RECOMMENDED READING
FOR
SENIOR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH
NOVEL
Before 1500
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
18
th
Century
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels
Samuel Richardson
Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded
Henry Fielding
Tom Jones
Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
19
th
Century
Jane Austen
Emma
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Mary Wollstonecraft-Shelley
Frankenstein
Charles Dickens
Hard Times
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
George Eliot
Middlemarch
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss
Thomas Hardy
Far from the Maddening Crowd
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
Rudyard Kipling
Jungle Books
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Bram Stoker
Dracula
James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Billy Budd, Sailor
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Harriet Beecher-Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Henry James
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
Daisy Miller
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
Kate Chopin
The Awakening
20
th
Century
John Fowles
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
James Joyce
Ulysses
Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
George Orwell
1984
George Orwell
The Animal Farm
Virginia Woolf
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
The Waves
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway
William Golding
The Lord of the Flies
Ian McEwan
The Cement Garden
Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
Decline and Fall
E.M. Forster
A Room with a View
E.M. Forster
Howards End
Graham Greene
Brighton Rock
Kingsley Amis
Lucky Jim
Hanif Kureishi
My Beautiful Laundrette
Hanif Kureishi
The Buddha of Suburbia
David Lodge
The British Museum is Falling Down
John Wayne
Hurry on Down
Barry Hines
Kes
Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient
Doris Lessing
Through the Tunnel
Doris Lessing
The Golden Notebook
Salman Rushdie
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise
Sinclair Lewis
Babbit
Sinclair Lewis
Main Street
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying
Gertrude Stein
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
John Updike
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
Rabbit Redux
John Updike
Rabbit is Rich
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Silvia Plath
The Bell Jar
Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Jazz
Paule Marshall
Brown Girl, Brownstones
Paule Marshall
The Chosen Place, the Timeless People
Alice Walker
The Color Purple
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale
E. L. Doctorow
Billy Bathgate
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse –Five
Truman Capote
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Henry Roth
Call it Sleep
Saul Bellow
Seize the Day
Ralph Ellison
The Invisible Man
Truman Capote
In Cold Blood
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Joseph Heller
Catch 22
Richard Wright
Native Son
James Baldwin
Go Tell It On the Mountain
James Baldwin
Giovanni’s Room
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ann Petry
The Street
John Irving
The World According to Garp
Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club
Maxine Hong Kingston
The Warrior Woman
Philipp Roth
My Life as a Man
Paul Auster
Moon Palace
DRAMA
16
th
/17
th
Century
Christopher Marlowe
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Othello
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing
18
th
Century
George Lillo
The London Merchant
19
th
Century
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance
20
th
Century
Eugene O’Neill
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Eugene O’Neill
Mourning Becomes Electra
Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
The Crucible
Thornton Wilder
Our Town
Edward Albee
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Lorraine Hansberry
A Raisin in the Sun
James Baldwin
Blues for Mister Charlie
Sam Shepard
Buried Child
David Mamet
American Buffalo
George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Mrs Warren’s Profession
John Osborne
Look Back in Anger
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
Willy Russell
Educating Rita
Tom Stoppard
A Separate Peace
Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Brian Friel
Philadelphia Here I Come
Brian Friel
Translations
POETRY
Renaissance
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Metaphysical Poetry
John Donne (1572-1631)
17
th
Century
John Dryden (1631-1700)
John Milton (1608-1674)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
The Romantic Period
William Blake (1757-1827)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
John Keats (1795-1821)
Victorian Age
Alfred Tennyson (1802-1892)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
19
th
Century
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
20
th
Century
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
W.H. Auden (1907-1963)
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
Charles Olson (1910-1970)
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Ray Carver (1939-1988)
Tess Gallagher (1943-
)
Rita Dove (1952-
)
SHORT STORY
19
th
Century
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
20
th
Century
James Joyce (1882-1941)
Katharine Mansfield (1888-1923)
Katharine Ann Porter (1890-1980)
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
Grace Paley (1922-
)
Alice Munro (1931-
)
John Updike (1932-
)
Joyce Carol Oates (1938-
)
Ray Carver (1939-1988)
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