Year 1
Fall Semester, 2024:
- Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere (2017) 1
- Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)
- Juan Rulfo, Pedro Paramo (1955)
- Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis (2000)
Spring Semester, 2025:
- Shusako Endo, Silence (1966)
- Dante Alighieri, Inferno (1300) 2
- Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) 2
HIGHER LEVEL ESSAY (25%)
Year 2 (titles tentative)
Fall Semester, 2025:
- Rebecca Kuang, Babel (2022) 1
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1601)
- Selected Poetry of John Milton (1608 – 1674) 3
INDIVIDUAL ORAL (15%)
Spring Semester, 2026:
- James Joyce, Dubliners (1914) 2
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
- Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (1989)
PAPER 1 EXAM – LITERARY COMMENTARY (35%) PAPER 2 EXAM – COMPARATIVE ESSAY (25%)
1 Summer Reading & First Unit
2 Abridged, or Selected Chapters/Stories
3 Sonnets; extracts from Paradise Lost
World Literature in Translation (Spanish/French/Japanese/Italian)
American Literature
British Literature