A General Reading List
Love, romance and sex
Barry Unsworth – Morality Play
Colette – Cheri
Gustav Flaubert – Three Tales
Ford Madox Ford – The Good Soldier
Henry Green – Loving
Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook
Samuel Richardson – Pamela
Ivan Turgenev – First Love
Families
Ivy Compton-Burnett – Manservant and Maidservant
Maria Edgeworth – The Absentee
Oliver Goldsmith – The Vicar of Wakefield
Virginia Woolf – The Waves
Rites of Passage
Alain-Fournier – Le Grand Meaulnes
Muriel Spark – Memento Mori
Heroes and anti-heroes
Sylvia Townsend Warner – Lolley Willowes
Making it
Honore de Balzac – Cousin Bette
Honore de Balzac – Lost Illusions
George Moore – Esther Waters
War, violence and conflict
Aphra Behn – Oroonoko
Danilo Kis – Garden, Ashes
A Sense of Place
J L Carr – A Month in the Country
Daphne du Maurier – Rebecca
Ronald Firbank – Valmouth
George Sand – The Devil's Pool
Invisible Worlds
William Golding – The Inheritors
Crime and Punishment
Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders
(This list was compiled from The Rough Guide to Classic Novels)
February
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