
A Level Reading List
Below is a comprehensive list of books and collections we recommend for our A Level students to read, as well as some workbooks which we recommend reading alongside studies. The links are clickable and direct you to Amazon to purchase through our shop.
This is not a comprehensive list, but a place for students to start. For course specific reading, you can ask your tutor or mentor to send across a bespoke reading list.
Workbooks
Literature
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Chinua Achede - Things Fell Apart
Chimamanda Ngozi - Adichie Purple Hibiscus
Americanah Monica Ali - Brick Lane
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale
Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber
E.M. Forster - A Room with a View,
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South,
Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd
Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns
James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath