Summer Reading Project: British Literature 1650-present

Explore our Summer Reading Project featuring British Literature from 1650 to present. Discover a curated list of 1650 must-read books to enrich your summer with classic and contemporary British authors.

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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

Retells the classic story of an orphaned young woman who accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce

James Joyce's coming-of-age story, a tour de force of style and technique The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce’s novels, A Portrait of …
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To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

The novel that established Virginia Woolf as a leading writer of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions …
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Wide Sargasso Sea

by Jean Rhys

"A considerable tour de force by any standard." ?New York Times Book Review"
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Arcadia

by Tom Stoppard

This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters …
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Saturday

by Ian McEwan

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish …