The more pupils read, the more successful they tend to be. Here are some suggestions for library visits, presents, browsing in bookshops online, etc. | |
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 |