St Mary’s Menston, a Catholic Voluntary Academy Year 12 Wider Reading List 2019-2020
Year 12
Wider Reading List
2019-2020
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St Mary’s Menston, a Catholic Voluntary Academy Year 12 Wider Reading List 2019-2020
Rationale: As part of our continual desire to develop the character of our pupils and to develop their reading skills, we have created and published this wider reading list. In addition to the pre-prepared homework tasks published on the school website, this list can be used to guide our pupils and parents to the books we would recommend pupils read at home. The books selected are age appropriate and reflect the following criteria: The book develops a passion and love for the subject The book develops the pupil’s character The book inspires the pupil to be a virtuous person (Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope, Love. Cardinal Virtues: Practical Wisdom, Justice, Temperance, Courage)
Core Subjects
Religious Education The Shadow of the Galilean G Theissen The God Delusion Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker Richard Dawkins (Critique for the Teleological Argument) The Green Mile Stephen King Sophie's world Jostein Gaarder The complete philosophy files Stephen Law and Daniel Postgate The Puzzle of evil Peter Vardy Ethics Matters Peter and Charlotte Vardy Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online) Palmer, M. (2002) The Question of God, Saint Teresa of Avila, from The Autobiography of Saint Teresa Allison Peers E. (ed. and trans.) Philosophy of Religion: a guide and anthology Brian Davies Practical Ethics P Singer Humanae Vitae Pope Paul VI Catechism of the Catholic Church G Chapman Theology: the Basics, Blackwell A McGrath
English The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist Robert Tressell Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Mathematics e: the story of a number Eli Maor 17 equations that changed the world Ian Stewart Fermat’s Last Theorem Simon Singh A beautiful mind Sylivia Nasar The universe and the teacup K.C.Cole
Science Biology The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being Alice Roberts The Epigenetics Revolution Nessa Carey The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot The Botany of Desire Michael Pollan Almost Like a Whale Steve Jones Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution Holly Tucker
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St Mary’s Menston, a Catholic Voluntary Academy Year 12 Wider Reading List 2019-2020
Seed to Seed Nicholas Harberd Calculus Diaries Jennifer Ouellette The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins Life Ascending Nick Lane Genome Matt Ridley The Energy of Life Guy Brown How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells Lewis Wolpert Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari The Antibiotic Paradox Stuart B. Levy The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak Richard Preston
Chemistry The Periodic Table Primo Levi The Poisoner’s Handbook Deborah Blum The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison John Emsley Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Elements Changed History Penny le Couteur/Jay Burreson Chemistry in Your Kitchen Matthew Harthings
Physics Six Easy Pieces Richard Feynman Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman Richard Feynman A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking Physics of the Impossible Michlo Kaku Cosmos Carl Sagan
Other Subjects
Art The Paintings That Revolutionized Art by Claudia Stauble Julie Kiefer Looking Back at Francis Bacon by David Sylvester 200 Projects to Get you into Art School by Valerie Colston
Design Technology Masterpieces of British Design Goodman Books ISBN 978-1847960351
Drama Young Vic Taking Part Collection 1: Three Plays by Luke Barnes (Oberon Modern Plays) People, Places and Things by Duncan Macmillan (Oberon Modern Plays) National Youth Theatre Monologues: 75 Speeches for Auditions
Economics / Government & Politics Nudge’ by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler ‘Freakonomics’ by Steven Levitt The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today by Linda Yeuh Economics: 'Homo Economicus' by Daniel Cohen ISBN no 978-0-7456-8012-5 Politics: 'Politics in the Age of Austerity' by Wolfgang Streeck and Armin Schafer ISBN no 978-0-7456-6169- 8
Food Technology Together: Our community cookbook (A collection of recipes gathered together in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire by a group of women determined to cook fresh meals for their families and neighbours in the aftermath of the disaster) Ebury Press. 2018 ISBN 978-1529102925
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St Mary’s Menston, a Catholic Voluntary Academy Year 12 Wider Reading List 2019-2020
French No et Moi – Delphine de Vigan Le Tartuffe – Molière Candide – Voltaire Boule de Suif – Guy de Maupassant L’Etranger – Albert Camus Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan Un sac de Billes – Joseph Joffo Kiffe Kiffe demain – Faïène Un secret – Philippe Gimbert
Geography Alistair Bonnett – Beyond the Map Tim Marshall – Prisoners of Geography Oliver Morton – The Planet Remade
German Alone in Berlin (Hans Fallada) Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (Anne Frank) Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen (J K Rowling) Der Vorleser (Bernhard Schlink) Andorra (Max Frisch) Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (Heinrich Böll) Der Besuch der alten Dame (Friedrich Dürrenmatt)
History A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens ISBN-10: 1078288828 The Crowd in the French Revolution, George Rude ISBN-13: 978-0195003703 A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?: England 1783-1846 (New Oxford History of England) Paperback Boyd Hilton ISBN-10: 0199218919
Music ABRSM Guide to Music Theory Book 2 (grades 6-8) History of Western Music by Donald J Grout
PE The pressure Principle - Dave Aldred Endure by Alex Hutchinson Moneyball by Michael Lewis Legacy by James Kerr The Jersey: The secrets behind the worlds most successful team by Peter Bills
Textiles Alexander McQueen: Blood beneath the skin Simon & Schuster UK. 2015 ISBN 978-1471131783 Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie. HarperCollins. 2017 ISBN 978-0007318995
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