READING LISTS SENIOR SCHOOL Name Class Welcome These reading lists are a selection of the titles available in the Senior Library at Dulwich College and are intended for students’ and parents’ guidance. They aim to include a range of genres and writing styles to engage, interest and perhaps challenge students to broaden their reading choices. With over 6000 children’s books published in the UK alone every year it is often difficult to identify quality writing so these lists are an attempt to guide you towards some of the best available. The lists should be used with discretion. If you feel the list for your particular age group does not include titles at an appropriate level for your reading age and ability level you may wish to select from the list intended for a younger or older year group. However the main aim of these lists are to encourage an enjoyment of reading and to introduce you to books you may not have considered reading. Reading broadens horizons, helps develop written and spoken vocabulary and spelling, aids in the development of empathy, expands one’s thinking and imagination, and may introduce you to new ideas and worlds. It is one of life’s fundamental skills and pleasures. The Library, in conjunction with the English Department, runs an annual Senior School Reading Challenge where students are encouraged to read from a wide range of genre over the course of a year and maintain a reading log as well as completing a range of literacy tasks. We also participate in the International School Librarians Network Red Dot Book Award each year http://www.reddotawards.com/ where students are challenged to read eight books in their age category and vote for the favourite. They may then compete in the Readers Cup event and represent Dulwich in an annual quiz, against other Singapore schools, testing their knowledge of the books. Our library catalogue http://dcsg.follettdestiny.com/ has an extensive range of Recommended Reading Lists under Resource Lists>Public Lists where books are categorized according to genre as well as reading age and level. You may also wish to make use of our Pinterest page http://www.pinterest.com/DCSGLibrary/ which presents this information in a visual format with links to Good Reads reviews. The library website contains masses of useful links, and can be accessed through the parent portal, or via http://dcsg.fireflycloud.asia/welcome-page The Library Staff 2016 Year 7 Recommended Reading Richard Adams. Watership Down. Andrew Lane. Young Sherlock Holmes series. Malorie Blackman. Noughts and Crosses. Michelle Magorian. Goodnight Mr Tom. John Boyne. Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Geraldine McCaughrean.The Kite Rider. Ally Carter. Gallagher Girl series. Ian McEwan. The Daydreamer. Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games series. Michael Morpurgo. Private Peaceful. Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes. William Nicholson. Wind Singer series. Gillian Cross. After Tomorrow. RJ Palacio. Wonder. Joseph Delaney. Spook’s Apprentice series. Christopher Paolini. Eragon. Deborah Ellis. The Breadwinner. Anabel Pitcher. My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece. Anne Fine. The Tulip Touch; Flour Babies. Terry Pratchett. Johnny and the Bomb. Cornelia Funke. Thief Lord; Inkheart. Philip Pullman. Northern Lights; Ruby in the Smoke series. Sally Gardner. I Coriander; The Red Necklace. Philip Reeve. Here Lies Arthur. Morris Gleitzman. Two Weeks with the Queen. Alex Scarrow. Time Riders series. Julia Golding. Diamond of Drury Lane. Darren Shan. The Saga of Darren Shan series. Frances Hardinge. Fly By Night. Mildred Taylor. Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry. Anne Holm. I am David. JRR Tolkein. Lord of the Rings. Mary Hooper. At the Sign of the Sugared Plum [and others]. Mark Walden. H.I.V.E. series. Judith Kerr. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. Jeanette Winterson. Tanglewreck. Suzanne LaFleur. Love, Aubrey. Marcus Zusack. The Book Thief. Elizabeth Laird. The Garbage King. Year 8 Recommended Reading Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Marie Lu. Legend; Prodigy; Champion. series. Adeline Yen Mah. Chinese Cinderella. David Almond. Skellig; The Boy Who Swam with Gemma Malley. The Declaration trilogy. Piranhas. Yann Martel. Life of Pi. Malorie Blackman. The Stuff of Nightmares; Tell Me No Lies. Simon Mayo. Itch. Chris Bradford. Bodyguard series; Young Samurai Geraldine McCaughrean.The Kite Rider. series. Sophie McKenzie. Girl, Missing series. Kevin Brooks. Martyn Pig; iBoy. Andy Mulligan. Trash. Anne Cassidy. Looking for JJ. Beverley Naidoo. The Other Side of Truth. Agatha Christie. Various titles. Sally Nicholls. Ways to Live Forever. Ally Condie. Matched trilogy. George Orwell. Animal Farm. Dave Cousins. 15 Days Without a Head. James Patterson. Maximum Ride series. James Dashner. The Maze Runner series. Annabel Pitcher. Ketchup Clouds. Jennifer Donnelly. A Gathering Light. Louise Rennison. Confessions of Georgia Nicolson Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles. series. T. S. Easton. Boys Don’t Knit. Veronica Roth. The Divergent trilogy. Anne Fine. The Tulip Touch. Chris Ryan. Code Red series; Alpha Force series. Jamila Gavin. Coram Boy. Louis Sachar. Small Steps. Morris Gleitzman. Two Weeks with the Queen. Marcus Sedgwick. My Swordhand is Singing; Blood Red, Snow White. Julia Golding. The Diamond of Drury Lane. Holly Smale. Geek Girl series. William Golding. Lord of the Flies. Alexander Gordon Smith. The Furnace series. Michael Grant. Gone. Sue Townsend. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. Mark Haddon. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Rachel Ward. Numbers series. S. E. Hinton. The Outsiders. Scott Westerfeld. Uglies series. Anne Holm. I am David. John Wyndham. The Day of the Triffids; Chrysalids. Eva Ibbotson. Journey to the River Sea. Malala Yousafzai. I am Malala. Year 9 Recommended Reading Douglas Adams. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Patrick Ness. The Knife of Never Letting Go [Chaos Galaxy. Walking trilogy]. Malorie Blackman. Noughts and Crosses; Boys Don’t George Orwell. Animal Farm; 1984. Cry; Noble Conflict. Christopher Paolini. The Inheritance Cycle series. Anne Cassidy. Looking for JJ and others. Mervyn Peake. Gormenghast trilogy. Jung Chang. Wild Swans. Annabel Pitcher. Ketchup Clouds. Robert Cormier. The Chocolate War; I Am the Cheese. Morton Rhue. The Wave. Roald Dahl. Skin and other stories; Tales of the Meg Rosoff. How I Live Now [and others]. Unexpected. JD Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye. Berlie Doherty. Dear Nobody. Marcus Sedgwick. Revolver; My Swordhand is Jennifer Donnelly. A Gathering Light. Singing; Blood Red, Snow White. David Eddings. Belgariad series. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein. John Flanagan. Ranger’s Apprentice series. Alexie Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part- Alan Gibbons. The Edge. Time Indian. William Golding. Lord of the Flies. Dodie Smith. I Capture the Castle. John Green. Fault In Our Stars; Paper Towns; Will John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men. Grayson. RL Stevenson. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Liam Hearn.Tales of the Otori series. Bram Stoker. Dracula. Susan Hill. I’m the King of the Castle; Woman in Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels. Black. Jules Verne. Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Aldous Huxley. Brave New World. HG Wells. War of the Worlds; Time Machine. Jerome K Jerome. Three Men in a Boat. PG Wodehouse. Jeeves & Wooster series. Laurie Lee. Cider With Rosie; As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning. John Wyndham. The Day of the Triffids; Chrysalids. Anthony McGowan. The Knife That Killed Me. Rick Yancey. The 5th Wave series. Beverley Naidoo. Other Side of Truth. Year 10 Recommended Reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Half of a Yellow Sun. Nick Hornby. Fever Pitch. Monica Ali. Brick Lane. Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner; A Thousand Splendid Suns. Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Aldous Huxley. Brave New World. Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid’s Tale. Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility. Stephen King . The Green Mile; The Shining. Iain Banks. The Wasp Factory. Jonas Jonasson. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Pat Barker. Regeneration. Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird. Ann Brashares. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Andrea Levi. Small Island. Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. Cormac McCarthy. The Road. Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights. Ian McEwan. Atonement. Kevin Brooks. iBoy; Bunker Diary. Chuck Palahniuk. Fight Club. John Buchan. The Thirty-Nine Steps. Sylvia Plath. The Bell Jar. Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep; Farewell My Gregory David Roberts. Shantaram. Lovely; The Long Goodbye. Meg Rosoff. How I Live Now; Just In Case; What I Tracy Chevalier. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Was; The Bride’s Farewell. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White. Alice Sebold. The Lovely Bones. Louis de Bernières. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. Marcus Sedgwick. Midwinterblood. Daphne Du Maurier. Rebecca. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein. Sebastian Faulks. Birdsong. Zadie Smith. White Teeth. F Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath. EM Forster. A Room with a View. Kathryn Stockett. The Help. Alex Garland. The Beach. Alice Walker. The Color Purple. Graham Greene. Brighton Rock. Jason Wallace. Out of Shadows. Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles; Far from the Elizabeth E. Wein. Code Name Verity. Madding Crowd. Moira Young. Blood Red Road. Joseph Heller. Catch-22. Susan Hill. The Woman in Black; I’m the King of the Castle. Reading Activities Years ??/?? Write a postcard to a friend, the author, or to a Movie previews always offer a quick sequence of character about this book. Write as if you were the the best moments that make us want to watch it character or author and write to yourself. – storyboard or narrate the scenes for your trailer. Focus on verbs. Write a one-page “pitch” to a producer explaining why the story would or would not make a great Write a Haiku, Limerick or Rhyme about a movie. character.