Kingdown Reading List

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1 Kingdown Reading List Note: Books will need to be checked by parents for suitability. Unfortunately, not all the books are available at the Kingdown library, but many are! It will help you greatly in life to have strong reading skills and it is also enjoyable! Keep reading. Fiction Titles by George Orwell 2 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 3 Boy Soldier by Andy McNab 4 Carrie s War by Nina Bawden 5 Charlotte s Web by E.B White 6 Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah 7 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 8 Coraline by Neil Gaiman 9 Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin 10 Day of the Trifids by John Wyndham 11 The Diamond Girls by Jacqueline Wilson 12 The Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney 13 The Diary of a Young girl by Anne Frank 14 Famous Five by Enid Blyton 15 The Fault in our Stars by John Green 16 Girl Missing by Sophie McKenzie 17 Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian 18 Good Omens by Terry Pratchett 19 Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin 20 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 21 The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald 22 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Date Book read Signed

2 23 Harry Potter stories by J.K Rowling 24 Hatchet by Gary Paulsen 25 The Help by Kathryn Stockett 26 His Dark Materials by Phillip Pulman 27 The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 28 The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkin 29 Holes by Louis Sachar 30 How I live now by Meg Rosoff 31 I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith 32 How to Train your Dragon by Cressida Cowell 33 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 34 I am David by Anne Holme 35 I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore 36 The Incredible Journey by Shelia Burnford 37 Inkspell by Cornelia Funke 38 Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson 39 The Keys to the Kingdown Series by Gareth Nix 40 The Kontiki Expedition by Thor Hyerdahl 41 Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers 42 Lionboy by Zizou Corder 43 Lord Loss by Darren Shan 44 The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall 45 Martyn Pig by Kevin Brooks 46 Midnight s Children by Salman Rushdie 47 Millions by Frank Cotterall Boyce 48 Night by Elie Weisel 49 Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman

3 50 Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman 51 Oranges in No Man s Land by Elizabeth Laird 52 Percy Jackson and the lightning Thief by Rick Riordan 53 Peter Pan by JM Barrie 54 The Recruit by Robert Muchamore 55 Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah 56 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 57 A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snickett 58 Silver Spring by Rachel Carson 59 Silver Fin (Young James Bond series) by Charlie Higson 60 Skellig by David Almond 61 Skulduggary Pleasant by Derek Landy 62 Stargirl by Jenny Spinelli 63 Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz 64 Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransom 65 The Sword in the Stone by T H White 66 Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn 67 Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl 68 Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan 69 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 70 The Time Machine by HG Wells 71 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 72 Twilight by Stephanie Mayer 73 Victory by Susan Cooper 74 War Horse by Michael Morpurgo 75 The War with Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith 76 Ways to live forever by Sally Nicholls

4 77 The White Giraffe Series by Lauren St John 78 Wild Swans by Jung Chang 79 The Wind Singer by William Nicholson 80 Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver Classics/Modern Classics (difficult) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger Frankenstein by Mary Shelley To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Gulliver s Travels by Jonathan Swift The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Shorter Reads The Legend of Captain Crow s Teeth by Eoin Colfer Klaus Vogel and the Bad Lads by David Almond Sasha and the Wolf-child by Ann Jungman The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo The Boy with the Magic Numbers by Sally Gardner Odd Frost and the Giants by Neil Gaiman Twist Cottage by Anthony Horowitz

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