Year 9 Recommended Reading List R E C O M M E N D E D B Y Y O U R P E E R S D Y S T O P I A N Divergent (series) – Veronica Roth Boys Don’t Cry – Malorie Blackman Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury Cherub (series) – Robert Muchamore Gone (series) – Michael Grant Delirium (series) – Lauren Oliver Lord of the Flies – William Golding Forest of Hands and Teeth (series) – Carrie Maggot Moon - Sally Gardner Ryan Matched (series) – Ally Condie Girl, Missing – Sophie McKenzie Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Gone (series) – Michael Grant Blackman Junk – Melvin Burgess The Age of Miracles – Karen W Looking for JJ – Anne Cassidy Thompson Martyn Pig – Kevin Brooks The Declaration (series) – Gemma Mortal Instruments (series) – Cassandra Clare Malley Teacher’s Dead – Benjamin Zephaniah The Giver – Lois Lowry The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- The Hunger Games (series) – Suzanne time – Mark Haddon Collins The Fault in Our Stars – John Green The Maze Runner (series) – James The Hunger Games (series) – Suzanne Collins Dashner The Kane Chronicles (series) – Rick Riordan Uglies (series) – Scott Westerfeld The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Wool (series) – Hugh Howey Chbosky 1984 – George Orwell The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 4/4 – Sue Townsend Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee Uglies (series) – Scott Westerfeld Zom-B (series) – Darren Shan C R I M E A N D M Y S T E R Y Agatha Christie – The Body in the Library Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone G O T H I C H O R R O R & Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the S U S P E N S E Baskervilles, The Sign of the Four Susan Hill - The Woman in Black Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog Stephanie Meyer – Twilight (series) in the Night-time Edgar Allen Poe – Selected Short Guy de Maupassant - Short Stories Stories Daphne Du Maurier – Rebecca, Jamaica Inn Carrie Ryan - Forest of Hands and Phillip Pullman - The Ruby in the Smoke Teeth Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of (series) Dr Jekyll and Mr Mary Shelley – Frankenstein Hyde Bram Stoker – Dracula John Wyndham – Day of the Triffids Year 9 Recommended Reading List F A N T A S Y H I S T O R I C A L A N D O T H E R C U L T U R E S Cassandra Clare – Mortal Instruments John Boyne – Boy In the Striped Pyjamas (series) Siobhan Dowd – Bog Child Sally Gardner – Maggot Moon Ann Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls (series) Sally Gardner - I, Coriander Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Jamilia Gavin – Coram Boy Go Morris Gleitzman – Once Christopher Paolini - Eragon (series) Anne Holm – I Am David Terry Pratchett – The Discworld Series Mary Hooper – Petals in the Ashes Phillip Pullman - Northern Lights (series) Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson (series) Tanya Landman – I am Apache J.K Rowling – Harry Potter (series) Caroline Lawrence – Roman Mysteries JRR Tolkien -The Hobbit, The Lord of the Michael Morpurgo – Private Peaceful Rings(series) Beverly Naidoo – The Other Side of Truth Anna Perera – Guantanamo Boy Doris Pilkington - Rabbit Proof Fence C H A L L E N G E Y O U R S E L F Phillip Pullman - The Ruby in the Smoke Bali Rai – Rani and Sukh Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Celia Rees - Witch Child (series) Sings J.G Ballard - Empire of the Sun Kevin Brooks – Martyn Pig Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Ian Fleming – Casino Royale Barry Hines – Kes Nick Hornby – About A Boy Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Kite Runner Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea Susan Hill – The Woman in Black Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go Lloyd Jones – Mister Pip Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird Yann Martel - Life of Pi N O N - F I C T I O N George Orwell - Animal Farm, 1984 Alan Patton - Cry the Beloved Country Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bali Rai – Rani and Sukh Bird Sings Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island Front Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men Ann Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl Kathyrn Stockett - The Help Dave Pelzer – A Child Called It Meera Syal - Anita and Me Joe Simpson - Touching the Void Marcus Zusak - The Book Thief Adeline Yen Mah - Chinese Cinderella Year 9 Recommended Reading List M O D E R N P O E T S L I T E R A R Y G R E A T S John Agard - Flag, Put the Kettle On William Blake - Tyger, Tyger, The Lamb Simon Armitage - Kid, Clown Punk Robert Browning - My Last Duchess, Gillian Clarke - Catrin, Cold Knap Lake Walter De La Mare - The Listeners Imtiaz Dharker - Blessing Emily Dickinson - Sonnet 43 Carol Ann Duffy -War Photographer Rudyard Kipling - If Seamus Heaney - Blackberry Picking Christina Rossetti - Cousin Kate Tony Harrison - Long Distance II William Shakespeare - Sonnet 116, Grace Nichols - Hurricane Hits England Sonnet 130 Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Rime of the Ancient Mariner Dylan Thomas -The Hunchback in the Park Alfred Tennyson - The Charge of the Light Brigade William Wordsworth - Daffodils, Upon Westminster Bridge W A R P O E T S Rupert Brooke - The Soldier Wilfred Owen - Futility, Anthem for Doomed Youth Jessie Pope - The Call Isaac Rosenburg - In the Trenches Siegfried Sassoon - Suicide in the Trenches.