Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Extension English Reading

Check out this list of recommended novels for Extension and Advanced English students, there could be some in this list that we could read for book club:

Must Read:
Mrs Dalloway: Virginia Woolf
The Trial: Franz Kafka
White Noise: Don Delilio

Should Read:
The Tree of Man: Patrick White
The Handmaids Tale: Margaret Atwood
Great Expectations: Charles Dickens
Lord of the Flies: William Golding
Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett
Tess of the D'Ubervilles: Thomas Hardy
Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four: George Orwell
A Doll's House: Henrik Ibsen
The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank

Suggested Reading:
The House of the Spirits: Isabel Allende
The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy
The Blind Assassin: Margaret Atwood
Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte
Ned Kelly: Peter Carey
The Alchemist: Paolo Coelho
Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad
David Copperfield: Charles Dickens
Out of Africa: Isak Dinesen
Silas Marner: George Elliot
The Great Gatsby: F Scott Fitzgerald
The Sound of One Hand Clapping: Richard Flanagan
Howard's End: E.M. Forster
My Brilliant Career: Miles Franklin
The Children's Bach: Helen Garner
Memoirs of a Geisha: Arthur Golden
The Eyre Affair: Jasper Fforde
Catch 22: Joseph Heller
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ernest Hemmingway
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Victor Hugo
Brave New World: Aldous Huxley
The Cider House Rules: John Irving
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce
A Taste of Death: PD James
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Ken Kessey
Sons and Lovers: D H Lawrence
To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee
Picnic at Hanging Rock: Joan Lindsay
Johnno: David Malouf
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Rebecca: Daphne du Maurier
My Place: Sally Morgan
Beloved: Toni Morrison
In the Skin of a Lion: Michael Ondaatje
Sabriel: Garth Nix
The Getting of Wisdom: Henry Handel Richardson
The Catcher in the Rye: J D Salinger
Frankenstein: Mary Shelley
The Man Who Loved Children: Christina Stead
Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Robert Lois Stevenson
The Joy Luck Club: Amy Tan
The Hobbit: J R R Tolkein
Huckleberry Finn: Mark Twain
The Color Purple: Alice Walker
The Sculptress: Minette Walters
The Time Machine: H G Wells
Breathe: Tim Winton
Cloudstreet: Tim Winton

Suggested Biography/Autobiography
The Story of Joan of Arc: Beyond the Myth
Joe Cinque's Consolation: Helen Garner
The Fatal Shore: Robert Hughes
The Story of My Life: Helen Keller
The Autobiography of MLK: Martin Luther King
Biography: C S Lewis
My Life: Bill Clinton
My Journey Behind the Veil: Kay Rasool
Mao's Last Dancer: Li Cunxin

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