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RECOMMENDED READING LIST

YEARS 9 & 10

The following books were recommended for teens and young adults by the
organisers of World Book Day. This list and introduction to the list was
published in The Guardian newspaper on World Book Day, 6th March 2014.
We hope you find something here that inspires you to widen your reading.

If you think there is a book missing from the list, please feel free to add it at the
end of the list.
Taken from :
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/mar/06/world-book-day-ten-best-teen-reads

As the sixth What Kids Are Reading report bemoans a tendency among secondary school
students to read books that are too easy...the organisers of World Book Day have announced a
list that might serve as a corrective, or at least a useful source of ideas. The Writes of Passage list
of popular books for young adults, voted for by 7,000 people across the UK, features a top 10 of
books to help "shape and inspire" teenagers, and give them the empathic tools and words to
handle some of the challenges of adolescence. The complete list of 50 features books to "help
you understand you", "change the way you think" and "make you cry", as well as thrill, transport
and scare you. And it's quite substantial.

What do you think are the most glaring omissions? Which are your top teen tomes?
Top 10 books
1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
5. 1984 by George Orwell
6. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
7. A Streetcat Named Bob by James Bowen
8. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
9. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront
Top 50 books that will
Change the way you think
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Streetcat Named Bob by James Bowen
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Wonder by RJ Palacio
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Help you understand you
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Outsiders by SE Hinton

Make you cry
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Make you laugh
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 by Sue Townsend
Geek Girl by Holly Smale
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison

Scare you
1984 by George Orwell
Lord Loss by Darren Shan
The Rats by James Herbert
The Shining by Stephen King
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

Teach you about love
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Forever by Judy Blume
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront

Thrill you
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Gone by Michael Grant
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Transport you
Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

What is missing?
Write your recommendations here:

Graphic Novels such as:
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore & David Lloyd
Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

Gothic fiction such as:
Dr Jeckyll & Mr Hyde by RL Stevenson
The Island of Dr Moreau by HG Wells
Bram Stokers Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe

Ghost stories such as:
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Detective & mystery novels such as:
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Hound of the Baskervilles/Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan
Doyle

Classics such as:
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding