Core Texts that will be on your exam:
1.Pigeon English By Stephen Kelman
Study Guide for Pigeon English
There is no official study guide for Pigeon English as of yet, but the one above is quite a good one.
2. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Study Guide for Jekyll and Hyde
or
Study Guide for Jekyll and Hyde
3. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Macbeth Study Guide
4. Power and Conflict Poetry (You will be given an anthology in Year 11)
Study Guide for Power and Conflict
Study Guide for Unseen Poetry
All texts are available on Amazon, the edition you buy does not matter as the text is the same. Below each text there is a link to a study guide, if you wish to purchase one.
Below are study guides for the English Language Paper:
English Language Study Guide
There are also online study guides for each of the texts:
Sparknotes
Shmoop
BBC Bitesize English Language
BBC Bitesize English Literature
All of the online study guides are free. For both Sparknotes and Shmoop, just search the text you want to revise!
Recommended Reading List:
1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. A Farewell to
Arms – Ernest Hemingway
3. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
4. The Aneid – Virgil
5. Anita and Me – Meera Syal
6. Atonement – Ian McEwen
7. Beowulf – trans. Seamus Heany
8. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
9. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
10. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
11. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
12. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
13. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
14. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
15. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
16. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
17. Dracula – Bram Stoker (Gothic Literature)
18. Enigma – Robert Harris
19. Fever Pitch – Nick Hornby
20. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
21. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (Gothic Literature)
22. Girlfriend in a Coma – Douglas Coupland
23. The Great Gatsby – F.Scott Fitzgerlad
24. Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
25. The Illiad – Homer
26. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
27. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (Elements of Gothic Literature)
28. Junk – Melvin Burgess
29. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
30. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
31. Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman
32. Notes on a Scandal – Zoe Heller
33. Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson
34. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
35. The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde (Gothic Literature)
36. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
37. Refugee Boy – Benjamin Zephania
38. The Road – Cormac McArthy
39. Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
40. The Shining – Stephen King
41. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Gothic Literature)
42. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
43. Touching the Void – Joe Simpson
44. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
45. Ulysses – James Joyce
46. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
47. The Wasp Factory – Ian Banks
48. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
49. Woman in Black – Susan Hill
50. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
3. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
4. The Aneid – Virgil
5. Anita and Me – Meera Syal
6. Atonement – Ian McEwen
7. Beowulf – trans. Seamus Heany
8. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
9. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
10. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
11. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
12. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
13. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
14. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
15. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
16. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
17. Dracula – Bram Stoker (Gothic Literature)
18. Enigma – Robert Harris
19. Fever Pitch – Nick Hornby
20. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
21. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (Gothic Literature)
22. Girlfriend in a Coma – Douglas Coupland
23. The Great Gatsby – F.Scott Fitzgerlad
24. Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
25. The Illiad – Homer
26. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
27. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (Elements of Gothic Literature)
28. Junk – Melvin Burgess
29. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
30. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
31. Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman
32. Notes on a Scandal – Zoe Heller
33. Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson
34. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
35. The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde (Gothic Literature)
36. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
37. Refugee Boy – Benjamin Zephania
38. The Road – Cormac McArthy
39. Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
40. The Shining – Stephen King
41. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Gothic Literature)
42. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
43. Touching the Void – Joe Simpson
44. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
45. Ulysses – James Joyce
46. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
47. The Wasp Factory – Ian Banks
48. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
49. Woman in Black – Susan Hill
50. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
51. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
52. King Lear by William
Shakespeare
53. Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
54. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
55. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
56. White
Teeth by Zadie Smith
57. Wild
Swans by Jung Chang
58. Engleby by
Sebastian Faulks
59. Memoirs
of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
60. The Time
Machine by H G Wells
No comments:
Post a Comment