Classic Literature Suggested Reading List for GCSE
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Emma by Jane Austen
Lady Susan/The Watsons/Sandition by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Anna of the Five Towers by Arnold Bennett
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
The Tenant of Windfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Yellow Mask and Other Stories by Wilkie Collins
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Nicolas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
A Study in Scarlett by Arthur Conan Doyle
His Last Bow & the Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Homes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
A Room with a view by E. M. Forster
Cranford/Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Trumpet Major by Thomas Hardy
Underwood the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Odyssey by Homer
The Ambassadors by Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Wings of a Dove by Henry James
Washington Square by Henry James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Dubliners by James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Short Stories: Volume 1 by Rudyard Kipling
England, My England by D. H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
The Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlow
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
Selected Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Burning Bright by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Guilliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Ann Veronica by H.G. Wells
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
Lord Arthur Savile’s crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf