The more pupils read, the more successful they tend to be. Here are some suggestions for library visits, presents, browsing in bookshops online, etc. |
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Author |
Title |
Adams, Richard |
Watership Down |
Aesop |
Aesop’s Fables |
Aiken, Joan |
Black Hearts in Battersea |
Alcock, Vivien |
The Cuckoo Sister |
Alcott, Louisa May |
Little Women |
Allende, Isabel |
House of the Spirits |
Allingham, Margery |
Tiger in the Smoke |
Almond, David |
Skellig |
Amis, Kingsley |
Lucky Jim |
Angelou, Maya |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Atkinson, Kate |
Behind the Scenes at the Museum |
Atwood, Margaret |
The Handmaid’s Tale |
Austen, Jane |
Pride and Prejudice |
Bainbridge, Beryl |
Young Adolf |
Ballantyne, R.M. |
The Coral Island |
Ballard, J.G. |
Empire of the Sun |
Banks, Lynne Reid |
The L-Shaped Room |
Barker, Pat |
Regeneration |
Barrie, J.M. |
Peter Pan |
Bates, H.G. |
The Darling Buds of May |
Baum, L.Frank |
The Wizard of Oz |
Bawden, Nina |
Carrie’s War |
Bennett, Arthur |
Anna of the Five Towns |
Blackmore, R.D. |
Lorna Doone |
Blake, Michael |
Dances with Wolves |
Blixen, Karen |
Out of Africa |
Blume, Judy |
Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret |
Boston, Lucy M. |
Children of Green Knowe |
Bowler, Tim |
River Boy |
Boyd, William |
A Good Man in Africa |
Brontë, Charlotte |
Jane Eyre |
Brontë, Emily |
Wuthering Heights |
Brookner, Anita |
Hôtel du Lac |
Bryson, Bill |
Notes from a Small Island |
Buchan, John |
The Thirty-Nine Steps |
Burgess, Anthony |
A Clockwork Orange |
Burnett, Frances H. |
The Secret Garden |
Byars, Betsy |
The Eighteenth Emergency |
Byatt, A.S. |
Babel Tower |
Carroll, Lewis |
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland |
Chandler, Raymond |
The Big Sleep |
Chaucer, Geoffrey |
The Canterbury Tales |
Chekhov, Anton |
Three Sisters |
Christie, Agatha |
Murder on the Orient Express |
Collins, Wilkie |
The Moonstone |
Coolidge, Susan |
What Katy Did |
Cormier, Robert |
The Chocolate War |
Cornwell, Patricia |
Postmortem |
Cresswell, Helen |
Moondial |
Cross, Gillian |
The Demon Headmaster |
Dahl, Roald |
Tales of the Unexpected |
Danziger, Paula |
Earth to Matthew |
Defoe, Daniel |
Robinson Crusoe |
Desai, Anita |
The Village by the Sea |
Dickens, Charles |
Great Expectations |
Dickens, Monica |
One Pair of Hands |
Doherty, Berlie |
Dear Nobody |
Doyle, Arthur Conan |
The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
Doyle, Roddy |
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
Drabble, Margaret |
Jerusalem the Golden |
Dumas, Alexandre |
The Count of Monte Cristo |
Du Maurier, Daphne |
Rebecca |
Durrell, Gerald |
My Family and Other Animals |
Eliot, George |
The Mill on the Floss |
Evans, Nicholas |
The Horse Whisperer |
Falkner, John M. |
Moonfleet |
Faulks, Sebastian |
Birdsong |
Fielding, Helen |
Bridget Jones’ Diary |
Fielding, Henry |
Tom Jones |
Fine, Anne |
The Flour Babies |
Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
The Great Gatsby |
Forester, C.S. |
Captain Hornblower |
Forster, E.M. |
A Room with a View |
Frank, Anne |
The Diary of Anne Frank |
Galsworthy, John |
The Forsyte Saga |
Garfield, Leon |
Smith |
Garland, A |
The Beach |
Gaskell, Elizabeth |
Cranford |
Gibbons, Stella |
Cold Comfort Farm |
Golding, William |
Lord of the Flies |
Grahame, Kenneth |
The Wind in the Willows |
Graves, Robert |
I, Claudius |
Greene, Graham |
The Tenth Man |
Grisham, John |
The Client |
Guy, Rosa |
The Friends |
Haggard, H.Rider |
King Solomon’s Mines |
Hardy, Thomas |
The Mayor of Casterbridge |
Harris, Joanne |
Chocolat |
Hartley, L.P. |
The Go-Between |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
The Scarlet Letter |
Hemingway, Ernest |
The Old Man and the Sea |
Hendry, Frances Mary |
Chandia |
Herriot, James |
All Creatures Great and Small |
Hilton, James |
Goodbye Mr. Chips |
Hines, Barry |
A Kestrel for a Knave |
Hinton, Nigel |
Buddy |
Hinton, S.E. |
The Outsiders |
Holm, Anne |
I Am David |
Hornby, Nick |
High Fidelity |
Hughes, Thomas |
Tom Brown’s School Days |
Huxley, Aldous |
Brave New World |
Isherwood, Christopher |
The Berlin Stories |
