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Senior reading list PDF Print E-mail
Written by Andrew Brisbane   
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 StevensonTreasure Island 
Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe 
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Hound of the Baskervilles 
Mary ShelleyFrankenstein 
H Rider HaggardKing Solomon’s Mines 
Sir Walter ScottIvanhoe 
Jules VerneJourney to the Centre of the Earth 
Charles DickensNicholas Nickleby 
H G WellsThe Time Machine 
Thomas HardyThe Mayor of Casterbridge 
Edgar Allen PoeThe Pit and the Pendulum 
Jack LondonSea Wolf 
John BuchanThe Thirty-Nine Steps 
Samuel PepysDiary 
Wilkie CollinsThe Moonstone 
Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo 
Modern Classics
J R R TolkienThe Lord of the Rings 
Evelyn WaughDecline and Fall 
Daphne du MaurierRebecca 
John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men 
Ernest HemingwayThe Old Man and the Sea 
Paul GallicoThe Snow Goose 
Siegfried SassoonMemoirs of an Infantry Officer 
C S ForesterMr Midshipman Hornblower 
Nevil ShuteOn the Beach 
Agatha ChristieMurder on the Orient Express 
P G WodehouseThe Inimitable Jeeves 
Kingsley AmisLucky Jim 
Graham GreeneBrighton Rock 
 
Joseph HellerCatch 22 
E M ForsterA Passage to India 
Robert GravesGoodbye to All That 
Erich Maria von RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front 
George OrwellAnimal Farm 
Laurie LeeCider with Rosie 
Anne FrankDiary 
Aldous HuxleyBrave New World 
20th Century Authors
Michael CrichtonJurassic Park 
H E BatesFair Stood the Wind for France 
J G BallardEmpire of the Sun 
Jeffrey ArcherNot a Penny More Not a Penny Less 
Wilbur SmithThe Sunbird 
Mary RenaultThe Bull from the Sea 
Josephine TeyThe Daughter of Time 
Roald DahlTales of the Unexpected 
Julian StockwinKydd 
Barry HinesA Kestrel for a Knave 
John WyndhamThe Chrysalids 
Sue TownsendThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 133/4 
Bernard CornwellSharpe’s Rifles 
Gerald DurrellMy Family and Other Animals 
Robert C O’BrienZ for Zachariah 
Frederick ForsythThe Day of the Jackal 
Jack HigginsThe Eagle Has Landed 
Dick FrancisBonecrack 
P D JamesDevices and Desires 
Ruth RendellKissing the Gunner’s Daughter 
Christian JacquesRamses The Son of the Light 
Compton MacKenzieWhisky Galore 
Alistair MacLeanThe Guns of Navarone 
James HerriottAll Creatures Great and Small 
Patrick O’ BrianMaster and Commander 
John GrishamThe Client 
Ellis PetersOne Corpse too Many 
Harlan CobenTell No One 
Dan BrownThe Da Vinci Code 
Bill BrysonNotes from a Small Island 
Tom ClancyThe Hunt for Red October 
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Eoin ColferArtemis Fowl 
Susan CooperThe Dark Is Rising 
Alan GarnerThe Owl Service 
Philip PullmanNorthern Lights 
David AlmondSkellig 
Terry PratchettThe Colour of Magic 
Frank HerbertDune 
Philip ReevesMortal Engines 
Marcus SedgwickThe Book of Dead Days 
William NicholsonThe Windsinger 
Isaac AsimovI, Robot 
Ray BradburyFahrenheit 451 
Robert WestallThe Wind Eye 
Garth NixSabriel 
Catherine StorrMarianne Dreams 
Madeleine de l’EngleA Wrinkle in Time 
Paul Stewart and Chris RiddellBeyond the Deep Woods 
Stephen DonaldsonLord Foul’s Bane 
Terry BrooksThe Sword of Shannara 
Christopher PaoliEragon 
Teenage Fiction
Malorie BlackmanNoughts and Crosses 
Robert SwindellsBrother in the Land 
Mark HaddonThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night 
Louis SacharHoles 
Jamila GavinCoram Boy 
Biography/Autobiography
Chris BonningtonEverest the Hard Way 
Sir Ranulph Fiennes