Reading List for General State Examination

Amis, Kingsley Lucky Jim

Austen, Jane Emma
Mansfield Park
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Bradbury, Ray Dandelion Wine
Fahrenheit 451
The Martian Chronicles
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Braine, John Room at the Top
Life at the Top
Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights
Brown, Dan The Da Vinci Code
Angels and Demons
Digital Fortress
Capote, Truman Breakfast at Tiffany's
Carroll, Lewis Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass
Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales
Christie, Agatha Murder on the Orient Express
Death on the Nile
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Murder at the Vicarage
Collins, Wilkie The Moonstone
Woman in White
Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
Cooper, J. F. The Last of the Mohicans
Cronin, A.J. The Citadel
The Keys of the Kingdom
Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe
Moll Flanders
Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Hard Times
Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities
Dos Passos, John The 42nd Parallel
Doyle, A.C. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Hound of the Baskervilles
Dreiser, Theodore American Tragedy
Sister Carrie
Fielding, Helen Briget Jones’s Diary
Fielding, Henry The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby
Tender is the Night
 This Side of Paradise
Golding, William Lord of the Flies
Greene, Graham Brighton Rock
The Power and the Glory
The Heart of the Matter
Our man in Havana
The Quiet American
Grisham, John The Firm
The Client
Hardy, Thomas Far from the Madding Crowd
Jude the Obscure
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Tess of the d‘Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph Catch-22
Good as Gold
Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
Henry, James Washington Square
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Jerome, J.K. Three Men on the Bummel,
Three Men in a Boat
Joyce, James Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
Junger, Sebastian The Perfect Storm
Kerouac, Jack On the Road
Kesey, Ken One Flew over the Coocoo’s Nest
Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Book
Just So Stories
Lawrence, D.H. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Sons and Lovers
Lee, Nelle Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
Lessing, Doris May The Grass Is Singing
Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt
Main Street
Lodge, David Changing Places
London, Jack The Call of the Wild
White Fang
Maugham, W.S. Collected short stories
Maurier, Daphne du Rebecca
Melville, Herman Melville Stories
Moby-Dick
Miller, Arthur Death of a Salesman
A View from the Bridge
Mitchel, Margaret Gone with the Wind
Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Green Gables
Nabokov, Vladimir Lolita
O’Henry The Gift of the Magi
 Ransom of Red Chief
Orwell, George 1984
Animal Farm
Poe, Edgar Allan Tales of Mystery and Imagination
The Masque of the Red Death
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Purloined Letter
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye
Scott, Sir Walter Ivanhoe
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Shreve, Anita Light on Snow
Sea Glass
Sinclair, Upton The Jungle
Steinbeck, John East of Eden
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
The Pearl
The Red Pony
Tortilla Flat
Stevenson, Robert Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Louis Kidnapped
Treasure Island
Stoker, Bram Dracula
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom‘s Cabin
Styron, William Sophie’s Choice
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver‘s Travels
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Fellowship of the Rings
The Hobbit
The Return of the King
The Two Towers
Trevor, William Two Lives
Trollope, Joana Brothers and Sisters
Other People’s Children
The Choir
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Innocents Abroad
The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories
The Prince and the Pauper
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Updike, John The Centaur
Vonnegut, Kurt Cat’s Cradle
 Slaughterhouse-Five
Wells, H. G. The Time Machine
Wilde, Oscar An Ideal Husband
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Woolf, Virginia Mrs. Dalloway
To the Lighthouse