British Literature: 20th-21st Century
Period Reading List for Part One Exam
1. Conrad, Heart of Darkness
2. Hardy, Selected Poems
3. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
4. Joyce, The Dubliners
5. Yeats, Selected Poems
6. Orwell, 1984
7. Forster, Passage to India
8. Larkin*, Heaney*, and Gunn*, (selected poems)
9. Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
10. Isherwood, A Single Man
11. Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
12. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
13. Caryl Phillips, Foreigners
14. Hanif Kureishi, My Beautiful Launderette
15. Kazuro Ishiguro, The Remains of The Day or Never Let Me Go
16. Zadie Smith, White Teeth or On Beauty
17. Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
18. Stuart Hall, Familiar Stranger
19. Carol Ann Duffy, selected poems
20. Angela Carter, In the Company of Wolves
Selected Text for Part Two Exam
The next time the comprehensive examination in this period is offered, the Part Two text will be
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.