Readers Forever

One of the best teaching and learning times is when it comes to classroom reading. It´s difficult to recall all of them but the following is a list of graded or simplified readers which have motivated students to keep on reading and discover the pleasure and wonders of reading on their own.Stories are my passion.We read for entertainment and information and in order to get some nourishment for the soul....

           Author                                       Story 

Edgar Allan Poe     Tales of Mystery & Imagination..... 

Oscar Wilde  The Picture of Dorian Gray

Charles Dickens Oliver Twist, David Copperfield,...

Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer,...

John Milne  The Long Tunnel

Arthur Taylor The elephant man

O´Henry  New Yorkers

Saki(H.H.Munro) The Open Window..

William Saroyan The Barber´s Uncle,The first day at school..

D.H. Lawrence The Fox, The rocking Horse winner,...

Thomas Hardy The thieves in the cupboard

Anton Chekhov The lottery ticket,..

Guy de Maupassant  The Necklace,.. 

Daphne du Maurier  Rebecca

Jules Verne Around the World in 80 days

Mary Shelley  Frankestein

H.G. Wells  The Time Machine,Invisible man,..

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Any Sherlock Holmes story...

Nick Hornby  About a boy

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night´s Dream

Alan C. Mc Lean   Born to run

James Joyce The dead,..

Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

Jonathan Swift Gulliver´s Travels

George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion =My fair lady

W. Somerset Maugham A man from Glasgow, Mackintosh,..

John Steinbeck  The Pearl

Richard Chisholm Meet me in Istanbul

Bram Stoker  Dracula

Ernest Hemingway  Death in the afternoon,Men without women

Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy

Wilkie Collins  The Woman in White

Colin West  Big Wig

Francoise Sagan  Bonjour Tristesse

Roald Dahl   Matilda, The Twits...

Helen Fielding  Bridget Jones´s Diary

J.K. Rowling  Harry Potter and the Philosopher´s stone ..

Norman Whitney  The Stranger

Washington Irving  Rip Van Winkle

   T.C. Jupp   Rich man, Poor man

Michael Hardcastle Don´t tell me what to do

George Orwell Animal farm

Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom´s Cabin

Henry James  The Aspern papers

Bret Harte Adventure on Bolinas Plain

Jack London  White Fang

Jane Homeshaw  Tin Lizzie

Martin Sinclair  Sports Stars

Malorie Blackman  An Eye for an Eye

John Tully  Muhammad Ali king of the ring

Toni Murphy  Bruce Springsteen

Stephen Rabley  Tina Turner

Peter Dainty  Marilyn Monroe

Stephen Crane The Red badge of Courage

Nathaniel Hawthorne Mr. Higginbotham´s Catastrophe..

James Thurber  The Night the Ghost Got In

John Grisham  The Firm

Raymond Chandler  The long Goodbye

Graham Greene  The End of the Affair

Winston Groom  Forrest Gump

Michael Crichton  The Lost World Jurassic Park

H.E. Bates  Silas the Good

Paul Theroux   The Mosquito Coast

William Golding  Lord of the Flies 

Martin H. Mayal   The Cave

Ambrose Bierce The Devil´s Dictionary

Alistair Mac Lean   Santorini

Dian Fossey  Gorillas in the  mist

Joy Adamson Born Free

Jane Goodall In the Shadow of Man

Lewis Carroll Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland

W.W. Jacobs The Monkey´s paw

What other stories have you read(films you have seen) that are not included in the above list?

  

Try to classify the above authors according to their nationalities:
British, American,Irish,etc..