Saturday, 9 July 2011

HANNAH:

English Literature
All books on the subject or general reading lists are suitable preparation for English Literature.

Novel Reading Suggestions for all Subjects:
  • Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  • Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
  • Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
  • Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earing
  • J.D. Coetzee, Disgrace
  • Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  • Graham Greene, Brighton Rock
  • Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
  • Joseph Heller, Catch 22
  • Ken Kessey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Primo Levi, If This is a Man
  • Andrea Levy, Small Island
  • Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
  • David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
  • Rick Moody, The Ice Storm
  • Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
  • Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
  • Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
  • Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
  • Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
  • Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
  • Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk about Kevin
  • William Styron, Sophie's Choice
  • Patrick Suskind, Perfume
  • Donna Tartt, A Secret History
  • Rose Tremain, The Road Home
  • Sarah Water, The Little Stranger
  • Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
  • Tim Winton, Breath
  • Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

2 comments:

  1. Oooooh thanks!!!! I suppose I have no more excuses for constant procrastination.
    Although.. Now I just need to decide where to start.. Also, I propose a Velvet Goldmine tribute viewing and have just realized that your hair makes me think of BRIIIIIIIIIIIAN Slade a little. :)

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  2. No problem! And yeah, that's what I thought when I saw the list myself, ha! I accept that proposal, I need to put more blue in my hair though because it's beginning to be less Brian more reporter-guy-trying-to-be-Brian-at-the-tribute-gig.. basically faded :)

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