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EXPERTS' RECOMMENDATIONS
Sources: Mortimer Adler - The Chicago Canon of Western Civilisation (Great Books Past and Present); Harold Bloom - The Western Canon, 1994; Books etc - The 100 Best Ever, 1999; F Bratman, S Lewis - The Readers Companion, 1994; John Carey - Best Fifty Books of the Twentieth Century (The Sunday Times, 10/1/99; reprinted as Pure Pleasure, 2000); Joseph Connolly - 100 Key Books since 1945 (in Sunday Times); G van Doren - Reforming Education, 1988; Good Book Guide - international survey of the best books of the previous 20 years, 1996; K McLeish - Good Reading Guide, 1988; C Murray (ed) - Best Books, 1996; N Parsons - The Book of Literary Lists (1985); F Raphael, K McLeish - The List of Books, 1981; Martin Seymour Smith - The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written, 1999; Hugh Trovor Roper et al - Books of the Century, 1999;A N Wilson - list in the Evening Standard, 23 Oct 1996, plus additions by John Mortimer, Diana Quick; Doris Lessing, Harold Pinter, Aaron Klug, P D James, Isaiah Berlin, Muriel Spark, Germaine Greer, Norman Davies, Clive James in Sunday Times, 1996; 100 Books of the Century by Lord Gowrie, Arthur C Clarke, Roy Jenkins, Dirk Bogarde, Alan Massie, Dan Jacobson et al (Daily Telegraph 1999); Bristol University reading lists, 1981; Open University reading lists, 1976; Hilary Stock, George Weidenfeld, Piers Paul Read, Nicholas Blincoe, Tim Waterstone et al in a newspaper poll; 100 books chosen by the staff of Books etc; * my own additions
Fiction
- C Achebe - Things Fall Apart
- D Adams- Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
- Aesop - Fables
- J Alain-Fournier - The Lost Domain
- W Allen - Without Feathers
- M Allingham - The Tigers in the Smoke
- K Amis - The Green Man
- - Lucky Jim
- M Amis - Money
- H C Andersen - Fairy Tales
- anon - Gilgamesh
- - Mahabharata
- - Ramayana
- - Bhagavad-Gita
- - The Thousand and One Nights
- - Beowulf
- - Cid
- - The Book of Job
- Apuleius - The Golden Ass
- Ariosto - Orlando Furioso
- I Asimov- I Robot
- J Austen - Pride and Prejudice
- - Emma
- - MansfieldPark
- - Sense and Sensibility
- - Persuasion
- M Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
- M Ayrton - The Mazemaker
- I Babel - Red Calvary
- H Balzac - Lost Illusions
- - Old Goriot
- - The Wild Ass's Skin
- - Eugenie Grandet
- J Barth - The Floating Opera
- - The End of the Road
- - The Sot-Weed Factor
- - Chimera*
- S Beckett - Molloy
- - Murphy
- M Beerbohm - Zuleika Dobson
- S Bellow - Herzog
- - Humboldt's Gift
- - The Victim
- A Bennett - The Old Wives' Tale
- E F Benson - Mapp & Lucia
- L de Bernieres- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
- G Boccaccio - The Decameron
- E Bowen - The Heat of the Day
- - Death of the Heart
- - The House in Paris
- R Bradbury- Fahrenheit 451
- - The Martian Chronicles
- C Bronte - Jane Eyre
- E Bronte - WutheringHeights
- J Buchan - The Thirtynine Steps
- M Bulgakov- A Country Doctor’s Notebook
- - The Master and Margarita
- J Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress
- A Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
- - Nothing Like the Sun
- F H Burnett - The SecretGarden
- I C Burnett - More Women than Men
- - Mother and Son
- F Burney - Evalina
- E R Burroughs- Tarzan of the Apes
- - John Carter
- S Butler - The Way of All Flesh
- - Erewhon
- A S Byatt - Possession
- J M Cain - Serenade
- I Calvino - Our Ancestors
- A Camus - The Outsider
- - The Plague
- J Le Carre - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- - The Naive and Sentimental Lover
- - Call for the Dead*
- L Carroll - Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
- A Carter - Nights at the Circus
- - The Infernal Desire Machine of Dr Hoffman
- J Cary - The Horse's Mouth
- W Cather - The Song of the Lark
- L-F Celine- Voyage to the End of Night
- M Cervantes - Don Quixote
- R Chandler - The Big Sleep
- - Farewell My Lovely
- - The Long Goodbye
- B Chatwin- Utz*
- G Chaucer - Canterbury Tales
- - Troilus & Criseyde
- M Chekov - Short stories
- G K Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday
- E Childers - The Riddle of the Sands
- Choderlos de Laclos - Le Liaisons Dangereuses
- Paul Coelho- The Alchemist
- W Collins - The Moonstone
- - The Woman in White
- J Conrad - Nostromo
- - The Secret Agent
- - Heart of Darkness
- - Lord Jim
- - Under Western Eyes
- - Victory
- J F Cooper - The Prairie
- - The Deeerslayer
- W Cooper - Scenes from Provincial Life
- S Crane - The Red Badge of Courage
- R Dahl- Switch Bitch*
- Dante - The Divine Comedy
- - The New Life
- R Davies - The Cornish Trilogy
- D Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
- - Journal of the Plague Year
- - Moll Flanders
- P K Dick- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- C Dickens - David Copperfield
- - A Christmas Carol
- - Bleak House
- - Our Mutual Friend
- - Great Expectations
- - A Tale of Two Cities
- - Hard Times
- - Nicholas Nickleby
- - Dombey & Son
- - Martin Chuzzlewit
- - Little Dorrit
- - Edwin Drood
- D Diderot- Jacques the Fatalist and his Master
- A Doblin- Berlin Alexanderplatz
- E L Doctorow - The Book of Daniel
- - World's Fair
- F Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
- - The Idiot
- - House of the Dead
- - Crime and Punishment
- - The Possessed
- N Douglas - South Wind
- A C Doyle- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- T Dreiser - Sister Carrie
- - An American Tragedy
- A Dumas - The Three Musketeers
- - The Count of Monte Cristo*
- L Durrell - Alexandria quartet
- U Eco - The Name of the Rose
- G Eliot - Daniel Deronda
- - Middlemarch
- - Silas Marner
- - Adam Bede
- - Mill on the Floss
- R Ellison - Invisible Man
- J Ellroy- LA Confidential
- - The Black Dahlia
- J G Farrell - Studs Lonigan
- - The Siege of Krishnapur
- W Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
- - Light in August
- - Absalom Absalom
- H Fielding - Tom Jones
- - Joseph Andrews
- F S Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
- T Fontane - Effie Briest
- G Flaubert - Madame Bovary
- - Bouvard et Pecuchet
- - Salammbo
- - A Sentimental Education
- I Fleming - Casino Royale
- J de la Fontaine - Fables
- F M Ford - Parade's End
- - The Good Soldier
- E M Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread
- - Howards End
- - A Passage to India
- - A Room with a View
- J Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman
- A France - PenguinIsland
- J Galsworthy - The Forsyte Saga
- J Galt - The Entail
- E Gaskell - Cranford
- - Mary Barton
- - North and South
- T Gautier - Mlle de Maupin
- J Genet - Our Lady of the Flowers
- S Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm
- A Gide - The Immoralist
- W Goethe - Elective Affinities
- N Gogol - Dead Souls
- W Golding - Rites of Passage
- - Lord of the Flies
- - Pincher Martin
- - The Spire
- - The Inheritors
- O Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield
- I Goncharov - Oblomov
- K Graham - Wind in the Willows
- G Grass - The Tin Drum
- R Graves - I Claudius/Claudius the God/Count Belisarius
- H Green - Living
- - Loving
- - Party Going
- G Greene - The Heart of the Matter
- - A Burnt-Out Case
- - Brighton Rock
- - The Quiet American
- - The Power and the Glory
- - The Third Man
- G & W Grossmith- The Diary of a Nobody
- U le Guin- The Left Hand of Darkness
- Gurdjieff- Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson
- H R Haggard - She
- D Hammett- four novels
- K Hamsun- Hunger
- T Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge
- - Far from the Madding Crowd
- - Jude the Obscure
- - Tess of the d'Ubervilles
- - The Well-Beloved
- - The Woodlanders
- - Return of the Native
- T Harris- The Silence of the Lambs
- L P Hartley - The Shrimp and the Anemone
- - The Go-Between
- J Hasek - The Good Soldier Schweik
- N Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
- J Heller - Catch 22
- E Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
- - The Sun Also Rises
- - For Whom the Bell Tolls
- - In Our Time
- - The Old Man and the Sea
- O Henry- short stories*
- A P Herbert- Uncommon Law*
- F Herbert- Dune
- Hesiod - The Works and Days
- H Hesse - Rosshalde
- - Steppenwolf
- P Highsmith- The Talented Mr Ripley
- C Himes- The Harlem Cycle
- E T A Hoffman- The Devil's Elixir
- J Hogg - Confessions of a Justified Sinner
- Homer - The Iliad
- - The Odyssey
- A Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda/Rupert of Henzau
- V Hugo - Le Legende des Siecles
- - Les Miserables
- - Notre Dame de Paris
- - The Toilers of the Sea
- A Huth- The Worm Forgives the Plough
- A Huxley - Point Counter Point
- - Brave New World
- - Those Barren Leaves
- - Antic Hay
- E Huxley - Red Strangers
- M Innes - Operation Pax
- - Hamlet, Revenge
- C Isherwood - Berlin stories
- K Ishiguro- The Remains of the Day
- H James - The Wings of a Dove
- - The Golden Bowl
- - Portrait of a Lady
- - What Maisie Knew
- P D James- A Certain Justice
- R Jarrell - Pictures from an Institution
- J K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat
- J Joyce - Dubliners
- - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- - Ulysses
- F Kafka - The Trial
- - The Castle
- - America
- N Kazantzakis- Zorba the Greek
- M Keane - Good Behaviour
- G Keillor- LakeWobegon Days*
- T Kenneally - The Confederates
- R Kipling - Kim
- - Stalky & Co*
- - Traffics and Discoveries
- - Limits and Rernewals*
- A Koestler - Darkness at Noon
- C de Laclos- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- de Lafayette - The Princess of Cleves
- P Lagerkvist - The Sybil
- G di Lampedusa - The Leopard
- R Lardner - Roundup
- D H Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
- - The Rainbow
- - Women in Love
- - Twilight in Italy
- H Laxness- Independent People
- R Lehman- Invitation to the Waltz
- E Leonard- Get Shorty
- Lermontov - A Hero of Our Time
- D Lessing - The Golden Notebook
- S Lewis- Babbitt
- W Lewis - The Apes of God
- A Lindgren- Pippi Longstocking
- M V Llosa - Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
- M Lowry - Under the Volcano
- Lu X - Diary of a Madman
- R Macaulay- The Towers of Trebizond
- M McCarthy - The Groves of Academe
- - The Group
- C McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- - The Member of the Wedding
- - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
- I McEwan- The CementGarden
- C Mackenzie - Sinister Street
- N Mahfouz- Cairo Trilogy
- - - Children of Gebelawi
- N Mailer - The Naked and the Dead
- B Malamud - The Assistant
- T Malory - Morte d'Arthur
- A Malraux - Man's Estate
- - The Conquerors
- N Mandesltam - Hope Against Hope/Hope Regained
- T Mann - MagicMountain
- - Joseph and His Brethren
- - The Confessions of Felix Krull
- - Dr Faustus
- - Buddenbrooks
- K Manfield- The Garden Party
- A Manzoni - The Betrothed
- W de la Mare - Come Hither
- - Memoirs of a Midget
- G G Marquez - Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- - One Hundred Years of Solitude
- - Love in the Time of Cholera
- A Massie - Tiberius
- W S Maugham - Razor's Edge
- - Of Human Bondage
- - Cakes and Ale
- - short stories
- - The Moon and Sixpence
- G de Maupassant - Bel Ami
- F Mauriac - Therese Desqueyroux
- - Nest of Vipers
- - The Desert of Love
- D du Maurier - Rebecca
- H Melville - Moby Dick
- A Menen- A Prevalence of Witches*
- E Montale - Cuttle Fish Bones
- L M Montomery- Anne of Green Gables
- A Moravia - Woman of Rome
- T Morrison - Beloved
- I Murdoch - A Severed Head
- - Under the Net
- - The Good Apprentice
- - Bruno's Dream
- R Musil - The Man Without Qualities
- V Nabokov - Ada
- - Pale Fire
- - Lolita
- - King Queen Knave
- - Njal’s Saga
- V S Naipaul - A House for Mr Biswas
- - The Mystic Masseur
- R K Narayan - The Vendor of Sweets
- D Nobbs- Second From Last in the Sack Race*
- F Norris - McTeague
- R Nye - Falstaff
- P O'Brian - Master and Commander
- F O'Brien - At Swim-Two-Bird
- - The Third Policeman
- J O'Hara - Appointment at Samarra
- M Ondaatje- The English Patient
- G Orwell - Animal Farm
- - 1984
- A Ostrovsky - The Storm
- J dos Passos - USA
- B Pasternak- Dr Zhivago
- T L Peacock - Headlong Hall
- - Gryll Grange
- - Nightmare Abbey
- M Peake - Gormenghast
- - Titus Groan
- I Pears- An Instance of the Fingerposts
- S J Perelman - The Most of S J Perelman (The Road to Miltown)
- F Pessoa- The Book of Disquiet
- Petronius - Satyricon
- E A Poe - The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
- - The Fall of the House of Usher
- A Powell - A Dance to the Music of Time (12 vols)
- - Venusberg
- - From a View to a Death
- J C Powys - Weymouth Sands
- - Wolf Solent
- - A Glastonbury Romance
- V S Pritchett - When My Girl Comes Home
- M Proust - In Search of Lost Time (12 vols)
- A Pushkin- Eugene Onegin
- - Boris Godunov
- M Puzo - The Godfather
- T Pynchon - V
- - Gravity’s Rainbow
- F Rabelais - Gargantua/Pantagruel
- J Rhys - Good Morning
- - Voyage in the Dark
- - The Wide Sargasso Sea
- H H Richardson- The Getting of Wisdom
- S Richardson - Clarissa
- - Pamela
- - Sir Charles Gandison
- R M Rilke - The Duino Elegies
- J G Rosa- The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
- J Roth - The Radetzky March
- P Roth - Goodbye Columbus
- - Letting Go
- - Portnoy's Complaint
- J Rulfo- Pedro Paramo
- J-D Rumi- The Mathnawi
- D Runyon - The Best of Damon Runyon
- S Rushdie - Midnight's Children
- Sheikh Sadi of Shiraz- The Orchard
- Saki - The Clovis Chronicles
- - short stories
- T Salih- Ason of Migration to the North
- J D Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
- G Sand - The Haunted Pool
- J Saramago- Blindness
- J-P Sartre- Nausea
- B Schulberg - What Makes Sammy Run?
- W Scott - Old Mortality
- - Waverley
- - The Heart of Midlothian
- - Redgauntlet
- R Sender - Seven Red Sundays
- V Serge - Men in Prison
- - The Case of Comrade Tulayev
- V Seth- A Suitable Boy
- M Shelley - Frankenstein
- M Shikibu- Tale of the Genji
- M Sholokov- Quiet Flows the Don
- A Sillitoe - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
- G Simenon - The Widow Couderc (Ticket of Leave)
- U Sinclair - The Jungle
- I B Singer - The King of the Fields
- - The Crown of Feathers
- - The Family Moskat
- - The Magician of Lublin
- - The Slave
- T Smith - The Bishop's Jaegers
- T Smollett - The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
- - The Adventures of Roderick Random
- C P Snow - The Masters
- A Solzhenitsyn - The First Circle
- - The Gulag Archipelago
- Somerville & Ross- Experiences of an Irish RM*
- T Southern - The Magic Christian
- M Spark - Girls of Slender Means
- - Memento Mori
- - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- - The Mandelbaum Gate
- W O Stapledon- Last and First Men
- C Stead - House of All Nations
- J Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
- - Of Mice and Men
- Stendhal - The Charterhouse of Parma
- - The Scarlet and Black
- L Sterne - Tristram Shandy
- R L Stevenson - The Master of Ballantrae
- - Kidnapped
- - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- - Treasure Island
- - Weir of Hermiston
- B Stoker - Dracula
- D Storey - This Sporting Life
- H B Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
- W Styron - The Long March
- - The Confessions of Nat Turner
- - Sophie's Choice
- I Svevo - Confessions of Zeno
- - As a Man Grows Older
- G Swift- Last Orders
- J Swift - Gulliver's Travels
- J Tey - The Daughter of Time
- W M Thackeray - Vanity Fair
- - The Newcomes
- - The History of Henry Esmond
- P Theroux - The Mosquito Coast
- J Thurber - My World and Welcome To It
- - The 13 Clocks*
- J R R Tolkien - Lord of the Rings
- L Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
- - War and Peace
- - The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- J K Toole- A Confederacy of Dunces*
- W Trevor- Collected Stories
- L Trilling - The Middle of the Journey
- A Trollope - The Way We Live Now
- - the Barset novels
- - the Palliser novels
- - Orley Farm
- - Is He Poppenjoy*
- I Turgenev - A Month in the Country
- - Fathers and Sons
- - First Love
- M Twain - Huckleberry Finn
- - Extracts from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
- J Updike - Rabbit Run
- - Couples
- - Pigeon Feathers
- G Verga - Maestro don Gesualdo
- J Verne- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Virgil - The Aenid
- Voltaire - Candide
- K Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
- - Breakfast of Champions
- H Walpole - The Castle of Otranto
- S T Warner- Mr Fortune’s Maggot
- R B Warren - Night Rider
- E Waugh - Decline and Fall
- - A Handful of Dust
- - Brideshead Revisited
- - Scoop
- - Vile Bodies
- - Put Out More Flags
- - Sword of Honour:
- H G Wells - War of the Worlds
- - The History of Mr Polly
- - The Time Machine
- E Welty - Delta Wedding
- N West - Miss Lonelyhearts
- The Day of the Locust
- R West - The Fountain Overflows
- E Wharton - Custom of the Country
- - The Age of Innocence
- P White - Voss
- - Riders in the Chariot
- O Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
- - Lord Arthur Saville's Crime*
- T Wilder- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- A Wilson - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
- C Wilson - The Outsider
- J Winterson- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- P G Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves
- - Right Ho Jeeves
- T Wolfe - Look Homeward Angel
- T Wolfe - Bonfire of the Vanities
- V Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
- - To the Lighthouse
- - The Waves
- J Wyndham- The Day of the Triffids
- - The Midwich Cuckoos
- M Yourcenar - Memoirs of Hadrian
- E Zola - Nana
- - Germinal
Plays
