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Year 11 & Sixth Form Reading guide Then look no further, inside this booklet is

Year 11 & Sixth Form Reading guide Then look no further, inside this booklet is all you need to know! Classic Literature Classic novels that you MUST read: ‐ Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Any novel by Jane Austen - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Any novel by Charles Dickens - Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo - Moby Dick by Herman Melville - Anything by George Orwell - Jekyll and Hyde, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift - Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain - War of the Worlds by H G Wells - The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde - Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf IF YOU LIKED: - Robinson Crusoe, then try J.M.Coetzee’s Foe - Rebecca, then try Rebecca’s Tale by Sally Beauman - Treasure Island, then try Silver by Andrew Motion - Pride and Prejudice then try Death Comes to Pemberley by P D James All of these novels ‘write back’ to earlier works, telling the untold stories of characters from the original work, or providing a sequel to the classic. Historical Fiction Shakespeare and the Tudors - Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies: set in Tudor England and the court of Henry VIII - William Shakespeare: The History Plays, try Henry V, Henry IV, Richard II, Julius Caesar - Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Queen’s Fool, The Boleyn Inheritance Victorian Life - Charles Dickens novels such as Hard Times and Great Expectations - The Bronte sisters, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Jane Eyre - George Eliot, Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss - John Fowles’ postmodern The French Lieutenant’s Woman The Jazz Age & post 1900 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, The Beautiful and the Damned - Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited and A Handful of Dust - Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway, To The Lighthouse and Orlando - Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast, A Farewell to Arms, To Have and Have Not - E M Forster Howards End, A Room with a View, Where Angels fear to Tread American History - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird - Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn - John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden - Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind Other - Kate Mosse, The Labyrinth series - Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring - Carlos Ruiz Zafron, The Shadow of the Wind - Nick Lake, In Darkness Spotlight on The Help - Kathryn Stockett Aibileen and Minny; two black maids cooking, cleaning and raising the children of two of the meanest and most spiteful white women ever written. Enter Miss Skeeter, fresh from college and eager to embark upon a career in writing. An unlikely trio, Aibileen and Minny reluctantly join forces with Miss Skeeter in order to speak the unspoken and truly reveal the harsh reality of being a black maid in 1960’s Mississippi. Comparable to the likes of To Kill a Mockingbird, Stockett’s novel is sure to get your blood boiling once again about how cruel human beings can be and how unwilling to accept change they so often are. If you’ve read The Help and enjoyed it then try: Mudbound by Hilary Jordan tells the story of a post WWII America in which, despite having fought side by side, blacks and whites continue to live at war with each other in Mississippi. Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman, is a novel based on the real case of the Scottsboro Boys. Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees similarly deals with racial tension but this time in South Carolina. War, Violence and Conflict The World Wars and their aftermath - The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank - Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray - Ian McEwan, Atonement - Mal Peet, Tamar - Bernard Schlink, The Reader - Louisa Young, My Dear I Wanted To Tell You - Markus Zusak, The Book Thief - Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List - Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient - Laurent Binet, HHhH - Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Pat Barker, The Regeneration Trilogy, Toby’s Room. - Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet On The Western Front - J G Ballard, Empire of the Sun - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms - Kate Atkinson, Life After Life - Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth - Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns: Afghanistan - Mal Peet, Life: An Exploded Diagram: WWII through to 9/11 - Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain: The American Civil War - Graham Greene, The Quiet American: Vietnam - Victor Hugo, Les Miserables: The French Revolution - Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: Napoleonic wars in Russia Spotlight on Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Yossarian knows the only way he can avoid active combat duty is if he is declared insane. But if he is insane, then his superiors ar- gue he wouldn’t mind flying, hence his impossible ‘catch 22’situa- tion. It is war itself which is mad, of course, as are some of the characters Yossarian is unfortunate enough to find himself with. When he’s surrounded by people with names like Major Major, and his commanding officer believes the enemy has devised a gun which can superglue planes together in mid-air, his chances don’t seem particularly outstanding… Catch-22 is a work of mind- bending genius: a savage anti-war novel that manages to be one of the most blackly hilarious novels you’ll ever read. If you’ve read Catch 22 and enjoyed it then try: The sequel, Closing Time, which follows the future lives of some of the characters from Catch 22. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut - approaches the atrocities of war with a similar dark comedy to Heller The Thin Red Line, by James Jones - a cynical view of WWII as seen through the eyes of the characters Sci-fi, Fantasy, Adventure and Dystopia Sci-fi and fantasy - J R R Tolkien, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - H G Wells, The Time Machine, War of the Worlds - Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea - Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels - John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones series - Anything by Stephen King Dystopia - George Orwell, 1984 - Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go - Cormac McCarthy, The Road - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Trilogy - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World - Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5, - Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange - Yevgeny Zamyatin, WE - Richard Matheson, I Am Legend - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 - Robert Harris, Fatherland Adventure - Yann Martel, Life of Pi - Alex Garland, The Beach - Herman Melville, Moby Dick - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness - William Golding, Lord of the Flies - Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere Spotlight on A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Adapted into a highly controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange is Anthony Burgess’ most famous book. He did- n’t hold it in particularly high regard himself, but virtually every- one who’s read it is inclined to disagree with him. Set in a dystopi- an near-future, this is the story of Alex, a fifteen year old gang leader who carries out brutal acts of ‘ultra violence’, simply for the adrenalin rush. When he is apprehended by the state, he is sub- jected to an experimental form of rehabilitation, with nightmarish consequences. As impressive as the convincing dystopia Burgess depicts is the ‘Nadsat’ (a mix of Russian and English) slang the book is written in. By turns funny and shocking, A Clockwork Or- ange is a book no one who reads it will forget. If you’ve read A Clockwork Orange and enjoyed it then try: Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, in which the main char- acter establishes an underground fight club, to use violence as a form of psychotherapy. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, a story of rebellion in a psychiatric ward and ultimately about such in- stitutions and the damage that they are capable of inflicting. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson, a drug-fuelled journey representative of the illusive ’American dream’. Horror, Mystery and Crime Fiction Horror and Mystery - Susan Hill, The Woman in Black, Dolly - Stephen King, It - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey uploads/Geographie/ year-11-amp-sixth-form-reading-guide-o-furth-er-ins-ide-th-is-need-t-o-know.pdf