SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL READING LIST © Farouk Asvat
THE JOYS OF LITERATURE
towards
an international library
a beginner's guide to the essential books of world literature -
to understand the cultures of the world in the context of our time.
[] SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL READING LIST
[] RECOMMENDED:
● HAMLET: William Shakespeare [Edward de Vere] (britain)
● PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Jane Austen (britain)
● DAVID COPPERFIELD: Charles Dickens (britain)
● CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: Fýodor Dosteovski (russia)
● HEART OF DARKNESS: Joseph Conrad (britain /
poland)
● MY NAME IS RED: Orhan Pamuk (turkey)
● CHRONICLE OF A DEATH
FORETOLD: Gabriel García Márquez (colombia)
● TWENTY POEMS OF LOVE
AND A SONG OF DESPAIR: Pablo Neruda (chile)
● THIRST FOR LOVE: Yukio Mishima (japan)
● … A MANY-SPLENDOURED
THING: Han Su Yin (china)
[] FICTION list:
● THE TALES OF A THOUSAND
AND ONE NIGHTS: various unknown (middle east / china)
● THE ESSENTIAL RUMI: Jalalluddin Balkhi Rumi (afghanistan
/ turkey)
● FABLES: Aesop (libya)
● THE ILIAD & THE
ODYSSEY: Homer (greece)
● DON QUIXOTE: Miguel de Cervantes (spain)
● THE CANTERBURY TALES: Geoffrey Chaucer (britain)
● HAMLET: William Shakespeare (Edward de Vere) (britain)
● GULLIVER'S TRAVELS: Jonathan Swift (britain)
● DANGEROUS LIASONS: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (france)
● FAIRY TALES: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (germany)
● CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: Fýodor Dosteovski (russia)
● THE COSSACKS, HADJI
MURAD & other stories: Leo
Tolstoi (russia)
● GERMINAL: Émile Zola (france)
● COUSIN BETTE: Honoré de Balzac (france)
● MADAME BOVARY: Gustave Flaubert (france)
● FAIRY TALES: Hans Christian Andersen (denmark)
● PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Jane Austen (britain)
● DAVID COPPERFIELD: Charles Dickens (britain)
● MOBY DICK: Herman Melville (usa)
● TWENTY POEMS OF LOVE
AND A SONG OF DESPAIR: Pablo Neruda (chile)
● CHRONICLE OF A DEATH
FORETOLD: Gabriel García Márquez (colombia)
● THE DEATH OF ARTEMIO
CRUZ: Carlos Fuentes (méxico)
● A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS: V S Naipaul (trinidad)
● A GRAIN OF WHEAT: Ngugi wa Thiong'o (kenya)
● DEAD ROOTS: Arthur Nortje (south
africa)
● MIDAQ ALLEY: Naguib Mehfouz (egypt)
● THE WEDDING OF ZEIN: Tayeb Saleh (sudan)
● GITANJALI: Rabindranath Tagore (india)
● THE TRACK TO BRALGU: B Wongar (serbia /
australia)
● ZORBA THE GREEK: Nikos Kazantzakis (greece)
● MY NAME IS RED: Orhan Pamuk (turkey)
● THE TRIAL: Franz Kafka (germany)
● DARKNESS AT NOON: Arthur Koestler (hungary)
● THE PLAGUE: Albert Camus (algeria /
france)
● SELECTED POEMS: William Butler Yeats (ireland)
● HEART OF DARKNESS: Joseph Conrad (britain /
poland)
● A PASSAGE TO INDIA: E M Forster (britain)
● WOMEN IN LOVE: D H Lawrence (britain)
● BRAVE NEW WORLD: Aldous Huxley (britain)
● MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN: Salman Rushdie (india /
britain)
● 1984: George Orwell (britain)
● A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS: Robert Bolt (britain)
● THE POWER AND THE
GLORY: Graham Greene (britain)
● AS I LAY DYING: William Faulkner (usa)
● DEATH OF A SALESMAN: Arthur Miller (usa)
● BELOVED: Toni Morrison (usa)
● INVISIBLE MAN: Ralph Ellison (usa)
● THE GRAPES OF WRATH: John Steinbeck (usa)
● THE GOOD EARTH: Pearl S Buck (china / america)
● … A MANY SPLENDOURED
THING: Han Su Yin (china)
● THIRST FOR LOVE: Yukio Mishima (japan)
[] NON-FICTION list:
● THE WRETCHED OF THE
EARTH: Frantz Fanon (martinique)
● THE MAN DIED: Wole Soyinka (nigeria)
● DECOLONISING THE MIND: Ngugi wa Thiong'o (kenya)
● THE LOST WORLD OF THE
KALAHARI: Laurens van der Post (namibia)
● I WRITE WHAT I LIKE: Steve Biko (south
africa)
● MARXISM AND OTHER
WESTERN FALLACIES: Ali Shariati (iran)
● MILESTONES: Sayyid Qutb (egypt)
● RIHLA (journeys): Ibn Battuta (morocco -
tunisia)
● SATYAGRAHA IN SOUTH
AFRICA: Mohandas K Gandhi (india / south africa)
● PERESTROIKA: Mikhail Gorbachev (russia)
● THE SECOND SEX: Simone de Beauvoir (france)
● THE AFRICANS: Basil Davidson (britain)
● THE GREAT WAR FOR
CIVILIZATION: Robert Fisk (britain / lebanon)
● TELL ME NO LIES: ed. John Pilger (australia /
britain)
● DISPATCHES: Michael Herr (usa)
● BURY MY HEART AT
WOUNDED KNEE: Dee Brown (usa)
● ORIENTALISM: Edward Said (palestine /
usa)
● AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Malcolm X (usa)
● SOLEDAD BROTHERS: the
prison letters of George Jackson (usa)
● OPEN VEINS OF LATIN
AMERICA: Eduardo Galeano (uruguay)
● MEMOIRS: Pablo Neruda (chile)
● TRAVELS: Zheng He (china)
● RED STAR OVER CHINA: Edgar Snow (usa / china)
● MUHAMMAD: a biography: Karen
Armstrong (britain)
● THE 100: a ranking of
the most influential persons in history: Michael H Hart (usa)
© farouk asvat
composed: 2010 [Johannesburg, South Africa under apartheid].
[] Acknowledgements:
Senior High School Reading
List was previously
published in:
https://faroukasvat-viewpoint.blogspot.com/2014/12/senior-high-school-reading-list.html
(12.12.2014).
Weapons of Words (kindle, 2016);
Weapons of Words (amazon paperback, p125,
2016).
[§] Books by Farouk Asvat:
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Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The
Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long
Sentences (poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings
Sad Songs (poetry)
● A Celebration Of
Flames (poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
● This Masquerade (short stories)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are
Coming (short stories)*
● In The House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words (comparative literature & literary criticism)
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