SENIOR BOOKLIST
FROM MRS. TOWNSEND
HISTORICAL FICTION
Banks, Lynne Reid Dark
Quartet: The Story of the Bronte
Barnes, Margaret Campbell The
Tudor Rose
Costain, Thomas B. The
Black Rose
Crichton, Michael The
Great Train Robbery
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The
White Company
Holt, Victoria My
Enemy, the Queen
Plaidy,
Jean The
Captive of Kensington Palace,
The
Queen and Lord M.,
The
Three Crowns, The Stuart Saga
White, T.H. The
Once and Future King*
BIOGRAPHIES
Amis, Kingsley Rudyard
Kipling and His World
Carpenter, Humphrey Tolkien,
a Biography
Chute, Marchette Ben
Johnson of Westminster
Chute, Marchette Geoffrey
Chaucer of England
Coolidge, Olivia The
Three Lives of Joseph Conrad
Dunlop, Agnes M. Girl
with a Pen (biography)
Farson, Daniel The
Man Who Wrote Dracula
Gaskell, Elizabeth C. The
Life of Charlotte Bronte
Green, Roger Lancelyn C.S.
Lewis: a Biography
Halliday, F.E. Wordsworth
and His World
Harvey, Nancy Lenz The
Rose and the Thorn:
The Lives of Mary and
Margaret Tudor
Hawkins, Desmond Hardy:
Novelist and Poet
Higham, Charles The
Adventures of Conan Doyle
Hilton, Timothy Keats
and His World
Jenkins, Elizabeth Elizabeth
the Great
Lehman, John Virginia
Woolf and Her World
Lacey, Robert The
Life and Times of Henry VIII
Majesty:
Elizabeth II and
the House of Windsor
Marchand, Leslie A. Byron:
a Portrait
O’Connor, Frank An
Only Child (biography)
Pudney, John Lewis
Carroll and His World
Raphael, Frederic W.
Somerset Maugham and His World
Strachey, Lytton Elizabeth
and Essex, Queen Victoria
Sykes, Christopher Evelyn
Waugh: a Biography
Vieser, Rudolph The
Barretts of Wimpole Street (biography)
Wagenknecht, Edward The
Man Charles Dickens: a Victorian Portrait
Winwar, Frances The
Immortal Lovers: Elizabeth Barrett and
Robert
Browning
GENERAL
Austen, Jane Pride
and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
Bolt, Robert A
Man for All Seasons (drama)
Brent, Madelaine Merlin’s
Keep
Bronte, Anne Agnes
Grey
Bronte, Charlotte Jane
Eyre*
Bronte, Emily Wuthering
Heights
Christie, Agatha Murder
on the Orient Express
Conrad, Joseph Lord
Jim, Secret Sharer
Dahl, Roald Kiss,
Kiss (short stories), “Someone Like You”
Defoe, Daniel Robinson
Crusoe*
Dickens, Charles David
Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, The
Old
Curiosity Shop, The Pickwick Papers,
A
Tale of Two Cities
Du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca
Eliot, George Silas
Marner
Forster, E.M. Passage
to India
Fowles, John The
French Lieutenant’s Woman
Hardy, Thomas Far
from the Madding Crowd,
Jude,
the Obscure,
The
Mayor of Casterbridge,
A
Pair of Blue Eyes,
Return
of the Native,
Tess
of the D’Urbervilles
Hilton, James Goodbye,
Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon
Huxley, Aldous Brave
New World
Lawrence, D.H. Sons
and Lovers
Mansfield, Kathryn Stories
(anthology)
Marlowe, Christopher Dr.
Faustus (drama)
Maugham, Somerset Of
Human Bondage, Razor’s Edge
McCullough, Colleen The
Thorn Birds
Meredith, George The
Ordeal of Richard Feveral
O’Connor, Frank More
Stories (anthology)
Orwell, Frank 1984*
Priestly, J.B. Thirty-first
of June
Saki (H.H. Munro) The
Best of Saki
Scott, Sir Walter Ivanhoe*
Shaw, George Bernard Androcles
and the Lion (drama), Pygmalion,
St.
Joan
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Sheridan Richard The
School for Scandal (drama)
Stevenson, Robert Louis Kidnapped*
Stewart, Mary The
Crystal Cave*, The Hollow Hills*,
The
Last Enchantment*,
The
Moonspinners, This Rough Magic
Swift Jonathon Gulliver’s
Travels
Twain, Mark A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,
The
Prince and the Pauper,
Reflections
on Joan of Arc,
Touch
Not the Cat
Uris, Leon Trinity
Waugh, Evelyn Dearly
Beloved
Wilde Oscar The
Importance of Being Earnest (drama)
Williams, Emlin The
Corn is Green
Woolfe Virginia Flush:
a Biography |