English Studies Possible Independent Study Pairings

I got this list from another school and they are not my personal recommendations. I’m not familiar with most of these texts. Some texts may only be suitable for a ‘C’ student. If you are aiming for an ‘A’ then ‘meatier’ texts must be chosen. Also, this is not an exhaustive list. Other texts may be chosen.(F) = Film (P)= PlayAbyssinian Chronicles, TheMoses Isegawa

The Colour of Water James McBride

Across the Nightingale FloorLian Hearn

The Last Samurai Edward Zwick (F)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Mark Twain

Catcher in the Rye, The J.D. Salinger

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Arthur Conan Doyle

The Thirty Nine Steps John Buchan

Alchemist, The Paulo Coelho Veronika Decides to Die Paulo CoelhoThe Power and the GloryGraham Greene

Alchemist’s Daughter, TheKatharine McMahon

Northern Lights Philip Pullman

Alias Grace Margaret Atwood One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexandr SolzhenitsynThe Remains of the Day Kazuo IshiguroThe Painted Cage Meira Chand

All Quiet on the Western FrontErich Maria Remarque

Fly Away Peter David MaloufThe Short-Timers Gustav HasfordResistance Owen SheersCatch 22 Joseph HellerSchindler’s List Steven Spielberg (F)

Amadeus (P) Peter Shaffer M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio Peter Robb

American Beauty Sam Mendes (F) Like Water For ChocolateLaura EsquivelThe Bluest Eye Toni MorrisonThe Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

American History X Tony Kaye (F) The Colour of Water James McBrideThe Reader Bernhard SchlinkA Lesson Before Dying Ernest J Gaines

American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis Stevenson

An Angel at My Table Jane Campion (F)An Angel at My Table Janet Frame

Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourtThe Piano Jane Campion (F)

Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt An Angel at My Table Jane Campion (F)The Harp in the South Ruth ParkPoor Man’s Orange Ruth ParkNot Without My DaughterBetty Mahmoody

Anil’s Ghost Michael Ondaatje For the Good of the CauseAlexandr Solzhenitsyn

Animal Farm George Orwell Rhinoceros Eugene Ionesco (P)Animal Liberation Peter Singer Next of Kin: My Conversations with

Chipmanzees Roger FoutsApocalypse NowFrancis Ford Coppola (F)

Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad

Apocalypto Mel Gibson (F) Cat’s Cradle Kurt VonnegutApril Fool’s Day Bryce Courtenay Philadelphia Jonathan Demme (F)

The Bell Jar Sylvia PlathThe L-Shaped Room Lynne Reid Banks

Asylum, The John Harwood The Reader Bernhard SchlinkAtonement Ian McEwan Fox Evil Minette Walters

The Kite Runner Khaled HosseiniThe Reader Bernhard SchlinkA Passage to India E.M. Forster

Autumn of the Patriarch, TheGabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel Garcia Marquez

Babel Alejandro González Iñárritu (F) One Good Turn Kate AtkinsonBacchae, The Euripides The Tracker Rolf de Heer (F)Ballad of the Sad Café, TheCarson McCullers

Cabaret Christopher IsherwoodThe Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

Baumgartner’s Bombay Anita Desai Ivory Swing, The Janet Turner HospitalBeach, The Alex Garland The Mosquito Coast Paul Theroux

Great Gatsby, The F. Scott FitzgeraldBell Jar, The Sylvia Plath The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger

Girl, Interrupted James Mangold (F)The God of Small Things Arundhati RoyMy Brilliant Career Myles FranklinApril Fool’s Day Bryce Courtenay

Beloved Toni Morrison The Colour Purple Alice WalkerUncle Tom’s CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai Sijie

Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson

Bernice Bobs Her HairJoan Micklin Silver (F)

Great Gatsby, The F. Scott Fitzgerald

Billy Elliot Stephen Daldry (F) Maestro Peter GoldsworthyBirdsong Sebastian Faulks The Ghost Road Pat Baker

A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J GainesBirdy William Wharton Memento Christopher Nolan (F)Black Dogs Ian McEwan Lord of the Flies William GoldingBlack Robe Brian Moore Things Fall Apart Chinua AchebeBlade Runner, The Alan E. Nourse Frankenstein Mary ShelleyBleak House Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Charles DickensBlind Assassin, The Margaret Atwood The Debt to Pleasure John Lanchester

Crystal Coffin Anita BellFried Green Tomatoes Jon Avnet(F)

Bliss Peter Carey The Lovely Bones Alice SeboldBluest Eye, The Toni Morrison The Colour Purple Alice Walker

American Beauty Sam Mendes (F)Bondmaid, The Catherine Lim Like Water For Chocolate

Laura EsquivelBonesetter’s Daughter, The Amy Tan The Kitchen God’s Wife Amy Tan

Hanna’s DaughtersMarianne Fredriksson

Book Thief, The Marcus Zusak Captain Corelli’s MandolinLouis De BernieresA Life’s Music Andrei MakinePan’s Labyrinth Guillermo Del Torro (F)

Border Crossing Pat Barker Lost Girls Andrew PyperThe Man Who Wasn’t There Coen Brothers (F)Good Will Hunting Gus van Sant (F)We Need to Talk about KevinLionel ShriverPersuasion Jane AustenEnduring Love Ian McEwan

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, TheJohn Boyne

The Sixth Sense M. Night Shyamalan

Boy in Winter, A Maxine Chernoff Knowing Sophie Brenda LittleBrave New World Aldous Huxley Darkness Visible William Golding

The Stranger Albert CamusFight Club David Fincher (F)Nineteen Eighty-Four George OrwellFrankenstein Mary ShelleyGattaca Andrew Niccol (F)V for Vendetta James McTeigue (F)Now I Know Aiden ChambersWoman on the Edge of TimeMarge Piercy

Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen FieldingBridget Jones’s DiarySharon Maguire (F)

Jane Eyre Charlotte BrontePride and Prejudice Jane Austen

Brilliant Lies David Williamson (P) Secrets and Lies Mike Leigh (F)Bring Larks and HeroesThomas Keneally

Gould’s Book of Fish Richard Flanagan

Brothers Karamazov, TheFyodor Dostoyevsky

Everyman Peter van Diest

Cabaret Christopher Isherwood The Reader Bernhard SchlinkThe Ballad of the Sad CaféCarson McCullers

Callanish William Horwood Watership Down Richard AdamsCamphor Laurel Sarah Walker Now and Then Lesli Linka Glatter(F)

Candelo Georgia Blain Secrets and Lies Mike LeighThe Song of an Innocent BystanderIan Bone

Candle in the Darkness Lynn Austin Reading in the Dark Seamus DeaneCandy Luke Davies Monkey Grip Helen Garner

Trainspotting Danny Boyle (F)Canterbury Tales, TheGeoffrey Chaucer

Rumpole For the DefenceJohn Mortimer

Captain Corelli’s MandolinLouis De Bernieres

The Divine Wind Garry DisherThe English PatientAnthony Minghella (F)The Book Thief Marcus Zusak

Carnevale Michelle R. Lovric Like Water For ChocolateLaura Esquivel

Catch 22 Joseph Heller One flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestKen KeseyAll Quiet on the Western FrontErich Maria RemarqueMother Night Kurt VonnegutThe Trial Franz Kafka

Catcher in the Rye, The J.D. Salinger The Virgin Suicides Sophia Cappola (F)The Bell Jar Sylvia PlathPride and Prejudice Jane AustenOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestAnthony BurgessVernon God Little DBC PierreThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

Cat’s Cradle Kurt Vonnegut Apocalypto Mel Gibson (F)

Cat’s Eye Margaret Atwood Never Let Me Go Kazuo IshirguroCharlotte Gray Sebastian FaulksCharlotte Gray Gillian Armstrong (F)

Shining Through David Seitzer (F)The Quiet American Graham GreeneThe English Patient Michael Ondaatje

Chocolat Joanne Harris Five Quarters of the OrangeJoanne HarrisCrescent Diana Abu-JaberThe Scarlet LetterNathanial HawthornePomegranate Soup Marsha MehranThe Dressmaker Rosalie HamLike Water For ChocolateLaura EsquivelThe Devil and Miss Prym Paulo Coelho

Cider House Rules, TheLasse Hallstrom(F)

Finding Fish Antwone Quenton Fisher

Cinema ParadisoGiuseppe Tornatore (F)

Educating Rita Willy Russell (P)Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte

Citizen Kane Orson Welles (F) Great Gatsby, The F. Scott FitzgeraldCity and the Stars, The Arthur C Clarke Nineteen Eighty-Four George OrwellCity of God Paulo Lins American History X Tony Kaye (F)Clockwork Orange, A Anthony Burgess Trainspotting Danny Boyle (F)

Nineteen Eighty-Four George OrwellStranger, The Albert CamusCrucible, The Arthur Miller (P)V for Vendetta James McTeigue (F)A Star Called Henry Roddy Doyle

Closed for Winter Georgia Blain The Lovely Bones Alice SeboldThe Reader Bernhard SchlinkMy Sister’s Keeper Jodi PicoultThe Salt of Broken TearsMichael Meehan

Cloud Atlas David Mitchell The Inheritors William GoldingCloudstreet Tim Winton The Shipping News Annie Proulx

What’s Eating Gilbert GrapeLasse Hallstrom (F)The Shark Net Robert DreweWhat’s Eating Gilbert GrapePeter Hedges

Cold Mountain Charles Frazier The Reader Bernhard SchlinkCollector, The John Fowles The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde

Perfume Patrick SuskindLolita Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovThe Mosquito Coast Paul Theroux

Colour of Water, The James McBride Rush Home Road Lori LansensThe Abyssinian ChroniclesMoses IsegawaAmerican History X Tony Kaye (F)

Colour Purple, The Alice Walker The Bluest Eye Toni MorrisonHiam Eva SallisLet the Circle be UnbrokenMildred D. TaylorBeloved Toni MorrisonA Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen (P)Mississippi Burning Alan Parker (F)

Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo Waiting for Godot Samuel Becket (P)Constant Gardener, The John le Carre In the Evil Day Peter TempleConversations at Curlow CreekDavid Malouf

Memoirs of HadrianMarguerite Yourcenar

Corrections, The Jonathan Franzen Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller (P)Cosi Louis Nowra (P) One flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Ken KeseyCrescent Diana Abu-Jaber Chocolat Joanne HarrisCrime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky

Les Miserables Bille August (F)The Trial Franz Kafka

Crucible, The Arthur Miller (P) Year of Wonders Geraldine BrooksThe Wife of Martin Guerre Janet LewisGreat Dates 1937 (F)Sling Blade Billy Bob Thornton (F)High Noon Fred Zinnemann (F)The Piano Jane Campion (F)The Mission Roland Joffe (F)The Trial Franz KafkaPhiladelphia Jonathan Demme (F)Nineteen Eighty-Four George OrwellCry Freedom John BrileyA Man for all Seasons Robert Bolt (P)Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller (P)A Clockwork Orange Anthony BurgessReading in the Dark Seamus DeaneThe Scarlet LetterNathanial Hawthorne

Cry Freedom John Briley The Crucible Arthur Miller (P)Going Home Herbert B. Leonard (F)

Crystal Coffin Anita Bell The Blind Assassin Margaret AtwoodDances with Wolves Kevin Costner A Dangerous Vine Barbara EwingDangerous Vine, A Barbara Ewing Dances with Wolves Kevin CostnerDarkness Visible William Golding Brave New World Aldous HuxleyDaughter of Fortune Isabel Allende Fortune’s Rocks Anita Shreve

Portrait in Sepia Isabelle AllendeDead Man Walking Tim Robbins (F) The Shark Net Robert DreweDeath in Venice Thomas Mann The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar WildeDeath of a Salesman Arthur Miller (P) The Corrections Jonathan Franzen

The Crucible Arthur Miller (P)

Great Gatsby, The F. Scott FitzgeraldDebt to Pleasure, The John Lanchester The Blind Assassin Margaret AtwoodDeep End of the Ocean, TheJacquelyn Mitchard

The Memory Keeper’s DaughterKim Edward

Desert Dawn Waris Dirie Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur GoldenDesertion Abdulrazak Gurnah The English Patient Michael OndaatjeDevil and Miss Prym, The Paulo Coelho Chocolat Joanne Harris

Through a Glass Darkly Karleen KoenDinner at the Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café Fannie Flagg

Dirt Music Tim Winton Look Both Ways Sarah Watt (F)Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Frank Oz (F) Midnight in the Garden of Good and

Evil John BerandtDisgrace JM Coetzee Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson

Untouchable Mulk Raj AnandDivine Wind, The Garry Disher Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Louis De BernieresSnow Falling on Cedars David Guterson

Dogma Kevin Smith (F) Wise Blood Flannery O’ConnorDoll’s House, A Henrik Ibsen (P) The Colour Purple Alice Walker

A Passage to India E.M. ForsterMy Brilliant Career Myles FranklinEducating Rita Willy Russell (P)The Taming of the ShrewWilliam Shakespeare (P)The Piano Jane Campion (F)

Dorian: An Imitation Will Self The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar WildeDracula Bram Stoker Frankenstein Mary Shelley

Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis Stevenson

Dressmaker, The Rosalie Ham Chocolat Joanne HarrisThe Mermaid’s Singing Lisa Carey

Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis Stevenson

The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar WildeAmerican Psycho Bret Easton Ellis

Due Preparation for the PlagueJanette Turner Hospital

The Last MagicianJanette Turner Hospital

East West Regis Wargnier (F) Three Sisters Anton Chekhov (P)Ecstasy Irvine Welsh Trainspotting Danny Boyle (F)Educating Rita Willy Russell (P) Cinema Paradiso

Giuseppe Tornatore (F)A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen (P)

Edward BrittonGary Crew & Philip Neilsen

Slaughterboy Odo Hirsch

Elizabeth Shekhar Kapur (F) If the Moon Smiled Chandani LokugeEmpire of the Sun JG Ballard Power of One, The Bryce CourtenayEmpty Cradles Margaret Humphreys Simon and the Oaks Marianne

FredrikssonEnduring Love Ian McEwan Border Crossing Pat Barker

The Talented Mr RipleyAnthony Minghella (F)Lantana Ray Lawrence

English Patient, The Michael Ondaatje Charlotte Gray Gillian Armstrong (F)The Piano Tuner Daniel MasonFugitive Pieces Anne MichaelsDesertion Abdulrazak GurnahCaptain Corelli’s MandolinLouis De Bernieres

Equus Peter Shaffer (P) Hamlet William Shakespeare (P)One flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestKen KeseyHeart of Darkness Joseph Conrad

Eucalyptus Murray Bail The Sound of One Hand Clapping Richard Flanagan

Eva Luna Isabel Allende Paula Isabelle AllendeThat Eye, the Sky Tim WintonLike Water For ChocolateLaura Esquivel

Everyman Peter van Diest The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoyevsky

Fall, The Albert Camus The Forged Coupon Leo TolstoyFalling Anne Provoost Triage Scott AndersonFalling Leaves Adeline Yen Mah Raise the Red Lantern Zhang Yimou (F)Fantasia, an Algerian cavalcadeAssia Djebar

French Lieutenant’s Woman, TheJohn Fowles

Farewell to Arms, AErnest Hemingway

The Naked and the DeadNorman Mailer

Fasting, Feasting Anita Desai The Joy Luck Club Amy TanFatal Voyage Kathy Reichs The Red Room Nicci FrenchFellowship of the Ring, TheJ.R.R. Tolkien

Well of DarknessMargaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

Fear and Loathing in Las VegasHunter S Thompson

Sybil Daniel Petrie(F)

Feral Kid Libby Hathorn Rain Kirsty GunnFight Club David Fincher (F) Brave New World Aldous Huxley

Trainspotting Irvine WelshFinding Fish Antwone Quenton Fisher The Cider House Rules

Lasse Hallstrom (F)Five People You Meet in Heaven, The Mitch Albom

The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold

Five Quarters of the OrangeJoanne Harris

Chocolat Lasse Hallstrom(F)

Flower Boy, The Karen Roberts Pride and Prejudice Jane AustenFly Away Peter David Malouf All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria RemarqueThe Riders Tim WintonMacbeth William Shakespeare (P)

Heart of Darkness Joseph ConradFull Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick (F)

Follow the Rabbit Proof FenceDoris Pilkington

Stolen Lucy Christopher

Forged Coupon, The Leo Tolstoy The Fall Albert CamusForrest Gump Winston Groom

Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis (F)

What’s Eating Gilbert GrapeLasse Hallstrom (F)Of Mice and Men John SteinbeckThursday’s Child Sonya Hartnett

For the Good of the CauseAlexandr Solzhenitsyn

Anil’s Ghost Michael Ondaatje

Fortunate Life, A. B. Facey Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur GoldenFortune’s Rocks Anita Shreve Daughter of Fortune Isabel AllendeFoundation Isaac Asimov Job Joseph RothFour Mothers Shifra Horn They Who Do Not Grieve Sia FigielFox Evil Minette Walters Atonement Ian McEwan

Frankenstein Mary Shelley Dracula Bram StokerIsland of Dr Moreau H. G. WellsThe Blade Runner Alan E. NourseBrave New World Aldous Huxley

French Lieutenant’s Woman, TheJohn Fowles

Fantasia, an Algerian cavalcadeAssia Djebar

Fried Green Tomatoes Jon Avnet (F)Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café Fannie Flagg

The Blind Assassin Margaret AtwoodTo Kill a Mocking Bird Harper LeeDinner at the Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler

From All Corners – 6 migrant stories Anne Henderson

Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden

Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels Monkey Grip Helen GarnerThe English Patient Michael Ondaatje

Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick (F) Fly Away Peter David MaloufFury Salmon Rushdie Perfume Patrick SuskindGate, The Francois Bizot The Kite Runner Khaled HosseiniGattaca Andrew Niccol (F) Brave New World Aldous Huxley

Nineteen Eighty-Four George OrwellGhost Road, The Pat Barker Birdsong Sebastian Faulks

The Grapes of Wrath John SteinbeckGirl, Interrupted James Mangold (F) The Bell Jar Sylvia PlathGirl With a Pearl EarringTracy Chevalier

The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret AtwoodI Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMaya Angelou

Glass Menagerie, TheTennessee Williams (P)

Great Gatsby, The F. Scott FitzgeraldPiano, The Jane Campion (F)Life is Sweet Elizabeth BassStreet Car Named Desire, A

Tennessee Williams (P)Great Expectations Charles Dickens

Glass Palace, The Amitav Ghosh No Gun for AsmirChristobel Mattingley

God of Small Things, The Arundhati Roy Hiam Eva SallisKnowledge of Angels Jill Paton WalshThe Bell Jar Sylvia PlathThe Memory Keeper’s DaughterKim EdwardIf the Moon Smiled Chandani LokugeUntouchable Mulk Raj Anand

Going Home Herbert B. Leonard (F) Sister Kate Jean BedfordCry Freedom John Briley

Good Will Hunting Gus van Sant (F) Border Crossing Pat BarkerGould’s Book of Fish Richard Flanagan Bring Larks and Heroes

Thomas Keneally

Grapes of Wrath, The John Steinbeck Schindler’s Ark Thomas KeneallyThe Ghost Road Pat BarkerLes Miserables Bille August (F)Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck

Great Dates 1937 (F) The Crucible Arthur Miller (P)Great Expectations Charles Dickens Jack Maggs Peter Carey

The Glass MenagerieTennessee Williams (P)The Piano Tuner Daniel Mason

Great Gatsby, The F. Scott Fitzgerald Vernon God Little DBC PierreAmerican Beauty Sam Mendes (F)The Reader Bernhard SchlinkBallad of the Sad Café, TheCarson McCullersThe Beach Alex GarlandOne flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestKen KeseyHeart of Darkness Joseph ConradCitizen Kane Orson Welles (F)Glass Menagerie, TheTennessee Williams (P)Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen (P)Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller (P)Bernice Bobs Her HairJoan Micklin Silver (F)Wuthering Heights Emily BronteThe Loved One Evelyn WaughTess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy

Green Light, A Ray Mooney Woman on Trial Lawrecia Bembenek

Green Mile, The Stephen King

Green Mile, The Frank Darabont (F)

The Shawshank RedemptionFrank Darabont (F)Midnight Express Billy HayesA Lesson Before Dying Ernest J Gaines

Guide, The R.K. Narayan One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Hamlet William Shakespeare (P) The Stranger Albert CamusEquus Peter Shaffer (P)Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard (P)One flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestKen Kesey

Handmaid’s Tale, The Margaret Atwood Girl With a Pearl EarringTracy ChevalierOne flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestKen KeseyV for Vendetta James McTeigue (F)Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell

Hanna’s DaughtersMarianne Fredriksson

The Bonesetter’s Daughter Amy Tan

Harp in the South, The Ruth Park Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourtHeart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola (F)Equus Peter Shaffer (P)The Road Cormac McCarthyFly Away Peter David MaloufThe Quiet American Graham GreeneThe Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

Heat and Dust Ruth Prawer Jhabvala One flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestKen Kesey

Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen (P) Lillian’s Story Kate GrenvilleThe Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hiam Eva Sallis The Colour Purple Alice WalkerThe God of Small Things Arundhati Roy

High Noon Fred Zinnemann (F) The Crucible Arthur Miller (P)One flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestKen Kesey

Hotel Sorrento Hannie Rayson (P) Radiance Rachel Perkins (F)Hound of the Baskervilles, TheArthur Conan Doyle

Se7en David Fincher (F)

Hours, The Michael Cunningham My Brilliant Career Myles FranklinMrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf

House of Gentle Men, TheKathy Hepinstall

The Riders Tim Winton

House of Spirits Isabel Allende One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia MarquezOur Father Who Art in a Tree

Judy PascoeHungry Tide, The Amitav Ghosh Life of Pi Yann MartelHurricane James S Hirsch The Shawshank Redemption

Frank Darabont (F)I, Claudius Robert Graves The Prince Niccolo MachiavelliIdea of Perfection, The Kate Grenville Lantana Ray Lawrence(F)Idiot, The Fyodor Dostoevsky The Pickwick Papers Charles DickensIf the Moon Smiled Chandani Lokuge Wild Swans Jung Chang

Elizabeth Shekhar Kapur (F)God of Small Things, The Arundhati Roy

I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMaya Angelou

Girl With a Pearl EarringTracy Chevalier

In America Jim Sheridan (F) The Lovely Bones Alice SeboldIn Cold Blood Truman Capote The Interpretation of a Murder

Jed RubenfeldI Never Promised You a Rose Garden Hannah Green

My Left Foot Christy BrownTell Me I’m Here Anne Deveson

Inheritors, The William Golding The Screwtape Letters C.S. LewisCloud Atlas David Mitchell

Interpretation of a Murder, TheJed Rubenfeld

In Cold Blood Truman Capote

In the Evil Day Peter Temple The Constant Gardener John le CarreIn the Fall Jeffrey Lent The Magician’s Wife Brian MooreIn the Heat of the Night John Ball Snow Falling on Cedars David GutersonIsland of Dr Moreau H. G. Wells Frankenstein Mary ShelleyIvory Swing, The Janet Turner Hospital Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf

Baumgartner’s Bombay Anita DesaiJack Maggs Peter Carey Great Expectations Charles Dickens

True History of the Kelly GangPeter Carey

Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre Franco Zeffirelli (F)

Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen FieldingCinema ParadisoGiuseppe Tornatore (F)Wuthering Heights Emily BronteSnow Falling on Cedars David Guterson

Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee Mirage Matt RuffJob Joseph Roth Foundation Isaac AsimovJourney to the Stone CountryAlex Miller

The Secret River Kate Grenville

Joy Luck Club, The Amy Tan Together Chen Kaige (F)Fasting, Feasting Anita DesaiThe Kitchen God’s Wife Amy Tan

Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy Phantom of the Opera Gaston LerouxKilling Fields, The Roland Joffe (F) Montana 1948 Larry WatsonKiss of the SpiderwomanHector Babenco (F)

One flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestKen Kesey

Kitchen God’s Wife, The Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club Amy TanTenant of Wildfell Hall, The

Anne BronteThe Bonesetter’s Daughter Amy Tan

Kite Runner, The Khaled Hosseini The Gate Francois BizotAtonement Ian McEwan

Knowing Sophie Brenda Little A Boy in Winter Maxine ChernoffKnowledge of Angels Jill Paton Walsh The God of Small Things Arundhati RoyLady Oracle Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride Margaret AtwoodLantana Ray Lawrence (F) The Riders Tim Winton

Enduring Love Ian McEwanThe Idea of Perfection Kate Grenville

Last Magician, TheJanette Turner Hospital

Due Preparation for the PlagueJanette Turner Hospital

Last Samurai, The Edward Zwick (F) Across the Nightingale FloorLian Hearn

Last Time They Met, The Anita Shreve Riders, The Tim WintonLeaving of Liverpool, The Maureen Lee Stolen Lucy ChristopherLes Miserables Bille August (F) Crime and Punishment

Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck

Lesson Before Dying, A Ernest J Gaines American History X Tony Kaye (F)The Green Mile Frank Darabont (F)Birdsong Sebastian Faulks

Letters for Emily Camron Wright Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch AlbomLet the Circle be UnbrokenMildred D. Taylor

The Colour Purple Alice Walker

Life and Death in Shanghai Nien Cheng Sister, Sister Anna BlayLife is Beautiful Roberto Benigni (F) The Olive Sisters Amanda HampsonLife is Sweet Elizabeth Bass The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams (P)Life of Pi Yann Martel Night Elie Wiesel

The Hungry Tide Amitav GhoshThe Raw Shark Texts Steven Hall

Life’s Music, A Andrei Makine The Book Thief Marcus ZusakLike Water For ChocolateLaura Esquivel

American Beauty Sam Mendes(F)Eva Luna Isabel AllendeThe Bondmaid Catherine LimChocolat Joanne HarrisCarnevale Michelle R. Lovric

Lillian’s Story Kate Grenville Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen (P)Line of Beauty, The Alan Hollinghurst The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar WildeLolita Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Collector John Fowles

Look Both Ways Sarah Watt (F) Dirt Music Tim WintonLord of the Flies William Golding Black Dogs Ian McEwanLost Girls Andrew Pyper Border Crossing Pat BarkerLoved One, The Evelyn Waugh The Great Gatsby F. Scott FitzgeraldLovely Bones, The Alice Sebold Closed for Winter Georgia Blain

In America Jim Sheridan (F)The Pact Jodi PicoultOrdinary People Robert Redford (F)The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch AlbomBliss Peter Carey

L-Shaped Room, The Lynne Reid Banks April Fool’s Day Bryce CourtenayRiding in Cars with BoysPenny Marshall (F)

Macbeth William Shakespeare (P) Fly Away Peter David MaloufMadame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Wuthering Heights Emily BronteMaestro Peter Goldsworthy Billy Elliot Stephen Daldry (F)Magician’s Wife, The Brian Moore In the Fall Jeffrey LentMan for all Seasons, A Robert Bolt (P) The Crucible Arthur Miller (P)

Winslow Boy Terence Rattigan (P)Man Who Wasn’t There, TheCoen Brothers (F)

Border Crossing Pat Barker

Mary Barnes David Edgar (P) When Rabbit Howls Truddi ChaseMemento Christopher Nolan (F) Birdy William WhartonMemoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden From All Corners – 6 migrant stories

Anne HendersonSnow Flower and the Secret FanLisa SeeDesert Dawn Waris DirieA Fortunate Life A. B. Facey

Memoirs of HadrianMarguerite Yourcenar

Conversations at Curlow CreekDavid Malouf

Memory Keeper’s Daughter, TheKim Edward

The Deep End of the OceanJacquelyn MitchardThe God of Small Things Arundhati Roy

Mercy Among the ChildrenDavid Adams Richards

My Brilliant Career Myles Franklin

Mermaid’s Singing, The Lisa Carey The Dressmaker Rosalie HamMidnight Express Billy Hayes Green Mile, The Stephen KingMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berandt

A Street Car Named DesireTennessee Williams (P)The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar WildePleasantville Gary Ross(F)Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Frank Oz (F)Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Clint Eastwood (F)

Miller’s Crossing Coen Brothers (F) Othello William Shakespeare (P)Mirage Matt Ruff Jasmine Bharati MukherjeeMission, The Roland Joffe (F) The Crucible Arthur Miller (P)Mississippi Burning Alan Parker(F) The Colour Purple Alice WalkerMonkey Grip Helen Garner Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels

Candy Luke DaviesMonsoon Wedding Mira Nair (F) Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe

Montana 1948 Larry Watson The Killing Fields Roland Joffe (F)Moon is Down, The John Steinbeck The Plague Albert CamusMosquito Coast, The Paul Theroux The Beach Alex Garland

The Collector John FowlesMother Night Kurt Vonnegut Catch 22 Joseph HellerMrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf The Hours Michael Cunningham

The Ivory Swing Janet Turner HospitalM: The Man Who Became Caravaggio Peter Robb

Amadeus Peter Shaffer (P)

Much Ado About NothingWilliam Shakespeare (P)

Muriel’s Wedding P.J. Hogan (F)

Muriel’s Wedding P.J. Hogan (F) Much Ado About NothingWilliam Shakespeare (P)

My Brilliant Career Myles Franklin The Hours Michael CunninghamMercy Among the ChildrenDavid Adams RichardsThe Bell Jar Sylvia PlathA Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen (P)Nip ‘N’ Tuck Kathy Lette

My Brother Jack George Johnston Shark Net, The Robert DreweMy Left Foot Christy Brown I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Hannah GreenThis Side of Brightness Colum McCann

My Place Sally Morgan The Sound of One Hand Clapping Richard Flanagan

My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult Closed for Winter Georgia BlainNaked and the Dead, TheNorman Mailer

A Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway

Nausea John-Paul Sartre The Stranger Albert CamusNever Let Me Go Kazuo Ishirguro Cat’s Eye Margaret AtwoodNext of Kin: My Conversations with Chipmanzees Roger Fouts

Animal Liberation Peter Singer

Night Elie Wiesel Life of Pi Yann MartelNineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood

A Clockwork Orange Anthony BurgessBrave New World Aldous HuxleyGattaca Andrew Niccol (F)The Crucible Arthur Miller (P)One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichAlexandr SolzhenitsynThe City and the Stars Arthur C Clarke

Nip ‘N’ Tuck Kathy Lette My Brilliant Career Myles FranklinNo Gun for AsmirChristobel Mattingley

The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh

Not Quite Men, No Longer BoysK.C. Laughton

Too Young to be a Hero Rick Holz

Not Without My DaughterBetty Mahmoody

Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourtPrincess Jean Sasson

Now and Then Lesli Linka Glatter (F) Camphor Laurel Sarah WalkerNow I Know Aiden Chambers Brave New World Aldous HuxleyOlive Sisters, The Amanda Hampson Life is Beautiful Roberto Benigni (F)Once in a House on FireAndrea Ashworth

White Oleander Peter Kosminsky (F)

Once Were Warriors Lee Tamahori (F) Snow Falling on Cedars David GutersonOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Alias Grace Margaret AtwoodThe Guide R.K. NarayanNineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell

One flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestKen Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestAnthony Burgess (F)

The Shawshank RedemptionFrank Darabont (F)The Piano Jane Campion (F)Kiss of the SpiderwomanHector Babenco (F)High Noon Fred Zinnemann (F)Hamlet William Shakespeare (P)Cosi Louis Nowra (P)Equus Peter Shaffer (P)The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret AtwoodThe Great Gatsby F. Scott FitzgeraldCatch 22 Joseph HellerVeronika Decides to Die Paulo CoelhoThe Catcher in the Rye J.D. SalingerPerfect Match Jodi PicoultHeat and Dust Ruth Prawer JhabvalaOf Mice and Men John Steinbeck

One Good Turn Kate Atkinson Babel Alejandro González Iñárritu (F)One Hour Photo Mark Romanek Perfume Patrick SuskindOne Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel Garcia Marquez

House of Spirits Isabel AllendeThe Autumn of the PatriarchGabriel Garcia Marquez

On the Road Jack Kerouac Siddartha Hermann HesseOf Mice and Men John Steinbeck One flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Ken KeseyForrest Gump Winston GroomThe Pearl John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck

Ordinary People Robert Redford (F) The Lovely Bones Alice SeboldOthello William Shakespeare (P) Miller’s Crossing Coen Brothers (F)Our Father Who Art in a Tree Judy Pascoe

House of Spirits Isabel Allende

Outbreak Robin Cook The Stand Stephen KingPact, The Jodi Picoult The Lovely Bones Alice SeboldPainted Cage, The Meira Chand Alias Grace Margaret AtwoodPalace Walk Naguib Mahfouz The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara KingsolverPan’s Labyrinth Guillermo Del Torro (F) The Book Thief Marcus ZusakPassage to India, A E.M. Forster A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen (P)

Atonement Ian McEwanPaula Isabelle Allende Eva Luna Isabel AllendePearl, The John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men John SteinbeckPerfect Match Jodi Picoult One flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Ken KeseyPerfume Patrick Suskind The Stranger Albert Camus

The Collector John FowlesOne Hour Photo Mark RomanekFury Salmon Rushdie

Persuasion Jane Austen Border Crossing Pat BarkerPhantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux Jude the Obscure Thomas HardyPhiladelphia Jonathan Demme (F) April Fool’s Day Bryce Courtenay

The Crucible Arthur Miller (P)

Piano, The Jane Campion (F) An Angel at My Table Janet FrameOne flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestKen KeseyA Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen (P)The Glass MenagerieTennessee Williams (P)Wuthering Heights Emily BronteThe Crucible Arthur Miller (P)

Piano Tuner, The Daniel Mason Great Expectations Charles DickensEnglish Patient, The Michael Ondaatje

Pickwick Papers, The Charles Dickens The Idiot Fyodor DostoevskyPicture of Dorian Gray, The Oscar Wilde The Collector John Fowles

English Patient, The Michael OndaatjeMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John BerandtVanity FairWilliam Makepeace ThackerayDorian: An Imitation Will SelfDeath in Venice Thomas MannThe Line of Beauty Alan HollinghurstDr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson

Plague, The Albert Camus The Moon is Down John SteinbeckPleasantville Gary Ross(F) Midnight in the Garden of Good and

Evil John BerandtPoisonwood Bible, TheBarbara Kingsolver

The Tiger in the Tiger PitJanette Turner HospitalPalace Walk Naguib Mahfouz

Pomegranate Soup Marsha Mehran Chocolat Joanne Harris

Poor Man’s Orange Ruth Park Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourtPoppy Drusilla Modjeska The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar WildePortrait in Sepia Isabelle Allende Daughter of Fortune Isabelle AllendePostcards E. Annie Proulx Snow Falling on Cedars David GutersonPower and the Glory, TheGraham Greene

The Alchemist Paulo Coelho

Power of One, The Bryce Courtenay They’re a Weird Mob John O’GradyEmpire of the Sun JG Ballard

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen The Flower Boy Karen RobertsThe Catcher in the Rye J.D. SalingerBridget Jones’s DiarySharon Maguire (F)Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen

Prince, The Niccolo Machiavelli I, Claudius Robert GravesPrincess Jean Sasson Not Without My Daughter

Betty MahmoodyProzac Nation Eric Skjoldbjaerg (F) The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey EugenidesPurple HibiscusChimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe

Quiet American, The Graham Greene Charlotte Gray Sebastian FaulksHeart of Darkness Joseph Conrad

Radiance Rachel Perkins (F) Hotel Sorrento Hannie Rayson (P)Raging Quiet, The Sherryl Jordan Sly Rick FeneleyRain Kristy Gunn Feral Kid Libby HathornRaise the Red Lantern Zhang Yimou (F) Falling Leaves Adeline Yen MahRaw Shark Texts, The Steven Hall Life of Pi Yann MartelReader, The Bernhard Schlink Closed for Winter Georgia Blain

The Asylum John HarwoodCabaret Christopher IsherwoodThe Great Gatsby F. Scott FitzgeraldAmerican History X Tony Kaye (F)Cold Mountain Charles FrazierAtonement Ian McEwan

Reading in the Dark Seamus Deane Candle in the Darkness Lynn AustinThe Crucible Arthur Miller (P)

Reckoning, A May Sarton Someone You KnowMaria Pallotta-Chiarolli

Red Leaves Paullina Simons Eleven Hours Paullina SimonsRed Room, The Nicci French Fatal Voyage Kathy ReichsRemains of the Day, The Kazuo Ishiguro Alias Grace Margaret AtwoodResistance Owen Sheers All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria RemarqueRhinoceros Eugene Ionesco (P) Animal Farm George OrwellRiders, The Tim Winton Lantana Ray Lawrence

The House of Gentle MenKathy HepinstallFly Away Peter David MaloufThe Shipping News Annie Proulx

The Last Time They Met Anita ShreveWaiting Ha Jin

Riding in Cars with BoysPenny Marshall (F)

The L-Shaped Room Lynne Reid Banks

Road, The Cormac McCarthy Heart of Darkness Joseph ConradRobber Bride, The Margaret Atwood Lady Oracle Margaret AtwoodRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard (P)

Hamlet William Shakespeare (P)

Rumpole for the DefenceJohn Mortimer

The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer

Rush Home Road Lori Lansens The Colour of Water James McBrideSalt of Broken Tears, TheMichael Meehan

Closed for Winter Georgia Blain

Scarlet Letter, TheNathanial Hawthorne

The Crucible Arthur Miller (P)Chocolat Joanne Harris

Scarlet Pimpernel, The Baroness Orczy A Tale of Two Cities Charles DickensSchindler’s Ark Thomas Keneally The Grapes of Wrath John SteinbeckSchindler’s List Steven Spielberg (F) All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria RemarqueScrewtape Letters, The C.S. Lewis The Inheritors William GoldingSecret River, The Kate Grenville Journey to the Stone Country

Alex MillerSecrets and Lies Mike Leigh (F) Candelo Georgia Blain

Brilliant Lies David Williamson (P)Street Car Named Desire, ATennessee Williams (P)

Seeding Stars, The James Blish The Songs of Distant EarthArthur C Clarke

Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Jane AustenSe7en David Fincher (F) The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan DoyleShadow of the Wind, TheCarlos Ruiz Zafan

Pan’s Labyrinth Guillermo Del Toro (F)

Shark Net, The Robert Drewe Dead Man Walking Tim Robbins (F)The Summer of Sam Spike Lee (F)Cloudstreet Tim WintonMy Brother Jack George Johnston

Shawshank Redemption, TheFrank Darabont (F)

The Green Mile Stephen KingOne flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestKen KeseyHurricane James S Hirsch

Shining Through David Seitzer (F) Charlotte Gray Sebastian FaulksShipping News, The Annie Proulx Cloudstreet Tim Winton

The Riders Tim WintonShort-Timers, The Gustav Hasford All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria RemarqueSiddartha Hermann Hesse On the Road Jack KerouacSimon and the Oaks Empty Cradles Margaret Humphreys

Marianne FredrikssonSister Kate Jean Bedford Going Home Herbert B. Leonard (F)Sister, Sister Anna Blay Life and Death in Shanghai Nien ChengSixth Sense, TheM. Night Shyamalan (F)

The Boy in the Striped PyjamasJohn Boyne

Slaughterboy Odo Hirsch Edward BrittonGary Crew & Philip Neilsen

Sleeping Dogs Sonya Hartnett The Stranger Albert CamusThat Eye, the Sky Tim Winton

Sling Blade Billy Bob Thornton (F) The Crucible Arthur Miller (P)Sly Rick Feneley The Raging Quiet Sherryl Jordan

Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson Jane Eyre Franco Zeffirelli (F)Disgrace JM CoetzeeThe Divine Wind Garry DisherWinslow Boy Terence Rattigan (P)Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai SijieIn the Heat of the Night John BallOnce Were Warriors Lee Tamahori (F)(Un)arranged Marriage Bali Rai

Snow Flower and the Secret FanLisa See

Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden

Someone You KnowMaria Pallotta-Chiarolli

A Reckoning May Sarton

Song of an Innocent Bystander, TheIan Bone

Candelo Georgia Blain

Songs of Distant Earth, TheArthur C Clarke

The Seeding Stars James Blish

Sorrows of Young Werther, TheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lolita Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Sound of One Hand Clapping, The Richard Flanagan

