JAMB Recommended Textbooks for Literature in English 2026/2027 | Latest Books

The Joint Admission & Matriculation Board (AMB) Recommended Textbooks for Literature in English. The latest Recommended Literature in English Textbooks are available for UTME candidates. Those whose Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) Subjects include Literature in English now have Textbooks and Novels, Poem, Poetry, African and Non African Poetry Recommended for their Studies.

If you are a Literature student, there are some textbooks you should not joke with. The earlier you discover the best Textbook in Literature the better for you while preparing for JAMB. Recommended Novel Prose, African & Non African Drama Books, etc. This article has clearly outlined all the JAMB Literature recommended textbooks, follow them gradually.

JAMB Literature in English Recommended Textbooks 

Like I said before, the only thing that will help you to pass Literature in English successfully is if you have these Recommended Textbooks from JAMB.

It will Be of Great help to you if you study them and make sure you solve and answer all the questions that are involved in it. I tell you, nothing will make you fail this year’s JAMB. See the best books for Literature in English below…

1. Drama:
   1. African:
      1. Frank Ogodo Ogbeche : Harvest of Corruption
   2. Non African:
      1. William Shakespeare : Othello
2. Prose:
   1. African:
      1. Amma Darko : Faceless
   2. Non-African:
      1. Richard Wright : Native Son
3. Poetry:
   1. African:
      1. Birago Diop : Vanity
      2. Gbemisola Adeoti : Ambush
      3. Gabriel Okara : Piano and Drums
      4. Gbanabam Hallowell : The Dining Table
      5. Lenrie Peter : The Panic of Growing Older
      6. Kofi Awoonor : The Anvil and the Hammer
   2. Non African:
      1. Alfred Tennyson : Crossing the Bar
      2. George Herbert : The Pulley
      3. William Blake : The School Boy
      4. William Morris : The Proud King

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ANTHOLOGIES

1. Gbemisola, A. (2005) Naked Soles, Ibadan: Kraft
2. Hayward, J. (ed.) (1968) The Penguin Book of English Verse, London Penguin
3. Johnson, R. et al (eds.) (1996) New Poetry from Africa, Ibadan: UP Plc
4. Kermode, F. et al (1964) Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol. II, London: OUP
5. Nwoga D. (ed.) (1967) West African Verse, London: Longman
6. Parker, E.W. (ed.) (1980) A Pageant of Longer Poems London: Longman
7. Senanu, K. E. and Vincent, T. (eds.) (1993) A Selection of African Poetry, Lagos: Longman
8. Soyinka, W. (ed.) (1987) Poems of Black Africa, Ibadan: Heinemann

CRITICAL TEXTS

1. Abrams, M. H. (1981) A Glossary of Literary Terms, (4th Edition) New York, Holt Rinehalt and Winston
2. Emeaba, O. E. (1982) A Dictionary of Literature, Aba: Inteks Press
3. Murphy, M. J. (1972) Understanding Unseen, An Introduction to English Poetry and English Novel for Overseas Students, George Allen and
4. Unwin Ltd. Jerry A. (2018) Sorters and Sortees Ibadan, Kraftgriots.
5. Jerry A. (2018) Specks In Our Eyes Ibadan, Kraftgriots.

The above are the books you should try and visit in order to study Literature in English.

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