Book List 2023 – 2024

Theme: The Writer and the World


Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron (c.1351)

(Prescribed translation Boccaccio, The Decameron. Wayne. A. Rebhorm (translator)h W.W. Norton, 2014)

ISBN 978-0393350265 *


William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night or What You Will (c1601)

Any reputable edition will suffice (Recommend edition: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. Keir Elam(ed) 3rd edition (Arden, 2008)

ISBN 978-1903436998 *


Jonathan Swift. A Modest Proposal (1729)

Any reputable edition / text available online: www.gutenberg.org


Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2001)

Prescribed edition: Penguin Books Ltd. 2002

ISBN 978-0140276336 *


The Poetry of W.B. Yeats

Poems will be made available in class

Recommended: any reputable collected poems edition of Yeast’s poems


The Poetry of Maya Angelou

Poems will be made available in class.


This is Happiness, Niall Williams

(Bloomsbury 2020)

ISBN 978-1526609359] *


*Available in the Kilkenny Book Shop Hight St. Kilkenny