Recommended Booklist

The more pupils read, the more successful they tend to be.  Here are some suggestions for library visits, presents, browsing in bookshops online and otherwise...

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    Adams, Richard

    Watership Down

    Aesop

    Aesop’s Fables

    Aiken, Joan

    Black Hearts in Battersea

    Alcock, Vivien

    The Cuckoo Sister

    Alcott, Louisa May

    Little Women

    Allende, Isabel

    House of the Spirits

    Allingham, Margery

    Tiger in the Smoke

    Almond, David

    Skellig

    Amis, Kingsley

    Lucky Jim

    Angelou, Maya

    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    Atkinson, Kate

    Behind the Scenes at the Museum

    Atwood, Margaret

    The Handmaiden’s Tale

    Austen, Jane

    Pride and Prejudice

    Bainbridge, Beryl

    Young Adolf

    Ballantyne, R.M.

    The Coral Island

    Ballard, J.G.

    Empire of the Sun

    Banks, Lynne Reid

    The L-Shaped Room

    Barker, Pat

    Regeneration

    Barrie, J.M.

    Peter Pan

    Bates, H.G.

    The Darling Buds of May

    Baum, L.Frank

    The Wizard of Oz

    Bawden, Nina

    Carrie’s War

    Bennett, Arthur

    Anna of the Five Towns

    Blackmore, R.D.

    Lorna Doone

    Blake, Michael

    Dances with Wolves

    Blixen, Karen

    Out of Africa

    Blume, Judy

    Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret

    Boston, Lucy M.

    Children of Green Knowe

    Bowler, Tim

    River Boy

    Boyd, William

    A Good Man in Africa

    Brontë, Charlotte

    Jane Eyre

    Brontë, Emily

    Wuthering Heights

    Brookner, Anita

    Hôtel du Lac

    Bryson, Bill

    Notes from a Small Island

    Buchan, John

    The Thirty-Nine Steps

    Burgess, Anthony

    A Clockwork Orange

    Burnett, Frances H.

    The Secret Garden

    Byars, Betsy

    The Eighteenth Emergency

    Byatt, A.S.

    Babel Tower

    Carroll, Lewis

    Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

    Chandler, Raymond

    The Big Sleep

    Chaucer, Geoffrey

    The Canterbury Tales

    Chekhov, Anton

    Three Sisters

    Christie, Agatha

    Murder on the Orient Express

    Collins, Wilkie

    The Moonstone

    Coolidge, Susan

    What Katy Did

    Cormier, Robert

    The Chocolate War

    Cornwell, Patricia

    Postmortem

    Cresswell, Helen

    Moondial

    Cross, Gillian

    The Demon Headmaster

    Dahl, Roald

    Tales of the Unexpected

    Danziger, Paula

    Earth to Matthew

    Defoe, Daniel

    Robinson Crusoe

    Desai, Anita

    The Village by the Sea

    Dickens, Charles

    Great Expectations

    Dickens, Monica

    One Pair of Hands

    Doherty, Berlie

    Dear Nobody

    Doyle, Arthur Conan

    The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Doyle, Roddy

    Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

    Drabble, Margaret

    Jerusalem the Golden

    Dumas, Alexandre

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    Du Maurier, Daphne

    Rebecca

    Durrell, Gerald

    My Family and Other Animals

    Eliot, George

    The Mill on the Floss

    Evans, Nicholas

    The Horse Whisperer

    Falkner, John M.

    Moonfleet

    Faulks, Sebastian

    Birdsong

    Fielding, Helen

    Bridget Jones’ Diary

    Fielding, Henry

    Tom Jones

    Fine, Anne

    The Flour Babies

    Fitzgerald, F. Scott

    The Great Gatsby

    Forester, C.S.

    Captain Hornblower

    Forster, E.M.

    A Room with a View

    Frank, Anne

    The Diary of Anne Frank

    Galsworthy, John

    The Forsyte Saga

    Garfield, Leon

    Smith

    Garland, A

    The Beach

    Gaskell, Elizabeth

    Cranford

    Gibbons, Stella

    Cold Comfort Farm

    Golding, William

    lord of the Flies

    Grahame, Kenneth

    The Wind in the Willows

    Graves, Robert

    I, Claudius

    Greene, Graham

    The Tenth Man

    Grisham, John

    The Client

    Guy, Rosa

    The Friends

    Haggard, H.Rider

    King Solomon’s Mines

    Hardy, Thomas

    The Mayor of Casterbridge

    Harris, Joanne

     Chocolat

    Hartley, L.P.

    The Go-Between

    Hawthorne, Nathaniel

    The Scarlet Letter

    Hemingway, Ernest

    The Old Man and the Sea

    Hendry, Frances Mary

    Chandia

    Herriot, James

    All Creatures Great and Small

    Hilton, James

    Goodbye Mr. Chips

    Hines, Barry

    A Kestrel for a Knave

    Hinton, Nigel

    Buddy

    Hinton, S.E.

    The Outsiders

    Holm, Anne

    I Am David

    Hornby, Nick

    High Fidelity

    Hughes, Thomas

    Tom Brown’s School Days

    Huxley, Aldous

    Brave New World

    Isherwood, Christopher

    The Berlin Stories

    James, Henry

    Portrait of a Lady

    James, P.D.

    The Black Tower

    Jerome, Jerome K.

    Three Men in a Boat

    Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer

    Heat and Dust

    Joyce, James

    The Dubliners

    Kaye, Geraldine

    Comfort Herself

    Kaye, M.M.

    The Far Pavilions

    Kerr, Judith

    When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

    King, Clive

    Stig of the Dump

    King-Smith, Dick

    The Sheep Pig

    Kingsley, Charles

    The Water Babies

    Kipling, Rudyard

    The Jungle Book

    Laird, Elizabeth

    Kiss the Dust

    Lawrence, D.H.

    Women in Love

    Le Carré, John

    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

    Le Guin, Ursula

    Wizard of Earthsea

    Lee, Harper

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Lee, Laurie

    Cider with Rosie

    Lessing, Doris

    The Grass is Singing

    Levin, Ira

    The Boys from Brazil

    Lewis, C.S.

    The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

    Lindsay, Joan

    Picnic at Hanging Rock

    Lingard, Joan

    The Twelfth Day of July

    Lively, Penelope

    The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

    London, Jack

    The Call of the Wild

    Magorian, Michelle

    Goodnight Mister Tom

    Manning, Olivia

    The Balkan Trilogy

    Mansfield, Katherine

    Collected Stories

    Marshall, James Vance

    Walkabout

    MacLaverty, Bernard

    Cal

    McCourt, Frank

    Angela’s Ashes

    Miller, Arthur

    Death of a Salesman

    Mitchell, Margaret

    Gone with the Wind

    Mitford, Nancy

    Love in a Cold Climate

    Montgomery, L. M.

    Anne of Green Gables

    Murphy, Jill

    The Worst Witch

    Nesbit, Edith

    The Railway Children

    Norton, Mary

    The Borrowers

    O’Brien, Edna

    The Country Girls

    O’Brien, R.C.

    Z for Zachariah

    O’Hara, Mary

    My Friend Flicka

    Orwell, George

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Paton, Alan

    Cry, the Beloved Country

    Pearce, Philippa

    Tom’s Midnight Garden

    Peyton, K.M.

    A Midsummer Night’s Death

    Price, Willard

    Arctic Adventure

    Priestley, J.B.

    An Inspector Calls

    Porter, Eleanor H.

    Pollyanna

    Puzo, Mario

    The Godfather

    Ransome, Arthur

    Swallows and Amazons

    Read, Miss

    Village School

    Reichs, Kathy

     Déjà Dead

    Rhue, Morton

    The Wave

    Rhys, Jean

    Wide Sargasso Sea

    Russell, Willy

    Educating Rita

    Rowling, J.K.

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

    Salinger, J.D.

    The Catcher in the Rye

    Scott, Sir Walter

    Ivanhoe

    Serraillier, Ian

    The Silver Sword

    Sewell, Anna

    Black Beauty

    Shaw, George Bernard

    Pygmalion

    Shelley, Mary

    Frankenstein

    Smith, Dodie

    101 Dalmations

    Smith, Zadie

    White Teeth

    Spark, Muriel

    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    Steinbeck, John

    Of Mice and Men

    Stevenson, Robert Louis

    Treasure Island

    Stoker, Bram

    Dracula

    Streatfield, Noel

    Ballet Shoes

    Sutcliffe, Rosemary

    Beowulf

    Swift, Jonathan

    Gulliver’s Travels

    Tan, Amy

    The Joy Luck Club

    Taylor, Mildred D.

    Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

    Thackeray, W.M.

    Vanity Fair

    Theroux. Paul

    The Mosquito Coast

    Thurber, James

    Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    Tolkien, J. R. R.

    The Hobbit

    Tolstoy, Leo

    Anna Karenina

    Townsend, Sue

    The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

    Trollope, Anthony

    Barchester Towers

    Twain, Mark

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Tyler, Anne

    Ladder of Years

    Ure, Jean

    A Proper Little Nooryeff

    Verne, Jules

    Around the World in Eighty Days

    Waugh, Evelyn

    Brideshead Revisited

    Weldon, Faye

    Big Women

    Wells, H. G.

    The Time Machine

    Wesley, Mary

    The Camomile Lawn

    Westall, Robert

    The Scarecrows

    Wharton, Edith

    The Age of Innocence

    White, E.B.

    Charlotte’s Web

    White, T. H.

    The Sword in the Stone

    Wilde, Oscar

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    Wiggins, Kate Douglas

    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

    Williams, Tennessee

    The Glass Menagerie

    Williamson, Henry

    Tarka the Otter

    Wodehouse, P.G.

    Very Good, Jeeves

    Woodford, Peggy

    Out of the Sun

    Woolf, Virginia

    To the Lighthouse

    Wyndham, John

    The Day of the Triffids

    Wyss, J.D.

    Swiss Family Robinson