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p = play, drama
s = story
t = theoretical text, essay
l = poetry, lyrics
e = relatively easy to read
* = rather difficult
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ALCOHOLISM
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Jack
London, JOHN BARLEYCORN (n)
Malcolm Lowry, UNDER THE VOLCANO (n)*
Tennessee Williams, CAT ON THE HOT TIN ROOF (p)
Harold Pinter, ONE FOR THE ROAD (p)
Edward Albee, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF (p)
John Updike, ALCOHOL (n)
F.Scott Fitzgerald, TENDER IS THE NIGHT (n)
Alan Sillitoe, SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING (n)
Raymond Carver, SHORT CUTS (s)
Saul Bellow, THE VICTIM (n)
James Joyce, DUBLINERS (s)*
Aldous Huxley, THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION (t)
Anita Brookner, A PRIVATE VIEW (n)
Ernest Hemingway, 39 SHORT STORIES (s)
Ken Kesey, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (n)*
Stephen King, THE SHINING (n)
John Steinbeck, CANNERY ROW (n)
J.D.Salinger, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (n)
Carson Mc Cullers, THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE (n)
J.M.Cain, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (n)
G. Orwell. NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR (n)
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ADULTS - CHILDREN
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Vladimir Nabokov, LOLITA (n)*
Harper Lee, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (n)
Alan Ayckbourn, INVISIBLE FRIENDS (p)
J.D.Salinger, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (n)
J.D.Salinger, NINE STORIES (s)
Graham Greene, THE CAPTAIN AND HIS ENEMY (n) (e)
Ben Okri, THE FAMISHED ROAD (n)
Ernest Hemingway, NICK ADAMS STORIES (s)
Janet Frame, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (n)
John Wain, STRIKE THE FATHER DEAD (n)
William Golding, LORD OF THE FLIES (n)
Alan Sillitoe, MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN (s)
Rudyard Kipling, KIM (n)
Jerzy Kosinsky, BEING THERE (n) (e)
Doris Lessing, THE FIFTH CHILD (n) (e)
William Saroyan, MY NAME IS ARAM (s) (e)
James Joyce, DUBLINERS (s)
James Joyce, THE PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (n)
Mark Twain, TOM SAWYER (n)
Sue Townsend, ADRIAN MOLE (n)
J.M.Barrie, PETER PAN (n) (e)
Lewis Carroll, ALICE IN WONDERLAND (n) (e)
Dorothy Allison, TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW FOR SURE (s)
Kazuo Ishiguro, A PALE VIEW OF HILLS (n)
Georgina Hammick, PEOPLE FOR LUNCH (s)
Georgina Hammick, SPOILT (n)
Harold Brodkey, FIRST LOVE AND OTHER SORROWS (s)
Nick Hornby, HIGH FIDELITY (n)
J.B.Priestley, AN INSPECTOR CALLS (p)
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AMBITION
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Saul
Bellow, HENDERSON THE RAIN KING (n)
Chinua Achebe, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE (n)
William Shakespeare, MACBETH (p)**
John Braine, ROOM AT THE TOP (n)
Gertrude Stein, THE GOOD ANNA (THREE LIVES) (n) (e)
Fay Weldon, THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE DEVIL (n)
Anita Brookner, LOOK AT ME (n)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY (n)
A.Miller, DEATH OF A SALESMAN (p)
Graham Greene, DR FISCHER FROM GENEVA OR THE BOMB PARTY (n) (e)
Nick Hornby,HIGH FIDELITY (n)
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ART
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Ben
Okri, BIRDS OF HEAVEN (t)
Oscar Wilde, DORIAN GRAY (n)
James Joyce, THE PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (n)
Alan Ayckbourn, HENCEFORWARD (p)
J.D.Salinger, NINE STORIES (s)
Kurt Vonnegut, BLUEBEARD (n)
Tom Stoppard, TRAVESTIES (p)
Samuel Beckett, KRAPP'S LAST TAPE (p)
Trevor Griffith, COMEDIANS (p)
John Osborne, THE ENTERTAINER (p)
Anita Brookner, LOOK AT ME (n)
Janet Frame, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (n)
Peter Shaffer, AMADEUS (p)
Tom Stoppard, ARTIST DESCENDING A STAIRCASE (p)
N.H.Kleinbaum, DEAD POETS SOCIETY (n)
John Osborne, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (n)
Willy Russell, EDUCATING RITA (p)
Edward Albee, ZOO STORY (p)
Henry Thoreau, READING (t)
Kazuo Ishiguro, AN ARTIST FROM THE FLOATING WORLD (n)
Susan Sonntag, ESSAYS (t)
Michael Ondaatje, THE ENGLISH PATIENT
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BOOKS - LITERATURE
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James Joyce, PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (n)
Ray Bradbury, FAHRENHEIT 451 (n)
Dashiell Hammett, DAIN CURSE (n)
Paul Auster, MOON PALACE (n)
Janet Frame,AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (n)
Anita Brookner, LOOK AT ME (n)
Tom Stoppard, TRAVESTIES (p)
Alan Sillitoe, RAW MATERIAL (n)
S.Freud, CREATIVE WRITERS AND DAY-DREAMING (t)
N.H.Kleinbaum, DEAD POETS SOCIETY (n)
Henry Thoreau, READING (t)
Ben Okri, BIRDS OF HEAVEN (t)
I.B.Singer, SHOSHA (n)
Susan Sonntag, CAMP (t) in: Essays
Davild Lodge, SMALL WORLD (n)
J.M. Coetzee, DUSKLANDS (n)
Michael Ondaatje, THE ENGLISH PATIENT
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BUSINESS - CAREER
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David Hare, SKYLIGHT (p)
Arthur Miller, DEATH OF A SALESMAN (p)
Saul Bellow, SEIZE THE DAY (n)
F.Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY (n)
Anita Brookner, A PRIVATE VIEW (n)
John Braine, ROOM AT THE TOP (n)
Alan Ayckbourn, A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS (p) (e)
Fay Weldon, THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE DEVIL (n)
Edward Albee, THREE TALL WOMEN (p)
Sean O'Casey, A POUND ON DEMAND (p) (e)
Graham Greene, DR FISCHER FROM GENEVA OR THE BOMB P. (n) (e)
Saul Bellow, THEFT (n)
Tennessee Williams, CAT ON THE HOT TIN ROOF (p)
Doris Lessing, THE GRASS IS SINGING (n)
Jerzy Kozinsky, BEING THERE (n) (e)
Alan Ayckbourn, MAN OF THE MOMENT (p)
Kazuo Ishiguro, THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (n)
M.Ravenhill, SOPPING AND F***ING (p) (e)
Nick Hornby, HIGH FIDELITY (n)
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BUTLERS - SERVANTS LOWER ORDERS
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Dorothy Allison, TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW FOR SURE (s)
Harold Pinter, THE SERVANT (p)
P.G.Wodehouse, CARRY ON JEEVES (n)
Kazuo Ishiguro, THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (n)
Muriel Spark, NOT TO DISTURB (n)
Oscar Wilde, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (p)
Peter Barnes, THE RULING CLASS (p)
Lawrence Durell, STIFF UPPER LIP (p)
Gertrude Stein, THE GOOD ANNA (n) (e) in: Three Lives
Gertrude Stein, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS (n)
Kazuo Ishiguro, THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (n)
J.M.Coetzee, DUSKLANDS (n)
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DEATH
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Brian Clark, WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? (p) (e)
Harold Pinter, MOONLIGHT (p)
Samuel Beckett, KRAPP'S LAST TAPE (p)
Evelyn Waugh, THE LOVED ONE (n)
Ernest Hemingway, THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (n) (e)
Katherine Mansfield, THE GARDEN PARTY (s) (e)
Edward Albee, THREE TALL WOMEN (p)
Kurt Vonnegut, SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE (n)
Janet Frame, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (n)
Ben Okri, STARS OF THE NEW CURFEW (s)
James Joyce, THE DEAD- SISTERS -CLAY (s)
George Orwell, SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT; A HANGING (s)
William Shakespeare, KING LEAR (p)**
Arthur Miller, DEATH OF A SALESMAN (p)
Paul Auster, THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE (n)*
Saul Bellow, SOMETHING TO REMEMBER ME BY (s)
Anita Brookner, LATECOMERS (n)
Tim Robbins, DEAD MAN WALKING (p) (e)
Kazuo Ishiguro, A PALE VIEW OF HILLS (n)
Nick Hornby, HIGH FIDELITY (n)
J.M.Synge, RIDERS TO THE SEA (p)
Graham Swift, LAST ORDERS (n)
Michael Ondaatje, THE ENGLISH PATIENT (n)(d)
J.M.Coetzee, WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS (n)(m)
J.M. Coetzee, LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K (n)(m)
Nick Hornby, HIGH FIDELITY (n)(m)
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DREAM
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Alan
Ayckbourn, INVISIBLE FRIENDS (p) (e)
Lewis Carroll, ALICE IN WONDERLAND (n) (e)
Rudyard Kipling, KIM (n)
John Steinbeck, OF MICE AND MEN (n)
Arthur Miller, DEATH OF A SALESMAN (p)
Peter Shaffer, EQUUS (p)
Dylan Thomas, UNDER MILKWOOD (p) (l)
Ben Okri, STARS OF HTE NEW CURFEW
Sigmund Freud, CREATIVE WRITERS AND DAY-DREAMING (t)
William Shakespeare, MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (p)
Ernest Hemingway, THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (n)
Doris Lessing, THE GRASS IS SINGING (n)
Alan Ayckbourn, WILDEST DREAMS (p)
W.Shakespeare, HAMLET (p)**
Michael Ondaatje, THE ENGLISH PATIENT
J.M.Coetzee, WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS
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DRUGS
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Aldous Huxley, THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION (t)*
Thomas DeQuincey, CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM E. (t)
Aldous Huxley, BRAVE NEW WORLD (n)*
Louis Stevenson, DR JECKYLL AND MR HYDE (n)
Dashiell Hammett, DAIN CURSE (n)
Anthony Burgess, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (n)
Ken Kesey, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (n)*
Truman Capote, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (n)
Janet Frame, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (n)
Harold Pinter, ONE FOR THE ROAD (p)
Ben Okri, STARS OF THE NEW CURFEW (s)
Hannah Green, I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSEGARDEN (n)
Paul Auster, SMOKE & BLUE IN THE FACE (p) (e)
J.D.Salinger, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (n)
Tom Woolfe, THE ELECTRONIC COOL AID ACID TEST (n)
Mark Ravenhill, SHOPPING AND F**ING (p) (e)
Bret Easton Ellis, LESS THAN ZERO (n)(e)
Michael Ondaatje, THE ENGLISH PATIENT
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EMANCIPATION
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Willy Russell, EDUCATING RITA (p)
David Mamet, OLEANNA (p)
G.B.Shaw, PYGMALION (p)
Sean O'Casey, THE END OF THE BEGINNING (p) (e)
Janet Frame, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (n)
Gertrud Stein, THREE LIVES (n) (e)
Fay Weldon, THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE DEVIL (n)
