Grade 12U English ISP Book List
If you choose a book from the following list, you only need to read ONE for your ISP
F ACH |
Chinua Achebe |
Things Fall Apart |
F ADA |
Richard Adams |
Watership Down |
F ATW |
Margaret Atwood |
Alias Grace |
F ATW |
Margaret Atwood |
Robber Bride |
F ATW |
Margaret Atwood |
The Blind Assassin |
F ATW |
Margaret Atwood |
Handmaid's Tale |
F BOY |
Joseph Boyden |
The Orenda |
F BUR |
Anthony Burgess |
A Clockwork Orange |
F BUR |
Jessie Burton |
The Miniaturist |
F CON |
Joseph Conrad |
Heart of Darkness |
F COR |
J.M. Coetzee |
Disgrace |
F DAV |
Robertson Davies |
Fifth Business |
F DOS |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Notes from the Underground |
F ELL |
Ralph Ellison |
Invisible Man |
F EUG | Eugenides, Jeffrey | Middlesex |
F FLA |
Gustave Flaubert |
Madame Bovary |
F FOR |
E.M. Forster |
Howard’s End |
F FOR |
E.M. Forster |
A Room with a View |
F FOR |
E.M. Forster |
A Passage to India |
F GUT |
David Guterson |
Snow Falling on Cedars |
F HIL |
Lawrence Hill |
The Book of Negroes |
F IRV |
John Irving |
The Cider House Rules |
F IRV |
John Irving |
A Prayer for Owen Meany |
F IRV |
John Irving |
The World According to Garp |
F JAM |
Henry James |
Portrait of a Lady |
F JAM |
Henry James |
Washington Square |
F JAM |
Henry James |
Wings of a Dove |
F JAM |
Henry James |
Bostonian |
F KIN |
Thomas King |
Green Grass, Running Water |
F KIN |
Barbara Kingsolver |
The Poisonwood Bible |
F LAW |
D.H. Lawrence |
Sons and Lovers |
F LAU |
Margaret Laurence |
The Stone Angel |
F MAC |
Ann-Marie MacDonald |
Fall on your Knees |
F MAR |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
F MAR |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
Love in the Time of Cholera |
F MIS |
Rohinton Mistry |
Family Matters |
F MIS |
Rohinton Mistry |
A Fine Balance |
F MIS |
Rohinton Mistry |
Such a Long Journey |
F MIT |
Margaret Mitchell |
Gone with the Wind |
F MOR |
Toni Morrison |
The Bluest Eye |
F MOR |
Toni Morrison |
Beloved |
F OND |
Michael Ondaatje |
The English Patient |
F ROY |
Arundhati Roy |
The God of Small Things |
F WEL |
Fay Weldon |
The Lives and Loves of a Female She-Devil |
F WHA |
Edith Wharton |
The Age of Innocence |
F WHA |
Edith Wharton |
The House of Mirth |
F WOO |
Virginia Woolf |
Mrs. Dalloway |
F WOO |
Virginia Woolf |
Orlando |
If you choose a book/play from the following list, you MUST read TWO for your ISP
F ATW |
Margaret Atwood |
Edible Woman |
F ATW |
Margaret Atwood |
The Cat’s Eye |
F CAL |
Morley Callaghan |
More Joy in Heaven |
F CAL |
Morley Callaghan |
Such is my Beloved |
F CAM |
Albert Camus |
The Stranger |
F CAM |
Albert Camus |
The Plague |
F CON |
Joseph Conrad |
Lord Jim |
F DIA |
Anita Diamant |
The Red Tent |
F DAI |
Dai Sijie |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
F FIN |
Timothy Findley |
Famous Last Words |
F FIN |
Timothy Findley |
Headhunter |
F FIN |
Timothy Findley |
The Last of the Crazy People |
F FIN |
Timothy Findley |
Piano Man’s Daughter |
F FIN |
Timothy Findley |
Pilgrim |
F FIN |
Timothy Findley |
The Wars |
F GOR |
Nadine Gordimer |
July’s People |
F GRE |
Graham Greene |
The Quiet American |
F GRE |
Graham Greene |
The End of the Affair |
F HEM |
Ernest Hemingway |
A Farewell to Arms |
F HEM |
Ernest Hemingway |
The Old Man and the Sea |
F HEM |
Ernest Hemingway |
The Sun also Rises |
F HUX |
Aldous Huxley |
Brave New World |
F JAM |
Henry James |
Daisy Miller |
F KIN |
Jamaica Kincaid |
A Small Place |
F LAM |
Wally Lamb |
The Hour I First Believed |
F LAM |
Wally Lamb |
I Know This Much is True |
F LAM |
Wally Lamb |
She’s Come Undone |
F LES |
Doris Lessing |
The Grass is Singing |
F LAU |
Margaret Laurence |
The Diviners |
F LAU |
Margaret Laurence |
The Fire-Dwellers |
F LAU |
Margaret Laurence |
A Jest of God |
F MCC |
Cormac McCarthy |
Blood Meridian: Or The Evening Redness in the West |
F MCC |
Cormac McCarthy |
No Country for Old Men |
F MCC |
Cormac McCarthy |
The Road |
F O’N |
Heather O’Neill |
Lullabies for Little Criminals |
F PAL |
Chuck Palahniuk |
Fight Club |
F RIC |
Nino Ricci |
Lives of Saints |
F RHY |
Jean Rhys |
Wide Sargasso Sea |
F SAR |
Jose Saramago |
Blindness |
F SHI |
Carol Shields |
Unless |
F SHI |
Carol Shields |
Larry’s Party |
F SHI |
Carol Shields |
Stone Diaries |
F STR |
August Strindberg |
Miss Julie |
F VON |
Kurt Vonnegut |
Slaughterhouse-Five |
F VON |
Kurt Vonnegut |
Cat’s Cradle |
F VON |
Kurt Vonnegut |
Breakfast of Champions |
F WAL |
Alice Walker |
The Color Purple |
F ZAM |
Yevgeny Zamyatin |
We |
812 ALB |
Edward Albee |
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf |
812 ALB |
Edward Albee |
The Ballad of a Sad Café |
812 MIL |
Arthur Miller |
The Crucible |
812 MIL |
Arthur Miller |
All My Sons |
812 MIL |
Arthur Miller |
Death of a Salesman |
812 WIL |
Tennessee Williams |
A Streetcar Named Desire |
812 WIL |
Tennessee Williams |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
812 WIL |
Tennessee Williams |
The Glass Menagerie |
839.726 STR |
August Strindberg |
Miss Julie |
839 IBS |
Henrik Ibsen |
The Wild Duck |
839.8 IBS |
Henrik Ibsen |
Hedda Gabler |
839.8 IBS |
Henrik Ibsen |
The Master Builder |
839.8226 IBS |
Henrik Ibsen |
Enemy of the People |
839.8226 MCG |
Frank McGuiness / Henrik Ibsen |
A Doll’s House |