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Written by Andrew Brisbane
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Wednesday, 14 February 2007 |
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Senior Reading List Revised Autumn 2005 There can be no definitive reading list, but here is a selection recommended by Senior Schools and supplemented through pupil suggestion and recognition of the growing number of talented authors, with special reference to teenage and young adult literature. This list can be used as a ‘tick list’, where other titles by the same author would be acceptable, though reading abridged or children’s versions (or watching a television or film adaptation) would not. It is important to read widely, both different authors and genres. | Classics | | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | | | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | | | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles | | | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | | | H Rider Haggard | King Solomon’s Mines | | | Sir Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | | | Jules Verne | Journey to the Centre of the Earth | | | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | | | H G Wells | The Time Machine | | | Thomas Hardy | The Mayor of Casterbridge | | | Edgar Allen Poe | The Pit and the Pendulum | | | Jack London | Sea Wolf | | | John Buchan | The Thirty-Nine Steps | | | Samuel Pepys | Diary | | | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | | | Alexandre Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo | | | Modern Classics | | J R R Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings | | | Evelyn Waugh | Decline and Fall | | | Daphne du Maurier | Rebecca | | | John Steinbeck | Of Mice and Men | | | Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea | | | Paul Gallico | The Snow Goose | | | Siegfried Sassoon | Memoirs of an Infantry Officer | | | C S Forester | Mr Midshipman Hornblower | | | Nevil Shute | On the Beach | | | Agatha Christie | Murder on the Orient Express | | | P G Wodehouse | The Inimitable Jeeves | | | Kingsley Amis | Lucky Jim | | | Graham Greene | Brighton Rock | | | Joseph Heller | Catch 22 | | | E M Forster | A Passage to India | | | Robert Graves | Goodbye to All That | | | Erich Maria von Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front | | | George Orwell | Animal Farm | | | Laurie Lee | Cider with Rosie | | | Anne Frank | Diary | | | Aldous Huxley | Brave New World | | | 20th Century Authors | | Michael Crichton | Jurassic Park | | | H E Bates | Fair Stood the Wind for France | | | J G Ballard | Empire of the Sun | | | Jeffrey Archer | Not a Penny More Not a Penny Less | | | Wilbur Smith | The Sunbird | | | Mary Renault | The Bull from the Sea | | | Josephine Tey | The Daughter of Time | | | Roald Dahl | Tales of the Unexpected | | | Julian Stockwin | Kydd | | | Barry Hines | A Kestrel for a Knave | | | John Wyndham | The Chrysalids | | | Sue Townsend | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 133/4 | | | Bernard Cornwell | Sharpe’s Rifles | | | Gerald Durrell | My Family and Other Animals | | | Robert C O’Brien | Z for Zachariah | | | Frederick Forsyth | The Day of the Jackal | | | Jack Higgins | The Eagle Has Landed | | | Dick Francis | Bonecrack | | | P D James | Devices and Desires | | | Ruth Rendell | Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter | | | Christian Jacques | Ramses The Son of the Light | | | Compton MacKenzie | Whisky Galore | | | Alistair MacLean | The Guns of Navarone | | | James Herriott | All Creatures Great and Small | | | Patrick O’ Brian | Master and Commander | | | John Grisham | The Client | | | Ellis Peters | One Corpse too Many | | | Harlan Coben | Tell No One | | | Dan Brown | The Da Vinci Code | | | Bill Bryson | Notes from a Small Island | | | Tom Clancy | The Hunt for Red October | | | Science Fiction and Fantasy | | Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl | | | Susan Cooper | The Dark Is Rising | | | Alan Garner | The Owl Service | | | Philip Pullman | Northern Lights | | | David Almond | Skellig | | | Terry Pratchett | The Colour of Magic | | | Frank Herbert | Dune | | | Philip Reeves | Mortal Engines | | | Marcus Sedgwick | The Book of Dead Days | | | William Nicholson | The Windsinger | | | Isaac Asimov | I, Robot | | | Ray Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 | | | Robert Westall | The Wind Eye | | | Garth Nix | Sabriel | | | Catherine Storr | Marianne Dreams | | | Madeleine de l’Engle | A Wrinkle in Time | | | Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell | Beyond the Deep Woods | | | Stephen Donaldson | Lord Foul’s Bane | | | Terry Brooks | The Sword of Shannara | | | Christopher Paoli | Eragon | | | Teenage Fiction | | Malorie Blackman | Noughts and Crosses | | | Robert Swindells | Brother in the Land | | | Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night | | | Louis Sachar | Holes | | | Jamila Gavin | Coram Boy | | | Biography/Autobiography | | Chris Bonnington | Everest the Hard Way | | | Sir Ranulph Fiennes | |
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