Bulk List

Any novel on this bulk list is allowed on your reading list. Mind the [½], which indicates this book counts as half. Novels with an (*) have their label under discussion, ask your teacher for details.

Novels by author surname

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A

Naomi Alderman (1974 – …)
The Power, 2019

 

Kingsley Amis (1922 – 1995)
Lucky Jim, 1953 [goodreads]

 

Adiga Aravind (1974 – …)
The White Tiger, 2008 [goodreads]

 

Kate Atkinson (1951 – …)
Life after Life, 2013 [Recent prize winner 2013 – Winner]

A God in Ruins, 2015 [Recent prize winner 2015 – Winner]

 

Margaret Atwood (1939 – …)
The Handmaid’s Tale, 1985

Oryx and Crake, 2003

The Year of the Flood, 2009

The Testaments, 2019  [Recent prize winner 2019 – Short List]

 

Jane Austen (1775 – 1817)
Pride and Prejudice, 1813 [ download ]

Emma, 1815  [ download ]

 


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B

J.G. Ballard (1930 – 2009)
Empire of the Sun, 1984

 

John Banville (1945 – …)
The Sea,
2005 [goodreads]

 

Pat Barker (1943 – …)
Regeneration (Regeneration #1), 1991 (project warWorld War I)

The Eye in the Door (Regeneration #2), 1993 (project warWorld War I)

The Ghost Road (Regeneration #3), 1995 (project warWorld War I)

Toby’s Room, 2012 (project warWorld War I)

The Silence of the Girls, 2018 [Recent prize winner 2019 – Short List]

 

Julian Barnes (1946 – …)
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, 1989 [goodreads]

A Sense of an Ending, 2011 [Recent prize winner 2011 – Winner]

The Noise of Time, 2016

 

Sebastian Barry (1955 – …)
Days without End, 2016 [Recent Prize Winner, Costa Book Award 2016] (project warAmerican Civil War)

 

Paul Beatty (1946 – …)
The Sellout, 2015 [Recent prize winner 2016 – Winner]

 

Ray Bradbury (1920 – 2012)

Fahrenheit 451, 1953

 

Charlotte Brontë (1816 – 1855)
Jane Eyre, 1847 [ download ]

 

Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848)
Wuthering Heights, 1847 [ download ]

 

William Boyd (1952 – …)
Restless, 2007 (project warWorld War II)

 

Anthony Burgess (1917 – 1993)
A Clockwork Orange, 1962

 

Anna Burns (1962 – …)
Milkman, 2018  [Recent prize winner 2018 – Winner]

 

A.S. Byatt (1936 – …)
Possession, 1990

The Children’s Book, 2009 [goodreads]

 

 


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C

John le Carré (1931 – …)
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, 1963 [goodreads]

 

Peter Carrey (1931 – …)
True History of the Kelly Gang , 1963 [goodreads]

 

Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898)
Alice in Wonderland, 1865 [½] [ download ]

Through the Looking Glass, 1871 [½] [ download ]

 

Eleanor Catton (1985 – …)
The Luminaries, 2013 [Recent prize winner 2013 – Winner] [goodreads]

 

Chuck Palahniuk (1962 – …)
Fight Club, 1996

 

Chris Cleave (1973 – …)
Little Bee [The Other Hand], 2008 (project warAfrican Conflicts)

 

J.M. Coetzee (1940 – …)
Waiting for the Barbarians, 1980

Foe, 1986 [goodreads]

Life & Times of Michael K , 1983 [goodreads]

Disgrace, 1999 [goodreads]

The Childhood of Jesus, 2013 [goodreads]

 

Wilkie Collins (1824 – 1889)
The Moonstone, 1868[ download ]

 

Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924)
The Heart of Darkness, 1899 [ download ] [goodreads]

 

Diane Cook (1976 – …)
The New Wilderness, 2020 (Recent Prize Winner)

 

Jim Crace (1946 – …)

Harvest, 2013 [Recent prize winner 2013 – Short List]

 

Michael Cunningham (1952 – …)
The Hours, 1998

 

 

 


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D

Daniel Defoe (1661-1731)
Robinson Crusoe, 1719[ download ]

 

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Oliver Twist, 1838 [ download ]

A Christmas Carol, 1843 [ download ] [goodreads] [½]

A Tale of Two Cities, 1859 ] [ download ] [goodreads]

Great Expectations, 1861  [ download ]

 

Anthony Doerr (1973- …)

All the Light We Cannot See, 2014, [Recent prize winner 2015 – Winner]

 

