Official Literature Texts for WAEC or GCE 2026—2030 (+Full Summary)

Looking for the official GCE or WAEC Literature texts and novels for this year?

In this library,

You will see all the Literature texts for WAEC (prose, drama, poetry & Shakespeare) where your Literature questions in SSCE or GCE will be asked from.

These literature texts are both for WAEC (May/Jun) school candidates and (Jan/Feb) or (Nov/Dec) GCE candidates.

Read these texts because according to the current WAEC LITERATURE SYLLABUS, all your Literature theory questions will be from them.

Except for the Shakespearean text which will only be asked in the objective paper.

What are the Literature texts for WAEC and GCE this year?

Below is the list of WAEC Literature texts.

We provide a full summary of each but read the full copy too in case your questions are asked from where our summary did not cover.

African prose (Read One)

Click on any to see our full summary of that book as well as likely questions to practice.

• SO THE PATH DOES NOT DIE (Pede Hollist).

• REDEMPTION ROAD (Elma Shaw).

Non-African prose (Read One)

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• TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Harper Lee).

• PATH OF LUCAS: THE JOURNEY HE ENDURED (Susanne Bellefueille).

Shakespearean text (Read It)

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• ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.

African drama (Read One)

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• ONCE UPON AN ELEPHANT (Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan).

• THE MARRIAGE OF ANANSEWA (Efua Sutherland).

Non-African drama (Read One)

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• AN INSPECTOR CALLS (J.D. Priestley).

• A MAN FOR ALL SEASON (Robert Bolt).

African poetry (Read All)

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• ONCE UPON A TIME (Gabriel Okara).

• NEW TONGUE (Elizabeth L.A. Kamara).

• NIGHT (Woke Soyinka).

• NOT MY BUSINESS (Niyi Osundare).

• HEARTY GARLANDS (S.O.H. Afriyie Vidza).

• THE BREAST OF THE SEA (Sylla Cheney-Coker).

Non-African poetry (Read All)

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• SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY (Lord Byron).

• THE NUN’S PRIEST’S TALE (Geoffrey Chaucer).

• DIGGING (Seamus Heaney).

• STILL I RISE (Maya Angelou).

• THE TELEPHONE CALL (Fleur Adcock).

• THE STONE (Wilfred Wilson Gipson).

GOOD LUCK.

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