Fiction
 
Please note that these are additional, interesting books to read. They are not set texts but do relate to the History syllabus. Most of them are the History Department's personal recommendations.

Austen, Jane / Any novel
Chang, Jung / Wild Swans
Dickens, Charles / A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoevsky / Crime & Punishment
Faulks, Sebastian / Birdsong
Fitzgerald, F. Scott / The Great Gatsby
Gaskell, Elizabeth / Mary Barton
Orwell, George / Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris /Doctor Zhivago
Rathbone, Julian / A Very English Agent
Steinbeck, John / The Grapes of Wrath
Tolstoy / War & Peace
Turgenev / Fathers and Sons
Waugh, Evelyn / Brideshead Revisited
 
 
Non Fiction 

Andress, David /The Terror
Andress, David / 1789; Threshold of the Modern Age
Beevor, Anthony / Stalingrad
Blanning, Tim / The Pursuit of Glory
Brittain, Vera /Testament of Youth
Bullock, Alan / Stalin: A Study in Tyranny
Coppard, George / With a Machine Gun to Cambrai
Cronin, Vincent / Napoleon
Deary, Terry / Horrible Histories
Doyle, William / Oxford History of the French Revolution
Doyle, William /A Short History of the French Revolution
Figes, Orlando / Natasha’s Dance
Figes, Orlando / The People’s Tragedy
Figes, Orlando / The Whisperers
Fraser, Antonia / The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Fraser, Antonia / Mary, Queen of Scots
Fraser, Antonia / Marie Antoinette
Jones, Colin / Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon
Kershaw, Ian / Hitler
Lacey, Robert /Great Tales from English History
Massie Robert K. / Nicholas and Alexandra
Scurr, Ruth /Fatal Purity: Robespierre
Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh /The Court of the Red Tsar
Schama, Simon / A History of Britain
Schama, Simon / Citizens
Service, Robert /Lenin
Service, Robert /Stalin
Service, Robert / Trotsky
Service, Robert / A History of Russia from Nicholas II to Putin
Sheffield, Gary / Forgotten Victory
Sheffield, Gary / The Somme
Starkey, David / Elizabeth
Taylor, A.J.P. / Origins of the Second World War