English Reading List
Key Stage Three
Year 7
Almond, David, Skellig, Heaven Eyes
Blackman, Malorie Pig Heart Boy
Boyne, John Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Cross, Gillian, The Demon Headmaster, The Revenge of the Demon Headmaster, The Prime Minister’s Brain
Dahl, Roald, Boy, Danny, Champion of the World, Matilda, The Witches
Funke, Cornelia The Thief Lord
Horowitz, Anthony Stormbreaker Series
Hughes, Ted The Iron Man
Ibbotson, Eva Journey to the River Sea
Laird, Elizabeth The Garbage King
Magorian, Michelle Goodnight, Mr Tom
Morpugo, Michael Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea, Kensuke’s Kingdom, Why the Whales Came
Muchamore, Robert The Recruit
Nicholson, William The Windsinger and the Wind on Fire Series
Paver, Michelle Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness)
Pullman, Philip The Ruby in the Smoke Series
Rowling, JK Harry Potter Series
Sachar, Louis Small Steps
Year Eight
Blackman, Malorie Noughts and Crosses Trilogy
Boyce, Frank Cottrell Framed, Millions
Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl
Dahl, Roald Going Solo
Fine, Anne The Tulip Touch
Gavin, Jamila Coram Boy
Hadden, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Hearn, Liam Across the Nightingale Floor
Holm, Ann I am David
Marshall, James Vance Walkabout
Morpugo, Michael Private Peaceful
Pratchett, Terry Truckers
Pullman, Philip Northern Lights Trilogy
Stevenson, Robert L. Treasure Island
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit
Townsend, Sue The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Wells, H.G. The Time Machine
Westall, Robert The Machine Gunners
Year Nine
Adams, Douglas The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Ballard, J.G. The Empire of the Sun
Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451
Buchan, John The Thirty Nine Steps
Conan Doyle, Arthur The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Dahl, Roald Tales of the Unexpected, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Donnelly, Jennifer A Gathering Light
Doyle, Roddy Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha
Durell, Gerald My Family and Other Animals
Forsyth, Frederick The Day of the Jackal
Hill, Susan I’m the King of the Castle
Hornby, Nick About a Boy
London, Jack Call of the Wild, White Fang
Orwell, George Animal Farm
Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men
Swindells, Robert Stone Cold
Zephaniah, Benjamin Refugee Boy
Key Stage Four
Years Ten and Eleven
Pre 1914
Collins, Wilkie, The Moonstone, The Woman in White
Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Stevenson, Robert L. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stoker, Bram Dracula
20th Century Classics
Anthony, Michael Green Days by the River
Golding, William, Lord of the Flies
Heller, Joseph Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest The Old Man and the Sea
Hill, Susan The Woman in Black
Hines, Barry A Kestrel for a Knave
Huxley. Aldous Brave New World
Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Keneally, Thomas Schindler’s Ark
Lee, Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird
Orwell, George 1984
Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye
Steinbeck, John Grapes of Wrath
Wyndham, John The Day of the Triffids
Contemporary
Barker, Pat Regeneration
Banks, Iain, The Wasp Factory
Faulks, Sebastian Birdsong
Garland, Alex The Beach
Heller, Zoe Notes on a Scandal
Hornby, Nick Fever Pitch
Martell, Jan Life of Pi
Sixth Form Reading List
Pre 1914
Austen, Jane Emma, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice
Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights
Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness
Defoe, Daniel Moll Flanders
Dickens, Charles Bleak House, The Pickwick Papers
Eliot, George Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss
Hardy, Thomas Far From the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge
20th Century Classics
Amis, Kingsley Lucky Jim
Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange
Carter, Angela The Magic Toyshop
Fitzgerald, F. Scott Diamond as Big as the Ritz and other Stories, The Great Gatsby
Ford, Ford Maddox The Good Soldier
Forster, E.M. A Room With a View, Passage to India
Greene, Graham Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory
Hemingway, Ernest Farewell to Arms
Joyce, James Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Dubliners
Nabokov, Vladimir Lolita
Contemporary
Atwood, Margaret The Handmaid’s Tale
Barnes, Julian The History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters
Berger, John To the Wedding
Carter, Angela Wise Children
De Bernieres, Louis Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Ishiguro, Kazuo Remains of the Day
Kureishi, Hanif Buddha of Suburbia
Levy, Andrea Fruit of the Lemon, Small Island
McEwan, Ian Atonement, Saturday
McCarthy, Cormac No Country for Old Men
Morrison, Toni Beloved, Sula
Rushdie, Salman Midnight’s Children
Smith, Zadie White Teeth
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club
Tartt, Donna The Secret History
Walker, Alice The Colour Purple
Winterson, Jeanette Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, The Passion
In Translation
Allende, Isabel Eva Luna, The House of the Spirits,
Eco, Umbert The Name of the Rose
Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
Hoeg, Peter Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Suskind, Patrick Perfume
Tolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina
Vargas Llosa, Mario The Feast of the Goat
Zola, Emile Therese Raquin
