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