IV Form Suggested Reading

IV Form Gothic / Mystery & Suspense/ Thriller Suggested Reading □ The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror – Robert Louis Stevenson Classics – Pre 1914 □ Dracula – Bram Stoker □ The Turn of the Screw – Henry James Paste this Reading List into your □ Footsteps in the Dark – Georgette Heyer Reading Log. Place a tick in the □ Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen (or any mysteries) □ Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen □ In the Teeth of Evidence – Dorothy L. Sayers small box next to each of the titles □ Emma – Jane Austen (Lord Peter Wimsey novels) that you have read. You should aim □ Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë □ Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier □ Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë □ Something Wicked This Way Comes to read at least two books from □ A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens – Ray Bradbury every section. □ Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens □ The Woman in Black – Susan Hill □ A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens □ In the Middle of the Night – Robert Cormier □ The Picture of Dorian of Gray – Oscar Wilde □ What I Saw and How I Lied – Judy Blundell □ Where Angels Fear to Tread – EM Forster □ White Crow – Marcus Sedgwick □ My Swordhand is Singing – Marcus Sedgwick □ The Kiss of Death – Marcus Sedgwick Modern Classics – Post 1914 Short Story Collections □ The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck □ I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith □ Tales of Mystery and Imagination (inc. ‘The Tell □ Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell Tale Heart’ and ‘Murders in the Rue Morgue’) □ The Lord of the Flies – William Golding – Edgar Allan Poe □ Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys □ The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (inc. □ The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’) □ Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury □ The Lottery and Other Stories – Shirley Jackson □ The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath □ The Complete Stories of Truman Capote (inc. □ Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry – Mildred Taylor ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ and ‘A Christmas □ The Giver – Lois Lowry Memory’) □ The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho □ Skin and Other Stories – Roald Dahl □ The Life of Pi – Yann Martel □ Stories from Around the World – □ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Edited by Hilary Pate Prepared by the Library and the English Department of Night-time – Mark Haddon Queen’s Gate School □ The Book Thief – Marcus Zusak 2011 Carnegie Award Books (Winners & Nominees) □ Bog Child – Shiobhan Dowd Love, Family and Teen Issues 2009 Winner Past Times □ Just in Case - Meg Rosoff 2007 Winner □ Halo – Zizou Corder □ The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ - □ Tamar – Mal Peet (Ancient Greece) Sue Townsend 2005 Winner □ Troy – Adèle Geras □ The Tillerman Saga: Homecoming, Dicey’s Song, □ A Gathering Light – Jennifer Donnelly (Ancient Greece) etc. – Cynthia Voigt 2003 Winner □ Falco Roman Mysteries – Lindsey Davis □ Flightsend – Linda Newberry □ The Other Side of Truth – Beverly Naidoo (Ancient Rome) □ Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli 2000 Winner □ The Fool’s Girl – Celia Rees □ Summers of the Sisterhood – Ann Brashares □ Postcards from No Man’s Land – Aidan Chambers (Shakespearean England) □ Ruby Red – Linzi Glass 1999 Winner □ Witch Child – trilogy – Celia Rees □ Nobody’s Girl – Sarah Manning □ The Ask and the Answer *– Patrick Ness (England and America 17th century) □ Along for the Ride – Sarah Dessen (Chaos Walking Trilogy) □ Slave Boy – Laurie Sheehan □ Jane Austen in the 21st century: Love, Lies, & 2010 Nominee (17th / 18th century Slave Trade) Lizzie, Secrets Schemes and Daring Dreams, etc. □ The Vanishing of Katharina Linden – Helen Grant □ Chains – Laurie Halse Andersen – Rosie Ruston 2010 Nominee (American Revolution—Slavery) □ If I Stay – Gayle Forman * The Ask and the Answer won the Costa Children’s Book □ Slave Girl – Patricia C. McKissack □ You Against Me – Jenny Downham of the Year Award, 2009 (19th century America) Science Fiction / Fantasy □ The Diamond of Drury Lane – Julia Golding Other Award Winning Books (18th / 19th century London) □ Blood Red, Snow White – Marcus Sedgwick □ Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Russian Revolution) – Jules Verne □ Out of Shadows – Jason Wallace □ The Secret Countess – Eva Ibbotson □ The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien The Costa Children’s Book of the Year, 2010 (Russian Revolution) □ War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells □ Unhooking the Moon – Gregory Hughes □ All Quiet on the Western Front □ The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Booktrust Teenage Prize, 2010 – Erich Maria Remarque (First World War) – Douglas Adams □ When You Reach Me – Rebecca Stead □ Remembrance – Teresa Breslin □ Z for Zachariah – Robert C. O’Brien Newberry Award, 2010 (First World War) □ The Dream Merchant – Isabel Hoving □ The Knife of Never Letting Go – Patrick Ness □ Generals Die in Bed – Charles Yale Harrison □ Eragon (Trilogy) – Christopher Paolini (Chaos Walking Trilogy) (First World War) □ Beastly – Alix Flinn The Guardian Children’s Award, 2008 □ A Song for Summer – Eva Ibbotson □ Exodus & Zenith – Julie Bertagna □ How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff (Second World War) (Global Warming theme) Guardian Children’s Award, 2004 □ The Morning Gift – Eva Ibbotson □ A Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray □ Looking for JJ – Anne Cassidy (Second World War) □ Linger (Trilogy) – Maggie Stiefvater The Booktrust Teenage Prize, 2004 □ Milkweed – Jerry Spinelli □ The Hunger Games (Trilogy) – Suzanne Collins (Second World War) □ The Uglies (Quartet) – Scott Westerfeld .

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