英国高中生必读书目

　　This list is of books you will find lively and interesting.  All of them have been published this century; many of them in the last few years.  Do take a chance to enjoy the variety of authors, subjects, settings and styles; try to broaden your literary horizons by reading authors who are new to you.  All of these titles are readily available in paperback.

　　Isabel Allende          The House of the Spirits

　　Kate Atkinson          Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Human Croquet

　　Pat Barker                Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road

　　Louis de Bernieres  Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

　　J. L. Carr                  A Month in the Country

　　Jung Chang              Wild Swans

　　Sebastian Faulkes    Birdsong, Charlotte Grey

　　Jane Gardam            Bilgewater, A Long Way to Verona

　　Alex Garland            The Beach

　　L. P. Hartley            The Go-Between

　　Susan Hill                  I’m the King of the Castle, Strange Meeting

　　Nick Hornby            High Fidelity, Fever Pitch, About a Boy

　　Kazuo Ishiguro        The Remains of the Day

　　Frank McCourt        Angela’s Ashes

　　Ian McEwan            Enduring Love

　　Ann Michaels            Fugitive Pieces

　　Toni Morrison          Beloved

　　E. Annie Proulx        The Shipping News

　　Arundhati Roy        The God of Small Things

　　Carol Shields            Larry’s Party, The Stone Diaries

　　Zadie Smith              White Teeth

　　Donna Tart              The Secret History

　　Sarah Waters          Affinity

　　This list is of “classics”.  Don’t be put off by names of writers or works that you’ve heard and assume to be boring!  Give them a try.  All should be available in bookshops, and many can be found in the school library.

　　Jane Austen              Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Emma

　　Charlotte Bronte      Jane Eyre

　　Emily Bronte            Wuthering Heights

　　Joseph Conrad        Heart of Darkness

　　Charles Dickens      Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Bleak House

　　George Eliot              The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch, Adam Bede

　　E. M. Forster            Howard’s End, A Room with a View

　　Thomas Hardy        The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d’Urbervilles

　　Henry James            The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady

　　James Joyce              A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners

　　D. H. Lawrence        Sons and Lovers

　　George Orwell          Animal Farm, 1984

　　Mary Shelley            Frankenstein

　　Virginia Woolf          To the Lighthouse