Anita Brookner, PERCY LEWIS (n)
J.D.Salinger, FRANNY (n)
James Joyce, DUBLINERS - EVELINE (s)
John Fowles, THE COLLECTOR (n)*
David Hare, SKYLIGHT (p)
Willy Russell, SHIRLEY VALENTINE (p)
Julian Barnes, TALKING IT OVER (n)
Kate Chopin, Short Stories (s)
Nick Hornby, HIGH FIDELITY (n)
Rita Mae Brown, RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE (n)(e)
Erica Jong, FEAR OF FLYING (n)
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FANTASY
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J.R.R.Tolkien, THE HOBBIT (n)
Salman Rushdie, HAROUN AL RASHID OR THE SEA OF STORIES (n) (e)
Richard Adams, WATERSHIP DOWN (n)
Lewis Carroll, ALICE IN WONDERLAND (n) (e)
J.M.Barrie, PETER PAN (n) (e)
Ben Okri, THE FAMISHED ROAD (s)
W.B.Yeats, IRISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALES (s)
Edgar Allan Poe, TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION (s)*
Oscar Wilde, FAIRY TALES (s)
Angela Carter, THE BLOODY CHAMBER (s)*
John Steinbeck, KING ARTHUR (n)
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FATHER - SON
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John
Wain, STRIKE THE FATHER DEAD (n)
Saul Bellow, SOMETHING TO REMEMBER ME BY (s)
Saul Bellow, SEIZE THE DAY (n)
Graham Greene, THE CAPTAIN AND THE ENEMY (n) (e)
Paul Auster, THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE (n)*
Arthur Miller, DEATH OF A SALESMAN (p)
Aldous Huxley, BRAVE NEW WORLD (n)
John M. Synge, THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD (p)
Ernest Hemingway, NICK ADAMS STORIES (s)
Jack Kerouac, ON THE ROAD (n)
Alan Paton, CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY (n)
James Joyce, THE PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (n)
William Shakespeare, HAMLET (p)
Ben Okri, THE FAMISHED ROAD (n)
Ben Okri, STARS OF THE NEW CURFEW (s)
Frank O'Connor, MY OEDIPUS COMPLEX (s)
Avery Corman, CRAMER VERSUS CRAMER (n) (e)
Peter Shaffer, EQUUS (p)
Peter Shaffer, FIVE FINGER EXERCISE (p) (e)
Tennessee Williams, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (p)
Paul Auster, SMOKE (p) (e)
J.M.Synge, THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD (p)
Arthur Miller, ALL MY SONS (p)
Kazuo Ishiguro, A PALE VIEW OF HILLS (n )
Kazuo Ishiguro, THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (n) |
FATHER - DAUGHTER
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Anita Brookner, FRAUD (n)
Anita Brookner, A FRIEND FROM ENGLAND (n)
William Shakespeare, KING LEAR (p)**
Harper Lee, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (n)
Janet Smiley, A THOUSAND ACRES (n)
Carson McCullers, THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE (n)
Harold Pinter, MOONLIGHT (p)
Alan Ayckbourn, A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS (p) (e)
Peter Shaffer, FIVE FINGER EXERCISE (p) (e)
Janet FRAME , AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (n)
J.M.Cotzee, DISGRACE
Michael Ondaatje, THE ENGLISH PATIENT
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GROWING UP
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Roald Dahl, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (s) (e)
Lewis Carroll, ALICE IN WONDERLAND (n) (e)
J.D. Salinger, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (n)
James Joyce, DUBLINERS (s)*
Ernest Hemingway, NICK ADAMS STORIES (s)
Barry Hines, A KESTREL FOR A KNAVE (n) (e)
Colin Macinnes. ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS (n) (e)
William Blake, SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE (l)
J.M. Barrie, PETER PAN (n) (e)
Harper Lee, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (n)
Sue Townsend, THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE (n) (e)
Ben Okri, THE FAMISHED ROAD (s)
Alan Ayckbourn, A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS (p) (e)
Jerzy Kosinsky, BEING THERE (n) (e)
N.H.Kleinbaum, DEAD POETS SOCIETY (n) (e)
Paul Auster, MOON PALACE (n)
Janet Frame, ANGEL AT MY TABLE (n)
Alan Sillitoe, OUT OF THE WHIRLPOOL (n)(e)
Dorothy Allison, TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW FOR SURE (s)
Mark Ravenhill, SHOPPING ANG F***ING (p) (e)
Nick Hornby, HIGH FIDELITY (n)
Jack Keruac, ON THE ROAD (n)
J.M.Coetzee, LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K. (n)(m)
Nick Hornby, HIGH FIDELITY (n)(m)
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GOOD
- EVIL
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Arthur Miller, THE CRUCIBLE (p)*
William Golding, LORD OF THE FLIES (p)
Somerset Maugham, RAIN (s)
Oscar Wilde, DORIAN GRAY (n)
James M.Cain, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (n)
J.D.Salinger, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (n)
R.L.Stevenson, DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE (n)
Peter Barnes, THE RULING CLASS (p)
Saul Bellow, HENDERSON THE RAIN KING (n)
Jerome Siegel, SUPERMAN
John Steinbeck, THE PEARL (n) (e)
Salman Rushdie, HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES (n) (e)
Ray Bradbury, FAHRENHEIT 451 (n)
Tim Robbins, DEAD MAN WALKING (p) (e)
J.B. Priestley, AN INSPECTOR CALLS (p) (e)
Jack London, THE CALL OF THE WILD (n)
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HIPPIES
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Richard Brautigan, WATERMELON SUGAR (n)
Richard Brautigan, TROUTFISHING IN AMERICA (n)
Richard Brautigan, A CONFEDERATE GENERAL FROM BIG SUR (n)
Tom Wolfe, THE ELECTRIC COOL-AID ACID TEST (n)
Donald Barthelmes, SNOW WHITE (n)
Oliver Sacks, THE LAST HIPPIE (t) in: An Anthropologist on Mars
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HOMOSEXUALITY
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Gore
Vidal, THE CITY AND THE PILLAR (n)
Chr.Isherwood, A SINGLE MAN (n)
Edwar Albee, THE ZOO STORY (p)
Tennessee Williams, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (p)
Jack Kerouac, THE SUBTERRENIANS (n)
Tony Kushner, ANGELS IN AMERICA (p)
William Burroughs, QUEER (n)
William Shakespeare, OTHELLO (p)**
Mark Ravenhill, SHOPPING AND F**ING (p) (e)
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HUMOUR
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Trevor Griffith, COMEDIANS (p)*
Edward Lear, Nonsense (l) (e)
Joe Orton, LOOT (p)
David Lodge, HOW FAR CAN YOU GO? (n)
Oscar Wilde, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (n)
Peter Barnes, THE RULING CLASS (p)*
Sue Townsend, THE GROWING PAINS OF ADRIAN MOLE (n) (e)
Saki, THE STORYTELLER (s)
John Cleese, FAWLTY TOWERS (p)
P.G.Wodehouse, JEEVES (n)
Jerome K.Jerome. THREE MEN IN A BOAT (n) (e)
Sean O'Casey, THE END OF THE BEGINNING (p) (e)
Laurence Sterne, TRISTRAM SHANDY (n)*
Vladimir Nabokov, LAUGHTER IN THE DARK (n)
Woody Allen, COMPLETE PROSE (n)
Sue Townsend, ADRIAN MOLE: WILDERNESS YEARS (e)
Frank McCourt, ANGELA'S ASHES (n)(m)
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JEWS
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Saul
Bellow, THE VICTIM (n)
Saul Bellow, THE BELLAROSA CONNECTION (n)
Arthur Miller, BROKEN GLASS (p)
Isaac Bashevi Singer, SHOSHA (n)
Bernard Malamud, FIXER (n)
Paul Auster, THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE (n)*
Paul Auster, LEVIATHAN (n)
Leonard Cohen, FLOWERS FOR HITLER (l)
Paul Johnson, THE HOLOCAUST (t) |
JUSTICE
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Reginald Rose, TWELVE ANGRY MEN (p)
Tony Hancock, TWELVE ANGRY MEN (p)
Tom Robbins, DEAD MAN WALKING (p)
Harper Lee, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (n)
Agatha Christie, TEN LITTLE NIGGERS (n) (e)
Arthur Miller, THE CRUCIBLE (p)
J.B.Priestley, AN INSPECTOR CALLS (p) (e)
James M. Cain, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (n)
John Hrisham, A TIME TO KILL (n)
J.M.Coetzee, WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS
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LIFE-LIE
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Janet Frame, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (n)
Edward Albee, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (p)
Anita Brookner, A PRIVATE VIEW (n)
Graham Greene, THE CAPTAIN AND THE ENEMY (n)
Tennessee Williams, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (p)
Peter Shaffer, FIVE FINGER EXERCISE (p)(e)
Arthur Miller, DEATH OF A SALESMAN (p)
Tennesee Williams, CAT ON THE HOT TIN ROOF (p)
John Osborne, LOOK BACK IN ANGER (p)
James Joyce, THE DEAD (s)
J.B.Priestley, AN INSPECTOR CALLS (p)(e)
J.M.Coetzee, DISGRACE (n)
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LOVE
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Carson McCullers, THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE (n)
James M. Cain, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (n)
John Steinbeck, THE PEARL (n) (e)
Alan Sillitoe, OUT OF THE WHIRLPOOL (n) (e)
Sam Shepard, A FOOL FOR LOVE (p)
John Fowles, THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN (n)*
Julian Barnes, TALKING IT OVER (n)
Tennessee Williams, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (p)
John Fowles, THE COLLECTOR (n)*
F.Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY (n)
Alan de Botton, ESSAYS IN LOVE (t)
William Shakespeare, SONNETS (l)**
James Joyce, DUBLINERS (s)*
Fay Weldon, THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE DEVIL (n)
Ernest Hemingwayg, THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF MR MACOMBER (s) (e)
Nadine Gordimer, COUNTRY LOVERS (e)
Edna O'Brien, GIRLS WITH GREEN EYES (n) (e)
Anita Brookner, A FRIEND FROM ENGLAND (n)
Anita Brookner, LEWIS PERCY (n)
George Orwell, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (n)
Aldous Huxley, BRAVE NEW WORLD (n)
Evelyn Waugh, THE LOVED ONE (n)
Vladimir Nabokov, LOLITA (n)*
J.D.Salinger, RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM CARPENTERS (n)
Christopher Hampton , LES LIAISONSDANGEREUSES (p)
Graham Greene, DR FISCHER FROM GENEVA OR THE BOMB PARTY (n) (e)
David Lodge, HOW FAR CAN YOU GO (n)
R.D.Laing, DO YOU LOVE ME? (l)
M. Kundera,SLOWNESS (n)
M.Ravenhill, SHOPPING AND F**ING (p) (e)
Nick Hornby, HIGH FIDELITY (n)
Alan Ayckbourn, THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE (p)
Vladimir Nabokov, LAUGHTER IN THE DARK (n)
Ian McEwan, ENDURING LOVE (n)
Michael Ondaatje, THE ENGLISH PATIENT
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MARRIAGE
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Carson MacCullers, THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE (n)
J.D.Salinger, RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM,CARPENTERS (n)
Doris Lessing, TO ROOM NINETEEN (n)
Doris Lessing, THE FIFTH CHILD (n) (e)
Anita Brookner, A FRIEND FROM ENGLAND (n)
Harold Pinter, MOONLIGHT (p)
Edward Albee, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF (p)
James M. Cain , THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (n)
Saul Bellow, THEFT (n)
Jane Campion, THE PIANO (n) (e)
Doris Lessing, A PROPER MARRIAGE (n)
Jane Austen, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (n)
Ben Okri, THE FAMISHED ROAD (n)
James Joyce, THE DEAD (s)
David Lodge, HOW FAR CAN YOU GO (n)
M.Ravenhill, SHOPPING AND F***ING (p) (e)
Nick Hornby, HIGH FIDELITY (n)
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MADNESS - NORMALITY
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Samuel Beckett, MURPHY (n)
Ken Kesey, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (n)*
Hannah Green, I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN (n)
Doris Lessing, TO ROOM NINETEEN (n)
Edward Albee, ZOO STORY (p)
Alan Ayckbourn, HENCEFORWARD (p)
William Golding, LORD OF THE FLIES (n)
David Storey, HOME (p)
Peter Barnes, THE RULING CLASS (p)*
Steven King, THE SHINING (n)
Janet Frame, ANGEL AT MY TABLE (n)
J.D.Salinger, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (n)
Dadid Mamet, HOUSE OF GAMES (p)
William Shakespeare, HAMLET (p)**
William Shakespeare, KING LEAR (p)**
John Fowles, THE COLLECTOR (n)*
Edgar Allen Poe, THE RAVEN (l)*
James Joyce, DUBLINERS (s)*
Agatha Christie, TEN LITTLE NIGGERS (n) (e)
Ian McEwan, ENDURING LOVE (n)
Oliver Sacks, THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR HIS HAT (t)
J.M. Coetzee, LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K. (n) (m)
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MASS
MEDIA
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Jersy Kosinski, BEING THERE (n) (e)
Alan Ayckbourn, MAN OF THE MOMENT (p)
Neil Postman, AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH (t)
Marshall McLuhan, UNDERSTANDING MEDIA (t)*
Neil Postman, HOW TO WATCH TV NEWS (t)
Vance Packard, THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS (t)*
George Orwell, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (n)
Quentin Trantino, PULP FICTION (p)*
M. Kundera, SLOWNESS (t)
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MOTHER - DAUGHTER
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Kazuo Ishiguro, A PALE VIEW OF HILLS (n)
Anita Brookner, FRAUD (n)
Anita Brookner, FAMILY AND FRIENDS (n)
Alan Ayckbourn, A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS (p) (e)
Alan Ayckbourn, INVISIBLE FRIENDS (p) (e)
Julian Barnes, TALKING IT OVER (n)
Tennessee Williams, GLASS MENAGERIE (p)
Harper Lee, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (n)
Hannah Green, I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSEGARDEN (n)
Carson McCullers, THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (n)
Jane Austen, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (n)
Steven King, CARRIE (n)
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MOTHER - SON
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Anita Brookner, LEWIS PERCY (n)
Doris Lessing, THE FIFTH CHILD (n) (e)
Alan Ayckbourn, INVISIBLE FRIENDS (p) (e)
William Shakespeare, HAMLET (p)**
Sue Townsend, THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE (n) (e)
Anne Tyler, IF MORNING EVER COMES (n) (e)
Steven King, THE SHINING (n)
Peter Shaffer, FIVE FINGER EXERCISE (p) (e)
Peter Shaffer, EQUUS (p)*
Willy Russell, BLOOD BROTHERS (p)
Ben Okri, THE FAMISHED ROAD (n)
J.M. Coetzee, LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K. (n)(m)
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MEN
/ WOMEN
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Raymond Carver, SHORT CUTS (s)(m)
Julian Barnes, TALKING IT OVER (n) (m)
Julian Barnes, LOVE ETC. (n) (n) (MD)
Mark Ravenhill, SHOPPING AND ***ING (p) (e)
W.B. Yeats, THE MASK (p)
A. Huxley, BRAVE NEW WORLD (d)
E. Hemingway, HILLS LIKE WHITW ELEPHANTS (S)
James Joyce, PENELOPE
William Shakespeare, HAMLET
William Golding, LORD OF THE FLIES
Jane Campion, THE PIANO
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MUSIC
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J.Wain, STRIKE THE FATHER DEAD (n)
C.Pagglia, ROCK AS ART (t)
Tom Wolfe, THE ELECTRIC COOL-AID ACID TEST (n,t)
R.Ellison, INVISIBLE MAN (n)
Nick Hornby, HIGH FIDELITY (n)(m)
Wallace Stevens, THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR (l)*
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MYSTERY
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Susan Hill, THE WOMAN IN BLACK (n) (e)
Steven King, THE SHINING (n)
E.A.Poe, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (n)*
E.A.Poe, THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (n)*
Saki, THE OPEN WINDOW (s)
Ben Okri, STARS OF THE NEW CURFEW (s)
Angela Carter, HEROES AND VILLAINS (s)*
Angela Carter, THE BLOODY CHAMBER (s)*
E.A.Poe, THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION (t)**
J.B.Priestley, AN INSPECTOR CALLS (p)
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OCCULT
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Arthur Miller, THE CRUCIBLE (p)*
Steven King, CARRIE (n)
Edward Albee, WHO IS AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF (p)
William Golding, LORD OF THE FLIES (n)
William Shakespeare, MACBETH (p)**
John Updike, THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK (n)
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OUTSIDERS-MISFITS
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John
Steinbeck, CANNERY ROW (n)
John Steinbeck, OF MICE AND MEN (n)
Edward Albee, ZOO STORY (p)
Mark Twain, TOM SAWYER (n)
Mark Twain, HUCKLEBERRY FINN (n)
Truman Capote, THE GRASS HARP (n)
Sean O'Casey, A POUND ON DEMAND (p) (e)
Harold Pinter, THE CARETAKER (p)
Paul Auster, MOON PALACE (n)
Janet Frame, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (n)
George Orwell, DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON (n)
Jeremy Seabrook, LONELINESS (t)
Alan Sillitoe, THE LONELINESS OF THE LONGDISTANCE RUNNER (n)
Richard Brautigan, TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA (n)
Sue Townsend, REBUILDING COVENTRY (n)(e)
Ernest Hemingway, MEN WITHOUT WOMEN (s)
Reginald Rose, TWELVE ANGRY MEN (p)
Roger Mais, THE HILLS WERE JOYFUL TOGETHER (n)
Tom Woolfe, THE ELECTRONIC COOL AID ACID TEST (n)
Mark Ravenhill, SHOPPING AND F***ING (p)(e)
Nick Hornby, ABOUT A BOY (n)
J.M.Coetzee, LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K: (n)(m)
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POLITICS
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Jonathan Swift, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (n)*
George Orwell, ANIMAL FARM (n)(e)
George Orwell, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (n)
Chinua Achebe, A MAN OF THE PEOPLE (n)
Chinua Achebe, THINGS FALL APART (n)
Ben Okri, STARS OF THE NEW CURFEW (s)
David Thoreau, CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE (t)
Benjamin Franklin, THE MEANS AND MANNERS OF OBTAINING VIRTUE (t)
William Golding, LORD OF THE FLIES (n)
Harold Pinter, ONE FOR THE ROAD (p)
Graham Greene, THE MINISTRY OF FEAR (n)*
James Joyce, IVY DAY IN THE COMMITEE-ROOM (s)*
Kazuo Ishiguro, THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (n)
J.M.Coetzee, DISGRACE (n)
Ernest Callenbach, ECOTOPIA (t)*
J.M.Coetzee, WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS
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POWER
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Samuel Beckett, WAITING FOR GODOT (p)
William Golding, LORD OF THE FLIES (n)
Arthur Miller, THE CRUCIBLE (p)*
George Orwell, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (n)
George Orwell, ANIMAL FARM (n) (e)
Harold Pinter, PARTY TIME (p)
Harold Pinter, ONE FOR THE ROAD (p)
William Shakespeare, MACBETH (p)**
William Shakespeare, KING LEAR (p)**
Graham Greene, DR FISHER FROM GENEVA OR THE BOMB PARTY (n) (e)
Edward Bond, LEAR (p)
Mark Ravenhill, SHOPPING AND F***ING (p)
J.M.Coetzee, WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS
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PUBERTY - ADOLESCENCE
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Truman Capote, OTHER VOICES OTHER ROOMS (n)
Saul Bellow, SOMETHING TO REMEMBER ME BY (s)
J.D.Salinger, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (n)
John Wain, STRIKE THE FATHER DEAD (n)
Jack Keruac, ON THE ROAD (n)
J.M.Barrie, PETER PAN (n)
Alan Ayckbourn, A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS (p) (e)
Alan Ayckbourn, INVISIBLE FRIENDS (p)
Peter Shaffer, EQUUS (p)*
Janet Frame, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (n)
Isaac Bashevi Singer, SHOSHA (n)
James Joyce, THE PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (n)
James Joyce, DUBLINERS (s)*
Barriue Hines, A KESTREL FOR A KNAVE (n) (e)
Suan Hill, I'M THE KING OF THE CASTLE (n)
Alan Sillitoe, THE LONELINESS OF THE LONGDISTANCE RUNNER (n)
Anthony Burgess, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (n)
William Golding, LORD OF THE FLIES (n)
Ernest Hemingway, NICK ADAMS STORIES (s)
Anthony Burgess, BOYHOOD (s)
Sue Townsend, THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE (n) (e)
Ann Tyler, IF MORNING EVER COMES (n) (e)
David Lodge, HOW FAR CAN YOU GO (n)
Vladimir Nbokov, LOLITA (n)*
Harper Lee, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (n9
Irving Shulman, WEST SIDE STORY (n) (e)
Richard Wright, BLACK BOY (n)(e)
William Blake, SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE (l)
Nick Hornby, ABOUT A BOY (n)
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RACISM - FASCISM
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Ralph Ellison, INVISIBLE MAN (n)
Harper Lee, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (n)
William Shakespeare, OTHELLO (p)**
Aldous Huxley, BRAVE NEW WORLD (n)*
Richard Wright, BLACK BOY (n)(e)
Nadine Gordimer, THE LATE BOURGEOIS WORLD (n)
Alan Paton, CRY,THE BELOVED COUNTRY (n)
Colin Macinnes, CITY OF SPADES (n)(e)
Richard Waters, THE WALL (l)*
Laurent/Sondheim, WEST SIDE STORY (n)(e)
William Golding, LORD OF THE FLIES (n)
Harold Pinter, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (p)
Trevor Griffith, COMEDIANS (p)
Peter Shaffer, FIVE FINGER EXERCISE (p)
Graham Greene, THE MINISTRY OF FEAR (n)*
Kurt Vonnegut, MOTHER NIGHT (n)
J.D.Salinger, DOWN AT THE DINGHI (s)
Alan Paton, DEBBIE GO HOME (s)
Saul Bellow, THE VICTIM (n)
Kazuo Ishiguro, THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (n)
Alice Walker, COLOR PURPLE (n)
Mark Twain, HUCKLEBERRY FINN (n)
Toni Morrison, PLAYING IN THE DARK (t)
J.M.Coetzee, WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS
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RELIGION
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James Joyce, THE PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (n)
Alan Paton, CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY (n)
Brian Moore, THE DOCTOR'S WIFE (n)
Saul Bellow, THE VICTIM (n)
David Lodge, HOW FAR CAN YOU GO (n)
James M. Cain, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (n)
Graham Greene, THE HEART OF THE MATTER (n)
James Baldwin, GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN (n)
Robert Bolt, A MAN FOR ALL SEASON (p)
Tim Robbins, DEAD MAN WALKING (p) (e)
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SENSE IN LIFE
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David Hare, SKYLIGHT (p)
Brian Clark, WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? (p) (e)
J.D.Salinger, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (n)
Mark Ravenhill, SHOPPING AND F***ING (p) (e)
J.M.Coetzee, DISGRACE (n)
Nick Hornby, ABOUT A BOY (n)
Samuel Beckett, WAITING FOR GODOT (p)
Tom Stoppard, ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (p)
Michael Ondaatje, THE ENGLISH PATIENT
J.M.Coetzee, LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K: (n)(m)
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SEXUALITY
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David Lodge, HOW FAR CAN YOU GO (n)
Saul Bellow, SOMETHING TO REMEMBER ME BY (s)
Isaac B. Singer, SHOSHA (n)
James M.Cain, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (n)
J.D.Salinger, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (n)
Ernest Hemingway, THE SUN ALSO RISES (s)
Janet Frame, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (n)
Alan Sillitoe, SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING (n)
Anita Brookner, LEWIS PERCY (n)
Erica Jong, FEAR OF FLYING (n)
Sue Townsend, THE GROWING PAINS OF ADRIAN MOLE (n) (e)
Peter Shaffer, EQUUS (p)*
Vladimir Nabokov, LOLITA (n)*
Alan Sillitoe, OUT OF THE WHIRLPOOL (n)(e)
Jersy Kosinski, BEING THERE (n) (e)
Evelyn Waugh, THE LOVED ONES (n)
Jane Campion, THE PIANO (n)8E)
C.Paglia, RAPE AND THE MODERN SEX WAR (t)
Mark Ravenhill, SHOPPING AND F***ING (p)(e)
Nick Hornby, HIGH FIDELITY (n)
Alan Ayckbourn, THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE (p)
Sue Townsend, ADRIAN MOLE: THE WILDERNESS YEARS (e)
Nick Hornby, HIGH FIDELITY (n)(m)
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SCIENCE FICTION - UTOPIAN WORLDS
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H.G.Wells, TIME MACHINE (n)
H.G.Wells, THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (n)
Ray Bradbury, FAHRENHEIT 451 (n)
William Morris, NEWS FROM NOWHERE (n)(e)
Aldous Huxley, BRAVE NEW WORLD (n)*
George Orwell, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (n)
Kurt Vonnegut, CAT'S CRADLE (n)
Kurt Vonnegut, SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE (n)
Kurt Vonnegut, GALAPAGOS (n)
Alan Ayckbourn, HENCEFORWARD (p)
Thomas More, UTOPIA (n9
Alan Ayckbourn, COMMUNICATING DOORS (p)
Daniel Defoe, ROBINSON CRUSOE (n)
Jonathan Swift, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (n)*
Mary Wollenstonecraft-Shelley, FRANKENSTEIN (n)
Stephen King, THE STAND (n)
Michael Crichton, JURASSIC PARK (n)
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SOCIAL CRITICISM
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Alan
Sillitoe, THE LONELINESS OF THE LONGDISTANCER (n)
Evelyn Waugh, The LOVED ONES (n)
Richard Brautigan, TROUTFISHING IN AMERICA (n)
Harold Pinter, SKYLIGHT (p)
Alan Ayckbourn, HENCEFORWARD (p)
Vance Packard, THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS (t)
Douglas Coupland, GENERATION X (n)
Robert Persig, ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE (n)
Neil Postman, AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH (t)
Roger Mais, THE HILLS WERE JOYFUL TOGETHER (n)
Mark Ravenhill, SHOPPING AND F***ING (p)
Ernest Callenbach, ECOTOPIA (t)*
Nick Hornby, ABOUT A BOY (n)
Marshall McLuhan, UNDERSTANDING MEDIA (t)*
J.M.Coetzee, LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K: (n)(m)
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SOCIAL CLASH
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John
Braine, ROOM AT THE TOP (n)
Alan Sillitoe, The LONELINESS OF THE LONGDISTANCE RUNNER (n)
Sue Townsend, ADRIAN MOLE (n) (e)
Willy Russell, BLOOD BROTHERS (p)
Keith Waterhouse, BILLY LIAR (n)
Sean O'Casey, A POUND ON DEMAND (p) (e)
John Osborne, LOKK BACK IN ANGER (p)
Richard Wright, BLACK BOY (n) (e)
Aldous Huxley, BRAVE NEW WORLD (n)*
Alan Sillitoe, OUT OF THE WHIRLPOOL (n) (e)
Jeremy Seabrook, THE UNPRIVILEGED (t)
Ben Okri, THE FAMISHED ROAD (n)
John Steinbeck, OF MICE AND MEN (n)
John Steinbeck, CANNERY ROW (n)
George Orwell, ANIMAL FARM (n)(e)
George Orwell, DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS IN LONDON (t)
Tom Stoppard, ALBERT'S BRIDGE (p)
James Joyce, DUBLINERS (s)
Roger Mais, THE HILLS WERE JOYFUL TOGETHER (n)
Mark Ravenhill, SHOPPING AND F**ING (p)(e)
J.B.Priestley, AN INSPCTOR CALLS (p)(e)
Frank McCourt, ANGELA'S ASHES (n)(m)
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SCHOOL - STUDYING
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J.D.
Salinger, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (n)
J.D. Salinger, FRANNY AND ZOOEY (n)
John Wain, STRIKE THE FATHER DEAD (n)
Alan Ayckbourn, INVISIBLE FRIENDS (p)(e)
Anita Brookner, LEWIS PERCY (n)
Charles Webb, THE GRADUATE (n)(e)
Janet Frame, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (n)
William Golding, LORD OF THE FLIES (n)
John Fowles, THE COLLECTOR (n)
James Joyce, THE PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (n)*
N.H.Kleinbaum, DEAD POETS SOCIETY (n)(e)
Sue Townsend, THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE (n)(e)
Willy Russell, EDUCATING RITA (p)
Barrie Hines, A KESTREL FOR A KNAVE (n)(e)
Lewis Carroll, ALICE IN WONDERLAND (n)(e)
Harper Lee, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (n)
William Morris, NEWS FROM NOWHERE (n)(e)
David Mamet, OLEANNA (p)(e)
Rudyard Kipling, KIM (n)
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SUICIDE
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Arthur Miller, DEATH OF A SALESMAN (p)
J.D.Salinger, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (n)
Peter Shaffer, FIVE FINGER EXERCISE (p)(e)
Edward Albee, ZOO STORY (p)
Alan Ayckbourn, REVENGERS COMEDIES (p)
Jack London, JOHN BARLEYCORN (n)
Aldous Huxley, BRAVE NEW WORLD (n)
Willy Russell, EDUCATING RITA (n)
N.H.Kleinbaum, DEAD POETS SOCIETY (n)(e)
Janet Frame, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (n)
Alan Sillitoe, ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON (s)
J.D.Salinger, A PERFECT DAY FOR BANANAFISH (s)
W.Sommerset Maugham, RAIN (s)
John Steinbeck, OF MICE AND MEN (n)
Peter Shaffer, FIVE FINGER EXERCISE (p)
Kazuo Ishiguro, A PALE VIEW OF HILLS (n)
E.Hemingway, INDIAN CAMP (s)
Lynne Reid Banks, THE L-SHAPED ROOM (n)(e)
Michael Ondaatje, THE ENGLISH PATIENT
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STORYTELLING
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Alan
Sillitoe, THE STORYTELLER (n)
Ben Okri, BIRDS OF HEAVEN (t)
Salman Rushdie, HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES (n)(e)
S.Freud, CREATIVE WRITERS AND DAYDREAMING (t)
Anita Brookner, LOOK AT ME (n)
Janet Frame, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (n)
Eamon Kelley, IN MY FATHER'S TIME (n)
Dashiell Hammett, DAIN CURSE (n)
Truman Capote, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (n)
Paul Auster, LEVIATHAN (n)
F.Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY (n)
Margaret Atwood, LOULOU, OR THE DOMESTIC LIFE OF THE LANGUAGE (s)*
John Fowles, THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN (n)
Dorothy Allison, TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW FOR SURE (n)
Susan Sonntag, AGAINST INTERPRETATION (t)
J.M.Coetzee, LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K: (n)(m)
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TECHNOLOGY
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Aldous Huxley, BRAVE NEW WORLD (n)*
H.G.Wells, TIME MACHINE (n)
Paul Theroux, THE MOSQUITO COAST (n)
Kurt Vonnegut, THE CAT'S CRADLE (n)
Alan Ayckbourn, HENCEFORWARD (p)
Fay Weldon, THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE -DEVIL (n)
Ben Okri, THE FAMISHED ROAD (n)
William Morris, NEWS FROM NOWHERE (n)(e)
Jerzy Kosinski, BEING THERE (n)(e)
Ray Bradbury, FAHRENHEIT 451 (n)
Michael Crichton, JURASSIC PARK (n)
Michael Ondaatje, THE ENGLISH PATIENT (n)(d)
Michael Frayn, COPENHAGEN (p)(m)
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VIOLENCE
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Anthony Burgess, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (n)
Ernest Hemingway, DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON (n)
George Orwell, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (n)
Steven King , THE SHINING (n)
Harold Pinter, DUMB WAITER (p)(e)
Raymond Carver, SHORT CUTS (s)
Doris Lessing, THE FIFTH CHILD (n)
Brian Moore, THE LIES OF SILENCE (n)(e)
George Orwell, SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT (s)
Ernest Hemingway, THE KILLERS (s)
James Joyce, COUNTERPARTS (s)*
Mark Ravenhill, SHPOOING ANF F***ING (p)(e)
J.M.Coetzee, DISGRACE (n)
J.M.Coetzee, WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS
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WAR
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Kurt
Vonnegut, SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE (n)
Joseph Heller, CATCH 22 (n)
George Orwell, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (n)
Ernest Hemingway, FAREWELL TO ARMS (n)
Ernest Hemingway, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS (n)
J.D.Salinger, NINE STORIES (s)
John Steinbeck, THE MOON IS DOWN (n)
Ben Okri, STARS OF THE NEW CURFEW (s)
Graham Greene, THE MINSTRY OF FEAR (n)*
Chinua Achebe, GIRLS AT WAR (s)
Elisabeth Bowen, THE HEAT OF THE DAY (s)
Kazuo Ishiguro, A PALE VIEW OF HILLS (n)
Nevil Shute, ON THE BEACH (n)
Graham Greene, OUR MAN IN HAVANNA (n)
J.M.Coetzee, DUSKLANDS (n)
Ambrose Bierce, TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS (n)
Michael Ondaatje, THE ENGLISH PATIENT
J.M.Coetzee, WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS
J.M.Coetzee, LIFE & TIME OF MICHAEL K. (n)(m)
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