A’LEVEL LITERATURE IN ENGLISH SET BOOKS (2024-2028)

Every five years, the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) revises and updates the A Level Literature Set Books. The current list is set to expire this year, with the S.6 learners in 2024.

This is to inform you that the list of set books will be used for the next five years (2024-2028).
The current texts on the List of Set Books are as follows:

PROSE AND POETRY (FOR REFERENCE)​

1. Poetic Duet by Jane Okot p’Bitek and Sophie Nuwagira Bamwoyeraki
2. Uganda Poetry Anthology by Okot Benge and Alex Bangirana
3. Echoes Across the Valley by Arthur I. Luvai and Kwamchetsi Makokha.

PLAYS​

SECTION A

1. Richard III by William Shakespeare
2. King John by William Shakespeare

SECTION B

1. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
2. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
3. Oedipus the King Plays of Sophocles

SECTION C

1. Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw
2. The Way of the World by William Congreve
3. The Country Wife by William Wycherley

SECTION D

1. Kongi’s Harvest by Wole Soyinka
2. The Snake Farmers by Yusuf Serunkuma
3. The Floods by John Ruganda

THE NOVEL AND SHORT STORIES​

SECTION A

1. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
2. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

SECTION B

1. Poor Christ of Bomba by Mongo Beti
2. Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
3. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

SECTION C

1. A Walk in the Night by Alex La Guma
2. In Corner B by Ezekiel Mphahlele
3. The Voter by Chinua Achebe

SECTION D

1. Footprints of the Outsider by Julius Ocwinyo
2. Vanishing Herds by Henry Ole Kulet
3. The Moon also Sets by Osita Ogbu

TEXTS FOR REFERENCE​

PLAYS

1. Wrinkled Faces by Connie Ssebbunga-Masembe

NOVELS

1. The Trouble Causer by Solomon Kabushenga
2. Hawecha: A Woman for All Time by Rhoda Mann
3. Season of Scandals by Gideon Ninsiima
4. African Son by Wambalye Weikama