Form 5 and 6 Reading List

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1 Form 5 and 6 Reading List This list is intended to cover all genres, tastes, eras, lengths and levels of difficulty, from easy reads through to scholarship and beyond. We recommend that you use the ideas given here in conjunction with a website such as to make choices based upon the reviews that you find there. You might also like to look at: or at the reviews posted by SJCS pupils over the past few years on For those of you who prefer to choose by genre, scroll to the end of this document for an additional list, which is categorised by genre and gives a star rating for difficulty. If in doubt, speak to the school librarian or your English teacher, who will give you some more specific guidance. Author Adams, Douglas Adams, Richard Aiken, Joan Almond, David Archer, Lily Ardagh, Philip Austen, Jane Ballard, J G Bates, H E Bawden, Nina Bertagna, Julie Blackman, Malorie Blackmore, R D Bloor, Thomas Blume, Judy Bosch, Pseudonymous Bowler, Tim Bowler, Tim Boyd, William The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Watership Down Plague Dogs The Kingdom Under the Sea The Stolen Lake Skellig Kit's Wilderness The Fire-Eaters Clay Heaven Eyes Counting Stars The Poison Apples Heir of Mystery The Eddie Dickens trilogy Pride and Prejudice Northanger Abbey Sense and Sensibility Empire of the Sun Love for Lydia Seven by Five Fair Stood the Wind for France Carrie's War Exodus Noughts and Crosses Hacker Lorna Doone Worm in the Blood Dragons Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing The Name of this Book is Secret Starseeker Shadows An Ice Cream War

2 Author A Good Man in Africa Boyne, John The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451 Breslin, Theresa Remebrance Breslin, Theresa Remebrance Brittney, L Nathan Fox (series) Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights Brooks, Kevin Martyn Pig Being Brown, Dan The Da Vinci Code Bryson, Bill Notes from a Small Island A Brief History of the World Buchan, John The 39 Steps Burford, Sheila The Incredible Journey Buxton, JP I am the Blade Heartless Dark Canavan, Trudie The Novice Candappa, Rohan Autobiography of a One Year Old Cann, Kate Leaving Poppy Canning, Victor The Runaways Cassidy, Anne Looking for JJ Cassidy, Cathy Driftwood Chesterton, G K Father Brown seriess Childs, Rob All Goalies are Crazy Choldenko, Gennifer Al Capone Does My Shirts Christie, Agatha Death on the Nile Cards on the Table The Body in the Library Murder on the Orient Express Colfer, Eoin The Supernaturalis Artemis Fowl series Collins, Suzanne Hunger Games trilogy Collins, Wilkie The Moonstone Conan Doyle, Arthur The Hound of the Baskervilles The Complete Sherlock Holmes Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness Cooper, J F The Last of the Mohicans Cooper, Susan The Dark Is Rising King of Shadows Corder, Zizou Halo Cormier, Robert The Chocolate War Cornwell, Bernard Sharpe (series) Cottrell Boyce, Frank Millions Framed Cosmic Creech, Sharon Ruby Holler Love that Dog Cross, Gillian Tightrope

3 Author Crossley-Holland, Kevin Cussler, Clive Dahl, Roald Dann, Colin David, Keren de Bernieres, Louis Deary, Terry Defoe, Daniel Delaney, Joseph Diamand, Emily Dickens, Charles Dickinson, Peter Doherty, Berlie Dowd, Siobhan Du Maurier, Daphne Durrell, Gerald Eddings, David Eliot, George Evans, Nicholas Fatsis, Stefan Fine, Anne Fitzgerald, F. Scott Flanagan, John Ford, Catherine Foreman, Michael Forester, C S Forsyth, Frederick Frank, Anne Funke, Cornelia Gaarder, Jostein Gaiman, Neil Gallico, Paul Gardner, Sally Garfield, Leon Calling a Dead Man Wolf Gatty's Tale Raising the Titanic The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar Kiss Kiss Over to You Someone Like You Boy The Animals of Farthing Wood Ram of Sweetwater When I Was Joe Red Dog Diary of a Murder True Detective Stories Robinson Crusoe The Spook's Apprentice (series) Flood Child Great Expectations A Christmas Carol Oliver Twist Weathermonger Tough Luck Street Child The London Eye Mystery Rebecca Jamaica Inn My Family and Other Animals The Belagrind series Silas Marner The Horse Whisperer The Loop Word Freak The Tulip Touch The Great Gatsby Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan Fat Boy Swim The Very Bloody History of Britain Without the Boring Bits The Hornblower series The Day of the Jackal The Odessa File The Diary of Anne Frank Inkheart Sophie's World The Graveyard Book Mrs Harris Goes to New York The Snow Goose Small Miracle I, Coriander The Six Apprentices

4 Author Garner, Alan Gavin, Jarmila Geras, Adele Gibbons, Alan Glass, Linzi Gleitzman, Morris Golding, William Goodman, Alison Gordon Smith, Alexander Graves, Robert Greene, Grahame Grossmith Brothers Haddon, Mark Haggard, H Rider Hardy, Thomas Harnett, Sonya Harris, M G Harris, Robert Harris, Robert J Haslam, A Hearn, Lian Hemingway, Ernest Herriot, James Hicylmaz, Gaye Higson, Charlie Hill, Susan Hines, Barry Hinton, Nigel Hoffman, Mary Holm, Anna Hooper, Mary Black Jack Smith The Weirdstone of Brisingamen The Moon of Gomrath The Owl Service The Wheel of Surya (trilogy) Coram Boy Troy Dagger in the Sky Shadow of the Minotaur Ruby Red Once Then Now Lord of the Flies Eon: The Rise of the Dragoneye Furnace: Lockdown Furnace: Solitary Furnace: Death Sentence Goodbye to All That Travels with my Aunt The Third Man Diary of a Nobody The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time King Solomon's Mines Tess of the d'urbervilles Far from the Madding Crowd Thursday's Child Invisible City Ice Shock Zero Moment Fatherland Enigma Leonardo and the Death Machine Dr Franklin's Island The Otori Trilogy The Old Man and the Sea Vets in Harness It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet The Frozen Waterfall Young Bond (series) The Woman in Black The Battle for Gullywith I'm the King of the Castle A Kestrel for a Knave Collision Course Falconer's Knot I am David At the Sign of the Sugared Plum Megan, Amy, Holly

5 Author Hope, Antony The Prisoner of Zenda Hornby, Nick About a Boy Horniman, Joanne Secret Scribbled Notebooks Horowitz, Anthony Public Enemy #1 The Switch Scared Alex Rider (series) Hoy, Linda Your Friend Rebecca Hughes, Gregory Unhooking the Moon Hugo, Victor Les Miserables The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hunter, Erin Seekers: The Quest Begins Great Bear Lake Smoke Mountain Huxley, Aldous Brave New World Ibbotson, Eva Journey to the River Sea Not Just a Witch Jacques, Brian Redwall Jacques, Brian Mossflower; Redwall; Mattimeo James, M R Ghost Stories for an Antiquary Jarvis, Robin The Whitby Witches A Warlock in Whitby The Dark Portal Jennings, Paul Uncanny Unbelievable Unreal Jerome, Jerome K Three Men in a Boat Johnson, Pete Eyes of the Alien Juster, Norman The Phantom Tollbooth Kafka, Franz Metamorphosis Kastner, Erich Emil and the Detectives Kay, Mara The Youngest Lady in Waiting Kipling, Rudyard Just So Stories The Jungle Book Klass, David Tell Me No Lies Kuchman, Karen The Ballad of Lucy Whipple Lafleur, Suzanne Love, Aubrey Laird, Elizabeth The Garbage King Landman, Tanya Apache Landy, Derek Skulduggery Pleasant Langrish, Katherine Troll Blood Latifa My Forbidden Face Le Carre, John The Spy Who Came from the Cold A Murder of Quality Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Le Guin, Ursula The Earthsea Trilogy Lee, Laurie Cider With Rosie As I Walked Out A Rose for Winter Lewis, CS The Chronicles of Narnia (series)

6 Author Lewis, Gill Sky Hawk Lingard, Joan Across the Barricades London, Jack White Fang MacEwan, Ian Daydreamer MacPhail, Catherine Underworld Nemesis: Into the Shadows The Beast Within Sinister Intent Ride of Death Mankel, Henning A Bridge to the Stars Mankowitz, W A Kid for Two Farthings Marriot, Zoe The Swan Kingdom Maupassant, Guy de Short Stories McCaughrean, Geraldine Not the End of the World White Darkness McKay, Hilary Saffy's Angel McKenzie, Sophie Sister, Missi McNish, Cliff Breathe: A Ghost Story Meyer, Stephanie Twilight (series) Mieville, China Un Lun Dun Morpurgo, Michael War Horse Private Peaceful Mowill, Joshua Operation Red Jericho Naughton, B The Goalkepper's Revenge Nesbitt, E The Railway Children Five Children and It Ness, Patrick The Knife of Never Letting Go The Ask and the Answer Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking trilogy) Nicholls, Sally Ways to Live Forever Nicholson, William Seeker Nix, Garth Sabriel Shade's Children O'Flynn, Catherine What Was Lost Orwell, George Animal Farm; 1984 O'Shea, Pat Hounds of the Morrigan High Deeds of Finn McCool Palmer, Tom Foul Play Paolini, Christopher Eragon Paver, Michelle Dark Matter Peake, Mervyn Gormenghast Peet, Mal Keeper Peyton, K M Flambards Philbrick, Rodman Freak the Mighty Philip, Gillian Firebrand Pratchett, Terry Johnny and the Dead (series) Discworld (series) Priestley, Chris Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror Pullman, Philip His Dark Materials trilogy

7 Author Rees, Celia Reeve, Philip Reid, Patrick Rendell, Ruth Riordan, Rick Rose, Malcolm Rosoff, Meg Rowling, J K Ryan, Chris Sachar, Louis Saki Sansom, CJ Scarrow, Simon Sedgwick, Marcus Serraillier, Ian Shand, Mark Sharpe, Tom Shelley, Mary Shipton, Paul Singleton, Sarah Sparkes, Ali Steinbeck, John Stevenson, R L Stoker, Bram Strachan, Ian Stroud, Jonathan Sutcliff, Rosemary Swindells, Robert Taylor, G P Taylor, Mildred Temperley, Alan Thompson, Flora Tolkien, J R R Townsend, Sue Trease, Geoffrey Twain, Mark Truth or Dare Witch Child Here Lies Arthur The Great Escape Inspector Wexford (series) Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Kiss of Death Just In Case How I Live Now Harry Potter series Alpha Force (series) Holes Short Stories Dissolution Gladiator Blood Red Snow White The Silver Sword Travels on my Elephant Porterhouse Blue Frankenstein The Pig Scrolls The Poison Garden Finding the Fox Running the Risk Going to Ground Dark Summer The Red Pony The Pearl Kidnapped Treasure Island Dracula The Boy in the Bubble Moses Beech The Amulet of Samarkand The Golem's Eye Ptolemy's Gate Heroes of the Valley Eagle of the North Abomination Shadowmancer Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Harry and the Wrinklies Lark Rise to Candleford The Lord of the Rings The Hobbit The Silmarillion Adrian Mole series The Arpino Assignment Huckleberry Finn

8 Author Updale, Eleanor Ure, Jean Valentine, Jenny Voake, Steve Walker, Alice Wallace, Jason Wallace, Karen Walsh, Pat Warburton, Nick Waugh, Evelyn Webb, Beth Wells, H G Westall, Robert Westerfield, Scott White, T H Wilde, Oscar Wodehouse, P G Womack, Philip Wyndham, John Wynne Jones, Diana Yen Mah, Adeline Zephaniah, Benjamin Zevin, Gabrielle Zola, Emile Zusak, Markus The Montmorency series Plague The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight The Starlight Conspiracy The Colour Purple Out of Shadows Raspberries on the Yangtse The Crowfield Curse You've Been Noodled Vile Bodies Scoop A Handful of Dust Star Dancer War of the Worlds Gulf Uglies The Sword in the Stone The Picture of Dorian Grey Jeeves and Wooster (series) The Liberators The Midwich Cuckoos Day of the Triffids Chocky Howl's Moving Castle Chinese Cinderella Refugee Boy Elsewhere Therese Raquin Fighting Ruben Wolfe The Book Thief