Emma Donoghue (1969 – …)

Room, 2010, [Recent prize winner 2010 – Short List]

 

Roddy Doyle (1958 – …)
Paddy Clarke, ha ha ha, 1993 [goodreads]

 

Helen Dunmore (1952-2017)
The Siege, 2001 (project warWorld War II)

 

 

 


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E

Brett Easton Ellis (1964 – …)
American Psycho, 1991 [goodreads]

 

Dave Eggers (1970 – …)
What’s the What, 2006 (project warAfrican Conflicts)

 

Louise Erdrich (1954 – …)
The Night Watchman, 2021

 

Ben Elton (1959 – …)
The First Casualty, 2005 (project warWorld War I)

 

Anne Enright (1962 – …)
The Gathering, 2007 [goodreads]

 


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F

Sebastian Faulks (1953 – …)
Birdsong, 1993 (project warWorld War I)

Charlotte Gray, 1998, (project warWorld War II)

A Possible Life, 2012 (project warWorld War II)

 

Nathan Filer (1980 – …)
The Shock of the Fall, 2013, [Recent prize winner 2013 – Winner]

 

Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754)
The History of Tom Jones, 1749 [ download ] [goodreads]

 

Richard Flanagan (1961 – …)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, 2013 [Recent prize winner 2014 – Winner] (project warWorld War II)

 

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977 – …)
Everything is Illuminated, 2001 [goodreads]

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, 2005

 

E.M. Forster (1878 – 1970)
A Room with a View, 1908 [goodreads]

Passage to India, 1924 [goodreads]

 

Ben Fountain (1958 – …)
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, 2012 (project warIraq War)

 

Charles Frazier  (1950 – …)
Cold Mountain, 1997 (project warAmerican Civil War)

 

John Fowles (1926 – 2005)
The Collector, 1963

The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1969

 

Claire Fuller

Unsettled Ground, 2021

 


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G

John Gardner (1933 – 1982)
Grendel, 1970 [goodreads]

 

Steven Galloway (1975 – …)
The Cellist of Sarajevo, 2008

 

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 – 1865)
North and South, 1854  [ download ] [goodreads]

 

Arthur Golden (1956 – …)
Memoirs of a Geisha, (1997)

 

William Golding (1911 – 1993)
Lord of the Flies, 1954

 

Robert Graves (1895 – 1985)
I Claudius, 1934 [goodreads]

 

Joanne Greenberg / Hannah Green (1932- …)
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, 1964

 

Graham Greene
The Quiet American, 1955

Our Man in Havana, 1958 [goodreads]

 

Andrew Sean Greer
Less, 2018

 


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H

Mohsin Hamid (1971 -…)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 2007

 

Chad Harbach (1975 – …)
The Art of Fielding, 2011 [goodreads]

 

Thomas Hardy (1840-1926)
Jude the Obscure, 1895  [download] [goodreads]

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The Scarlet Letter, 1850  [download] [goodreads]

 

Martha Hall Kelly (1957 – …)
Lilac Girls, 2016 (project warWorld War II)

 

Mohsin Hamid (1971 – …)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 2007 (project warTerrorism)

Exit West, 2017 (project warOther Wars)

 

 

Joseph Heller (1923 – 1999)
Catch-22, 1961

 

Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)
A Farewell to Arms, 1929 (project warWorld War I)

*The Sun also Rises, 1926 [goodreads]

For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940 (project warSpanish Civil War)

The Old Man and the Sea, 1952  [½]

 

Susan Hill (1942 – …)
I’m the King of the Castle, 1970

 

Gail Honeyman (1972 – …)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, 2017

 

Emma Hooper (1980 – …)
Etta and Otto and Russell and James, 2015

 

Nick Hornby (1957 – …)
About a Boy, 2000 [goodreads]

A long way down, 2006 [goodreads]

 

Khaled Hosseini (1965 – …)
The Kite Runner, 2003

A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2007

 

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
Brave New World, 1932

 

 


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I

Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-…)
The Remains of the Day, 1989

When We Were Orphans, 2000

Never Let Me Go, 2005

The Buried Giant, 2015

Klara and the Sun, 2021

 

 


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J

Howard Jacobson (1942 – …)

The Finkler Question, 2010 [goodreads]

 

Henry James (1843 – 1916)

The Turn of the Screw, 1898 [download] [goodreads] [½]

Portrait of a lady, 1881  [download] [goodreads]

 

Marlon James (1970 – …)

A Brief History of Seven Killings, 2014 [goodreads] [Recent prize winner 2015- Winner]

 

James Joyce (1882 – 1941)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916 [goodreads]

 

Rachel Joyce (1962 – ….)

The Music Shop, 2017

 

 


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Thomas Keneally (1935 – …)
Schindler’s Ark/List, 1982 (project warWorld War II)

Jack Kerouac (1922 – 1969)
On the Road, 1957 [goodreads]

 

Ken Kesey (1935 – 2001)
One flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest, 1962

 

Barbara Kingsolver (1955 – …)
The Poisonwood Bible, 1998 [goodreads]

 

Jezry Kosinski (1933-1991)
The Painted Bird, 1965 (project warWorld War II)


Nicole Krauss
(1974 – …)

The History of Love, 2019

 

 


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L

John Lanchester (1962 – …)
The Wall, 2019

 

D.H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930)
Sons and Lovers, 1913 [goodreads]

Lady Chatterley’s lover, 1928 [goodreads]

 

Harper Lee (1926-2016)
To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

 

Doris Lessing (1919-2013)
The Grass is Singing, 1950 [goodreads]

The Fifth Child, 1988  [goodreads] [½]

 

Ira Levin (1929 – 2007)
A Kiss Before Dying, 1953 [goodreads]

This Perfect Day, 1970

The Boys from Brazil, 1976

 

Atticus Lish (1972 – …)
Preparation for the Next Life, 2014 (project warAfghan War)

 

Jack London (1876 – 1916)
The Iron Heel, 1908 [download]

 

Valeria Luiselli (1983- …)
Lost Children Archive, 2019

 

 


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M

Bernard MacLaverty,
Cal, 1989 (project warThe Troubles)

 

Norman Mailer (1926 – 2007)
The Naked and the Dead, 1948 (project warWorld War II)

 

Hillary Mantel (1952 – …)

Wolf Hall, 2009 [Recent prize winner 2009 – Winner]

Bring up the Bodies, 2012 [goodreads]

 

Yann Martel (1963 – …)
Life of Pi, 2006

 

Cormac McCarthy (1933 – …)

All the Pretty Horses, 1992 [goodreads]

No Country for Old Men, 2005 [goodreads]

The Road, 2006

 

Frank McCourt (1930 – 2009)
Angela’s Ashes, 1996 [goodreads]

 

Ian McEwan (1948 – …)
The Cement Garden, 1978

The Child in Time, 1987 [goodreads]

Amsterdam, 1998

Atonement, 2001

The Children’s Act, 2014 [goodreads]

Nutshell, 2016

Machines Like Me, 2019

 

Jon McGregor (1976 – …)
Reservoir 13, 2017 [Recent prize winner 2017- Winner]


Bernard McLaverty
(1942 – …)
Cal, 1998 [goodreads]

 

Madeline Miller (1978 – …)
The Song of Achilles, 2011


David Mitchell
(1969 – …)
Cloud Atlas, 2004

 

Alison Moore (1971 – …)
The Lighthouse, 2012


Brian Moore
(1921 – 1999)
Lies of Silence, 1990

 

Toni Morrison (1931 – 2019)
Home, 2012 (project warKorean War) [½]

 

Kate Morton (1975 – …)
The Secret Keeper, 2012 (project war – World War II)

 


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Vladimir Nabokov (1899 – 1977)
Lolita, 1955

 

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977 – …)
Americanah, 2013

Half of a Yellow Sun, 2006 (project warAfrican Conflicts)

 

Viet Thanh Nguyen (1971 – …)
The Sympathizer, 2015 [Recent prize winner 2016] (project warVietnam War)

 

Audrey Niffenegger (1963 – …)
The Time Traveler’s Wife, 2003

 


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Téa Obreht (1985 – …)
The Tiger’s Wife, 2011

 

Michael Ondaatje (1943 …)
The English Patient, 1992

 

George Orwell (1903 – 1950)
Animal Farm, 1945 [½]

1984, 1949

 

Ruth Ozeki (1956 – …)
A Tale for the Time Being, 2013 (project war – World War II)

 


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Alan Paton (1903 – 1988)
Cry, the Beloved Country, 1948

 

Sylvia Plath (1932 – 1963)
The Bell Jar, 1963

 

Donald Ray Pollock (1954 – …)
The Devil All the Time, 2011, (project war – World War II)

 

Chaim Potok (1929 – 2002)
The Chosen, 1967

 

Kevin Powers
The Yellow Birds, 2012

 

Richard Powers (1957 – …)

