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Wide Reading List
Wide Reading List
Wide Reading List
The very best English students are those who read widely. Below is a list of challenging
literary novels ranging from classics to more modern winners of literary awards. They
have been chosen for their literary value. This is not an exhaustive list but serves as a
guide to help you select the best books for your wide reading. Enjoy!
Douglas Adams
Chinua Achebe
Bernard Ashley
Little Soldier
Isabelle Allende
House of Spirits
Maya Angelou
Jane Austen
Julian Barnes
H E Bates
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
Melvin Burgess
Loving April
Junk
Bloodtide
Albert Camus
The Outsider
Tracey Chevalier
Tom Clancy
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha
William Golding
John Grisham
The Client
The Chamber
The Firm
Mark Hadden
Thomas Hardy
Joanne Harris
Chocolat
Blackberry Wine
Five Quarters of the Orange
Robert Harris
Fatherland
Enigma
Ernest Hemingway
Susan Hill
Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
Fever Pitch
Khaled Hosseini
Aldous Huxley
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
1
Moon Tiger
City of the Mind
Cleopatra's Sister
Melina Marchetta
Michelle Magorian
Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Ian McEwan
Atonement
J. D. Salinger
Alice Sebold
Lovely Bones
Tom Sharpe
Wilt
Blott on the Landscape
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Anita Shreve
Fortune's Rocks
Nevil Shute
John Steinbeck
Jonathan Swift
Gullivers Travels
Meera Syall
Amy Tan
JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
Rose Tremain
Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead revisited
Scoop
The Loved One
Robert Westall
Falling Leaves
Marcus Zusak
Alternatively,
use
the
internet
to
search
for
Top
100
Books
to
Read
or
Winners
of
Literary
Awards
Or
access
http://www.goodreads.com!
Happy
Reading