Recommended reading:
Prose:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus, Americanah
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake, The Blind Assassin
Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go
Andrea Levy - Small Island
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
Alice Walker - The Colour Purple
Zadie Smith - White Teeth, NW, On Beauty
Poetry:
Ted Hughes
John Keats
Philip Larkin
Sylvia Plath
Christina Rossetti
Drama:
George Bernard Shaw
Tennessee Williams
Polly Stenham
Non-Fiction
Anon: I Am The Secret Footballer
Maya Angelou: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Robert Graves: Goodbye To All That
Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Malcolm X - Autobiography