AQA GCSE and A-level English Literature

Works this syllabus prescribes. ReadingRate holds 67 of the 170 it names. Recorded by the Canons dataset (Andrew Piper, CC BY 4.0).

• A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens
• A Doll's House (1879) by Henrik Ibsen
• A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway
• A Long Long Way (2005) by Sebastian Barry
• A Room with a View (1908) by E.M. Forster
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) by Tennessee Williams
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1987) by Erich Maria Remarque
• Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
• Ariel (1965) by Sylvia Plath
• Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan
• Birdsong (1997) by Sebastian Faulks
• Brighton Rock (1938) by Graham Greene
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) by Tennessee Williams
• Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller
• Emma (1815) by Jane Austen
• Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley
• Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens
• Hard Times (1854) by Charles Dickens
• Harvest (2013) by Jim Crace
• Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
• King Lear (1606) by William Shakespeare
• Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
• Measure for Measure (1604) by William Shakespeare
• Middlemarch (1871) by George Eliot
• My Name is Leon (2016) by Kit de Waal
• Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
• North and South (1855) by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Northanger Abbey (1818) by Jane Austen
• Oliver Twist (1838) by Charles Dickens
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) by Jeanette Winterson
• Othello (1603) by William Shakespeare
• Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton
• Persuasion (1817) by Jane Austen
• Pigeon English (2012) by Stephen Kelman
• Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
• Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier
• Regeneration (1991) by Pat Barker
• Revolutionary Road (1961) by Richard Yates
• Richard II (1597) by William Shakespeare
• Small Island (2005) by Andrea Levy
• Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) by William Blake
• Spies (2002) by Michael Frayn
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy
• The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin
• The Color Purple (1983) by Alice Walker
• The Go-Between (1953) by L.P. Hartley
• The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy
• The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Handmaid's Tale (2017) by Margaret Atwood
• The Help (2009) by Kathryn Stockett
• The Importance of Being Earnest (1893) by Oscar Wilde
• The Kite Runner (2003) by Khaled Hosseini
• The Mill on the Floss (1860) by George Eliot
• The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) by Agatha Christie
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (2003) by Oscar Wilde
• The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Sign of Four (1889) by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Taming of the Shrew (1594) by William Shakespeare
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) by Anne Brontë
• Twelfth Night (1602) by William Shakespeare
• Vanity Fair (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray
• Waterland (1983) by Graham Swift
• Wise Children (1991) by Angela Carter
• Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë