eat 

Poets: 

• Early: Beowulf, Caedmon’s Hymn, Dream of the Rood 
• Medieval Lyrics: Sir Orfeo Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman ;Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales (Wife of Bath, Merchant, Pardoner, Reeve, Miller, Knight, Nun’s Priest) 
• Elizabethan: Wyatt; Spenser; Sidney; Shakespeare; Jonson 
• Metaphysical: Donne; Herbert; Vaughan; Marvell 
• Restoration: Milton 
• Augustan: Butler; Dryden; Pope; Swift; Rochester 
• C18: Gray; Cowper; Crabbe; Burns; Goldsmith 
• Romantic: Blake; Clare; Wordsworth; Coleridge; Byron; Keats; Shelley 
• Victorian: Tennyson; Browning; Barrett-Browning; Arnold; Rossetti; Southey; Arnold; Emily Dickinson  
• Fin-de-siecle: Wilde; Swinburne; Symons;  
• Early C20: Blunden; Lawrence; Graves; de la Mare 
• War Poets: Brooke; Owen; Rosenberg; Sassoon 
• Modernist and Modern Armitage; Auden; Betjeman; Causley; Cope; cummings; Davies; Duffy; Eliot; Fanthorpe; Fenton; Frost; Gunn; Hardy; Harrison; Heaney; Henri; Hughes; Jennings; Larkin; Lochhead; Macneice; McGough; Mitchell; Motion; Patten; Plath; Raine – Kathleen and Craig; Sitwell; Smith Spender; Thomas – RS and Dylan; Walcott; Yeats; Zephaniah; Button Poetry on-line; Evan Boland; Kae Tempest: