15s Reading List Contemporary Fiction

ACTION/ADVENTURE REAL LIFE/ RELATIONSHIPS Burgess, M – Bloodtide series Achebe, C – Things Fall Apart Child, L – Jack Reacher series Adichie, CN – Americanah Fleming, I – The Spy Who Loved Me Alderton, D – Everything I Know About Love Hayes,T – I am Pilgrim Ammaniti, N – I’m not Scared King, S – The Shining Carty-Williams, C - Queenie Ludlum, R – The Bourne Identity Cleave, C – The Other Hand McNab, A – Boy Soldier series De Vigan, D – No and Me Masterton, G – White Bones Faulks, S – Birdsong Moshfegh, O - Eileen Green, J – Turtles All the Way Down Reichs, K – Temperance Brennan series Gruen, S – Water for Elephants Ryan, A – Blood Song series McCarthy, C – The Road Ryan, C – Blackout / The Increment Niffenegger, A – Her Fearful Symmetry Takami, K – Battle Royale Peet, M – Life : An Exploded Diagram Whyman, M – Inside the Cage Shamsie, K - Home Fire MYSTERY Shriver, L - We Need to Talk About Kevin Aaronovich, B – Rivers of London series Thomas, A – The Hate U Give Brown, D – Da Vinci Code + others Walker, A – The Color Purple Finn, AJ - Woman in the Window Welsh, I – Trainspotting Flint, S– Inspector Singh Investigates series Galbraith, R – Cuckoo’s Calling Grisham, J – Street Lawyer & others SCI FI / FANTASY Highsmith, P – The Talented Mr Ripley Asimov, I – I, Robot / Foundation series Horowitz, A – The Magpie Murders Atwood, M – The Handmaid’s Tale Jackson, H – A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Banks, IM – Consider Phlebas James, PD – Inspector Dalgliesh series Card, OS – Ender’s Game Le Carre, J – Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy + others Dick, PK – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep + others Smith, Z – White Teeth Gaiman, N – American Gods Suskind, P – Perfume Harrison, H – Stainless Steel Rat HISTORICAL Heinlein, R – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Barker, P – The Regeneration trilogy Le Guin, U – The Dispossessed Burnet, G – His Bloody Project Martin, GRR – Game of Thrones series Burton, J - The Muse Miller, M - Circe Chang, C – Wild Swans Morgenstern, E – The Night Circus Doerr, A – All the Light We Cannot See O’Neill, L – Only Ever Yours De Bernieres, L – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Pratchett, T – Equal Rites + others Doyle, R – The Commitments Golden, A – Memoirs of a Geisha Goodwin, D – Last Duchess / Fortune Hunter HUMOROUS Harris, R – Fatherland + others Adams, D – Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Hosseini, K – Kite Runner / Thousand Splendid Suns Backman, F – A Man Called Ove Keneally, T – Schindler’s Ark Braithwaite, O - My Sister the Serial Killer Lefteri, C The Beekeeper of Aleppo Fforde, J – The Eyre Affair Maalouf, A – Leo the African Honeyman, E – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Morris, H – The Tattooist of Auschwitz Simsion, G – Rosie Project series Towles, A – A Gentleman in Moscow 15s Reading List Oldies but Goodies

ADVENTURE / MYSTERY REAL LIFE/ RELATIONSHIPS Buchan, J – 39 Steps Austen, J – Pride and Prejudice + others Chandler, R – The Big Sleep Bronte, C – Jane Eyre Christie, A – Any book Bronte, E – Wuthering Heights Collins, W – The Moonstone Dickens, C – Great Expectations Conan Doyle, A – Sherlock Holmes books Du Maurier, D – Rebecca Defoe, D – Robinson Crusoe Eliot, G – Mill on the Floss Dumas, A – Count of Monte Cristo Fitzgerald, S – The Great Gatsby Hammett, D – The Maltese Falcon Godden, R – The Greengage Summer Kipling, R – Kim Golding, W – Lord of the Flies Leroux, G – The Mystery of the Yellow Room Hardy, T – Tess / Mayor of Casterbridge Poe, EA –Fall of the House of Usher Hartley, LP – The Go-Between Stevenson, RL – Treasure Island Hines, B – A Kestrel for a Knave Wilde, O – Picture of Dorian Gray Hemingway, E – Old Man and the Sea Kerouac, J – On the Road Kesey, K – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest HISTORICAL Lee, H – To Kill a Mockingbird Anderson, LH – Fever 1793 McEwan, I - Atonement Ballard, JC – Empire of the Sun Orwell, G – 1984 Charriere, H – Papillon Plath, S – The Bell Jar Frank, A – Diary of a Young Girl Rees, J – Wide Sargasso Sea Paton, A – Cry, the Beloved Country Salinger, D – Catcher in the Rye Solzenhitzyn, A – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Smith, D – I Capture the Castle Vonnegut, K – Slaughterhouse 5 Steinbeck, J – Of Mice and Men / Grapes of Wrath Tolstoy, L – Anna Karenina

FANTASY Burgess, A – A Clockwork Orange NON-FICTION Dick, PK – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Bellos, A – Alex Through the Looking Glass Huxley, A – Brave New World Bryson, B - The Body: A Guide for Occupants Le Guin, U – The Left Hand of Darkness Capote, T – In Cold Blood Shelley, M – Frankenstein Frankopan, P – The New Silk Roads Stoker, B – Dracula Gladwell, M – The Tipping Point Stevenson, RL – Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Harari, YN – Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Tolkien, JRR – The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings Kahneman, D – Thinking Fast and Slow Verne, J – Journey to the Centre of the Earth Kay, A – This is Going to Hurt Wells, HG – War of the Worlds / Time Machine MacDonald, H – H is for Hawk Wyndham, J – Day of the Triffids / The Chrysalids Miodownik, M – Stuff Matters Morgan, N – The Teenage Guide to Stress Mukherjee, S – The Laws of Medicine Palin, M - Erebus: The Story of a Ship HUMOROUS Petranek, S – How We’ll Live on Mars Gibbons, S – Cold Comfort Farm Plomin, R – Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are Grossmith, G – The Diary of a Nobody Potroski, H – Invention by Design Heller, J – Catch 22 Pollan, M – The Omnivore’s Dilemma Jerome, JK – Three Men in a Boat Secret Barrister – Stories of the Law and How it’s Broken Spark, M – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Wax, R – Sane New World Wilde, O – Importance of Being Earnest Wiseman, R – 59 Seconds Wodehouse, PG – Jeeves, Leave it to Psmith