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English Literary Studies Stage 2
Subject outline

Version 4.0 - For teaching in 2024.
Accredited in May 2015 for teaching at Stage 2 from 2017.

Stage 2 | Subject outline | Text list | Prose texts

Prose texts

Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart

Adiga, Aravind, The White Tiger

Ali, Monica, Brick Lane

Allende, Isabel, The House of the Spirits

Anderson, Boyd, The Heart Radical

Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid’s Tale

Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice

Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights

Carroll, Steven, The Art of the Engine Driver

Coetzee, J.M, Summertime

de Botton, Alain, The Art of Travel

Dalton, Trent, Boy Swallows Universe

Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations

Doerr, Anthony, All the Light We Cannot See

Fitzgerald, F.S., The Great Gatsby

Flanagan, Richard, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, Love in the Time of Cholera

Grenville, Kate, The Secret River

Hosseini, Khaled, The Kite Runner

Ishiguro, Kazuo, Never Let Me Go

Jones, Lloyd, Mister Pip

Kent, Hannah, Burial Rites

Kesey, Ken, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Lucashenko, Melissa, Too Much Lip

McEwan, Ian, Atonement

Malouf, David, Fly Away Peter

Martel, Yann, Life of Pi

O'Farrell, Maggie, Hamnet

Orwell, George, 1984

Parrett, Favel, Past the Shallows

Proulx, E. Annie, The Shipping News

Rooney, Sally, Normal People

Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein

Stedman, M.L., The Light Between Oceans

Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath

Süskind, Patrick, Perfume

Temple, Peter, The Broken Shore

Tan, Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists

Winch, Tara June, Swallow the Air

Williams, John, Stoner

Winton, Tim, Breath