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KS4 2019-20 Recommended Reading List

Follow us: @redmoorlibrary This booklet recommends many great books that you might enjoy reading during KS4. The books are divided by genre to help you find something you might be interested in. If you find anything else noteworthy then please recommend it to your friends and teachers so that it can be added to our future lists. ------* indicates parental permission may be requested. RECOMMENDED BY YOUR PEERS: Cecilia Ahern - Flawed Kevin Brooks – The Bunker Diary Cassandra Clare – Mortal Instruments (series) Sarah Cohen-Scali – Max Gail Honeyman – Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff - Illuminae Angie Thomas – The Hate U Give Nicola Yoon – Everything, Everything; The Sun Is Also A Star

YOUNG ADULT TITLES: Katherine Arden – The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy) Jay Asher – Thirteen Reasons Why Fredrik Backman – A Man Called Ove Martyn Bedford – 20 Questions for Gloria Melvyn Burgess - Junk Meera Syal – Anita and Me Will Hill – After The Fire Alice Walker – The Colour Purple* Nick Hornby – Fever Pitch Non Pratt – Trouble*

LGBTQ: Becky Albertali – Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda Alyssa Brugman – Alex As Well Malorie Blackman – Boys Don’t Cry Jenny Downham - Unbecoming Lauren James – The Last Beginning Judy Nelson – I’ll Give You The Sun Patrick Ness – Release* Robin Talley – Lies We Tell Ourselves; What We Left Behind Lisa Williamson – The Art Of Being Normal Jeanette Winterson – Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit CHALLENGING MODERN CLASSICS: Monica Ali – Brick Lane Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Michael Frain – Spies Barry Hines – Kes Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns* Susan Hill – The Woman in Black Kazuo Ishiguro – Remains of the Day Yann Martel - Life of Pi Cormac McCarthy – The Road Ian McEwan – Atonement Toni Morrison – Beloved * Alan Patton - Cry the Beloved Country Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things Alice Sebold - Lovely Bones Zadie Smith – White Teeth John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men Kathyrn Stockett - The Help Meera Syal - Anita and Me

20th Century Classic Fiction: Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Truman Capote – Breakfast at Tiffany’s; In Cold Blood Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Ian Fleming – Casino Royale E.M. Forster – Howard’s End William Golding – Lord of the Flies Barry Hines – Kes –The Old Man and the Sea Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird; Go Set a Watchman Ian McEwan – Atonement George Orwell - Animal Farm Alan Patton - Cry the Beloved Country J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye Pre-20th Century Classics: Jane Austen – Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone, The Woman in White Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol; Great Expectations; Oliver Twist; David Copperfield Elizabeth Gaskell – North and South Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper Thomas Hardy – Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, The Withered Arm and Other Wessex Tales Edgar Allen Poe – Selected Short Stories Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Grey

HISTORICAL & OTHER CULTURES: Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Tracey Chavalier – The Girl with the Pearl Earring Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness Siobhan Dowd – Bog Child Phillippa Gregory – The Other Boleyn Girl Tanya Landman – I am Apache Hilary Mantel – Wolf Hall Alan Paton – Cry, the Beloved Country Doris Pilkington - Rabbit Proof Fence Bali Rai – Rani and Sukh, (Un)arranged Marriage John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men; The Grapes of Wrath

SUPERNATURAL SPINE-CHILLERS: Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber Susan Hill - The Woman in Black Henry James - The Turn of the Screw Stephen King - The Shining; IT * Edgar Allen Poe - Selected Short Stories Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca Edgar Allen Poe - The Pit and the Pendulum; The Tell Tale Heart Carrie Ryan - Forest of Hands and Teeth (series) Bram Stoker - Dracula John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind WAR AND CONFLICT: J.G Ballard - Empire of the Sun Pat Barker - Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration; Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road) Louis de Berniers – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin John Boyne – The Absolutist Vera Britton – A Testament of Youth Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong*; Charlotte Grey Michael Frayn - Spies Charles Frazier – Cold Mountain Robert Harris – Enigma Joseph Heller - Catch 22 Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner* Tanya Landman – Buffalo Soldier Anna Perera – Guantanamo Boy Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

DYSTOPIAN: Malorie Blackman - Noughts and Crosses (series) JD Crockett - After the Snow Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle Hugh Howey - Wool (series) Aldous Huxley - Bave New World Cormac McCarthy -The Road * Gemma Malley - The Declaration (series) George Orwell -1984 * Karen W Thompson - The Age of Miracles Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five

CRIME & MYSTERY: John La Carre – Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep Agatha Christie – The Body in the Library; And Then There Were None Arthur Conan Doyle – Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles; The Sign of the Four Frederick Forsyth – The Day of the Jackal Graham Green – Brighton Rock John Grisham – The Client, The Firm Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon Guy de Maupassant - Short Stories Daphne Du Maurier –Jamaica Inn Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde SCIENCE FICTION: Isaac Asimov- I, Robot Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Ian Bank – The Wasp Factory Philip K Dick - Minority Report Jack Finney – Invasion of the Body Snatchers William Gibson – Pattern Recognition Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler’s Wife Mary Shelley – Frankenstein Jules Verne – Journey to the Centre of the Earth H.G. Wells - The Time Machine; The War of the Worlds John Wyndham – The Midwich Cuckoos

CURTAIN CALL-PLAYS TO MAKE YOU THINK: Alan Bennett – The History Boys Dennis Kelly – DNA Henrik Ibsen – The Doll’s House Arthur Miller – The Crucible, A View from the Bridge J.B Priestley – An Inspector Calls Willy Russell - Blood Brothers; Educating Rita Diane Samuels - Kindertransport – Hamlet; Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet; Othello R.C Sherriff – Journey’s End

NON-FICTION: Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island Juan Chang – Wild Swans Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Ann Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl Ernest Hemmingway – A Farewell to Arms Nelson Mandela – A Long Walk to Freedom Frank McCourt – Angela’s Ashes Dave Pelzer – A Child Called It Joe Simpson - Touching the Void Adeline Yen Mah - Chinese Cinderella Try Googling the following poets and reading a selection of their poetry. The notable works you might enjoy appear in brackets.

Modern Poets: John Agard (Flag, Put the Kettle On) (Kid, Clown Punk) (, Cold Knap Lake) Imtiaz Dharker (Blessing) (Valentine, Before You Were Mine, Stealing, War Photographer) (Follower) Ted Hughes (Bayonet Charge) Tony Harrison (Long Distance II) Grace Nichols (Hurricane Hits England) Sylvia Plath (Ariel)

Literary Greats: William Blake (Tyger, Tyger; The Lamb; London) (; Porphyria’s Lover) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Rime of the Ancient Mariner) Emily Dickinson (Sonnet 43) Thomas Hardy (The Ruined Maid) Rudyard Kipling (If) Walter De La Mare (The Listeners) Christina Rossetti (Cousin Kate) William Shakespeare (Sonnet 116; ) Percy Bysshe Shelley (Ozymandias) Dylan Thomas (The Hunchback in the Park) Alfred Tennyson (The Charge of the Light Brigade) (Daffodils; Upon Westminster Bridge)

War Poets: Rupert Brooke (The Soldier) Wilfred Owen (Futility, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Dulce et Decorum Est) Jessie Pope (The Call, Who’s for the Game?) Isaac Rosenburg (In the Trenches) Siegfried Sassoon (Suicide in the Trenches)