Anglais
En plus des ouvrages obligatoires indiqués sur la page de ce site consacrée à l'anglais, voici une liste de conseils de lecture pour préparer votre rentrée en classe préparatoire.
Littérature britannique et irlandaise:
19e siècle :
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility
Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, The Tales of My Landlord
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities
Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the D'Ubervilles
William Makepeace Thakeray, Vanity Fair
George Elliot, The Mill on the Floss
Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Dorian Gray
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness
20e siècle
E.M. Forster, A Room with a View, Howard's End, A Passage to India
Virginia Woolf, Night and Day, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves
James Joyce, Dubliners, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Rudyard Kipling, Kim
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
D.H Lawrence, Women in Love
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, The Custom of the Country
Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, The Confidential Agent, The Heart of the Matter
George Orwell, Nineteen-Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, Coming up for Air
Graham Swift, Waterland
Ian McEwan, Atonement
Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea
Colm Toibin, The Heather Blazing, Brooklyn
Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, The Buried Giant
Jonathan Coe, Number Eleven
Littérature américaine
19e siècle
Washington Irving, The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle
Nathaniel Hawthorn, The Scarlet Letter, Young Goodman Brown, The Minister's Black Veil
Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
James Fennimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener, Moby Dick
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Lydia Maria Child, Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times
20e siècle
Jack London, White Fang, The Call of the Wild, To build a Fire, The Iron Heel
Sinclair Lewis, Babbit, It can't happen here
Upton Sinclair, Oil!, The Jungle
Ernest Hemingway, Fiesta : the Sun also rises, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer
William Faulkner, As I lay dying, The Sound and the Fury
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
Theorore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
William Styron, Sophie's Choice
Philip Roth, American Pastoral
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Paul Auster, A New York Trilogy, Moon Palace