Published on 20/11/16
Twelve fiction books written by American writers to read before you go to uni - "to impress your peers with how cultured and well-rounded you are"- Ms Kedie
- The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
- The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Attwood
- We Need to Talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
- Room - Emma Donoghue
- [gallery ids="1532,1533,1534,1535,1536,1537,1538,1539,1540,1541,1542,1543" type="slideshow" orderby="rand"]
See the email from Ms Kedie for more info on the books and their film adaptations