works to study

1)   Shakespeare

• Shakespeare, Hamlet

2)   Novels

• Alice Walker, The Color Purple
• Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
• Conrad, Heart of Darkness
• Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse

3)   Poetry

• Langston Hughes
• Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, WC Williams
• Philip Larkin

4)   Essays

• Martin Luther King, “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
• George Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”
• Henry David
• Virginia Woolf

5)   World literature

• Euripides, Medea
• Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis
• Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House
• Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman
• Kafka, Metamorphosis

6)   Drama

• Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
• Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Names Desire

Here is some works you could read if you're intending the oib at the "bac". You won't stud all of them but around 12-15 of them I would say.They are all linked since you have to write essays which combine two works.