Sophie’s World: A Novel About
the History of Philosophy
The Glass Menagerie
Return of the Native
Things Fall Apart
Rebecca
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Alchemist
Murder in the Cathedra
The Catcher in the Rye
Selected Poems
Samskara
Importance of Being Ernest
Strange Pilgrims
God of Small Things
The Outsider
Siddhartha
The Fire and the Rain
Wuthering Heights
Women in Love
Portrait in Sepia
Pride and Prejudice
Travels with My Aunt
Pearl S. Buck
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Maxim Gorky
Alexandre Dumas
Jhumpa Lahiri
Sylvia Nasar
Rohinton Mistry
Erich Maria Remarque
Jostein Gaardner
Tennessee Williams
Thomas Hardy
Chinua Achebe
Daphne du Maurier
George Orwell
Paulo Coelho
T.S. Eliot
J.D. Salinger
Pablo Neruda
U.R. Ananthamurthy (translated by A.K. Ramanujan)
Oscar Wilde
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Arundhati Roy
Albert Camus
Hermann Hesse
Girish Karnad
Emily Brontë
D.H. Lawrence
Isabel Allende
Jane Austen
Graham Greene
Recommended Reading
Title
Author
Angela’s Ashes
Eugene Grandet
Death of a Salesman
Complete Tales and Poems
Pygmalion
The Discovery of India
The Early Stories
The Devil’s Dictionary
Selected Poems
Stories
Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life
in Sarajevo
The Return of the Native
One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich
The Hungry Stones
2001, A Space Odyssey
Jane Eyre
The Diary of A Nobody
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Prisoner of Zenda
A Passage to India
A Death in the Family
he Autobiography of
Benjamin Franklin
Song of Solomon
Two Leaves and a Bud
Gone with the Wind
Frank McCourt
Honoré de Balzac
Arthur Miller
Edgar Allan Poe
G.B. Shaw
Jawaharlal Nehru
John Updike
Ambrose Bierce
W.B.Yeats
Anton Chekhov
Filipovic Zlata
Thomas Hardy
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Rabindranath tagore
Arthur C. Clarke
Charlotte Brontë
George Grossmith
Oscar Wilde
Anthony Hope
E.M. Forster
James Agee
Benjamin Franklin
Toni Morrison
Mulkraj Anand
Margaret Mitchell
Reading List 2008-2009 Grade - 11 and 12
Required Reading
Title
Author
Old Goriot
Silas Marner
Great Expectations
Short Stories
Selected Poems
Ariel
Macbeth
Madame Bovary
Waiting for Godot
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Emma
The Namesake
My Childhood
Siddhartha
The Sun Also Rises
Women in Love
The Untouchable
Norton Anthology of Modern
Poetry
Palgrave’s Golden Treasury
Crime and Punishment
Beloved
The Collected Stories
As I Lay Dying
Catch 22
The Handmaid’s Tale
Like the Flowing River
The Threepenny Opera
Death of Ivan Ilych
For Whom the Bell Tolls
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Honoré de Balzac
George Eliot
Charles Dickens
Saki
John Keats
Sylvia Plath
William
Shakespeare
Gustave Flaubert
Samuel Beckett
Thomas Hardy
Jane Austen
Jhumpa Lahiri
Maxim Gorky
Hermann Hesse
Ernest Hemingway
D.H. Lawrence
Mulkraj Anand
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Toni Morrison
Alexander Pushkin
William Faulkner
Joseph Heller
Margaret Atwood
Paulo Coelho
Bertolt Brecht
Leo Tolstoy
Ernest Hemingway
G. Garcia Marquez
Recommended Reading
Title
Author
Middlemarch
Disgrace
A Room of One’s Own
The Metamorphosis
The Bell Jar
The Color Purple
Ender’s Game
The Crucible
Notes from Underground
The Overcoat and Other
Short Stories
The Wild Duck
The Great Gatsby
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Life is Elsewhere
The Rainbow
The Fountainhead
The Sound and the Fury
Gitanjali
The Shadow Lines
The Guide
The Mill on the Floss
The Plague
The House of Spirits
Saint Joan
Songs of Innocence and
Experience
George Eliot
J.M. Coetzee
Virginia Woolf
Franz Kafka
Sylvia Plath
Alice Walker
Orson Scott Card
Arthur Miller
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nikolai Gogol
Henrik Ibsen
Scott Fitzgerald
Irving Stone
Milan Kundera
D.H. Lawrence
Ayn Rand
William Faulkner
Rabindranath Tagore
Amitabh Ghosh
R.K. Narayan
George Eliot
Albert Camus
Isabel Allende
G.B. Shaw
William Blake