James, Henry |
Portrait of a Lady |
James, P.D. |
The Black Tower |
Jerome, Jerome K. |
Three Men in a Boat |
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer |
Heat and Dust |
Joyce, James |
The Dubliners |
Kaye, Geraldine |
Comfort Herself |
Kaye, M.M. |
The Far Pavilions |
Kerr, Judith |
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit |
King, Clive |
Stig of the Dump |
King-Smith, Dick |
The Sheep Pig |
Kingsley, Charles |
The Water Babies |
Kipling, Rudyard |
The Jungle Book |
Laird, Elizabeth |
Kiss the Dust |
Lawrence, D.H. |
Women in Love |
Le Carré, John |
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy |
Le Guin, Ursula |
Wizard of Earthsea |
Lee, Harper |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
Lee, Laurie |
Cider with Rosie |
Lessing, Doris |
The Grass is Singing |
Levin, Ira |
The Boys from Brazil |
Lewis, C.S. |
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe |
Lindsay, Joan |
Picnic at Hanging Rock |
Lingard, Joan |
The Twelfth Day of July |
Lively, Penelope |
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe |
London, Jack |
The Call of the Wild |
Magorian, Michelle |
Goodnight Mister Tom |
Manning, Olivia |
The Balkan Trilogy |
Mansfield, Katherine |
Collected Stories |
Marshall, James Vance |
Walkabout |
MacLaverty, Bernard |
Cal |
McCourt, Frank |
Angela’s Ashes |
Miller, Arthur |
Death of a Salesman |
Mitchell, Margaret |
Gone with the Wind |
Mitford, Nancy |
Love in a Cold Climate |
Montgomery, L. M. |
Anne of Green Gables |
Murphy, Jill |
The Worst Witch |
Nesbit, Edith |
The Railway Children |
Norton, Mary |
The Borrowers |
O’Brien, Edna |
The Country Girls |
O’Brien, R.C. |
Z for Zachariah |
O’Hara, Mary |
My Friend Flicka |
Orwell, George |
Nineteen Eighty-Four |
Paton, Alan |
Cry, the Beloved Country |
Pearce, Philippa |
Tom’s Midnight Garden |
Peyton, K.M. |
A Midsummer Night’s Death |
Price, Willard |
Arctic Adventure |
Priestley, J.B. |
An Inspector Calls |
Porter, Eleanor H. |
Pollyanna |
Puzo, Mario |
The Godfather |
Ransome, Arthur |
Swallows and Amazons |
Read, Miss |
Village School |
Reichs, Kathy |
Déjà Dead |
Rhue, Morton |
The Wave |
Rhys, Jean |
Wide Sargasso Sea |
Russell, Willy |
Educating Rita |
Rowling, J.K. |
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone |
Salinger, J.D. |
The Catcher in the Rye |
Scott, Sir Walter |
Ivanhoe |
Serraillier, Ian |
The Silver Sword |
Sewell, Anna |
Black Beauty |
Shaw, George Bernard |
Pygmalion |
Shelley, Mary |
Frankenstein |
Smith, Dodie |
101 Dalmations |
Smith, Zadie |
White Teeth |
Spark, Muriel |
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
Steinbeck, John |
Of Mice and Men |
Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Treasure Island |
Stoker, Bram |
Dracula |
Streatfield, Noel |
Ballet Shoes |
Sutcliffe, Rosemary |
Beowulf |
Swift, Jonathan |
Gulliver’s Travels |
Tan, Amy |
The Joy Luck Club |
Taylor, Mildred D. |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
Thackeray, W.M. |
Vanity Fair |
Theroux. Paul |
The Mosquito Coast |
Thurber, James |
Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
Tolkien, J. R. R. |
The Hobbit |
Tolstoy, Leo |
Anna Karenina |
Townsend, Sue |
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole |
Trollope, Anthony |
Barchester Towers |
Twain, Mark |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
Tyler, Anne |
Ladder of Years |
Ure, Jean |
A Proper Little Nooryeff |
Verne, Jules |
Around the World in Eighty Days |
Waugh, Evelyn |
Brideshead Revisited |
Weldon, Faye |
Big Women |
Wells, H. G. |
The Time Machine |
Wesley, Mary |
The Camomile Lawn |
Westall, Robert |
The Scarecrows |
Wharton, Edith |
The Age of Innocence |
White, E.B. |
Charlotte’s Web |
White, T. H. |
The Sword in the Stone |
Wilde, Oscar |
The Importance of Being Earnest |
Wiggins, Kate Douglas |
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm |
Williams, Tennessee |
The Glass Menagerie |
Williamson, Henry |
Tarka the Otter |
Wodehouse, P.G. |
Very Good, Jeeves |
Woodford, Peggy |
Out of the Sun |
Woolf, Virginia |
To the Lighthouse |
Wyndham, John |
The Day of the Triffids |
Wyss, J.D. |
Swiss Family Robinson |