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Key Stage 5 Reading List – 50 Books
1. King Lear – William Shakespeare
2. Othello – William Shakespeare
3. Macbeth – William Shakespeare
4. The Tempest – William Shakespeare
5. The Duchess of Malfi – John Webster
6. Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
7. A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
8. Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
9. The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
10. The Cherry Orchard – Anton Chekhov
11. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
12. Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
14. Dracula – Bram Stoker
15. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
16. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
17. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
18. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
19. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
20. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
21. Atonement – Ian McEwan
22. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
23. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
24. Beloved – Toni Morrison
25. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
26. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
27. Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
28. Room – Emma Donoghue
29. The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
30. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
31. Selected poems from AQA or Edexcel Anthologies
32. The Waste Land – T.S. Eliot
33. Selected Poems – Sylvia Plath
34. Collected Poems – Seamus Heaney
35. Songs of Innocence and Experience – William Blake
36. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and other poems – T.S. Eliot
37. Selected Poems – Carol Ann Duffy
38. Howl and Other Poems – Allen Ginsberg
39. Ariel – Sylvia Plath
40. Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
41. Literary Theory: An Introduction – Terry Eagleton
42. A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
43. The Feminine Mystique – Betty Friedan
44. The Origins of Totalitarianism – Hannah Arendt (selected excerpts)
45. The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. Du Bois
46. Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson
47. Orientalism – Edward Said (selected excerpts)
48. The Uses of Literature – Italo Calvino
49. On Writing – Stephen King
50. The Hero with a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell