Aylesbury High School English Department

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1 Aylesbury High School English Department Reading List for KS3 Please see below a selection of fiction and non-fiction titles, some modern, some well-known classics, that we recommend to you. If you like the sound of any of the titles, but are unsure what they are about, then why not look them up on the internet, being careful to avoid any spoilers of course! We have a lot of them in the library at school, but do ask if you can t find any of them. Also, do let us know if there are any titles that you think should be added. * = considered literary classics ** = non-fiction title Author Title Achebe Chinua Things Fall Apart* Adams Douglas The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi Half of a Yellow Sun Albom Mitch The Five People You Meet in Heaven Alcock Vivian The Cuckoo Sister Alcott Louisa May Little Women* Almond David Skellig Angelou Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Atwood Margaret Oryx and Crake Austen Jane Emma* Austen Jane Pride & Prejudice* Austen Jane Sense and Sensibility* Avi The Seer of Shadows Barker Dominic Sharp Shot Barrowman John and Carol Hollow Earth Bauby Jean-Dominque The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Baum L Frank The Wizard of Oz* Bowden Nina Carrie's War 1

2 Blackman Malorie Noughts and Crosses Blackman Malorie Pig-Heart Boy Blackwood Gary The Shakespeare Stealer Booth Martin POW Bowler Tim Storm Catchers Cotteral- Boyce Frank Millions Boyne John The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Bradbury Ray Fahrenheit 451 Bragg Melvyn The Adventure of English** Brennert Alan Molokai Briggs Andy Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy Bronte Charlotte Jane Eyre* Bronte Emily Wuthering Heights* Brooks Kevin Martyn Pig Bryson Bill A Short History of Nearly Everything** Bryson Bill Notes From a Small Island** Burgess Melvin Junk Cadnum Michael Flash Caroll Lewis Alice in Wonderland* Caroll Lewis Through the Looking Glass* Carroll Emma The Girl Who Walks On Air Carthew Natasha Winter Damage Cassidy Anne Dead Time Chambers Aidan Postcards From No Man's Land Choldenko Gennifer Al Capone Does My Shirts Choo Yangsze The Ghost Bride Christie Agatha Various* 2

3 Clarke Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey Colfer Eoin Artemis Fowl Collins Suzanne The Hunger Games Trilogy Collins B.R. The Broken Road Conan Doyle Arthur The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes* Conan Doyle Arthur The Hound of the Baskervilles* Conlon-McKenna Marita A Girl Called Blue Cormier Robert The Chocolate War Cottrell-Boyce Frank Millions Creetch Sharon Love That Dog Chang Jung Wild Swans D'Adamo Francesca Iqbal Dahl Roald Boy** Dahl Roald Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Dashner James The Maze Runner Davidson Gina What Treasure Did Next De Saint-Exupery Antoine The Little Prince* Defoe Daniel Robinson Crusoe* Desai Anita The Village By the Sea Dexter Colin Daughters of Cain Dhami Narinder Bend it like Beckham Dickens Charles Great Expectations* Dickens Charles Oliver Twist* Doherty Berlie Dear Nobody Doyle Roddy Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Du Maurier Daphne Rebecca* Dunmore Helen The Lilac Tree 3

4 Durrell Gerald My Family and Other Animals** Eliot George Silas Marner* Emmerich Elsbeth Flying a Flag for Hilter: My Childhood in Nazi Germany** Esquivel Laura Like Water for Chocolate Falkner J.M. Moonfleet Farrant Natasha After Iris Fielding Helena Bridget Jones' Diary Fine Anne Flour Babies Forster E.M A Passage to India* Frank Anne The Diary of Anne Frank** Funke Cornelia The Thief Lord Gaarder Jostein Sophie's World Gaiman Neil Stardust Gavin Jamila Coram Boy Gibbons Alan Lone Wolf Gleitzman Morris Overboard Golding William Lord of the Flies* Goldman William The Princess Bride Grahame Kenneth The Wind in the Willows* Haddon Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Hardy Thomas Tess of the D Urbervilles* Hartnett Sonya Thursday's Child Hegley John My Dog is a Carrot Hiaasen Carl Flush Higson Charlie The Enemy Hill Susan The Woman in Black* Hines Barry A Kestral for a Knave* 4

5 Hinton Nigel Buddy Hodgson-Burnett Frances The Secret Garden* Hooper Mary The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose Hosseini Khaled The Kite Runner Hugo Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame* Huxley Aldous Brave New World Ibbotson Eva Journey to the River Sea Jansson Tove The Summer Book Kerr Judith When Hilter Stole Pink Rabbit Keyes Daniel Flowers for Algernon Kinney Jeff Diary of a Wimpy Kid Kipling Rudyard The Jungle Book* Kostova Elizabeth The Historian: A Novel Lane Margaret The Tale of Beatrix Potter** Lane Andrew Young Sherlock Holmes Lawrence Caroline The Thieves of Ostia Lee Harper To Kill a Mockingbird Lee Laurie Cider With Rosie Lewis CS The Chronicles of Narnia* Lindsay Joan Picnic at Hanging Rock Lingard Joan Natasha's Will London Jack White Fang* Lowry Lois The Giver Magorian Michelle Goodnight Mister Tom* Mandela Nelson Long Walk to Freedom* Marshall James Vance Walkabout Martel Yann The Life of Pi 5

6 McCaughrean Geraldine Kite Rider McCourt Frank Tis Mitchell Margaret Gone with the Wind* Morpurgo Michael Private Peaceful Nesbit E The Railway Children* Ness Patrick The Knife of Never Letting Go Nicholson William The Wind Singer Ondaatje Michael The English Patient Orwell George Animal Farm* Orwell George 1984* Palin Michael Pole to Pole** Paolini Christopher Eragon Paterson Katherine Bridge to Terabithia Picardie Justine Daphne: A Novel Pierce Tamora The Song of the Lioness series Pilkington Doris Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence Poe Edgar Allan The Pit and the Pendulum Poetry Collection various Read Me and Laugh Poetry Collection various Spill the Beanz Pratchett Terry Discworld Pullman Philip His Dark Materials Trilogy Ransome Arthur Swallows and Amazons* Rees Celia Witch Child Rhys Jean Wide Sargasso Sea Riordan Rick The Lightning Thief Roscoff Meg How I Live Now Ross Stewart The Star Houses: A Story from the Holocaust** 6

7 Roth Veronica Divergent Trilogy Rundell Katherine Rooftoppers Rushdie Salman Haroun and the Sea of Stories Sachar Louis Holes Salinger J.D The Catcher in the Rye* Satrapi Marjane Persepolis (graphic novel) Sewell Anna Black Beauty* Shakespeare William A Midsummer Night s Dream* Shakespeare William Richard III* Shakespeare William Macbeth* Shakespeare William Romeo and Juliet* Shakespeare William The Tempest* Shearer Alex The Cloud Hunters Sheldon Dyan Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen Shelley Mary Frankenstein* Sheridan Richard Brinsley School for Scandal Smith Dodie I Capture The Castle* Snicket Lemony A Series of Unfortunate Events Solzhenitsyn Alexandr One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Spieglelman Art Maus (graphic novel) Spinelli Jerry Stargirl Steinbeck John Of Mice and Men* Steinbeck John The Grapes of Wrath* Stevenson Robert Louis Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde* Stevenson Robert Louis Treasure Island* Stoker Bram Dracula* Stuart Tristram Waste** 7

8 Sutcliffe Rosemary The Eagle of the Ninth Swift Jonathan Gulliver's Travels* Swindell Robert Abomination Syal Meera Anita and Me Taylor Mildred D Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Toksvig Sandi Hitler's Canary Tolkien JRR The Lord of the Rings* Townsend Sue Adrian Mole series Trapp Maria A The Story of the Trapp Family Singers** Twain Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* Verne Jules Around the World in Eighty Days* Walter Scott Sir Ivanhoe* Weatherley Lee Child X Wells HG The Time Machine* Westerfield Scott Uglies White E B Charlotte's Web Wilding Valerie Road to War: A First World War Girl s Diary ** Williamson Lara A Boy Called Hope Wyndham John Day of the Triffids* Yan Ma The Diary of Ma Yan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese School Girl** Yen Mah Adeline The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter** Zephaniah Benjamin Refugee Boy Yousafzai Malala I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up For Education and was shot by the Taliban** Zusak Markus The Book Thief 8