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1 Author Suggested Titles Genres Randa Abdel-Fattah Does My Head Look Big In This? Relationships/Multicultural Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy Richard Adams Watership Down Animals/Environmental Issues Louisa M Alcott Little Women David Almond All Titles / /Relationships Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Malorie Blackman Frank Cottrell Boyce The Noughts & Crosses Trilogy Boys Don t Cry Millions/Framed/Cosmic Racism/Multiculturalism Teen Fiction Families/Relationships Chris Bradford The Young Samurai series Theresa Breslin Kezzie series The Medici Seal Murder/Mystery

2 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights N M Browne The Story of Stone John Buchan The 39 Steps Melvin Burgess Junk The Hit Personal/Social Issues Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland / Ally Carter Gallagher Girls series Teen fiction Anne Cassidy Looking for JJ The Story of My Life Missing Teenage fiction P C Cast House of the Night series Horror/Chillers Erin Colfer Artemis Fowl series Suzanne Collins Hunger Games Trilogy Science Fiction

3 James Dashner Charles Dickens The Maze Runner Series A Christmas Carol Great Expectations David Copperfield /Thriller Berlie Doherty Siobhan Dowd All titles The London Eye Mystery Solace of the Road Bog Child Relationships/Historical Fiction Mystery/Relationships/Thriller Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles C Forde Fat Boy Swim Humour Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl Biographical/Historical Cornelia Funke Inkheart series / Neil Gaiman Graveyard Book Coraline /Horror Graham Gardner Inventing Elliot Relationships/Bullying Jamila Gavin Coram Boy

4 William Golding Lord of the Flies Kenneth Grahame Wind in the Willows Michael Grant Gone Science Fiction John Green The Fault in our Stars Teen Fiction Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Modern Crime Liam Hearn Across the Nightingale Floor series FE Higgins The Black Book of Secrets Charlie Higson Young James Bond series Cathy Hopkins Mates, Dates series Teen fiction Anthony Horowitz Alex Rider series The Power of Five series E Ibbotson Journey to the River Sea The Star of Kazan

5 Elizabeth Kim Ten Thousand Sorrows Biographical C Kingsley The Water Babies Rudyard Kipling Jungle Book Kim Andrew Lake Young Sherlock Holmes series Mystery/Detective Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant Series Horror Caroline Lawrence Roman Mysteries G Levine Hanna s Suitcase Biographical/Historical C S Lewis The Tales of Narnia / Michelle Magorian Goodnight Mr Tom Rochelle Mead Vampire Academy series Stephenie Meyer Twilight series /Romance

6 Michael Morpurgo All titles / Families/ Misc. authors My Story series Misc. authors Dr Who series Science Fiction Robert Muchamore Cherub series Thriller Beverley Naidoo The Otherside of Truth Social Issues Patrick Ness Chaos Walking trilogy Garth Nix The Keys to the Kingdom series The Old Kingdom series Alyson Noel The Immortals series /Romance George Orwell Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four Christopher Paolini Eragon series Michelle Paver Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series

7 Mal Peet All titles Young Adult fiction Chris Priestley Tales of Terror series Horror/Chillers Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy B Rai Rani & Sukh Racism/Multiculturalism Louise Rennison All titles Humour J Richards The Invisible Detective series /Mystery Rick Riordan Percy Jackson series /Mythology Sebastian Rook Vampire Plagues series Malcolm Rose TRACES series Crime/Mystery Meg Rosoff All titles Young Adult Fiction J K Rowling Harry Potter series

8 Chris Ryan Alpha Force series Thriller Louis Sachar Holes Marcus Sedgwick All titles Historical//Thriller Nick Shadow The Midnight Library series Chiller Darren Shan The Saga of Darren Shan series Demonata series Horror/Chillers Mary Shelley Frankenstein Horror L J Smith All titles /Romance Tom Rob Smith Child 44 Thriller Barbara Smucker Underground to Canada Ali Sparkes Shapeshifter Series J Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

9 Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde Vikas Swarup Q & A (Slum dog millionaire) Young Adult Fiction J R Tolkein The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Gena Turgel I light a Candle Biographical/Historical Eleanor Updale Montmorency series Jenny Valentine All Titles Relationships/Thrillers Ian Whyman Boy Kills Man Chiller Jacqueline Wilson All titles Families/Relationships Adeline Yen Mah Chinese Cinderella Biography Updated 20 th November 2014

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