Getting Started on Classic Novels– Years 7 and 8 I Capture The Castle – Dodie Smith
Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie The Hundred and One Dalmations – Dodie Smith
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis The Starlight Barking – Dodie Smith (did you know there was a sequel to The Hundred and One Dalmations?!) The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian The Borrowers – Mary Norton The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Swallows And Amazons - Arthur Ransome The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Black Beauty - Anna Sewell Charlotte's Web - E. B. White Noughts And Crosses - Malorie Blackman Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor Developing Your Classical Tastes – Years 9 and 10 Treasure Island - R. L. Stevenson Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift The BFG - Roald Dahl
Anne Of Green Gables - LM Montgomery The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (a trilogy of three books) Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Harry Potter – the whole series! – J. K. Rowling The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Call of the Wild - Jack London A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan The Go-Between – L. P. Hartley
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee Classics You Have to Read Before You’re Old – Year 11
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott Emma - Jane Austen
The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray The Lord Of The Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien Moby-Dick - Herman Melville Dune - Frank Herbert Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson The Woman In White - Wilkie Collins The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell Perfume - Patrick Süskind
On the Road - Jack Kerouac Useful Websites www.lovereading4kids.co.uk Catch-22 - Joseph Heller www.arbookfind.co.uk Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez www.worldbookonline.co.uk Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres www.schoolreadinglist.co.uk Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Middlemarch - George Eliot
One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
David Copperfield - Charles Dicken
Emma - Jane Austen
The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth