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Suggested Reads - 2022/23
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The Road The Handmaid’s Tess of the Never Let Me Go Becoming Brave New World 1984 Half of a Yellow Sun
Cormac McCarthy: Tale D’ubervilles Kazuo Ishiguro: Michelle Obama: Aldous Huxley: George Orwell: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie:
Margaret Atwood: Thomas Hardy:
A father and his son walk Hailsham seems like a In her memoir, a work of In 1960s Nigeria, Ugwu,
alone through burned Offred lives in The Republic of When Tess Durbeyfield, is pleasant English boarding deep reflection and mesmer- Set in a futuristic World 1984 is the story of one man, a boy from a poor village,
America. Nothing moves Gilead. To some, it is a utopian driven by family poverty school, far from the influ- izing storytelling, Michelle State, inhabited by geneti- Winston Smith. Hidden away goes to work for Odenigbo,
in the ravaged landscape vision of the future, a place of to claim kinship with the ences of the city. Its stu- Obama invites readers cally modified citizens and in the Record Department of a university professor and
save the ash on the wind. safety, a place where everyone wealthy D’Urbervilles, meet- dents are well tended and into her world, chronicling an intelligence-based social the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Olanna, a woman who has
It is cold enough to crack has a purpose, a function. But ing her ‘cousin’ Alec proves supported, trained in art the experiences that have hierarchy, the novel antic- Winston skilfully rewrites the abandoned a life of privi-
stones, and when the The Republic of Gilead offers to be her downfall. A very and literature, and become shaped her-from her child- ipates huge scientific ad- past to suit the needs of the lege to live with him. Then
snow falls it is grey. The Offred only one function: to different man, Angel Clare, just the sort of people the hood on the South Side vancements in reproductive Party. Yet he inwardly rebels Richard arrives, a writer, who
sky is dark. breed. If she deviates, she will, seems to offer her love and world wants them to be. of Chicago to her years as technology, sleep-learning, against the totalitarian world falls in love with Olanna’s
like dissenters, be hanged at salvation, but Tess must But, curiously, they are an executive balancing the psychological manipulation he lives in, which demands ab- sister Kainene. But when
the wall or sent out to die slow- choose whether to reveal taught nothing of the out- demands of motherhood and classical conditioning solute obedience and controls the horror of war engulfs the
ly of radiation sickness. But her past or remain silent in side world and are allowed and work, to her time spent that are combined to make a him through the telescreens. nation their lives pull apart.
even a repressive state cannot the hope of a peaceful fu- little contact with it. at the world’s most famous dystopian society challenged
obliterate desire - neither Of- ture. address. by only a single individual.
fred’s nor that of the two men
on which her future hangs.
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SIXTH FORM
Suggested Reads - 2022/23
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The Remains of The Easter Parade The Underground The Parable of Normal People NW Middlesex
Richard Yates:
In Cold Blood
the Day Railroad the Sower Sally Rooney: Zadie Smith: Jeffrey Eugenides: Truman Capote:
Kazuo Ishiguro: Colson Whitehead: Octavia Butler:
Even as little girls, Sarah and Sally Rooney’s Normal Peo- Zadie Smith’s brilliant tragicom- Sprawling, big-hearted and Often described as the
In the summer of 1956, Emily are very different from each ple follows the intersecting ic NW follows four Londoners - rambunctious, Middlesex
Cora is a slave on a cotton California in the 2020s de- first ‘Non-Fiction novel’,
Stevens, the ageing butler other. Emily looks up to her wiser story of Marianne and Con- Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan traces the vagaries of the
plantation in Georgia. They scends into anarchy and vio- Truman Capote’s infa-
of Darlington Hall, embarks and more stable older sister and nell as they navigate the - after they’ve left their child- American Dream through an
lead a hellish existence, lence but one woman has the mous account of the ap-
on a leisurely holiday that is jealous of her relationship with changing landscape of their hood council estate, grown up intersex individual and their
but Cora has it worse. She power to transform everything palling murder of a Kan-
will take him deep into the their absent father, and later her relationship into adulthood. and moved on to different lives. quixotic extended family.
is an outcast and she is in this alarmingly prescient sas family which shocked
English countryside and into seemingly golden marriage. The From private houses to public Bending the traditional bil-
approaching womanhood, dystopia that takes in climate America in the ‘50s is also
his past...A contemporary path she chooses for herself is parks, at work and at play, their dungsroman to his mercurial
when even greater pain change, inequality, and a classic of the true crime
classic, The Remains of the less safe and conventional and her city is brutal, beautiful, and will, Eugenides crafts a rich,
awaits. Caesar, a slave from racism. genre, a fastidious piece
Day is Nobel Prize-winner love affairs never really satisfy her. complicated. Yet after a chance effusive novel that retains its
Virginia, tells her about the of investigative journal-
Kazuo Ishiguro’s beautiful Although the bond between them encounter they each find that relevance over fifteen years
Underground Railroad, they ism, and a pitiless investi-
and haunting evocation of endures, gradually the distance the choices they’ve made, the after its original publication.
take the perilous decision to gation into the motives of
life between the wars in a between the two women grows, people they once were and
escape to the North. evil.
Great English House, of lost until a tragic event throws their re- are now, can suddenly, rapidly
causes and lost love. lationship into focus one last time. unravel.
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SIXTH FORM
Suggested Reads - 2022/23
AVAILABLE - LRC
On Chesil Beach Madame Bovary Girl, Women,
Rebecca Catch 22 The Narrow Road The Argonoughts
Daphne du Maurier: Maggie Nelson: Ian McEwan: Gustave Flaubert: Other
Joseph Heller: to the Deep North Bernadine Evaristo:
Richard Flanagan: An erotically charged, and
Working as a lady’s com- At the end of World War One of the most ground- It is July 1962. Edward
and Florence, married that psychologically acute por- Girl, Woman, Other follows
panion, the orphaned II, Yossarian is frantic be- There were only two sorts breaking memoirs of the
morning, arrive at a hotel trayal of a married woman’s the lives and struggles of
heroine, Rebecca learns cause lots of people are of men: those who were on twenty-first century, Nel-
in Dorset. They struggle to affair. Its heroine, Emma twelve very different charac-
her place, until, she meets trying to kill him, including the Line, and those not. In son’s blazingly intelligent
suppress their private fears Bovary, is stifled by pro- ters. Mostly women, black
Maxim, whose proposal his own army which keeps the Japanese POW camp and emotionally perceptive
of the wedding night to vincial life as the wife of a and British, they tell the sto-
of marriage takes her by increasing the missions the on the Burma Death Rail- account of her partner Har-
come and, unbeknownst doctor. She seeks escape in ries of their families, friends
surprise. Whisked to his men must fly to complete way, surgeon Dorrigo is ry’s gender fluidity is lumi-
to them both, the events romance books, in spending and lovers, across the country
brooding estate, Mander- their service. If he makes struggling to save his men nous, hugely enlightening
of the evening will haunt and, then, in adultery. But and through the years.
ley, on the Cornish Coast, attempts to excuse himself from starvation, cholera reading.
them for the rest of their even her affairs bring her
the new Mrs de Winter from the missions then he and beatings, he receives
lives. disappointment.
finds Max a changed man. is caught in Catch-22: if he a letter that will change his
And the memory of his flies he is crazy, so doesn’t life forever.
dead wife Rebecca is for- have to; but if he doesn’t
ever kept alive by the for- want to he must be sane
bidding Mrs Danvers . . . and has to. That’s some
catch...
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