The newly published list is as follows:
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Shakespeare plays:
Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest
19th Century novel:
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of Four
Post-1914 drama and prose
JB Priestley - An Inspector Calls
Alan Bennett - The History Boys
Willy Russell - Blood Brothers
Dennis Kelly - DNA
Shelagh Delaney - A Taste of Honey
Simon Stephens - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (drama adaptation)
William Golding - The Lord of the Flies
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
Meera Syal - Anita and Me
Stephen Kelman - Pigeon English
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This is a list of what
has to be studied. Each school is free to add additional works from any country or author that they wish; nothing is "banned".
See:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-27610829
The news article also notes:
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The new requirements also specify that pupils study "whole texts in detail" because of concerns that novels were being studied in disconnected chunks, chasing marks rather than the comprehension of a full work.
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which is good (IMHO).