My Place Sally MorganEucalyptus Murray Bail

Stand, The Stephen King Outbreak Robin CookStar Called Henry, A Roddy Doyle A Clockwork Orange Anthony BurgessStolen Lucy Christopher The Tracker Tom Brown

The Leaving of Liverpool Maureen LeeFollow the Rabbit Proof FenceDoris Pilkington

Stone Field, True Arrow Kyoko Mori Wuthering Heights Emily BronteStranger, The Albert Camus Vernon God Little DBC Pierre

(also called The Outsider) Perfume Patrick SuskindNausea John-Paul SartreSleeping Dogs Sonya HartnettA Clockwork Orange Anthony BurgessHamlet William Shakespeare (P)Brave New World Aldous Huxley

Street Car Named Desire, ATennessee Williams (P)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John BerandtThe Glass MenagerieTennessee Williams (P)Secrets and Lies Mike Leigh

Summer of Sam, The Spike Lee (F) The Shark Net Robert DreweSybil Daniel Petrie(F) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S ThompsonTalented Mr Ripley, TheAnthony Minghella (F)

Enduring Love Ian McEwan

Tale of Two Cities, A Charles Dickens The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness OrczyBleak House Charles Dickens

Taming of the Shrew, TheWilliam Shakespeare (P)

A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen (P)

Tell Me I’m Here Anne Deveson I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Hannah Green

Tenant of Wildfell Hall, TheAnne Bronte

The Kitchen God’s Wife Amy Tan

Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy Great Gatsby, The F. Scott FitzgeraldThat Eye, the Sky Tim Winton The Turning Tim Winton

Eva Luna Isabel AllendeSleeping Dogs Sonya Hartnett

They’re a Weird Mob John O’Grady The Power of One Bryce CourtenayThey Who Do Not Grieve Sia Figiel Four Mothers Shifra HornThings Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Black Robe Brian Moore

Purple HibiscusChimamanda Ngozi AdichieMonsoon Wedding Mira Nair (F)

Thirty Nine Steps, The John Buchan The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle

This Side of Brightness Colum McCann My Left Foot Christy BrownThree Sisters Anton Chekhov (P) East West Regis Wargnier (F)Through a Glass Darkly Karleen Koen The Devil and Miss Prym Paulo CoelhoThursday’s Child Sonya Hartnett Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis (F)Tiger in the Tiger Pit, TheJanette Turner Hospital

Poisonwood Bible, TheBarbara Kingsolver

To Kill a Mocking Bird Harper Lee Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café Fannie Flagg

Too Young to be a Hero Rick Holz Not Quite Men, No Longer BoysK.C. Laughton

Tracker, The Tom Brown Stolen Lucy ChristopherTrainspotting Irvine Welsh

Trainspotting Danny Boyle (F)

A Clockwork Orange Anthony BurgessFight Club David Fincher (F)Ecstasy Irvine WelshCandy Luke Davies

Triage Scott Anderson Falling Anne ProvoostTrial, The Franz Kafka The Crucible Arthur Miller (P)

Crime and PunishmentFyodor DostoyevskyCatch 22 Joseph Heller

True History of the Kelly GangPeter Carey

Jack Maggs Peter Carey

Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom Letters for Emily Camron WrightTurning, The Tim Winton That Eye, the Sky Tim WintonUncle Tom’s CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe

Beloved Toni Morrison

(Un) arranged Marriage Bali Rai Snow Falling on Cedars David GutersonUntouchable Mulk Raj Anand Disgrace JM Coetzee

The God of Small Things Arundhati RoyVanity FairWilliam Makepeace Thackeray

The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde

Vernon God Little DBC Pierre The Stranger Albert CamusThe World According to GarpGeorge Roy Hill (F)The Catcher in the Rye J.D. SalingerThe Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

Veronika Decides to Die Paulo Coelho The Alchemist Paulo CoelhoOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestKen Kesey

V for Vendetta James McTeigue (F) A Clockwork Orange Anthony BurgessBrave New World Aldous HuxleyThe Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood

Virgin Suicides, The Sophia Cappola (F) Virgin Suicides, The Jeffrey Eugenides

The Catcher in the Rye J.D. SalingerProzac Nation Eric Skjoldbjaerg (F)

Waiting Ha Jin The Riders Tim WintonWaiting for Godot Samuel Becket (P) Confessions of Zeno Italo SvevoWatership Down Richard Adams Callanish William HorwoodWell of DarknessMargaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

The Fellowship of the RingJ.R.R. Tolkien

We Need to Talk about KevinLionel Shriver

Border Crossing Pat Barker

What’s Eating Gilbert GrapeLasse Hallstrom (F)What’s Eating Gilbert GrapePeter Hedges

Cloudstreet Tim WintonCloudstreet Tim WintonForrest Gump Winston Groom

When Rabbit Howls Truddi Chase Mary Barnes David Edgar (P)White Oleander Peter Kosminsky (F) Once in a House on Fire

Andrea Ashworth

Wife of Martin Guerre, The Janet Lewis The Crucible Arthur Miller (P)Wild Swans Jung Chang If the Moon Smiled Chandani LokugeWinslow Boy Terence Rattigan (P) Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson

A Man for all Seasons Robert Bolt (P)Wise Blood Flannery O’Connor Dogma Kevin Smith (F)Woman on the Edge of TimeMarge Piercy

Brave New World Aldous Huxley

Woman on Trial Lawrecia Bembenek A Green Light Ray MooneyWorld According to Garp, TheGeorge Roy Hill (F) Steven Tesich

Vernon God Little DBC Pierre

Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Jane Eyre Charlotte BronteMadame Bovary Gustave FlaubertThe Piano Jane Campion (F)The Great Gatsby F. Scott FitzgeraldStone Field, True Arrow Kyoko MoriThursday’s Child Sonya Hartnett

Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks The Crucible Arthur Miller (P)