AQA GCSE and A-level English Literature

AQA GCSE and A-level English Literature names 170 books; ReadingRate holds 67 of them, listed here. The most approachable of them is The Help by Kathryn Stockett (difficulty 20/100, about 6.6 hours); the hardest is Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (77/100).

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843) — difficulty 38/100, about 1.7 hours
• A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (1879) — difficulty 51/100, about 1.8 hours
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1929) — difficulty 49/100, about 6 hours
• A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry (2005) — difficulty 70/100, about 10 hours
• A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (1908) — difficulty 46/100, about 4.3 hours
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (1947) — difficulty 67/100, about 2.3 hours
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1987) — difficulty 30/100, about 4.3 hours
• Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945) — difficulty 56/100, about 2.3 hours
• Ariel by Sylvia Plath (1965) — difficulty 76/100, about 2.4 hours
• Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001) — difficulty 53/100, about 8.5 hours
• Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks (1997) — difficulty 35/100, about 7.6 hours
• Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (1938) — difficulty 67/100, about 8.8 hours
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (1955) — difficulty 67/100, about 5.5 hours
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (1949) — difficulty 67/100, about 3.9 hours
• Emma by Jane Austen (1815) — difficulty 56/100, about 12 hours
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) — difficulty 68/100, about 8.8 hours
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861) — difficulty 50/100, about 12 hours
• Hard Times by Charles Dickens (1854) — difficulty 57/100, about 7.7 hours
• Harvest by Jim Crace (2013) — difficulty 56/100, about 5 hours
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847) — difficulty 54/100, about 13 hours
• King Lear by William Shakespeare (1606) — difficulty 73/100, about 12 hours
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954) — difficulty 65/100, about 5.8 hours
• Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare (1604) — difficulty 74/100, about 2.8 hours
• Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871) — difficulty 54/100, about 22 hours
• My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal (2016) — difficulty 32/100, about 4.1 hours
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005) — difficulty 57/100, about 7.2 hours
• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1855) — difficulty 57/100, about 14 hours
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1818) — difficulty 47/100, about 5.1 hours
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1838) — difficulty 47/100, about 11 hours
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1962) — difficulty 56/100, about 8.3 hours
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (1985) — difficulty 75/100, about 6.6 hours
• Othello by William Shakespeare (1603) — difficulty 58/100, about 2.2 hours
• Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667) — difficulty 69/100, about 8.4 hours
• Persuasion by Jane Austen (1817) — difficulty 54/100, about 6.6 hours
• Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman (2012) — difficulty 52/100, about 4.9 hours
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813) — difficulty 52/100, about 8.6 hours
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938) — difficulty 67/100, about 15 hours
• Regeneration by Pat Barker (1991) — difficulty 66/100, about 7.9 hours
• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1961) — difficulty 70/100, about 11 hours
• Richard II by William Shakespeare (1597) — difficulty 67/100, about 2.3 hours
• Small Island by Andrea Levy (2005) — difficulty 69/100, about 16 hours
• Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake (1794) — difficulty 64/100, about 45 min
• Spies by Michael Frayn (2002) — difficulty 58/100, about 5.2 hours
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1891) — difficulty 56/100, about 11 hours
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899) — difficulty 64/100, about 4.5 hours
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1983) — difficulty 49/100, about 4.6 hours
• The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley (1953) — difficulty 63/100, about 9.3 hours
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997) — difficulty 62/100, about 8.2 hours
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) — difficulty 52/100, about 3.4 hours
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (2017) — difficulty 59/100, about 7.7 hours
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (2009) — difficulty 20/100, about 6.6 hours
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1893) — difficulty 50/100, about 1.9 hours
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003) — difficulty 30/100, about 5.7 hours
• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860) — difficulty 55/100, about 15 hours
• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868) — difficulty 65/100, about 18 hours
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (1926) — difficulty 51/100, about 4.6 hours
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (2003) — difficulty 68/100, about 8 hours
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989) — difficulty 74/100, about 9.2 hours
• The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (1889) — difficulty 34/100, about 2.4 hours
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) — difficulty 57/100, about 1.9 hours
• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (1594) — difficulty 49/100, about 4.2 hours
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (1848) — difficulty 69/100, about 18 hours
• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (1602) — difficulty 62/100, about 1.8 hours
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848) — difficulty 77/100, about 41 hours
• Waterland by Graham Swift (1983) — difficulty 73/100, about 13 hours
• Wise Children by Angela Carter (1991) — difficulty 61/100, about 1.7 hours
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847) — difficulty 73/100, about 14 hours

Questions

How many books are on AQA GCSE and A-level English Literature?

170. ReadingRate holds 67 of them, each with how hard it is to read and how long it takes.

Which book on AQA GCSE and A-level English Literature is the easiest to read?

The Help by Kathryn Stockett, difficulty 20/100, about 6.6 hours. The hardest is Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, at 77/100.

How long would it take to read every book on AQA GCSE and A-level English Literature?

About 530 hours for the 67 books ReadingRate measures, at 250 words a minute adjusted for each book's difficulty: 265 days at two hours a day.

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