Combined book lists from SLS/YLG/SLG/SLA/DBA

BAME KS3

Noughts and Crosses by Malory Blackman

Dani’s Diary by Narinder Dhami * Reluctant Readers*

Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillion

Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay

Trash by Andy Mulligan

Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers

The Red Pencil by Andrea David Pinkney

Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Rauf

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah

BAME KS 4

Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Booked by Kwame Alexander

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama

Becoming by Michele Obama

Anita and Me by Meera Syal

PSHE KS3

Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Artichoke Hearts by Sita Brahmachari

Apple and Rain by Sarah Crossan

One by Sarah Crossan

Toffee by Sarah Crossan

Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine

Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin

After the Fire by Will Hill

No Fixed Address by Susan Nielsen

Wonder by RJ Palacio

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Love Frankie by Jacqueline Wilson

PSHE KS4

Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

The Hit by Melvin Burgess

Junk by Melvin Burgess

The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan

When Mr Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

Mind your Head by Juno Dawson

This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson

The Universe Vs Alex Woods by Gavin Extence

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Trumpet by Jackie Kay

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

Brock/Pike/Rook and Lark by Anthony McGowan

Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls

Truth or Dare by Non Pratt

Recommended Reads KS3

Action & Thrillers

The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club by Alex Bell

Body Guard series by Chris Bradford

Young Samurai series by Chris Bradford

The Everest Files by Matt Dickinson

Lightning Girl by Alesha Dixon

Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd

A Place Called Perfect by Helena Duggan

The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge

The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millward Hargrave

Silverfin (all young James Bond novels) by Charlie Higson

The Enemy (all Zombie novels) by Charlie Higson

Stormbreaker (all Alex Rider novels) by Anthony Horowitz

The Thornthwaite Inheritance by Gareth P Jones

Beast by Ally Kennen

Girl Missing (and sequels) by Sophie MacKenzie

Itch (and sequels) by Simon Mayo

The Recruit (and all Cherub novels) by Robert Muchamore (may contain some bad language)

The Riddle of the Runes by Dr Janina Ramirez

Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell

Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan

Dark Summer by Ali Sparkes

The Last Wild Trilogy by Piers Torday

Dystopian and Science Fiction

Flip by Martin Bedford

Ink by Alice Broadway

Gone by Michael Grant

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Echo Boy by Matt Haig

Satellite by Nick Lake

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Heart of Mars by Paul Magrs

The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Trilogy) by Patrick Ness

Railhead and Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

Any Where by John Robinson

Time Riders by Alex Scarrow

Scythe by Neil Shusterman

This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada

Contagion by Teri Terry

WaR:Wizards and Robots by Will.i.am

The Last Star by Rick Yancey

Blood Red Road by Moira Young

Fantasy, Magic Realism, Horror & Ghost

Potion Diaries by Amy Alward

The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson

Hollow Earth by John and Carole E Barrowman

Cogheart (series) by Peter Bunzil

Artemis Fowl (series) by Eoin Colfer

How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell

Rumblestar by Abi Elphinstone

Who Let the Gods Out by Maz Evans

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Girl of Ink and Stars Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Warrior Cats (series) by Erin Hunter

Skulduggery Pleasant (series) by Derek Landy

The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

Mister Creecher by Chris Priestley

Ottoline and the Yellow Cat (series) by Chris Riddell

Goth Girl (series) by Chris Riddell

Percy Jackson (series) by Rick Riordan

The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury

Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan

A Series of Unfortunate Events (series) by Lemony Snicket

Vampirates by Justin Somper

The 1000-Year-Old Boy by Ross Welford

Humorous Books

The Grunts (series) by Philip Ardagh

The Person Controller (series) by David Baddiel

The Spy Who Loved School Dinners by Pamela Butchart

The Bolds (series) by Julian Clary

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series) Jeff Kinney *Reluctant Readers*

Henry Tumour by Anthony McGowan

The World of Norm (series) by Jonathan Meres

Timmy Failure by Stephan Pastis

Middle School (series) by James Patterson

Tom Gates (series) by Liz Pichon*reluctant readers*

My Gym Teacher is an Alien Overlord by David Solomon

You’re a Bad Man Mr Gum (series) by Andy Stanton* reluctant readers*

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend

Relationships and Tough Situations

Skellig by David Almond

Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman

River Boy by Tim Bowler

The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks

Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy

The Weight of Water by Emma Crossan

Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine

Boy and Going Solo by Roald Dahl

Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine

The Bubble Boy by Stewart Foster

Diary of a young Girl by Anne Frank

Shine by Candy Gourlay

The Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho Yen

Race to the Frozen North by Catherine Johnson *Reluctant Readers*

The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird

Buffalo Soldier by Tanya Landman

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Pax by Sarah Pennypacker

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher

Holes by Louis Sachar

Stone Cold by Robert Swindells

Missing Abby by Lee Weatherly

The Boy Who Sailed the Ocean in an Armchair By Lara Williamson

Sports

Booked by Kwami Alexander

Charlie Merrick’s Misfits by David Cousins

The Beautiful Game series by Narinder Dhami

Jamie Johnson series by Dan Freedman

Unstoppable by Dan Freedman

Some You Win by Alan Gibbons

Slam by Nick Hornby

Kick by Mitch Johnson

Frankie’s Magic Football series by Frank Lampard *reluctant Readers*

The Fix by Sophie McKenzie

Foul Play by Tom Palmer

Dream On by Bali Rai

Striker Boy by Jonny Zucker

War, Conflict and Refugee Experience

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

Remembrance by Theresa Breslin

Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll *Reluctant Readers*

Auslander by Paul Dowswell

Once by Maurice Gleitzman

Apache by Tanya Landman

Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

Armistice Runner by Tom Palmer *Reluctant Reader*

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Septys

The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier

Hitler’s Canary by Sandi Toksvig

Out of the Shadows by Jason Wallace

Blitzcat by Robert Westall

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

Recommended Reads KS4

Action, Mysteries, Horror & Thrillers

Bodyguard series by Chris Bradford *Reluctant Readers*

Say Her Name by Juno Dawson

Everest Files by Matt Dickinson

A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly

The Enemy (Zombie series) by Charlie Higson

Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

Blade and Bone by Catherine Johnson

It by Stephen King

Girl Missing/Blood Ties by Sophie McKenzie

One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus

Blame by Simon Mayo

Cherub series by Robert Muchamore (contains adult language)

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Time Riders by Alex Scarrow

My Swordhand is Singing by Marcus Sedgwick

Demonata/Zom-B series by Darren Shan

Autobiographies/Memoirs/Biographies

A Life on Our Planet by Sir David Attenborough

Hope in a Ballet Shoe by Michaela and Elaine DePrince

Marley and Me by John Grogan

Mud Sweat and Tears by Bear Grylls

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby

Today Everything Changes by Andy McNab (visited Armthorpe Academy)

Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah

Tomorrow Will be a Good Day by Captain Tom Moore

How to be a Woman by Catlin Moran

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

Rise Up: The Merky Story So Far by Stormzy

Classics and Modern Literature

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The History Boys by Alan Bennett

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Beloved by Tony Morrison

1984 by George Orwell

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Dracula by Bram Stoker

A Farewell to Arms by Evelyn Waugh

Complex/Difficult/Thought Provoking

The Hypnotist by Laurence Anholt

Black Flamingo by Dean Atta

Hate List by Jennifer Brown

Sara’s Face by Melvin Burgess

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by S Chbosky

Stolen by Lucy Christopher

Entangled by Cat Clarke

A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd

Before I Die by Jenny Dowman

Paper Towns/Looking for Alaska by John Green

That Asian Kid by Savita Kalhan

I Am Thunder by Muhammed Khan

Orangeboy by Patrice Lawrence

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen

Word Nerd by Susin Nielsen

Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven

Beck by Mal Peet

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Rani and Sukh by Bali Rai

Ghost by Jason Reynolds

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Counting by 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson

Jemima Small Versus the Universe by Tamsin Winter

Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon

Conflict, War Genocide/Refugee Experience

Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard

Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aiden Chambers

The Bombs That Brought Us Together by Brian Conaghan

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Road of Bones by Anne Fine

Front Lines series by Michael Grant

The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe

Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally

The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

The Final Journey by Gudrun Pausewang

Tamar by Mal Peet

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque

Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

Maus by Art Spiegelman

Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah

Dystopian, Science Fiction or Magic Realism

The Power by Naomi Alderman

The Handmaid’s Tale/Testaments by Margaret Atwood

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Matched by Ali Condie

VOX by Christina Dalcher

The Maze Runner series by James Dashner

Eve of Man by Giovanna and Tom Fletcher

Cell 7 by Kerry Drewery

The Gender Game by Bella Forrest

Gone by Michael Grant

The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Department 19 by Will Hill

The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James

I Am Number 4 by Pittacus Lore

Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness

The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Z for Zachariah by Robert O’Brien

The Loop by Ben Oliver

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Divergent and sequels by Veronica Roth

The Sin Eater’s Daughter and sequels by Melinda Salisbury

Concentr8 by William Sutcliffe

Slated and sequels by Teri Terry

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

War of the Worlds by HG Wells

Uglies by Scott Westerfield

Humorous Books

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

The Switch Up by Katy Cannon

Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter

Waiting for Gonzo by Dave Cousins

The Private Blog of Joe Cowley by Ben Davis

Boys Don’t Knit by TS Easton

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

Noah Can’t Even by Simon James Green

The Boomerang Effect by Gordon Jack

My So Called Life by Joanna Nadin

Goose by Dawn O’Porter

The Paper & Hearts Society by Lucy Powrie

Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging (Georgia Nicholson series) by Louise Rennison

The Monstrous Child by Francesca Simon

Geek Girl series by Holly Smale

Girl Online series by Zoe Sugg

Mud by Emily Thomas

Highly Illogical Behaviour by John Corey Whaley

Relationships

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Three Daughters by Consuelo Saah Baehr

Beautiful Broken Things by Sara Barnard

Tender Earth by Sita Brahmachari

Have Pride by Stella Caldwell

Girlhood by Cat Clarke

Looking For Alaska by John Green

I Ada by Julia Gray

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

Hold Back the Stars by Katie Khan

Indigo Donut by Patrice Lawrence

The Lost Spells by Robert MacFarlane

Falling Fast by Sophie McKenzie

Burn by Patrick Ness

One Day by David Nicholls

Silent Stars Go By by Sally Nicholls

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Paper Avalanche by Lisa Williamson

If you Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

*Note*

Many KS4 books are written for young adult readers (YA 13+) this means there may be ‘gritty’

content. If you have any questions about suitability, please ask to speak to the school librarian.

Link to books that “If you like this try this” and book finder from Book Trust Book lists from “Love

Reading for Schools Yrs7/8/9/10 These to go on library web page? When it’s back up!

https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/read-alikes

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/bookfinder/

https://www.lovereading4schools.co.uk/lists/37/Year-7-age-11-12

https://www.lovereading4schools.co.uk/lists/38/Year-8-age-12-13

https://www.lovereading4schools.co.uk/lists/39/Year-9-age-13-14

https://www.lovereading4schools.co.uk/lists/13385/Year-10-age-14-15

https://www.lovereading4schools.co.uk/year-groups/ks4/key-stage-4