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Years 7-9 2018-19Recommended
Reading List
This booklet is full of great books that you might enjoy
during KS3. Use it to support your studies, not just for
English but for all subjects.
The books have been divided up by genre (the type of
book) to help you to choose.
It is by no means an exhaustive list; you will find other
books you love that aren’t here so please recommend
those to your friends and teachers!
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* indicates a more demanding book for accomplished
readers who like a challenge. The content, language or
style may be more suited to older readers.
+ indicates more mature themes: parental permission may
be requested prior to the book being loaned.
‘Reading is to the
mind what exercise
is to the body’
Sir Richard Steele
‘Books are a
uniquely portable
magic’
Stephen King
MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE:Lauren Child – Look Into My Eyes (Ruby Redfort series)
Sam Hepburn – Chasing The Dark
Charlie Higson – Silverfin (Young James Bond series)
Anthony Horowitz – Stormbreaker (Alex Rider series)
Anthony Horowitz – The Switch
Andrew Lane – Death Cloud ( Young Sherlock Holmes Series)
John Lloyd – Wild Boy
Sophie McKenzie – Girl, Missing (series)
Andy McNab – Boy Soldier (series)
Ali Sparks – Car-Jacked
Robin Stevens - Murder Most Unladylike
HAVE A GIGGLE:Roald Dahl – Any!
Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid
James Patterson – Middle School Books
Liz Pichon – Tom Gates Books
David Walliams – Any!
Recommended by your peers:Kevin Brooks – Travis Delaney Investigates (series)
Lauren Child – Look Into My Eyes (Ruby Redfort series)
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games (series)*
Michael Grant – Gone (series)*
Lisa Heathfield – Paper Butterflies*
Anthony Horowitz – Stormbreaker (Alex Rider series)
Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)
Michael Morpurgo – Private Peaceful
Robert Muchamore - Cherub (series)*
R.J Palacio - Wonder
Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson (series)
J.K Rowling – Harry Potter (series)
Carter Roy – The Blood Guard (trilogy)
Darren Shan – Cirque du Freak Series,
Demonata Series *
J.R.R Tolkien – The Hobbit
Nicola Yoon – The Sun Is Also A Star +, Everything, Everything+
FANTASY:Soman Chainani – The School of Good and Evil (series)
Cassandra Clare – Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
(series)*
Paul Durham – The Luck Uglies (series)
Becca Fitzpatrick – Hush Hush (series)*
Cornelia Funke – Inkheart (series)
Phillip Pullman - Northern Lights (series)
Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson (series)
J.K Rowling – Harry Potter (series)
JRR Tolkien -The Hobbit
CREEPY TALES:Theresa Breslin – Whispers In The Graveyard
Catherine Fisher – The Ghost Box
Neil Gaimon – Coraline, The Graveyard Book
Derek Landy – Skullduggery Pleasant (series)
Sally Nichols – Close Your Pretty Eyes
Tom Palmer – Ghost Stadium
Chris Priestly – Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror
Jonathan Stroud - Lockwood & Co. The Screaming
Staircase(series)
CLASSICS:Richard Adams – Watership Down
Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol,
Oliver Twist
William Golding – Lord Of The Flies
Barry Hines - Kes
Harper Lee – To Kill A Mockingbird
C.S. Lewis – The Chronicles Of Narnia
Jack London – The Call Of The Wild
George Orwell – Animal Farm, 1984
John Steinbeck – Of Mice And Men
H.G .Wells – War of The Worlds
John Wyndham – Day Of The Triffids
NON-FICTION:Tony Bradman (editor) – Stories of WW1
Roald Dahl – Boy
Ann Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl
Glen Murphy – Why is Snot Green? Or How
Loud Can You Burp? (Science)
Minecraft: The Official Construction
Handbook
WILL YOU LOVE THESE BOOKS?Eve Ainsworth – 7 Days
Kevin Brooks – The Bunker Diary+
Lucy Christopher – Stolen*
Sarah Crossan – One*
Sam Hepburn – Chasing The Dark
Leo Hunt – 13 Days Of Midnight (trilogy)*
Mitch Johnson – Kick
Ransome Riggs – Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar
Children (series)*
Kim Slater – Smart
OR THESE BOOKS?Malorie Blackman – Boys Don’t Cry*
Andy Briggs –Iron Fist (The Inventory series)
Gillian Cross – After Tomorrow
C.J. Flood – Infinite Sky
Stewart Foster – All The Things That Could Go Wrong
Clare Furniss – The Year Of The Rat
Alex Gino - George
Michael Morpurgo – Eagle In The Snow
Patrick Ness – A Monster Calls
Non Pratt – Trouble+
Bali Rai – Honour Killing+
William Sutcliffe – The Wall*
Lisa Williamson – The Art Of Being Normal*
Lauren Wolk – Wolf Hollow
Marcus Zusak – The Book Thief*
HISTORICAL / OTHER CULTURES:Nina Bawden – Carrie’s War
John Boyne – The Boy At The Top Of The Mountain
Ann Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl
Morris Gleitzman – Once, Then, Now, After
Sam Hepburn – If You Were Me
Tanya Landman – Buffalo Soldier +
Harper Lee – To Kill A Mockingbird*
Michelle Margorian – Goodnight Mister Tom
Michael Morpurgo – Private Peaceful
Beverly Naidoo – The Other Side of Truth
Ruta Sepetys – Salt To The Sea*
Benjamin Zephaniah – Refugee Boy
DYSTOPIAN:Cecelia Ahern - Flawed
Malorie Blackman – Noughts and Crosses
Ray Bradbury – Farenheit 451
James Dashner – The Maze Runner (series)
Sally Gardner – Maggot Moon*
George Orwell – 1984+
Scott Westerfield – Uglies (series)
SCIENCE FICTION:Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game*
Mark Cheverton – Invasion of The Overworld (series)
Pittacus Lore – I Am Number Four (series)
Sophie McKenzie – The Medusa Project (series)
James Patterson – The Dangerous Days Of Daniel X (series),
The Angel Experiment (series)
Alex Scarrow – Re-Made (series)
Tanya Unsworth – One Safe Place
POETRYMalorie Blackman – Cloud Busting
101 Poems For Children – Chosen By Carol Ann Duffy
Literary Greats:William Blake (The Tyger)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Rime Of The Ancient
Mariner)
Rudyard Kipling (If)
Christina Rossetti (Remember)
William Wordsworth (Daffodils)
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)