St. Lawrence College English Department: Extensive Reading List 3

September 2010 version.




1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
3. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
4. Age of Iron by J.M.Coetzee
5. Animal Farm by George Orwell
6. Atonement by Ian McEwan
7. Beloved by Toni Morrison
8. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
9. Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
10. Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
11. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
12. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
13. Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and other novels by Charles Dickens
14. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
15. High Fidelity and other books by Nick Hornby
16. Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
17. Kes by Barry Hines
18. King Solomon’s Mines by Rider Haggard
19. Lord Jim and The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
20. Lorna Doone by R.D.Blackmore
21. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
22. Of Mice And Men and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
23. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner
24. Pride and Prejudice and other novels by Jane Austen
25. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
26. Roots by Alex Haley
27. Ruth Rendell - mysteries
28. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
29. Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo
30. Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
31. Tender is the Night by Scott Fitzgerald
32. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
33. The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin & The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
34. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
35. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
36. The Animal Lover’s Book Of Beastly Murders by Patricia Highsmith
37. The Best of Saki
38. The Call of the Wild, White Fang & Other Stories by Jack London
39. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
40. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
41. The Darling Buds of May by H.E.Bates
42. The Enchanted Island: Stories from Shakespeare by Ian Serraillier
43. The French Lieutenant’s Woman and The Magus by John Fowles
44. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
45. The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing
46. The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
47. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
48. The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
49. The Isabelle Allende Trilogy: City of Beasts, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, Forest of the Pygmies
50. The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
51. The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
52. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
53. The Lost World of the Kalahari by Laurens Van Der Post
54. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
55. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
56. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
57. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
58. The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks
59. The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
60. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
61. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
62. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
63. Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
64. Three Singles To Adventure by Gerald Durrell
65. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
66. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
67. Veronika Decides To Die by Paulo Coelho
68. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte