TESTBOURNE COMMUNITY SCHOOL LIBRARY RESOURCES Year 10 & 11 Suggested Further Reading List

In Years 10 and 11 it can be difficult to find time to read anything which is not directly related to your GCSEs.

The choice of English literature books is vast and inspiring, but can often seem intimidating. This list is designed as a

starting point to encourage you to explore reading independently. It features both contemporary authors and classic

texts as it is a good idea to read a variety of different styles and genres.

You may find that some of the books are more challenging than you are used to, both in content and style.

Don’t be put off by that – see it as a reading journey!

Most of the authors found in the school library can also be found in your public library so don’t forget to visit there

too. If you need any help with your book choices your English teacher or librarian will be happy to help.

Happy Reading!

List updated 13/05/2020 E.Bates

The Poet X Things Fall Apart The Hitchhiker’s Guide… Purple Hibiscus The Red Ribbon

Elizabeth Acevedo Chinua Achebe Douglas Adams Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lucy Adlington

Flawed Internment Secrets of the Henna Girl The Hazel Wood Brick Lane

Cecelia Ahern Samira Ahmed Sufiya Ahmed Melissa Albert Monica Ali

The House of the Spirits Aftermath I Know Why… Cat’s Eye Pride and Prejudice

Isabel Allende Kelley Armstrong Maya Angelou Margaret Atwood Jane Austen

Empire of the Sun Six of Crows Regeneration Goodbye, Perfect The Girl Who… J.G. Ballard Leigh Barduga Pat Barker Sara Barnard Emily Barr

Fair Stood the Wind… The Burning The Island Far From the Tree Witchborn

H.E. Bates Laura Bates M.A. Bennett Robin Benway Nicholas Bowling

Any Human Heart The Absolutist Fahrenheit 451 Caged Ink William Boyd John Boyne Ray Bradbury Theresa Breslin Alice Broadway

Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Bury My Heart… The Thirty Nine Steps The Fall

Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte Dee Brown John Buchan Albert Camus

Breakfast at Tiffany’s Postcards From No M… Wild Swans The Moonstone The Bombs that…

Truman Capote Aidan Chambers Jung Chang Wilkie Collins Brian Conaghan

Heart of Darkness The Last of the Mohicans Moonrise The Hours Rosie Loves Jack

Joseph Conrad James Fenimore Cooper Sarah Crossan Michael Cunningham Mel Darbon

Margot and Me The Truth About Lies Great Expectations Big Bones The Brothers Karamazov

Juno Dawson Tracy Darnton Charles Dickens Laura Dockrill Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Study in Scarlet Rebecca A Heartbreaking Work… The Graces Alone in Berlin

Arthur Conan Doyle Daphne du Maurier Dave Eggers Laure Eve Hans Fallada

Lydia: Wild Girl… Birdsong Bridget Jones’s Diary The Great Gatsby Everything is Illuminated Natasha Farrant Sebastian Faulks Helen Fielding F. Scott Fitzgerald Jonathan Safran Foer

A Room with a View The Bone Sparrow Spies Notes From an Exhibition North and South

E.M. Forster Zana Fraillon Michael Frayn Patrick Gale Elizabeth Gaskell

Cold Comfort Farm Lord of the Flies Bone Talk Wolf by Wolf Goodbye to All That

Stella Gibbons William Golding Candy Gourlay Ryan Graudin Robert Graves

The Smoke Thieves Brighton Rock Payback Rebel of the Sands A Skinful of Shadows Sally Green Graham Greene Martin Griffin Alwyn Hamilton Frances Hardinge

Far From the Madding… Chocolat I Am Not A Number Catch 22 The Old Man and the Sea

Thomas Hardy Joanne Harris Lisa Heathfield Joseph Heller Ernest Hemingway

After the Fire The Kite Runner Brave New World A Prayer for Owen Meany Never Let Me Go

Will Hill Khaled Hosseini Aldous Huxley John Irving Kazuo Ishiguro

We Have Always Lived… The Turn of the Screw The Loneliest Girl in the… The Trial The Opposite of Lone…

Shirley Jackson

Henry James Lauren James Franz Kafka Marina Keegan

On the Road One Flew Over the Cu… Schindler’s Ark I Am Thunder The Secret Life of Bees Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey Thomas Keneally Muhammad Khan Sue Monk Kidd

Orphan Monster Spy The Poisonwood Bible Nowhere on Earth To Kill a Mockingbird As I Walked Out…

Matt Killeen

Barbara Kingsolver Nick Lake Harper Lee Laurie Lee

The Periodic Table Warcross Night of the Party Selected Stories Chronicle of a Death…

Primo Levi Marie Lu Tracey Mathias Katherine Mansfield Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Atonement Truly, Wildly, Deeply When Dimple Met Rishi Gone With The Wind The Bluest Eye Ian McEwan Jenny McLachlan Sandhya Menon Margaret Mitchell Toni Morrison

The Rest of Us Just Live… The Shell House One Day Things a Bright Girl Can… Word Nerd

Patrick Ness Linda Newbery David Nicholls Sally Nicholls Susin Nielsen

Holding Up The Universe The Call The English Patient Asking for It Half Brother

Jennifer Niven Peadar O’Guilin Michael Ondaatje Louise O’Neill Kenneth Oppel

1984 The Fallen Children Cry, The Beloved Country Thin Air Gormenghast

George Orwell David Owen Alan Paton Michelle Paver Mervyn Peake

Keeper Life As We Knew It The Bell Jar White Rabbit Red Wolf Anything That Isn’t This

Mal Peet Susan Beth Pfeffer Sylvia Plath Tom Pollock Chris Priestley

All Quiet on the Western.. Long Way Down The Catcher in the Rye Saint Death Salt to the Sea

Erich Maria Remarque Jason Reynolds J.D. Salinger Marcus Sedgwick Ruta Sepetys

We Need to Talk… Run, Riot Scythe A Town Like Alice The Loneliness of the…

Lionel Shriver Nikesh Shukla Neal Shusterman Nevil Shute Alan Sillitoe

One Day in the Life of… The Prime of Miss Jean… Maus East of Eden The Exact Opposite of… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Muriel Spark Art Spiegelman John Steinbeck Laura Steven

The Help Dear Martin We See Everything This Mortal Coil Lies We Tell Ourselves

Kathryn Stockett Nic Stone William Sutcliffe Emily Suvada Robin Talley

Slated Vanity Fair The Hate U Give Honor Girl Enchantee

Teri Terry William Makepeace Thackeray

Angie Thomas Maggie Thrash Gita Trelease

The Cold is In Her Bones The Color Purple Numbers Brideshead Revisited Wing Jones Peternelle van Arsdale Alice Walker Rachel Ward Evelyn Waugh Katherine Webber

The Pearl Thief War of the Worlds Ethan Frome Liccle Bit Wolf Hollow Elizabeth Wein H.G. Wells Edith Wharton Alex Wheatle Lauren Wolk

A Sky Painted Gold Mrs Dalloway Day of the Triffids Laura Wood Virginia Woolf John Wyndham