Below you will find a comprehensive list of titles recommended for the IB Diploma Programme. Links are provided for those titles that are available in the BCS Library as well as those availability electronically.
This table is updated monthly as more titles are made available.
| Author | Title | OPAC (EN) | OPAC (DE) | eBook | |
| Abbott, Edwin A. | Flatland | eBook | |||
| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart | EN | |||
| Adams, Douglas | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | EN | |||
| Adams, Richard | Watership Down | EN | |||
| Albee, Edward | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf | EN | |||
| Allende, Isabel | The House of the Spirits | EN | |||
| Alvarez, Julia | How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents | EN | |||
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | EN | |||
| Atwood, Margaret | Robber Bride | EN | |||
| Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid’s Tale | EN | |||
| Austen, Jane | Emma | EN | eBook | ||
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice | EN | eBook | ||
| Austen, Jane | Sense and Sensibility | EN | |||
| Azimov, Isaac | I. Robot | EN | |||
| Baldwin, James | Go Tell It on the Mountain | EN | |||
| Baldwin, James | The Amen Corner | EN | |||
| Beckett, Samuel | Waiting for Godot | EN | |||
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 | EN | |||
| Brontë, Charlotte | Jane Eyre | EN | |||
| Brontë, Emily | Wuthering Heights | EN | eBook | ||
| Buchanan, John | Thirty-nine Steps | eBook | |||
| Camus, Albert | The Fall | EN | |||
| Camus, Albert | The Stranger | EN | |||
| Card, Orson Scott | Ender’s Game | EN | |||
| Carson, Rachel | Silent Spring | EN | |||
| Cervantes, Miguel | Don Quixote | eBook | |||
| Chopin, Kate | The Awakening | EN | eBook | ||
| Christie, Agatha | Murder on the Orient Express | EN | |||
| Cisneros, Sandra | The House on Mango Street | EN | |||
| Clark, Arthur C. | 2001, A Space Odyssey | EN | |||
| Classic | The Epic of Gilgamesh | EN | |||
| Collins, Wilkie | The Moonstone | EN | eBook | ||
| Collins, Wilkie | The Woman in White | eBook | |||
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness | EN | eBook | ||
| Cooper, James Fennimore | The Last of the Mohicans | eBook | |||
| Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage | eBook | |||
| Cunningham, Michael | The Hours | EN | |||
| Dante | The Inferno | EN | |||
| Darwin, Charles | Origin of Species | EN | |||
| Defoe, Daniel | Moll Flanders | EN | |||
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe | EN | |||
| Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities | eBook | |||
| Dickens, Charles | Bleak House | eBook | |||
| Dickens, Charles | David Copperfield | eBook | |||
| Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations | EN | eBook | ||
| Dickens, Charles | Hard Times | EN | eBook | ||
| Dickens, Charles | Oliver Twist | EN | eBook | ||
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Crime and Punishment | EN | eBook | ||
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor | Notes From the Underground | EN | |||
| Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan | The Hound of the Baskervilles | EN | eBook | ||
| Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan | The Lost World | eBook | |||
| Eliot, George | Silas Marner | eBook | |||
| Ellison, Ralph | The Invisible Man | eBook | |||
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | The Portable Emerson | EN | |||
| Faulkner, William | As I Lay Dying | EN | |||
| Faulkner, William | The Sound and the Fury | EN | |||
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby | EN | |||
| Flaubert, Gustave | Madame Bovary | eBook | |||
| Franklin, Benjamin | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | eBook | |||
| Gaardner, Jostein | Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy | EN | |||
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies | EN | |||
| Goldman, William | The Princess Bride | EN | |||
| Günter Grass | The Tin Drum / Die Blechtrommel | EN | |||
| Günter Grass | Cat and Mouse / Katz und Maus | EN | |||
| Greene, Graham | The Power and the Glory | EN | |||
| Griffin, John Howard | Black Like Me | EN | |||
| Haddon, Mark | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | EN | |||
| Haley, Alex/Malcom X | The Autobiography of Malcom X | EN | |||
| Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the D’Ubervilles | eBook | |||
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter | EN | |||
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 | EN | |||
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Sun Also Rises | EN | |||
| Herbert, Frank | Dune | EN | |||
| Hesse, Hermann | Steppenwolf | EN | |||
| Homer | The Iliad | EN | |||
| Homer | The Odyssey | EN | |||
| Hugo, Victor | Les Miserables | EN | |||
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God | EN | |||
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World | EN | |||
| James, Henry | The Turn of the Screw | eBook | |||
| Joyce, James | Dubliners | eBook | |||
| Joyce, James | Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man | EN | |||
| Kafka, Franz | The Metamorphosis | EN | |||
| Kafka, Franz | The Trial | EN | |||
| Kerouac, Jack | On the Road | EN | |||
| Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | EN | |||
| Kidd, Sue Monk | The Secret Life of Bees | EN | |||
| Kingsolver, Barbara | The Poisonwood Bible | EN | |||
| Kipling, Rudyard | Kim | EN | eBook | ||
| Lawrence, D. H. | Sons and Lovers | eBook | |||
| Le Guin, Ursula K. | Lathe of Heaven | EN | |||
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird | EN | |||
| London, Jack | The Call of the Wild | EN | eBook | ||
| London, Jack | White Fang | EN | eBook | ||
| Lowry, Lois | The Giver | EN | |||
| Machiavelli, Niccolo | The Prince | eBook | |||
| Mann, Thomas | A Death in Venice / Der Tod in Venedig | EN | DE | ||
| Mann, Thomas | The Magic Mountain / Der Zauberberg | DE | |||
| Mann, Thomas | Mario and the magician / Mario und der Zauberer | DE | |||
| Massie, Robert | Nicholas and Alexandra | EN | |||
| Maugham, Somerset | Of Human Bondage | EN | eBook | ||
| Melville, Herman | Moby Dick | EN | eBook | ||
| Miller, Arthur | Death of a Salesman | EN | |||
| Molsely, Walter | The Devil in a Blue Dress | EN | |||
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved | EN | |||
| O’Conner, Flannery | A Good Man is Hard to Find | EN | |||
| Orwell, George | 1984 | EN | |||
| Orwell, George | Down and Out in Paris and London | EN | |||
| Paton, Alan | Cry, the Beloved Country | EN | |||
| Pirsig, Robert | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | EN | |||
| Pullman, Philip | His Dark Materials Trilogy | EN | |||
| Rose, Reginald | Twelve Angry Men | EN | |||
| Roy, Arundhati | The God of Small Things | EN | |||
| Saki | The Complete Short Stories | EN | |||
| Salinger, J. D. | Franny and Zooey | EN | |||
| Salinger, J. D. | The Catcher in the Rye | EN | |||
| Sartre, Jean-Paul | No Exit | EN | |||
| Schlink, Bernhard | The Reader | EN | |||
| Scott, Walter | Ivanhoe | EN | eBook | ||
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein | eBook | |||
| Sijie, Dai | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | EN | |||
| Sinclair, Upton | The Jungle | EN | eBook | ||
| Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr | One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich | EN | |||
| Steinbeck, John | East of Eden | EN | |||
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men | EN | |||
| Steinbeck, John | The Grapes of Wrath | EN | |||
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Kidnapped | eBook | |||
| Stoker, Bram | Dracula | EN | eBook | ||
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom’s Cabin | EN | |||
| Styron, William | Sophie’s Choice | EN | |||
| Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver’s Travels | EN | |||
| Taylor, Mildred | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | EN | |||
| Terkel, Studs | Hard Times | eBook | |||
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden | EN | eBook | ||
| Tolkien, J. R. R. | The Hobbit | EN | |||
| Tolkien, J. R. R. | The Lord of the Rings Trilogy | EN | |||
| Tolstoy, Leo | War and Peace | EN | |||
| Trollope, Anthony | The Warden | eBook | |||
| Twain, Mark | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | eBook | |||
| Twain, Mark | Puddin’ Head Wilson | eBook | |||
| Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | EN | eBook | ||
| Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | EN | eBook | ||
| Updike, John | Rabbit Run | EN | |||
| Voltaire | Candide | EN | eBook | ||
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Breakfast of Champions | EN | |||
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse Five | EN | |||
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple | EN | |||
| Watson, James D. | The Double Helix | EN | |||
| Wells, H. G. | The Time Machine | EN | eBook | ||
| Wharton, Edith | The House of Mirth | EN | eBook | ||
| Wilde, Oscar | The Picture of Dorian Gray | EN | eBook | ||
| Williams, Tennesee | A Streetcar Named Desire | EN | |||
| Williams, Tennessee | The Glass Menagerie | EN | |||
| Woolf, Virginia | Mrs. Dalloway | EN | |||
| Woolf, Virginia | To the Lighthouse | EN | |||
| Zamyatin, Yevgeny | We | EN |