Senior School Book Ideas

General Fiction: Douglas Adams  The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (6 books)

J. G. Ballard  Empire of the Sun

Nina Bawden  Carrie’s War  The Witch’s Daughter

Malorie Blackman  Noughts & Crosses Series (3 books)  Noble Conflict  Pig Heart Boy

And many more by this author…

Leigh Bardugo  The Book of Crows

Senior School Book Ideas

John Boyne  The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas  The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

Ray Bradbury  The Illustrated Man

Chris Bradford The Bodyguard Series (8 Books)

 Recruit  Ransom  Ambush

Terry Brooks The Magic Kingdom of Landover Series (6 Books)

 The Magic Kingdom for Sale  The Black Unicorn  Wizard at Large

David Clement-Davies  Fire Bringer

Stephen Cole  Thieves Like Us

Senior School Book Ideas

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games (3 Books)

 Hunger Games  Catching Fire  Mockingjay

Bernard Cornwell The Sharpe series (20 books)

 Sharpe’s Devil  Sharpe’s Triumph  Sharpe’s Fortress

Joseph Delaney The Wardstone Chronicles ( 13 books)  The Spooks Apprentice  The Spooks Curse  The Spook’s Secret

Anita Desai The Village by the Sea

Jostein Gaarder  Sophie’s World  The Solitaire Mystery

Neil Gaiman  Coraline  Stardust  Good Omens  The Graveyard Book  Neverwhere

Senior School Book Ideas

Sally Gardner  Maggot Moon

Roderick Gordon & Tunnels Series (9 books) Brian Williams  Tunnels  Deeper  Closer

Michael Grant Gone Series (6 books)  Gone  Hunger  Lies

John Grisham Theodore Boone (6 books)  Theodore Boone  The Abduction  The Activist

Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time

Frances Hardinge  The Lie Tree  Fly by Night  Gullstruck Island

And many others by this author…

Senior School Book Ideas

Robert Harris  Conclave

Charlie Higson Young Bond series (9 books)  Silverfin (The later books in the  Double or Die series are written by  Blood Fever Steve Cole) The Enemy Series

 The Enemy  The Dead

Anthony Horowitz The Power of Five Series (5 books)

 Raven’s Gate  Evil Star  Necropolis

Brian Jacques Redwall series (22 books)  Redwall  Mossflower  Mattimeo

Elizabeth Laird  The Garbage King  Welcome to Nowhere  Oranges in No man’s Land

And many others by this author

Harper Lee  To Kill a Mockingbird

Senior School Book Ideas

Laurie Lee  Cider with Rosie

David Levithan  Every Day

Joan Lingard  The Twelfth Day of July  Across the Barricades  The Clearance

Pittacus Lore The Lorien Legacies ( 7 Books)

 I am Number 4  The Power of 6  The Rise of 9

Michelle Magorian  Goodnight Mr Tom  A Spoonful of Jam  Back Home

Graham Marks  Kai-Ro

Senior School Book Ideas

James Vance Marshall  Walkabout

Yann Martel  Life of Pie

Geraldine McCaughrean  The Kite Rider

Michael Morpurgo  War Horse  Alone on a Wide Open Sea

And Many more by this author …

Patrick Ness The Chaos Walking Trilogy (3 books)  The Knife of Never Letting Go  The Ask and the Answer  Monsters of Men

 A Monster Calls

 The Rest of Us Just Live Here William Nicholson The Wind on Fire Trilogy (3 books)  The Wind Singer  Slaves of the Mastery  Firesong

The Noble Warriors Trilogy (3 books)  Seeker  Jango

 Noman Senior School Book Ideas

Garth Nix Abhorson Trilogy (3 books)  Sabriel  Lirael  Abhorsen

The Keys to the Kingdom series (7 books)  Mister Monday  Grim Tuesday

Christopher Paolini The Inheritance Cycle (4 books)  Eragon  Eldest

Michelle Paver The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Series (6 books)  Spirit Walker  Wolf Brother  Outcast

 Dark Matter

Anna Perera  Guantanamo Boy

Terry Pratchett Discworld series (40 books)  The Colour of Magic  The Light Fantastic

Phillip Pullman His Dark Materials Trilogy (3 books)  Northern Lights  The Subtle Knife  The Amber Spy Glass

Senior School Book Ideas

Philip Reeve Mortal Engines Series ( books)  Mortal Engines  Predator’s Gold

 Rail Head  Black Light Express

Ransom Riggs  Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Jon Robinson The Nowhere Series (3 books)

 Nowhere  Somewhere  Anywhere

Veronica Roth Divergent Series

 Divergent  Insurgent

Chris Ryan Alpha Force series (10 books)  Survival  Rat-Catcher

Code Red series (6 books)  Flash Flood  Wildfire

Alex Scarrow Timeriders Series (9 Books)

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Simon Scarrow Gladiator Series (4 Books)  Fight for Freedom  Street Fighter

Marcus Sedgewick  The Forshadowing  The Dead Days

Darren Shan The Demonata series ( 10 books)  Lord Loss  Demon Thief  Slawter

Jonathan Stroud The Bartimaeus Trilogy (3 Books)  The Amulet of Samarkand  The Golem’s Eye  Ptolemy’s Gate

Lockwood & Co Series ( 5 Books)  The Screaming Staircase  The Hollow Boy

Sue Townsend  The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾

Robert Westall  The Machine Gunners  Blitz Cat  The Scarecrows

And many more by this author …

Senior School Book Ideas

Andy Weir  The Martian

Suzanne Winnacker  The Other Life

Benjamin Zephaniah  Face

Marcus Zusak  The Book Thief  I am the Messenger

Senior School Book Ideas: Classics Joan Aiken  The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

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R. D. Blackmore  Lorna Doone

Charlotte Bronte  Jane Eyre

John Buchan Richard Hannay Series (5 books)

 The Thirty Nine Steps  Greenmantle  Prester John

Agatha Christie Hercule Pirot Series (33 books)

 Appointment with Death  The Man in the brown Suit

Miss Marple Series (12 books)

 A Caribbean Mystery

Daniel Defoe  Robinson Crusoe

Charles Dickens  Great Expectations  Oliver Twist

And many more by this author …

Arthur Conon Doyle  The Hound of the Baskervilles

Senior School Book Ideas

J. Meade Falkner  Moonfleet

Anne Frank  The Diary of a Young Girl

C. S. Forester  Midshipman Hornblower  The Gun  The General

William Golding  Lord of the Flies

H. Rider Haggard  King Soloman’s Mines

Barry Hines A Kestrel for a Knave

Senior School Book Ideas

S. E. Hinton The Outsiders

Seamus Heaney Beowulf (translation)

Jerome K. Jerome  Three Men in a Boat

Rudyard Kipling  Kim

George Orwell  Animal Farm  1984

George Orwell  Down and Out in Paris and London

Senior School Book Ideas

John Steinbeck  Of Mice and Men

Bram Stoker Dracula

J. R. R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings (3 books)  The Fellowship of the Ring  The Two Towers  The Return of the King

Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Jules Verne  Journey to the Centre of the Earth  2,000 Leagues Under the Sea

H. G. Wells  The Time Machine  War of the Worlds  The Invisible Man

P. G. Wodehouse Jeeves Series (17 Books)  The Man with Two Left Feet  My Man Jeeves etc

Blandings Castle Series (15 books)  Something Fresh  Leave it to P Smith

Senior School Book Ideas