As part of the B-course you are going to read one or two classic
novels in the English language. Below follows a list of suggested novels. All
bold-type authors are for mvg-aspiring students. Any other suggestions,
please consult your teacher. (As you see, some authors have links.)
| Chinua Achebe |
Things Fall apart |
| Margaret Atwood |
Cat's eye |
| Jane Austen |
Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion etc |
| Charlotte Brontė |
Jane Eyre |
| Emily Brontė |
Wuthering Heights |
| Anthony Burgess |
A Clockwork Orange |
| Truman Capote |
In Cold Blood |
| Charles Dickens |
Oliver Twist, Great Expectations |
| Roddy Doyle |
The woman who walked into doors,The Commitments, Paddy Clarke ha,ha,ha |
| Margaret Drabble |
any novel |
| William Golding |
Lord of the flies |
| Nadine Gordimer |
any novel |
| Joanne Greenberg |
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden |
| Graham Greene |
any novel |
| Alex Haley |
Roots |
| Thomas Hardy |
any novel |
| Ernest Hemingway |
A Farewell to Arms |
| D.H. Lawrence |
any novel |
| Doris Lessing |
The Grass is Singing etc |
| Norman Mailer |
The Naked and the Dead |
| Toni Morrison |
any novel |
| V.S. Naipaul |
A House for Mr Biswa |
| Edna O'Brien |
any novel |
| Joyce Carol Oates |
any novel |
| George Orwell |
1984 |
| Sylvia Plath |
The Bell Jar |
| Salman Rushdie |
Midnight's Children |
| Walter Scott |
Ivanhoe |
| John Steinbeck |
Grapes of Wrath |
| R.L. Stevenson |
Treasure Island |
| Mark Twain |
Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn |
| Anne Tyler |
any novel |
| Alice Walker |
Colour Purple |
| Evelyn Waugh |
Brideshead Revisited |
| Kurt Vonnegut |
Slaughterhouse Five |
| Oscar Wilde |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Virginia Woolf |
To the Lighthouse |