9 5 th and 6 th Form Genre Book list s in this selection are listed in groups. *** indicates books which are most challenging in their use of language or demand greater maturity in their handling of controversial themes. Conflict & Prejudice Blackman Malorie Hacker* Boyne, John - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas * Bradman, T Skin Deep (collection of short stories) Gleitzman, Morris Once* Gleitzman, Morris Two Weeks With The Queen* Grindley, Sally Spilled Water* Holm, Ann I am David* Lee, Ingrid Dog Lost* Lott Tim Fearless* Blackman, Malorie - Noughts & Crosses Series ** Briggs, Raymond -When the Wind Blows ** (Graphic) Cormier, Robert - The Chocolate War ** Fine, Anne The Road of Bones** Frank, Anne -The Diary of a Young Girl ** Holm, Ian I am David** Laird, Elizabeth A Little Piece of Ground ** Landman, Tanya Apache** McCaughrean Geraldine The Kite Rider** Morpurgo, Michael Private Peaceful ** Ness, Patrick The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking)** Peet, Mal Tamar ** Perera Anna Guantanamo Boy** Zephanaiah Benjamin Face** Zusak, M - The Book Thief** Abdel-Fattah, Randa Ten Things I Hate About Me*** Boas Jacob - We are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust*** Glass, Linzi Ruby Red*** Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird *** Naidoo, Beverley The Other Side of Truth*** Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men***

10 Childhood & Coming of Age Blackman Malorie - Pig-heart Boy* Bawden Nina Carrie s War* Boyce, Frank Cottrell Cosmic * Creech Sharon Absolutely Normal Chaos* Durrell, Gerald - My Family & other Animals* Fine Anne Goggle Eyes* Gavin, Jamila Coram Boy* Gleitzman Morris Two Weeks With the Queen* Golding, Julia - The Diamond of Drury Lane* Laird Elizabeth Jake s Tower* Mahy Margaret Memory* McGowan, Anthony The Knife That Killed Me* Philbrick W R Freak the Mighty* Said, S.F. Varjak Paw* Wilson Jacqueline Girls in Love (trilogy)* Cassidy, Anne - Looking for JJ** Gray, Keith Ostrich Boys** Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time** Hornby Nick About a Boy** Laird, Elizabeth The Garbage King** Landman, Tanya Apache** Perera Anna Guantanamo Boy** Rosoff, Meg - How I Live Now** Sachar Loius The Boy Who Lost His Face** Swindells Robert Brother in the Land** Syal, Meera - Anita and Me ** Yen Mah, Adeline - Chinese Cinderella** Dickens, Charles Great Expectations*** Golding, William Lord of the Flies*** Hines, Barry A Kestrel for a Knave*** Hinton, S. E. The Outsiders*** Hornby, Nick About a Boy*** Klein, Rachel The Moth Diaries*** Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird*** Spinelli, Jerry Stargirl***

11 Mystery & the Unknown Cheshire, Simon The Hangman s Lair and other Case Files* Cottrell Boyce, Frank Millions* Dowd, Siobhan The London Eye Mystery* Dunbar Fiona Blue Gene Baby (Silk Sisters)* Dunmore, Helen Ingo* Eddington, Ian The Hound of the Baskervilles, A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel* Higgins, F.E. The Black Book of Secrets* Horowitz, Anthony Alex Rider series* Landy, Derek Skulduggery Pleasant* Lawrence, Caroline The Roman Mysteries* Muchamore, Robert The Recruit* Palmer, Tom The Football Detective* Pullman, Philip Sally Lockhart series * Rose, Malcolm Kiss of Death* Blackman, Malorie Hacker** Bowler, Tim Frozen Fire** Cassidy, Ann Looking for JJ** Christie, Agatha Miss Marple Series** Christie, Agatha Poirot series** Cottrell Boyce, Frank Framed** Cross, Gillian Calling a Dead Man** Delmonte, Ellis Train Ghost** Gaiman, Neil Coraline ** Gaiman, Neil The Graveyard Book** Gordon, Roderick Tunnels** McKenzie, Sophie Girl Missing** Sedgwick, Marcus Blood Red, Rose White** Amis, Martin Night Train*** Conan-Doyle, Sir Arthur The Sign of Four *** du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca *** James, Henry The Turn of the Screw McCall-Smith, Alexander - No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency *** Naidoo, Beverley Web of Lies*** Poe, Edgar Allen - Short Stories *** Rai, Bali The Web of Lies*** Rees, Celia The Wish House *** Stoker, Bram Dracula ***

