LIST OF TOPICS AND BOOKS FOR INDIVIDUAL READING
LIST OF TOPICS AND BOOKS FOR INDIVIDUAL READING
Family Relations
1. J. Galsworthy The Forsyte Saga
A Modern Comedy.
End of the Chapter.
2. E. O’Neill Long Day’s Journey into Night.
Desire under the Elms.
Mourning Becomes Electra.
3. T. Williams The Glass Menagerie.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
4. Th. Wilder Heaven’s My Destination.
Our Town.
5. I. Murdoch The Sandcastle.
The Black Prince.
6. E. Hemingway Cat in the Rain.
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
and other stories.
7. Th. Dreiser Sister Carrie.
8. M. Spark The Public Image.
Stories.
9. A.J. Cronin The Citadel.
Hatter’s Castle.
10. Ch. Dickens Dombey and Son.
11. J. Priestley Angel Pavement.
The Dangerous Corner.
12. A. Coppard Fifty Pounds and other stories.
13. D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers.
The Rainbow.
14. D. du Maurier Rebecca
15. W.S. Maugham The Painted Veil.
16. J. Braine Room at the Top.
Life at the Top.
17. J. Agee A Death in the Family.
18. E. Segal Love Story.
Man, Woman and Child.
Acts of Faith.
19. M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind.
20. A. Tyler Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
21. S. Fitzgerald Tender is the Night.
22. J. Steinbeck East of Eden.
The Winter of Our Discontent.
23. W. Faulkner The Sound and the Fury.
Light in August.
24. L. Hellman The Little Foxes.
The Autumn Garden.
25. E. Albee Everything in the Garden.
26. E. M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread.
27. I. Shaw Rich Man, Poor Man.
Bread upon the Waters.
28. J. McGraham Amongst Women.
29. F. Weldon The Cloaning of Joanna May.
30. A. Carter The Magic Toy Shop.
31. K. Ishiguro A Pale View of Hills.
32. M. Binchy The Glass Lake.
33. N. Barber Tanamera.
34. G. Eliot Middlemarch.
35. T. Morrison Song of Solomon.
36. B. Shaw Widower’s Houses.
37. A. Corman Kramer versus Kramer.
38. A. Frank The Diary of a young Girl/The Diary of Anne Frank.
39. J. Coe What а Carve Up!
40. E. Freud The Sea House.
41. G. Swift Waterland.
42. J. Archer Kane and Abel.
43. J. Brewer A Crack in Forever.
44. C. Ahern Where the Rainbows End.
45. M.Binchy Silver Wedding.
Man and War
1. R. Aldington Death of a Hero.
2. J. Aldridge The Sea Eagle.
Signed with Their Honour.
3. W.S. Maugham The Unconquered.
4. E. Waugh Sword of Honour.
5. W. Golding Free Fall.
6. E. Hemingway A Farewell to Arms.
For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Soldier’s Home and other stories.
7. W. Faulkner Soldier’s Pay.
Sartoris.
8. A. Maltz The Cross and the Arrow.
9. J. Dos Passos Three Soldiers.
10. N. Mailer The Naked and the Dead.
11. M. Wilson In a German Town.
12. W. Styron Sophie’s Choice.
13. J. Jones From Here to Eternity.
14. L. Hellman Watch on the Rhine.
15. J. Ballard Empire of the Sun.
16. R. Condon An Infinity of Mirrors.
17. M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind.
18. K. Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five.
19. L. Uris Mila 18.
20. J. Heller Catch-22.
21. M. Amis Time’s Arrow.
22. G. Swift Out of This World.
23. N. Barber Farewell to France.
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Present-Day World
1. R. Bradbury Fahrenheit 451.
2. A.J. Cronin The Citadel.
3. Ch. P. Snow The New Men.
4. W. Golding Lord of the Flies.
5. J. Fowles Daniel Martin.
6. G. Greene The Power and the Glory.
7. A. Hailey The Final Diagnosis.
Strong Medicine.
8. H. Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau.
The Invisible Man.
The Stolen Bacillus.
9. K. Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle.
10. M. Wilson Live with Lighting.
My Brother, My Enemy.
11. R.P. Warren All the King’s Men.
12. G. Greene The Quiet American.
Dr. Fischer of Geneva, or The Bomb Party.
13. M. Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
14. M. Dickens The Heart of London.
15. G. Swift Ever After.
16. M. Shelley Frankenstein.
17. B. Shaw Pygmalion.
18. K. Ishiguro An Artist in the Floating World.
Woman and Society
1. Ch. Bronte Jane Eyre.
2. Th. Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
3. W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair.
4. A. Bennett Fifty Pounds and other stories.
5. D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
Women in Love.
6. D. du Maurier Rebecca.
7. J. Fowles The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
8. M. Drabble The Garrick Year.
The Realms of Gold.
The Radiant Way.
9. A. Brookner A Start in Life.
Hotel du Lac.
10. F. Weldon Female Friends.
11. Th. Dreiser Sister Carrie.
Jennie Gerhardt.
12. J. Austen Emma.
Pride & Prejudice.
Sense and Sensibility.
13. E. O’Neill Long Day’s Journey into Night.
14. T. Williams The Streetcar Named Desire.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Orpheus Descending.
Rose Tattoo.
15. S. Lewis Main Street.
16. E. Hemingway Cat in the Rain.
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.
17. A.H. Gurney Love Letters.
18. M. Spark The Public Image.
19. A. Tyler. Earthly Possessions.
20. J. Krantz Mistral’s Daughter.
21. S. Sheldon The Other Side of Midnight.
Rage of Angels.
22. D. Lessing The Fifth Child.
23. N. Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter.
24. R. Condon An Infinity of Mirrors.
25. A. Hailey Strong Medicine.
26. M. Binchy The Glass Lake.
27. J. Archer The Prodigal Daughter.
28. V. Woolf Orlando.
29. E. Freud The Sea House.
30. I. P. Barker Regeneration.
31. I. McEwan Atonement.
32. J. Brewer A Crack in Forever.
33. C. Ahern Where the Rainbows End.
34. Sh. Conran Savages.
35. C. Shields The Stone Diaries.
The Fate of a Creative Personality
1. R. Kipling The Light That Failed.
2. W.S. Maugham The Moon and Sixpence.
Theatre.
Cakes and Ale.
The Painted Veil.
3. R. Aldington Death of a Hero.
4. A.J. Cronin The Crusader’s Tomb.
5. J. Cary The Horse’s Mouth.
6. J. Fowles The Collector.
The Ebony Tower.
Daniel Martin.
7. M. Spark The Public Image.
8. I. Murdoch The Black Prince.
A Word Child.
9. J. London Martin Eden.
10. E. Hemingway The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
11. J. Krantz Mistral’s Daughter.
12. I. Stone Lust for Life.
Sailor on Horseback.
13. M. Shelley Frankenstein.
14. Th. Hardy Jude the Obscure.
15. I. Shaw Evening in Byzantium.
16. A. Burgess Earthly Powers.
17. K. Ishiguro An Artist in the Floating World.
18. G. Greene A Burt – Out Case.
Children and Adults
1. Ch. Dickens Oliver Twist.
2. A. Bennett The Wind.
3. H. Munro The Lumber Room.
4. K. Mansfield The Garden Party and other stories.
5. A.J. Cronin The Green Years.
A Song of Sixpence
6. W. Golding Lord of the Flies
7. S. Hill I am the King of the Castle.
8. S. Townsend The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ?.
9. A. Burgess A Clockwork Orange.
10. M. Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
11. L. Steffens A Boy on Horseback.
12. E. Hemingway The Killers and other stories about Nick Adams.
13. T. Capote The Grass Harp.
14. J. Agee A Death in the Family.
15. L. Harper To Kill a Mocking Bird.
16. E. Segal Man, Woman, Child.
17. W. Braithwaite To Sir, with Love.
18. J. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye.
19. B. Kaufman Up the Down Staircase.
20. R. Bradbury Veldt and other stories.
21. P. Bailey Gabriel’s Lament.
22. D. Lessing The Fifth Child.
23. K. Waterhouse Billy Liar.
24. M. Dickens The Heart of London.
25. M. Binchy The Glass Lake.
Silver Wedding.
26. I. McEwan Child in Time.
27. A. Corman Kramer versus Kramer.
28. A. Frank The Diary of a Young Girl/The Diary of Anne Frank.
29. J. Rowling Harry Porter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
30. J. Coe What a Carve up!
31. N. Hornby About a Boy.
32. J. Brewer A Crack in Forever.
33. C. Ahern Where the Rainbows End.
P.S. I love You.
If You Could See Me Now.
The Problem of Violence
1. W. Shakespeare Macbeth.
2. E. Hemingway The Killers.
3. A. Burgess A Clockwork Orange.
4. W. Golding Lord of the Flies.
5. M. Puzo The Godfather.
6. J. Fowles Poor Koko.
The Collector.
7. D. Lessing The Fifth Child.
8. T. Williams Orpheus Descending.
9. A. Miller All My Sons.
10. J. Steinbeck Of Mice and Men.
11. T. Capote In Cold Blood.
12. R. Condon An Infinity of Mirrors.
13. R.L. Stevenson Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
14. I. McEwan Enduring Love.
15. A. Hailey The Evening News.
16. J. Conrad Heart of Darkness.
Crime and Punishment
1. W. Shakespeare Macbeth.
2. T. Wilder Heaven’s My Destination.
3. Th. Dreiser An American Tragedy.
4. M. Spark Stories (The Dark Glasses.
The Black Madonna.
The Portobello Road, etc.).
5. S. Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby.
6. R.L. Stevenson Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
7. J. Conrad Lord Jim.
8. S. Sheldon The Other Side of Midnight.
9. T. Williams Orpheus Descending.
10. J. Steinbeck East of Eden.
11. E. Bronte Wuthering Heights.
12. L. Harper To Kill a Mocking Bird.
13. Th. Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge.
14. A. Miller All My Sons.
15. J. Gould Sins.
16. J. Archer Kane and Abel.
Politics and Ethics
1. W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar.
Macbeth.
Richard III.
2. Ch. P. Show Corridors of Power.
3. G. Greene The Quiet American. The Comedians.
4. R. P. Warren All the King’s Men.
5. S. Lewis It Can’t Happen Here.
6. N. Lewis The Sicilian Specialist.
7. J. Aldridge The Diplomat.
8. F. Knebel, Ch. Bailey Seven Days in May.v
9. J. Kellerv Catch-22.
10. K. Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle.
Jail Bird.
11. K. Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
12. O. Wilde An Ideal Husband.
13. B. Shaw Caesar and Cleopatra.
The Man of Destiny.
14. R. Hughes The Fox in the Attic.
The Wooden Shepherdess.
15. W. Golding Lord of the Flies.
16. J. Archer The Prodigal Daughter.
17. R. Aldington v Lawrence of Arabia.
18. G. Vidal Washington D.C.
Burr.
1876.
19. G. Orwell 1984. Animal Farm.
Moral Quest
1. W. Shakespeare Hamlet.
2. Th. Dreiser An American Tragedy.
3. S. Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby.
Tender is the Night.
4. J. Shaw The Top of the Hill.
5. Th. Wilder Heaven’s My Destination.
6. J. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye.
7. P.P. Reade Professor’s Daughter.
8. J. Osborne Look Back in Anger.
9. J. Braine Room at the Top.
Life at the Top.
10. J. London Martin Eden.
11. T. Williams Orpheus Descending.
The Glass Menagerie.
12. W. Golding The Spire.
13. A. Cronin The Citadel.
14. O. Wilde The Picture of Dorian Grey.
15. E. Segal Acts of Faith.
16. I. Shaw Rich Man, Poor Man.
17. J. Conrad Heart of Darkness.
18. H. Melville Moby Dick.
19. T. Morrison Song of Solomon.
20. J. Archer Kane and Abel.
21. A. J. Brewer A Crack in Forever.
22. C. Ahern Where the Rainbows End.