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Not only does it help expand your academic vocabulary, it also aids your wider understanding of the world around you. It helps you to make an informed decision about how societies are formed, developed and the type of society you want to see in your future. Reading different genres will enable you to become more empathetic, more enlightened and give you a better sense of your place in the world.  \nWider reading doesn’t just help expand your vocabulary and knowledge, it also helps improve your own writing no matter what subject you do. The way in which the authors present their work will help you develop your writing style. The more you read, the more links between subjects you will identify that aid your understanding of the topics you are studying. Universities and employers value those individuals who are widely read so adding what you have read to your applications will give you the opportunity to show your commitment to your future goals.  \nThe importance of reading cannot be stressed highly enough therefore the following reading lists have been created as a starting point for your reading but are not exhaustive lists.  \nClassic Literature  \n\n| Author | Title |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hermann Melville | Moby Dick |\n| Charles Dickens | Bleak House |\n| Daniel Defoe | Moll Flanders |\n| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |\n| Anne Bronte | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |\n| George Eliot | Middlemarch |\n| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina |\n| Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment |\n| George Eliot | Daniel Deronda |\n| Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness |\n| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |\n| Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray |\n| Bram Stoker | Dracula |\n| Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights |\n| Thomas Hardy | Tess of the D’Urbervilles |\n| Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |\n| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre |\n\n| George Orwell | Nineteen Eighty Four |\n| --- | --- |\n| John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath |\n| Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart |\n| Daphne Du Maurier | Rebecca |\n\nModern Classics  \n\n| Author | Title |\n| --- | --- |\n| Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid’s Tale |\n| Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird |\n| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |\n| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude |\n| Jean Rhys | Wide Sargasso Sea |\n| Toni Morrison | Beloved |\n| Joseph Heller | Catch 22 |\n| Hilary Mantel | Wolf Hall |\n| Louis De Bernieres | Captain Corelli’s Mandolin |\n\nWhy not try these popular titles?  \n| Author | Title |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Half a Yellow Sun |\n| Sally Rooney | Normal People |\n| Bernadine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other |\n| Candice Carter-Williams | Queenie |\n| Delia Owens | Where the Crawdad’s Sing |\n| Gail Honeyman | Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine |\n| Donna Tartt | The Goldfinch |\n| Amor Towles | Gentleman Moscow |\n| Lionel Shriver | The Mandibles |\n| Colcon Whitehead | The Nickel Boys |\n| Alex Garland | The Beach |\n| Douglas Stuart | Shuggie Bain |\n| Ernest Cline | Ready Player One |\n| David Nichols | One Day |\n| Peter Benchley | Jaws |\n| Steven King | The Shining |\n| Jeanine Cummings | American Dirt |\n| Tayari Jones | An American Marriage |\n| Alice Walker | The Colour Purple |\n| Kathryn Stockett | The Help |\n| Colm Tóibín | Brooklyn |\n| Sarah Dunant | Sacred Hearts |\n\n| Jeanette Winterson | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sarah Waters | The Little Stranger |\n| Maya Angelou | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |\n\nNon Fiction titles  \n| Author | Title |\n| --- | --- |\n| Plato | The Republic |\n| Machiavelli | The Prince |\n| Karl Marx | The Communist Manifesto |\n| Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Women |\n| Nelson Mandela | Long Walk to Freedom |\n| Yuval Noah Harai | Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind |\n| Ben Goldacre | Bad Science |\n| Stephen Hawking | A Brief History of Time |\n| Richard Dawkins | The Selfish Gene |\n| Rich","cbCailCIUFXUwVN7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailCIUFXUwVN7","pdf",687011,"English","# Post-16 wider reading\n## Classic literature\n## Modern classics\n## Popular titles\n## Non-fiction titles","[{\"question\":\"Why is wider reading important for post-16 students?\",\"answer\":\"It expands academic vocabulary and supports wider understanding of the world, including how societies develop and what kind of future society readers want to see. 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