Recommended Reading List
Recommended Reading List
Year Eight
| Douglas Adams | Restaurant at the End of the Universe | |
| Joan Aiken | Wolves of Willoughby Chase series | |
| Louisa M Alcott | Little Women | |
| Good Wives | ||
| David Almond | Fire-Eaters | |
| Kingsley Amis | We Are All Guilty | |
| R M Ballantyne | The Coral Island | |
| Jean-Dominique Bauby | The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly | |
| Tim Bowler | The River Boy | |
| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | |
| Bill Bryson | Notes from a Small Island | |
| Melvyn Burgess | Kite | |
| G K Chesterton | Father Brown series | |
| Agatha Christie | Sparkling Cyanide | |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 2001 A Space Odyssey | |
| Susan Cooper | The Dark is Rising series | |
| David Clement-Davies | Fire Bringer | |
| Robert Cormier | The Chocolate War | |
| Bernard Cornwell | Sharpe series | |
| Helen Cresswell | Moondial | |
| Gillian Cross | Wolf | |
| Roald Dahl | Kiss Kiss | |
| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | |
| Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | |
| Alexander Dumas | The Three Musketeers | |
| Gerald Durrell | My Family and Other Animals | |
| T S Eliot | Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats | |
| Anne Fine | Tulip Touch | |
| Catherine Forde | Fat Boy Swim | |
| C S Forester | Hornblower series | |
| Ann Frank | The Diary of Anne Frank | |
| Jostein Gaarder | Sophie’s World | |
| Leon Garfield | Smith | |
| Alan Garner | The Owl Service | |
| Alan Gibbons | Caught in the Crossfire | |
| William Golding | Lord of the Flies | |
| Mark Haddon | Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | |
| Brian Keaney | Balloon House | |
| Elisabeth Laird | Jake's Tower | |
| Gaston Leroux | Phantom of the Opera | |
| Aidan MacFarlane | Diary of a Teenage Health Freak | |
| Catherine MacPhail | Missing | |
| Gerald McCaughrean | A Pack of Lies | |
| James Vance Marshall | Walkabout | |
| Robert Muchamore | The Recruit | |
| George Orwell | 1984 | |
| K M Peyton | Flambards series | |
| Terry Pratchett | Disc World series | |
| Philip Pullman | Northern Lights series | |
| Erich Maria Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front | |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | |
| Rosemary Sutcliffe | The King Arthur Stories | |
| Robert Swindells | Ruby Tanya | |
| Sue Townsend | Secret Diary of Adrian Mole | |
| Eleanor Updale | Montmorency series | |
| Jules Verne | Round the World in Eighty Days | |
| H G Wells | The Invisible Man | |
| War of the Worlds | ||
| Robert Westall | Break of Dark | |
| John Wyndham | The Chrysalids |
June 2007