12 Other Worlds, Other Times Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl* Branford, Henrietta Fire, Ben and Bone* Dunmore, Helen Ingo* Funke Cornelia Inkheart Trilogy* Gavin, Jamila Coram Boy* Golding, Julia Companions Quartet* Higgins, F.E. The Black Book of Secrets* Horowitz, Anthony The Power of Five series* Lawrence, Caroline The Roman Mysteries* Meyers, Stephanie Twilight Series* Nicholson, William The Wind Singer* Paver, Michele Wolf Brother* Reeve, Philip Mortal Engines* Rose, Malcolm Kiss of Death* Adams, Douglas - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ** Crossley-Holland, Kevin Gatty s Tale** Farmer, Nancy House of the Scorpion ** Gaiman, Neil Coraline ** Gordon, Roderick Tunnels** Lloyd, Sacci The Carbon Diaries** Malley, Gemma The Declaration** O Brien, Robert Z for Zachariah ** Paolini, Christopher Eragon** Pullman, Philip His Dark Materials ** Ness, Patrick The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking)** Rees, Celia Witch Child** Sedgwick, Marcus Blood Red, Rose White** Zevin, Gabrielle Elsewhere** Austen, Jane Mansfield Park*** Bertagna, Julie Exodus *** Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451*** Bray, Libba A Great and Terrible Beauty*** Crichton, Michael Jurassic Park *** Fforde, Jasper - The Eyre Affair *** (Read Jane Eyre first!) Huxley, Aldhous - Brave New World*** Orwell, George - Nineteen Eighty-Four*** Pratchett, Terry Nation *** Sellar & Yeatman and all that*** Wells, H.G. - The Time Machine ***

13 Relationships & Challenges Almond, David Skellig* Blackman, Malorie Pig-heart Boy* Byars, Betsy The Summer of the Swans* Curley Marianne - Old Magic* Fine, Anne The Tulip Touch * Gleitzman, Maurice Two Weeks with the Queen* Laird, Elizabeth Jake s Tower* Magorian, Michelle - Just Henry* Magorian, Michelle Goodnight Mr Tom* Philbrick, W R Freak the Mighty* Wilson, Jacqueline Girls in Love Trilogy* Alcott, Louisa M. Little Women ** Blackman, Malorie Noughts and Crosses series** Bowler, Tim River Boy ** Bowler, Tim Frozen Fire** Brashares, Ann The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants ** Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre ** Gray, Keith Ostrich Boys** Haddon, Mark Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ** McKenzie, Sophie Girl Missing** Rosoff, Meg Just In Case** Swindells, Robert - Stone Cold ** Valentine, Jenny Broken Soup** Zephaniah, Benjamin Refugee Boy ** Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice *** Downham, Jenny Before I Die*** Doherty, Berlie Dear Nobody *** Glass, Linzi Ruby Red*** Piccoult Jodi My Sister s Keeper *** Spinelli, Jerry Stargirl*** Suzuma, Tabitha From Where I Stand***

14 Travel & Adventure Blackman, Malorie A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E. * Colfer, Eoin Airman* Higson, Charlie The Young Bond series* Horrowitz, Anthony Alex Rider series* Ibbotson, Eva Journey to the River Sea * Morpurgo, Michael Alone on a Wide Wide Sea* Nicholson, William The Wind Singer* Nix, Garth Keys to the Kingdom series* Patterson, James Maximum Ride* Paver, Michele Wolf Brother* Pullman, Philip Sally Lockhart series * Sachar, Louis Holes* Adams, Douglas The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy ** Crossely-Holland, Kevin Gatty s Tale** Durrell, Gerald My Family & Other Animals ** Fleming, Ian - James Bond series ** Gavin, Jamila Coram Boy** Gavin, Jamila The Blood Stone** Marshall, James Vance Walkabout ** Rees, Celia Pirates ** Rees, Celia Sovay ** Stevenson, R.L. - Treasure Island ** Bryson, Bill - Notes from a Small Island *** Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey*** Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Lost World *** Du Maurier, Daphne Jamaica Inn *** Golding, William Lord of the Flies *** Hawks, Tony - Around Ireland with a Fridge *** Kipling, Rudyard The Man Who Would be King *** Twain, Mark - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn***