Further Reading This list is aimed to promote reading for pleasure. The titles listed below are not curriculum orientated; they are to support college and university entry. Books: (BOLD – read and recommended by CHS staff!) Subject Title Author(s) All Very Short Introduction to… (There are 425 as of March 2015) Various Understanding Exposure Bryan Peterson Ways of Seeing John Berger The Hearing Trumpet Leonora Carrington Playing to the Gallery Grayson Perry Double Game Sophie Calle The Poetics of Space Gaston Bachelard On Photography Susan Sontag Art Strangeland Tracey Emin Voice and the Actor Cicely Berry Your Voice and How to Use It Cicely Berry The Empty Space Peter Brook The Methuen Drama Book of Monologues for Young Actors Anne Harvey The Right to Speak Patsy Nuremberg The Methuen Book of Plays by Black British Writers (7 Authors!) The Year of the Pearl: The Life of a New York Repertory Company David Hapgood Freakonomics Levitt & Dubner The Lexus And The Olive Tree Friedman Small Is Beautiful Schumacher The Ascent of Money Ferguson The Price Of Inequality Stiglitz Economics End This Depression Now Krugman How The West Was Lost Mayo 22 Things They Didn’t Tell You About Capitalism Chang The Undercover Economist Harford The End Of Poverty Sachs The Very Short Introduction To Marx Singer The Lord Of The Rings JRR Tolkein Frankenstein Mary Shelley A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess. 1984 George Orwell Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw English - Lord Of The Flies William Golding British Engleby Sebastian Faulks Authors Birdsong Sebastian Faulks Tess Of The D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy The Go Between LP Hartley A Passage To India E M Forster A Room With A View E M Forster Enduring Love Ian McEwan Further Reading Saturday Ian McEwan Atonement Ian McEwan England made Me Graham Greene Emma Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Jane Austen Brick Lane Monica Ali Chocolat Joanne Harris Brave New World Aldous Huxley Island Aldous Huxley Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier The Colour of Magic Terry Prachett Great Expectations Charles Dickens David Copperfield Charles Dickens Hard Times Charles Dickens Oliver Twist Charles Dickens A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte – A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycha Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Paul Torday High Fidelity Nick Hornby The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald On The Road Jack Kerouac Catch-22 Joseph Heller The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath The Grapes Of Wrath John Steinbeck Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry Mildred D Taylor The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie The Naked And The Dead Norman Mailer The Invisible Man Ralph Ellison On The Road Jack Kerouac Portrait Of A Lady Henry James English - The Autobiography Of Malcolm X Alex Haley American Beloved Toni Morrison Authors The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison Song Of Solomon Toni Morrison Sula Toni Morrison Nathaniel Hawthorn – The Scarlett Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Raymond Chandler Raymond Chandler The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood Rabbit Run John Updike The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan Girl With a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway Further Reading Fiesta Ernest Hemingway The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Little Friend Donna Tartt Empire Falls Richard Russo The Color Purple Alice Walker The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom We Need To Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver 100 Years Of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez English - The Alchemist Paulo Coelho South The House of Spirit Isabelle Allende American Ines of my Soul Isabelle Allende Authors Zorro Isabelle Allende Daughter Of Fortune Isabelle Allende Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco Name of the Rose Umberto Eco Baudolino Umberto Eco The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco Les Miserables Victor Hugo The Diving Bell And The Butterfly Jean-Dominique Bauby English - Blindness Saramago European Le Petit Prince Saint Exupery Authors Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes (can If this is man Primo Levi support The Truce Primo Levi languages) The Drowned and the Saved Primo Levi The Periodic Table Primo Levi Candide Voltaire The Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad The Outsider Albert Camus The Shadow Of The Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro English – The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Asian A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Authors Sour Sweet Timothy Mo The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai English – The Famished Road Ben Okri African Purple Hibiscus Chimananda Ngozi Authors Adichie Poetics Aristotle English - The Divine Comedy Dante ‘Classical’ The Iliad Homer Texts The Odyssey Homer Earth, An Intimate History Fortey Geography Globalisation, Regionalism And Capitalism As If The Earth Porritt Mattered Further Reading Future Shock Tofler A Blueprint For Survival Edward Goldsmith Population Geography Jones The Skeptical Environmentalist Lomberg Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival Ghinsberg Surviving Extremes Middleton Earth From Space Johnston Belching Out The Devil: Global Adventures With Coca-Cola Thomas Tribe Bruce Parry So You Think You Know About Britain Danny Dorling Landmarks Robert Macfarlane This changes everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate Naomi Klein The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers who Sought to see the Peter Moore Future The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Nan Shepherd Scotland Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last Jared Diamond 13,000 years Into the Wild Jon Krakauer The Looting Machine Tom Burgis Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know Ranulph Fiennes What Nature Does For Britain Tony Juniper Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat Philip Lymbery Mud, Sweat and Tears Bear Grylls The Aims Of History Thomson The Death Of The Past Plumb The Pleasures Of The Past Cannadine History Long Shadows Paris Voodoo Histories Aaronovitch Virtual History Ferguson Languages Please refer to the books in the ‘English’ section above. Python Programming For The Absolute Beginner Mike Dawson ICT Entrepreneur Revolution: How To Develop Your Entrepreneurial Daniel Priestly Mind-set And Start A Business That Works The Justice Game Robertson Getting Into Law Lygo The Search For Justice Rozenburg Law Understanding Laws Adams & Brownsword Law And Modern Society Atiyah The Rule Of Law Bingham Bonfire Of The Liberties: New Labour, Human Rights Ewing Fermat’s Last Theorem Singh Does God Play Dice Stewart Nature’s Numbers Stewart Maths Easy As Pi Ivanov The Music Of The Primes Du Sautoy Just Six Numbers Rees In Code Flannery Further Reading Numbers, Sets And Axioms Hamilton The Universe And The Teacup – The Maths Of Truth And Beauty Cole Algebra And Geometry Beardon Hidden Connections, Double Meanings Wells Elastic Fishponds…The Maths That Governs Our World Elwes The Norm Chronicles Blastland & Spitgethaltes Hippocratic Oaths Tallis Medicine The Rise And Fall Of Modern Medicine Le Fanu Dispatches From The Frontline Of Medical Mysteries Sanders I Never Promised You A Rose Garden John Crace The Origins Of Political Order Fukuyama The Dilemma Of Democracy Hailsham The Third Way And Its Critics Giddens Politics Plato To Nato Redhead British Politics Madgwick Mind The Gap Mount All Too Human Stephanopolous Do You Think What You Think You Think? Julian Baggini What Is Good? A.C. Grayling Philosophy Gorgias Plato How To Outwit Aristotle Peter Cave The Chemistry Of Life Steven Rose Language Of The Genes Steve Jones Almost Like A Whale Steve Jones The Wisdom Of The Genes Christopher Wills Darwin’s Dangerous Idea Daniel Dennett The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins The Extended Phenotype Richard Dawkins The God Delusion Richard Dawkins The Origin Of Species Charles Darwin Virolution Frank Ryan Life Ascending Nick Lane The Revenge Of Gaia James Lovelock 50 Genetic Ideas You Really Need To Know Mark Henderson Sciences Zoobiquity Horowitz and Bowers Creation: The Origin Of Life Adam Rutherford Chemistry Brock Principles Of Biochemistry White, Handler & Smith Chemistry For Changing Times Hill, McCreary & Kolb Materials Science Ramsden The Periodic Kingdom Atkins Mendeleyev’s Dream – The Search For The Elements Strathern Periodic Tales – the Curious Life of the Elements Hugh Aldersey-Williams The Disappearing Spoon Kean Does Anything Eat Wasps? New Scientist Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? New Scientist Why Can’t Elephants Jump? New Scientist Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? New Scientist Further Reading Why Don’t Penguins Feet Freeze? New Scientist Why Are Orangutans Orange? New Scientist A Short History Of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson In Search Of Schrodinger’s Cat John Gribben In Search Of The Multiverse John Gribben The Physics Of The Impossible Kaku Hyperspace Khan QED: The Strange Theory Of Light And Matter Richard Feynman Surely You’re Joking Richard Feynman The Trouble With Physics Smolin Chaos Gleich Quantum Kumar How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog Orzel 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need To Know Baker The Elegant Universe Greene Just Six Numbers Rees About Time Frank The Wonders Of The Solar System Brian Cox Websites: Subject Title Author ALL www.ted.com www.wallpaper.com Art www.thisiscolossal.com www.economics.com www.CNNMoney.com Economics www.econtalk.com www.ft.com www.discoverengineering.org Engineering www.raeng.org.uk www.mongabay.com www.gapminder.org Geography www.facingthefuture.org