- Aeschylus - The Oresteia
- - Seven Against Thebes
- - Prometheus Bound
- - The Persians
- - The Suppliant Women
- E Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
- J Anouilh - Ring Round the Moon
- Becket
- Antigone
- J Arden
- Aristophanes - Thesmophoriazusae
- - Women in Power
- - Clouds
- - Wasps
- - Knights
- - Lysistrata
- - Frogs
- Beaumont & Fletcher-
- S Beckett - Endgame
- - Waiting for Godot
- R Bolt- A Man for All Seasons*
- B Brecht- Caucasian Chalk Circle
- - Galileo
- A Chekhov - The Cherry Orchard
- W Congreve - The Way of the World
- - Love for Love
- Corneille - The Cid
- - Polyceute
- - Nicomede
- - Horace
- - Cinna
- - Rodogune
- N Coward - Private Lives
- J Dryden
- F Durrenmatt- The Visit
- T S Eliot - Murder in the Cathedral
- G Etherege - The Man of Mode
- Euripides - The Bacchae
- - Orestes
- - Cyclops
- - Heracles
- - Alcestis
- - Hecuba
- - Andromache
- - Medea
- - Ion
- - Hippolytus
- - Iphigenia at Aulis
- G Farquhar - The Beaux's Stratagem
- - The Recruiting Officer
- J Ford - 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore
- C Fry - The Lady's Not for Burning*
- J Gay - The Beggar's Opera
- J Genet - The Balcony
- W S Gilbert - the Savoy operas
- J Giraudoux - Tiger at the Gates
- J Goethe - Faust
- - Egmont
- C Goldoni - Servant of Two Masters
- O Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer
- H Granville-Barker - The Madras House
- C Hampton - Savages
- H Ibsen - An Enemy of the People
- - Ghosts
- - Peer Gynt
- - Brand
- - Hedda Gabler
- - The Master Builder
- - The Lady from the Sea
- - A Doll’s House
- E Ionesco - Rhinoceros
- - The Bald Soprano
- B Jonson - The Alchemist
- H von Kleist -
- T Kyd- The Spanish Tragedy
- Lope de Vega - La Dorotea
- - Fuente Ovejuna
- Marivaux - comedies
- C Marlowe - Tamburlaine the Great
- - Doctor Faustus
- - The Jew of Malta
- - Edward II
- J Marston - The Malcontent
- P Massinger - A New Way to Pay Old Debts
- W S Maugham- For Services Rendered
- Middleton & Rowley - The Changeling
- A Miller - The Crucible
- Moliere - Tartuffe
- - The Misanthrope
- - School for Wives
- - The Learned Ladies
- - School for Husbands
- - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
- - The Miser
- - Le Malade Imaginaire
- - Don Juan
- - Ridiculous Precieuse
- S O'Casey - Juno and the Paycock
- - The Plough and the Stars
- - The Shadow of a Gunman
- E O'Neill - The Iceman Cometh
- J Orton - Loot
- T Otway - Venice Preserv'd
- A W Pinero - The Second Mrs Tanqueray
- H Pinter - No Man's Land
- L Pirandello - Six Characters in Search of an Author
- Plautus - Pseudolus
- - The Braggart Soldier
- - Rope
- - Amphitryon
- Prevost - Manon Lescaut
- J Racine - Phèdre
- - Andromache
- - Athaliah
- - Britannicus
- T Rattigan - The Winslow Boy
- E Rostand- Cyrano de Bergerac*
- D L Sayers - The Man Born to be King
- F Schiller - The Robbers
- - Don Carlos
- - Mary Stuart
- - Wallenstein
- Seneca - Medea
- - Hercules Furens
- W Shakespeare- Othello
- - King Lear
- - Hamlet
- - Richard II*
- - Caesar & Cleopatra*
- G B Shaw - St Joan
- - Heartbreak House
- - Pygmalion
- - Major Barbara
- - Back to Methuselah
- R B Sheridan - The School for Scandal
- - The Rivals
- Sophocles - Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonnus/Oedipus Tyrannus
- - Antigone
- - Electra
- - Ajax
- - Women of Trachis
- - Philoctetes
- J M Synge
- T Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- - Travesties
- - Jumpers*
- - Professional Foul*
- A Strindberg - Miss Julie
- - A Dance of Death
- - A Dream Boy
- J M Synge - The Playboy of the Western World
- Terence - The Girl from Andros
- - The Eunuch
- - The Mother in Law
- D Thomas - Under Milk Wood
- C Tourneur - The Revenger's Tragedy
- B Travers - Rookery Nook
- J Webster - The White Devil
- - The Duchess of Malfi
- O Wilde - The Importance of Being Ernest
- T Wilder - Our Town
- T Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire
- W Wycherley- The Country Wife
- - The Plain Dealer
Poetry