Summer reading for students! Here are some of our favourites:
19th-century classics
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Wordsworth Classics)
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (Penguin Classics)
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Wordsworth Classics)
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (Penguin Classics)
20th-century classics
- A Room with a View by E M Forster (Penguin Classics)
- Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh (Penguin Classics)
- Thank You, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse (Arrow)
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (Virago Modern Classics)
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Pan Books)
- The Outsider by Albert Camus (Penguin Modern Classics)
- 1984 by George Orwell (Penguin)
- Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger (Penguin)
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac (Penguin Modern Classics)
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Flamingo Modern Classics)
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Faber & Faber)
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Penguin Modern Classics)
- Saturday by Ian McEwan (Vintage)
Comedies
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Gollancz)
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend (Penguin)
Short stories
- The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield (Wordsworth Editions)
- Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl (Penguin)
Crime novels
- Miss Marple Omnibus: Volume One by Agatha Christie (HarperCollins)
- Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers (New English Library)
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré (Penguin Modern Classics)
- Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell (Vintage)