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The document provides a reading list for British and American literature for the 2023/2024 school year. For British literature, students must read one Shakespeare play and choose two books from a list of classics by different authors, as well as two contemporaneous works by different authors. For American literature, students must similarly choose two classics and two contemporary works, each by different authors from provided lists. The lists include authors such as Austen, Dickens, Woolf, and Tolkien for British works, and Poe, Twain, Fitzgerald, and King for American works.

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Reading List 2023 24

The document provides a reading list for British and American literature for the 2023/2024 school year. For British literature, students must read one Shakespeare play and choose two books from a list of classics by different authors, as well as two contemporaneous works by different authors. For American literature, students must similarly choose two classics and two contemporary works, each by different authors from provided lists. The lists include authors such as Austen, Dickens, Woolf, and Tolkien for British works, and Poe, Twain, Fitzgerald, and King for American works.

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READING LIST 2023/2024

BRITISH LITERATURE

1/ William Shakespeare: read one comedy or tragedy

2/ Classics:
Read 2 books from this section, each one by a different author.
The titles are recommended, you can select a different one by the author.
You can replace one author by your own choice.

Beowulf
G. Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
D. Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
J. Swift: Gulliver´s Travels
W. Scott: Ivanhoe
M. Shelley: Frankenstein
E. Brontë: Wuthering Heights
Ch. Brontë: Jane Eyre
Ch. Dickens: David Copperfield or Oliver Twist
T. Hardy: Tess of the d‘Urbervilles
J. Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
W. M. Thackeray: Vanity Fair
R. L. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
H. Fielding : Tom Jones
A. C. Doyle: Sherlock Holmes
J. Galsworthy: The Forsyte Saga
O. Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
R. Kipling: The Jungle Book
H. G. Wells: The Time Machine
G. B. Shaw: Pygmalion
D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley´s Lover
V. Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
J.K. Jerome: Three Men in a Boat

3/ Contemporaries:
Read 2 books from this section, each one by a different author.
The titles are recommended, you can select a different one by the author.
You can replace one author by your own choice.

A. Burgess: A Clockwork Orange


J. Winterson: The Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
K. Amis: Lucky Jim
W. Golding: Lord of the Flies
J. Fowles: The Collector
G. Orwell: Animal Farm
J. Joyce: Dubliners
A. Huxley: The Brave New World
N. Gaiman: American Gods
N. Hornby: About a Boy
I. Mc Ewan: Cement Garden
T. Pratchett: Discworld
J. R. R. Tolkien: Lord of the Rings
J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and ….
T. Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
K. Follet: The Century Trilogy
P. Pullman: His Dark Materials
A. C. Clarke: A Space Odyssey
AMERICAN LITERATURE

1/ Classics :
Read two books from this section, each one by a different author.
The titles are recommended, you can select a different one by the author.
You can replace one author by your own choice.

E. A. Poe: Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum
J. F. Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
H. D. Thoreau: Walden
N. Hawthorne: The Scarlett Letter
M.Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
H. Melville: Moby Dick
J. London: White Fang
F. S. Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
E. Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea
W. Faulkner : A Rose for Emily
J. Steinbeck : Of Mice and Men
W. Whitman: Leaves of Grass
H. James: Daisy Miller
Drama:
T. Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
E. Albee: Who Is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A. Miller: Death of a Salesman

2/ Contemporaries:
Choose two books from this section, each one by a different author.
The titles are recommended, you can select a different one by the author.
You can replace one author by your own choice.

J. Kerouac: On the Road


T. Capote: In Cold Blood
J. Updike: Rabbit, Run
J. Heller: Catch-22
J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
J. Baldwin: If Beale Street Could Talk
B. Malamud: The Assistant
A. Haley: Roots: The Saga of an American Family
V. Nabokov: Lolita
R. Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
W. Saroyan: Human Comedy
I. Levin: Rosemary's Baby
J. Clavel: King Rat
J. Irving: The Cider House Rules
C. Frazier: Cold Mountain
K. Kesey: One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
W. Styron: Sophie’s Choice
B. MacDonald: The Egg and I
A. Hailey: Airport
S. Collins: Hunger Games
R. Fulghum: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
K. Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
S. King: Under the Dome

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