KS4 Book Recommendations

Young Adult Books The Art of Being Normal – Lisa Williamson The Book Thief – Marcus Zusak Mary’s Monster – Lita Judge The is Also a Star – Nicola Yoon A Witch Alone – Ruth Warburton Moonrise – Sarah Crossan Scat – Carl Hiasson Where Monsters Lie – Polly Ho Yen Water Born – Rachel Ward Numbers – Rachel Ward Contagion – Teri Terry Satellite – Nick Lake 7 Days – Eve Ainsworth Piecing Me Together – Renee Watson If You Find Me – Emily Murdoch Simon vs the Homosapien Agenda – Becky Albertalli Saint Death – Marcus Sedgwick The Gender Game – Bella Forrest Pure – Julianna Baggott Indigo Donut – Patrice Lawrence At the Sign of the Sugared Plum – Mary Hooper Scythe – Neal Shusterman The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff Reunion – Fred Uhlman

KS4 Book Recommendations

Adult Books The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver Small Island – Andrea Levy – Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West Never Let Me Go – The – Bel Canto - Ann Patchett Room – Emma Donaghue The White Tiger – White Teeth – Zadie Smith – D. B. C. Pierre Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha – Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe A Thousand Splendid /The Kite Runner/And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini The Shock of the Fall – Nathan Filer The Tenderness of Wolves – Stef Penney The Help – Kathryn Stockett A Mercy – Toni Morrison

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterston A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – Marina Lewycka Case Histories – Kate Atkinson Brick Lane – Monica Ali The Colour – Rose Tremain The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold Chocolat – Joanne Harris The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd The Luminaries – Schindler’s List – We Need New Names – NoViolet Bulawayo The Hound of the Baskervilles / The Sign of Four – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Submarine – Joe Dunthorne Lord of the Flies – The Woman In Black – Susan Hill High Fidelity / How to be Good / Fever Pitch – Nick Hornby The House of Silk / Moriarty – Anthony Horowitz Mr Pip – Lloyd Jones Pigeon English – Stephen Kelman To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern After the Quake (short stories) - Haruki Murakami The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath The Catcher in the Rye – J D Salinger The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad Touching the Void - Joe Simpson The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons