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
Oooooh thanks!!!! I suppose I have no more excuses for constant procrastination.
ReplyDeleteAlthough.. 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. :)
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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