Orfeo, 2014

The Overstory, 2018 [Recent prize winner 2019- Winner]

 

Annie Proulx (1935 – …)
Barkskins, 2016 [goodreads]

 

 


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Brynne Rebele-Henry
Orpheus Girl, 2019

 

Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966 [½]

 

Sally Rooney (1991 – …)

Conversation with Friends, 2017 [goodreads]

Normal People, 2018 [Recent prize winner 2018 – Winner]

 

Tatiana de Rosnay (1961 – …)

Sarah’s Key, 2006

 

Philip Roth

American Pastoral, 1997 [goodreads]

The Plot Against America, 2004

 

Salman Rushdie (1947 – …)
Midnight’s Children, 1981

 

Donal Ryan (1976 – …)
From a Low and Quiet Sea, 2018, [Recent prize winner 2018 – Short List]

 

 


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J.D. Salinger (1919 – 2010)
The Catcher in the Rye, 1951

 

James Salter (1925 – 2015)
The Hunters, 1956 (project warKorean War)

 

George Saunders (1958 – …)
Lincoln in the Bardo, 2017 [goodreads] [Recent prize winner 2017 – Winner]

 

Sapphire (1950 – …)
Push, 1996 [goodreads] [½]

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940)
The Great Gatsby, 1925

 

Alice Sebold (1963 – …)
The Lovely Bones, 2002

 

Rachel Seiffert (1971-…)
The Dark Room, 2001 (project warWorld War II)

 

Kamila Shamsie (1973 – …)
Home Fire, 2017

 

Mary Shelley (1797 – 1851)
Frankenstein, 1818  download ]

The Last Man, 1826  [ download ]

 

Alan Sillitoe (1928 – 2010)
The Loneliness of a Long-distance Runner, 1959 [goodreads]

 

Graeme Simsion (1956 – …)
The Rosie Project, 2013

 

Ali Smith (1962 – …)
How to be Both, 2014 [Recent prize winner 2014 – Winner (2x)]

 

John Steinbeck (1902 – …)
Of Mice and Men, 1937 [½]

The Grapes of Wrath, 1939

 

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886 [ download ] [½]

Emily St. John Mandel (1979 – …)
Station Eleven, 2015

 

Kathryn Stockett (1969 – …)
The Help, 2009

 

Bram Stoker (1847 – 1912)
Dracula, 1897 [ download ]

 

William Styron (1925-2006)
Sophie’s Choice, 1992 (project warWorld War II)

 

Graham Swift (1969 – …)
Mothering Sunday, 2016 [goodreads]

 

Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745)
 Gulliver’s Travels, 1726 [ download ]

 

 

 


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Tan Twang Eng
The Garden of Evening Mists, 2011 [Recent Prize Winner – Man Booker 2012 Shortlist]

 

Donna Tartt (1963 – …)
The Goldfinch, 2013 [goodreads]

 

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973)
The Lord of the Rings, 1954

The Silmarillion, 1977 [goodreads]

 

Dalton Trumbo (1905 – 1976)
Johnny Got His Gun, 1939 (project warWorld War I)

 

 


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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007)
Player Piano, 1952

Slaughterhouse Five, 1969

Mother Night, 1961

 


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Alice Walker (1944 – …)
The Color Purple, 1982

 

Nico Walker (1985 – …)
Cherry, 2018 (project warIraq War)

 

Evelyn Waugh (1903 – 1966)
A Handful of Dust, 1977 [goodreads]

Men at Arms, 1952 (project warWorld War II)

 

Fay Weldon (1931 – …)
The Life and Loves of a She-devil, 1983 [goodreads]

 

H.G. Wells (1866 – 1946)
The Time Machine, 1895 [ download ] [½]

War of the Worlds, 1898 [ download ] [goodreads]

 

Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937)
Age of Innocence, 1920

 

Colson Whitehead (1969 – …)
The Underground Railroad, 2016 [Recent prize winner 2017 – Winner]

The Nickel Boys, 2019 [Recent prize winner 2020 – Winner]

 

Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 [ download] [goodreads]

 

John Williams (1922 – 1994)

Butcher’s Crossing, 1960

Stoner, 1965 [goodreads]

 

Jeannette Winterson (1959 – …)

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, 1985

 

Virginia Woolf (1182 – 1941)
Mrs Dalloway, 1925

To the Lighthouse, 1927

 

 


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Hanya Yanagihara (1974 – …)
A Little Life, 2015 [Recent prize winner 2015- Shortlist]


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Z

Markus Zusak (1975 – …)
The Book Thief, 2005

 

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