KS4 Suggested reading list

Some books the English department have enjoyed that might get you reading!

Some of the books below are more ‘adult’ books that might help bridge the gap between
teen and adult fiction. You might not find them easy to read to begin with. But persevere!

1. ‘The Book Thief’ – Markus Zusak

2. ‘The Lovely Bones’ – Alice Sebold
3. ‘The Kite Runner’ – Khaled Hosseini
4. ‘I capture the castle’ – Dodie Smith
5. ‘The Help’ - Kathryn Stockett
6. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ – Harper Lee
7. ‘Catcher in the Rye’ – JD Salinger
8. ‘The Secret Life of Bees’ - Sue Monk Kidd
9. ‘The Island’/ ‘The Thread’ - Victoria Hislop
10.‘Purple Hibiscus’ and ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
11. ‘ I’m the King of the Castle’ – Susan Hill
12.‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’ – Louis de Bernières
13.‘Rebecca’, ‘Frenchman’s Creek’ and ‘Jamaica Inn’ – Daphne du Maurier
14. ‘Sophie's World’- Jostein Gaarder
15. ‘The Bell Jar’ – Sylvia Plath
16. ‘Enduring Love’ – Ian McEwan
17. ‘Night Circus’ – Erin Morgenstern
18.Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
19.The Turn of the Screw- Henry James
20.Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck
21.Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austin
22.Northanger Abbey- Jane Austin
23.I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou
24.The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night time- Mark Haddon
25.Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
26.The Handmaid’s Tale- Margaret Atwood
27.An Inspector Calls- J.B. Priestley
28.A view from the Bridge- Arthur Miller
29.The Importance of Being Earnest- Oscar Wilde
30.Small Island- Andrea Levy
31.Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
32.The Woman in Black- Susan Hill
33.Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
34.The Magic Toyshop- Angela Carter
 35.Birdsong- Sebastian Faulks
36.Anita and Me- Meera Syal
37.Lord of the Flies- William Golding
38.1984- George Orwell
39.Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
40.Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens- J M Barrie
41.Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll
42.Through the Looking Glass- Lewis Carroll
43.The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
44.A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
45.Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson
46.The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins
47.Northern Lights (trilogy)- Phillip Pullman
48.Lord of the Rings (trilogy)- J.R.R. Tolkien
49.The Color Purple- Alice Walker
50.The Hound of the Baskervilles- Arthur Conan Doyle
Some teen fiction suggestions:

 The Chaos Walking Trilogy – Patrick Ness

 Witch Child – Celia Rees
 Judy Blume
 Meg Cabot
 The Tomorrow Series by John Marsden
 His Dark Materials series – Philip Pullman
 Sally Lockhart series – Phillip Pullman

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