A list of novels for students to explore.
Other Opening Class reading lists can be found at the bottom of this page.
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
Farenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War – Max Brooks
The Big Over Easy – Jasper Fforde
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Princess Bride – William Goldman
Maestro – Peter Goldsworthy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West – Gregory Maguire
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear – Walter Moers
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Jasper Jones – Craig Silvey
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Cloudstreet – Tim Winton
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