Section 1 The UK & Ireland 1. William Shakespeare : Hamlet 2. John Milton: Paradise Lost 3. Henry Fielding: Tom Jones 4. William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey 5. Thomas Hardy : Tess of the D'Urbervilles 6. George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion 7. James Joyce : Eveline 8. T.S. Eliot: Waste Land 9. Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter 10. John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman 11. William Golding : Lord of the Flies 12. V.S. Naipaul: A Way in the World 13. Doris Lessing: Through the Tunnel 14. Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
Section 2 The USA & Canada 15. Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 16. Robert Frost: A Farmer Poet 17. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby 18. Eugene O'Neil: The Emperor Jones 19. JosephHeller: Catch——22 20. Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior 21. Tony Morrison : Beloved 22. John Updike: A & P 23. Alice Munro: Lives of Girls and Women 24. Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
Section 3 Australia & New Zealand 25. Henry Lawson: Bush Ballads 26. Patrick White : Voss 27. Catherine Mansfield: The Garden Party 28. Janet Frame: The Reservoir
Section 4 South Africa & Nigeria 29. Nadine Gordimer: July's People 30. John M. Coetzee : Disgrace 31. Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart 32. Wole Soyinka: Death and the King's Horseman Postscript
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