Reading Suggestions

Here are some ideas for books you may want to try. Most of these are aimed at Year 10, but that is just a rough guide.

Amy Tan The Bonesetter's Daughter

Adeline Yen Mah Falling Leaves

Joanne Harris Chocolat
Blackberry Wine
Five Quarters of the Orange

Sebastian Faulks Birdsong

Charlotte Gray Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Robert Westall Falling into Glory
The Machine Gunners

Michelle Magorian A Little Love Song
A Spoonful of Jam
Goodnight Mr Tom
Cuckoo in the Nest

Penelope Lively Moon Tiger
City of the Mind
Cleopatra's Sister

Lynne Reid Banks L Shaped Room

Melvin Burgess Loving April
Junk
Bloodtide

H E Bates The Darling Buds of May

Anita Shreve Fortune's Rocks

Rose Tremain Music and Silence
Restoration

Iris Murdoch A Severed Head

Ian McEwan Atonement

Tracey Chevalier Girl with a Pearl Earring

Alice Sebold Lovely Bones

Bernard Ashley Little Soldier

Tim Bowler Shadows
River Boy

JRR Tolkien The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings

Benjamin Zephaniah Face
Refugee Boy

Bernard Cornwell The Sharpe novels

Robert Harris Fatherland
Enigma

Phillip Pullman Dark Materials Trilogy

Terry Pratchett Discworld books

Frederick Forsyth Day of the Jackal etc

John Grisham The Client
The Chamber
The Firm

Tom Sharpe Wilt
Blott on the Landscape

Douglas Adams Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Nick Hornby High Fidelity
Fever Pitch

Ernest Hemingway Death in the Afternoon

Julian Barnes A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters

Nevil Shute A Town like Alice

C.S. Forester The Hornblower books

Aldous Huxley Brave New World

Tom Clancy The Teeth of the Tiger
Red Rabbit

What are your favourite books? Leave a comment to let everyone know!