OIB

Here are the books recommended by the various teachers in the department:

John Cadden
Douglas Adams – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe
Bernard Cornwell – Harlequin
Sebastian Faulks – Enderby
Spike Milligan – Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall.
Terry Pratchett – Discworld Novels
C. J. Sansom – Dark Fire
Mark Twain – Pudd’nhead Wilson   

Nicola Hill
Isabelle Allende – The House of the Spirits
Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
Tracey Chevalier – Girl with a Pearl Earing
Mark Hadden – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Nick Hornby – Fever Pitch
Nancy Huston – Fault Lines
Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar
John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath
Patrick Suskind – Perfume


Carrie Jack
Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
Louis de Bernières – Birds Without Wings
Sebastian Faulks – On Green Dolphin Street
Ernest Hemmingway – A Farewell to Arms
Jack Kerouac – On the Road
Irene Nemirovsky – Suite Française
George Orwell – Homage to Catalonia
Wladyslaw Szpilman – The Pianist
   
Andrew Johnston
Bruce Chatwin – On the Black Hill
Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong
Frank Herbert – Dune
Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
Toni Morrison – Beloved
Patrick O’Brien – Master and Commander
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein


Neil McKain
Boris Akunin – The Winter Queen
Mitch Albom – The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Iain Banks – The Crow Road
William Dalrymple – The City of Djinns
A.A.Gill – A.A.Gill is Away
J. Maarten Troost – The Sex Lives of Cannibals
George MacDonald Fraser – The Pyrates
Tim Moore – Spanish Steps

   
Sue March
John Boyne – The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Paul Coelho – The Alchemist
Jasper Fforde – The Eyre Affaire
Khaled Hosseni – The Kite Runner or 1,000 Splendid Suns
Andrea Lee – Interesting Women
Marina Lewycka – Two Caravans
Stuart Maconie – Pies and Prejudice
Gautam Malkani – Londonstani
Ian McEwan – The Cement Garden
Azar Nafisi – Reading Lolita in Tehran
Anne Seierstad – The Bookseller of Kabul


Rob Miller
Robert Fisk – Great War for Civilisation
Susan George – A Fate worse than Debt
Carl Hiaasen – The Tourist Season
Joseph Heller – Catch 22
Michael Herr – Dispatches
Philip Kerr – March Violets
Stieg Larsson – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Arturo Perez Reverte – The Club Dumas
Carlos Ruiz Zafon – The Shadow of the Wind
   
Celia Roque
James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain
Louis de Bernières – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Eric Hobsbaum – The Age of Extremes
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
Hanif Kureishi – My Ear at His Heart
Rohinton Mistry – A Fine Balance
Frank McCourt – Angela’s Ashes
Alice Walker – The Color Purple
Howard Zinn – A People’s History of the U. S.                                       

Jason Spear
Rafael Alberti – Poems (trans. Mark Strand)
Basho – Narrow Road to the Deep North
Michael Hamburger – From a Diary of Non-Events
Miroslav Holub – Intensive Care
Daniil Kharms – Incidences
Ben Okri – Songs of Enchantment
W. G. Sebald – The Rings of Saturn
Alberta Turner – Beginning with And   
Katherine Weinert
Fydor Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment
Graham Greene – The Quiet American
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston – Farewell to Manzanar
Kazuo Ishiguro – Remains of the Day
R. K. Narayan – The Painter of Signs
Stephen B; Oates – The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X


Ruth Workman
Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger
Iain Banks – The Crow Road or Whit
Angela Carter – Wise Children
Graham Greene – Monsignor Quixote
Robert Harris – Pompeii
Jeff Noon - Vurt
Donna Tartt – A Secret History
Alan Warner - Morvern Callar