Incoming WHS Year 1 IB students are encouraged to read at least two of the following works:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood