Recommended Reads

Books which have been read and loved by the admins which we would wholeheartedly recommend to other readers.

Prose:

  • Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Berniéres
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  • The Last Chronicle of Barset by Antony Trollope
  • Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
  • Chocolat by Joanne Harris
  • Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Poetry:

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Simon Armitage
  • Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings
  • When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
  • Complete Nonsense by Edward Lear
  • A Dustbin of Milligan by Spike Milligan
  • Divine Comedy by Dante
  • Bells and Pomegranates by Robert Browning
  • When We Were Vey Young by A. A. Milne
  • Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll

Drama:

  • An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  • The Seagull by Anton Chekov
  • Mr Puntila and his Man Matti by Bertolt Brecht
  • A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
  • Othello by William Shakespeare
  • The History Boys by Alan Bennett
  • Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
  • ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore by John Ford
  • A Streetcar Named Desire by Tenessee Williams

Recommended Reads

Books which have been read and loved by the admins which we would wholeheartedly recommend to other readers.

Prose:

  • Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Berniéres
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  • The Last Chronicle of Barset by Antony Trollope
  • Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
  • Chocolat by Joanne Harris
  • Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Poetry:

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Simon Armitage
  • Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings
  • When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
  • Complete Nonsense by Edward Lear
  • A Dustbin of Milligan by Spike Milligan
  • Divine Comedy by Dante
  • Bells and Pomegranates by Robert Browning
  • When We Were Vey Young by A. A. Milne
  • Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll

Drama:

  • An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  • The Seagull by Anton Chekov
  • Mr Puntila and his Man Matti by Bertolt Brecht
  • A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
  • Othello by William Shakespeare
  • The History Boys by Alan Bennett
  • Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
  • ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore by John Ford
  • A Streetcar Named Desire by Tenessee Williams

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this is a blog dedicated to literature run by two biblophilic students from england.

It is a mish mash of everything that we love about books and words and plays and poetry and the english language, to satiate the needs of all you fellow linguaphiles out there.

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