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KS4 2019-20Recommended
Reading List
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This booklet recommends many great books that you might enjoy reading during KS4.The books are divided by genre to help you find something you might be interested in. If you find anything else noteworthy then please recommend it to your friends and teachers so that it can be added to our future lists.
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RECOMMENDED BY YOUR PEERS:Cecilia Ahern - Flawed
Kevin Brooks – The Bunker Diary
Cassandra Clare – Mortal Instruments (series)
Sarah Cohen-Scali – Max
Gail Honeyman – Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff - Illuminae
Angie Thomas – The Hate U Give
Nicola Yoon – Everything, Everything; The Sun Is Also A Star
YOUNG ADULT TITLES:Katherine Arden – The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy)
Jay Asher – Thirteen Reasons Why
Fredrik Backman – A Man Called Ove
Martyn Bedford – 20 Questions for Gloria
Melvyn Burgess - Junk
Meera Syal – Anita and Me
Will Hill – After The Fire
Alice Walker – The Colour Purple*
Nick Hornby – Fever Pitch
Non Pratt – Trouble*
LGBTQ:Becky Albertali – Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
Alyssa Brugman – Alex As Well
Malorie Blackman – Boys Don’t Cry
Jenny Downham - Unbecoming
Lauren James – The Last Beginning
Judy Nelson – I’ll Give You The Sun
Patrick Ness – Release*
Robin Talley – Lies We Tell Ourselves; What We Left
Behind
Lisa Williamson – The Art Of Being Normal
Jeanette Winterson – Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
CHALLENGING MODERN CLASSICS:Monica Ali – Brick Lane
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
Michael Frain – Spies
Barry Hines – Kes
Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns*
Susan Hill – The Woman in Black
Kazuo Ishiguro – Remains of the Day
Yann Martel - Life of Pi
Cormac McCarthy – The Road
Ian McEwan – Atonement
Toni Morrison – Beloved *
Alan Patton - Cry the Beloved Country
Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
Alice Sebold - Lovely Bones
Zadie Smith – White Teeth
John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men
Kathyrn Stockett - The Help
Meera Syal - Anita and Me
20th Century Classic Fiction:Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Truman Capote – Breakfast at Tiffany’s; In Cold Blood
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Ian Fleming – Casino Royale
E.M. Forster – Howard’s End
William Golding – Lord of the Flies
Barry Hines – Kes
Ernest Hemingway –The Old Man and the Sea
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird; Go Set a Watchman
Ian McEwan – Atonement
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Alan Patton - Cry the Beloved Country
J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
HISTORICAL & OTHER
CULTURES:Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Tracey Chavalier – The Girl with the Pearl Earring
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Siobhan Dowd – Bog Child
Phillippa Gregory – The Other Boleyn Girl
Tanya Landman – I am Apache
Hilary Mantel – Wolf Hall
Alan Paton – Cry, the Beloved Country
Doris Pilkington - Rabbit Proof Fence
Bali Rai – Rani and Sukh, (Un)arranged Marriage
John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men;
The Grapes of Wrath
Pre-20th Century Classics:Jane Austen – Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone, The Woman in White
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol; Great Expectations; Oliver
Twist; David Copperfield
Elizabeth Gaskell – North and South
Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper
Thomas Hardy – Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the
D’Urbervilles, The Withered Arm and Other Wessex Tales
Edgar Allen Poe – Selected Short Stories
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels
Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Grey
SUPERNATURAL SPINE-CHILLERS:Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber
Susan Hill - The Woman in Black
Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
Stephen King - The Shining; IT *
Edgar Allen Poe - Selected Short Stories
Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca
Edgar Allen Poe - The Pit and the Pendulum; The Tell Tale Heart
Carrie Ryan - Forest of Hands and Teeth (series)
Bram Stoker - Dracula
John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids
Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind
DYSTOPIAN:Malorie Blackman - Noughts and Crosses (series)
JD Crockett - After the Snow
Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle
Hugh Howey - Wool (series)
Aldous Huxley - Bave New World
Cormac McCarthy -The Road *
Gemma Malley - The Declaration (series)
George Orwell -1984 *
Karen W Thompson - The Age of Miracles
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five
WAR AND CONFLICT:J.G Ballard - Empire of the Sun
Pat Barker - Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration; Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road)
Louis de Berniers – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
John Boyne – The Absolutist
Vera Britton – A Testament of Youth
Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities
Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong*; Charlotte Grey
Michael Frayn - Spies
Charles Frazier – Cold Mountain
Robert Harris – Enigma
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner*
Tanya Landman – Buffalo Soldier
Anna Perera – Guantanamo Boy
Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
CRIME & MYSTERY:John La Carre – Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy
Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep
Agatha Christie – The Body in the Library; And Then There Were None
Arthur Conan Doyle – Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the
Baskervilles; The Sign of the Four
Frederick Forsyth – The Day of the Jackal
Graham Green – Brighton Rock
John Grisham – The Client, The Firm
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon
Guy de Maupassant - Short Stories
Daphne Du Maurier –Jamaica Inn
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
SCIENCE FICTION:Isaac Asimov- I, Robot
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Ian Bank – The Wasp Factory
Philip K Dick - Minority Report
Jack Finney – Invasion of the Body Snatchers
William Gibson – Pattern Recognition
Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler’s Wife
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
Jules Verne – Journey to the Centre of the Earth
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine; The War of the Worlds
John Wyndham – The Midwich Cuckoos
CURTAIN CALL-PLAYS TO MAKE YOU
THINK:Alan Bennett – The History Boys
Dennis Kelly – DNA
Henrik Ibsen – The Doll’s House
Arthur Miller – The Crucible, A View from the Bridge
J.B Priestley – An Inspector Calls
Willy Russell - Blood Brothers; Educating Rita
Diane Samuels - Kindertransport
William Shakespeare – Hamlet; Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet;
Othello
R.C Sherriff – Journey’s End
NON-FICTION:Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island
Juan Chang – Wild Swans
Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Ann Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl
Ernest Hemmingway – A Farewell to Arms
Nelson Mandela – A Long Walk to Freedom
Frank McCourt – Angela’s Ashes
Dave Pelzer – A Child Called It
Joe Simpson - Touching the Void
Adeline Yen Mah - Chinese Cinderella
POETRY
Try Googling the following poets and
reading a selection of their poetry.
The notable works you might enjoy
appear in brackets.
Modern Poets:John Agard (Flag, Put the Kettle On)
Simon Armitage (Kid, Clown Punk)
Gillian Clarke (Catrin, Cold Knap Lake)
Imtiaz Dharker (Blessing)
Carol Ann Duffy (Valentine, Before You Were Mine, Stealing,
War Photographer)
Seamus Heaney (Follower)
Ted Hughes (Bayonet Charge)
Tony Harrison (Long Distance II)
Grace Nichols (Hurricane Hits England)
Sylvia Plath (Ariel)
War Poets:Rupert Brooke (The Soldier)
Wilfred Owen (Futility, Anthem for Doomed
Youth, Dulce et Decorum Est)
Jessie Pope (The Call, Who’s for the Game?)
Isaac Rosenburg (In the Trenches)
Siegfried Sassoon (Suicide in the Trenches)
Literary Greats:William Blake (Tyger, Tyger; The Lamb; London)
Robert Browning (My Last Duchess; Porphyria’s Lover)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
Emily Dickinson (Sonnet 43)
Thomas Hardy (The Ruined Maid)
Rudyard Kipling (If)
Walter De La Mare (The Listeners)
Christina Rossetti (Cousin Kate)
William Shakespeare (Sonnet 116; Sonnet 130)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Ozymandias)
Dylan Thomas (The Hunchback in the Park)
Alfred Tennyson (The Charge of the Light Brigade)
William Wordsworth (Daffodils; Upon Westminster Bridge)