CSEC English B – Caribbean Examinations Council

Works this syllabus prescribes. ReadingRate holds 71 of the 343 it names. Recorded by the Canons dataset (Andrew Piper, CC BY 4.0).

• A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens
• A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway
• A Handful of Dust (1934) by Evelyn Waugh
• A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) by Richard Hughes
• A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) by V.S. Naipaul
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1600) by William Shakespeare
• A Wrinkle in Time (1962) by Madeleine L'Engle
• Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
• Annie John (1985) by Jamaica Kincaid
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970) by Judy Blume
• Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) by Jules Verne
• Arrow of God (1964) by Chinua Achebe
• As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare
• Black Beauty (2003) by Anna Sewell
• Cannery Row (1945) by John Steinbeck
• Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2003) by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker
• Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce
• Emma (1815) by Jane Austen
• Empire of the Sun (1984) by J.G. Ballard
• Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy
• Farmer Boy (2007) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley
• Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) by Maya Angelou
• Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960) by Scott O'Dell
• Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
• Kindred (1979) by Octavia E. Butler
• Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad
• Lucky Jim (1954) by Kingsley Amis
• Matilda (1988) by Roald Dahl
• My Side of the Mountain (1959) by Jean Craighead George
• Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright
• Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder
• Pygmalion (1913) by George Bernard Shaw
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976) by Mildred D. Taylor
• Sanctuary (1931) by William Faulkner
• Silas Marner (1861) by George Eliot
• So Long a Letter (1979) by Mariama Bâ
• Sounder (1995) by William H. Armstrong
• The Arrivants (1973) by Kamau Brathwaite
• The Aunt's Story (1948) by Patrick White
• The Borrowers (1952) by Mary Norton
• The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger
• The Cay (1969) by Theodore Taylor
• The Cherry Orchard (1904) by Anton Chekhov
• The Color Purple (1983) by Alice Walker
• The Glass Menagerie (1944) by Tennessee Williams
• The Go-Between (1953) by L.P. Hartley
• The Grass is Singing (1950) by Doris Lessing
• The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Guide (1958) by R.K. Narayan
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) by Douglas Adams
• The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (2002) by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The House on Mango Street (1984) by Sandra Cisneros
• The Importance of Being Earnest (1893) by Oscar Wilde
• The Jungle Book (1992) by Rudyard Kipling
• The Outsiders (1967) by S.E. Hinton
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
• The River Between (1965) by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
• The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas
• The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James
• The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame
• Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) by Harper Lee
• Watership Down (1972) by Richard Adams
• Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys
• Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë