Leesvaardigheid is een essentiële basisvaardigheid. Stimuleer daarom ook het lezen binnen het vak Engels in de bovenbouw. Op deze pagina vind je boekentips die aansluiten bij de thema’s uit de methode Of Course. Deze boeken vergroten het leesplezier en versterken de leesvaardigheid.
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| Title | Author | year of publication | Literary period | Genre | Tag |
| Beowulf | Unknown, Seamus Heaney (Translator) | unknown | Medieval | #hero#epicpoem#monster#classic | |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare | 1603 | English Renaissance | #murder#kingsandknights#psychological | |
| The tragical history of Doctor Faustus | Christopher Marlowe | 1604 | English Renaissance | #renaissanceman#devilspact#nowayback | |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 1719 | Enlightenment | #surival#loneliness#desertisland#expeditionrobinsonforreal | |
| Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | 1726 | Enlightenment | #satire#englishsociety#Lilliput | |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1798 | Romantic Period | #epicpoem#adventureatsea#supernatural #guilt | |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1850 | Romantic Period | #americanliterature#puritans#adultery | |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau | 1854 | Transcendental Movement | #nature#philosophical#environment | |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1813 | Realism | #marriage#romance#femaleposition | |
| The Raven | Edgar Allen Poe | 1845 | Realism | #narrativepoem#supernatural#gothic | |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | 1838 | Victorian Period | #classic#poverty#VictorianLondon#orphan | |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 1847 | Victorian period | #catherineandheathcliff#classic#gothic#romance #revenge | |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 1847 | Victorian period | #comingofage#romance#classic | |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett | 1952 | Existentialism | #play#philosophy#searchformeaning | |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | 1895 | Naturalism | #americancivilwar#cowardice#heroism | |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 1954 | Naturalism | #survival#boysandbeasts#dystopia#allegory | |
| Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 1925 | The Bloomsbury Group | #onesingleday#classic#feminism | |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1932 | The Bloomsbury Group | #dystopia#sciencefiction#technology | |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | 1949 | Modernism | #dystopia#bigbrother#politics | |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 1952 | Modernism | #bigotry#africanamericans#identity | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 | Modernism | #justice#racism#comingofage#southerngothic | |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | The Lost Generation | #classic#lavishparties#loneliness#jazzage#americandream | |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 1937 | The Lost Generation | #hardship#responsibility#friendship#bigdream | |
| One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest | Ken Kesey | 1962 | The Beat Generation | #mentalhealth#psychiatry#disability | |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | 1958 | Postmodernism | #irony#africa#historicalfiction | |
| The Boys from Brazil | Ira Levin | 1976 | Postmodernism | science fiction | #nazigermany#mystery#angelofdeath |
| The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood | 1985 | postmodernism | dystopia | #dystopia#womensrights#socialorder |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 | Postmodernism | magical realism | #africanamerican#slavery#classic |
| The Secret History | Donna Tartt | 1992 | Postmodernism | dark academia | #darkacademia#friendship#theclassics |
| The Human Stain | Philip Roth | 2000 | Postmodernism | contemporary literature | #racism#americanliterature#secrets |
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel | 2001 | Postmodernism | magical realism | #adventure#dealingwithtrauma#philosophy |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | 2004 | Postmodernism | science fiction | #shortstories#mystery#history#scifi |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2005 | Postmodernism | science fiction | #dystopia#romance#academia |
| Looking for Alaska | John Green | 2005 | Postmodernism | young adult | #YA#comingofage#thegreatperhaps |
| What is the What | Dave Eggers | 2006 | Postmodernism | contemporary fiction | #lostboys#Sudan#refugees |
| Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | 2009 | Postmodernism | historical fiction | #thomascromwell#England#politics |
| Song for Achilles | Madeline Miller | 2011 | Postmodernism | historical fiction | #greekmythology#trojanwar#queer |
| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | 2011 | Postmodernism | sciencefiction | #gaming#dystopia#retro |
| Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | 2014 | Postmodernism | #postapocalyptic #shakespeare #pandemic | |
| A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara | 2015 | Postmodernism | contemporary literature | #relationships#queer#disability#trauma |
| Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi | 2016 | Postmodernism | historical fiction | #race#Ghana#slavery |
| The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Taylor Jenkins Reid | 2017 | postmodernism | historical fiction | #interview#history#queer |
| The Immortalists | Chloe Benjamin | 2018 | Postmodernism | contemporar literature/magicalrealism | #queer#destiny#family |
| Machines Like Me | Ian McEwan | 2019 | Postmodernism | science fiction | #alternatehistory#sciencefiction#manvsmachine |
| The Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead | 2019 | Postmodernism | contemporary literature | #race#africanamerican#historical |
| Rodham | Curtis Sittenfeld | 2020 | Postmodernism | literary fiction | #alternatehistory#feminism#politics |
| The Midnight Library | Matt Haig | 2020 | postmodernism | science fiction | #lifechoices#sciencefiction#mentalhealth |
| Betty | Tiffany McDaniel | postmodernism | contemporary literature | #cherokee#comingofage#family | |
| The Hill We Climb | Amanda Gorman | 2021 | postmodernism | poetry | #poetry#inauguration#socialjustice |
| The Trees | Percival Everett | 2021 | postmodernism | detective | #historical#mystery#emmetttill |
| Great Circle | Maggie Shipstead | 2021 | postmodernism | contemporary literature | #femaledaredevil#mystery#aviation |
| Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin | 2022 | postmodernism | contemporary literature | #gamedesign#romance#comingofage |
| Booth | Karen Joy Fowler | 2022 | postmodernism | historical fiction | #shakespeare#abrahamlincoln#civilwar |
| In Memoriam | Alice Winn | 2023 | postmodernism | historical fiction | #ww1#queer#devastatingtragedy |
