St Aidan’s Church Of England High School Library

St Aidan’s Church of England High School LibraryRecommended reads for Year 10 & 11The AlchemistPaulo CoelhoFollow your dreamsAngela’s AshesFrank McCourtIrish coming of age storyAnita and MeMeera SyalA Punjabi family in the Black CountryThe Black MagicianTrilogyTrudi CanavanFilled with magic and conspiracyThe Book ThiefMarkus ZusakThought provoking unusual readBoys Don’t CryMalorie BlackmanHard hitting teenage novelCatcher in the RyeJ D SalingerComing of age novelCold Comfort FarmStella GibbonsWitty novel about a chaotic familyCurious Incident of theDog in the NighttimeMark HaddonAn unusual murder MysteryThe DeclarationGemma MalleyThe year 2014 and people can liveforeverDivergentVeronica RothFirst novel in dystopian trilogyDo Androids Dream ofElectric Sheep?Philip K DickScience fictionEcho BoyMatt HaigScience fictionEmpire of the SunJ G BallardJapan in World War 2EragonChristopher PaoliniFantasyFahrenheit 451Ray BradburyThought provoking vision of the futureThe Fault in our StarsJohn GreenEmotional readFever PitchNick HornbyA fanatical football supporterThe 5 WaveRick YanceyAlien invasionGirl With the DragonTattooStieg LarssonGripping crime seriesGoneMichael GrantA world without adultsGreat ExpectationsCharles DickensThe fortunes of PipThe HelpKathryn StockettPrejudice in 1960s AmericaHow I Live NowMeg RosoffRomance, war, politicsI Capture the CastleDodie SmithLove, sibling rivalry, bohemian lifeJane EyreCharlotte BronteA masterpieceJunkMelvin BurgessJunk despairKetchup CloudsAnnabel PitcherRomance, death row and secretsth

Kite RunnerKhaled HosseiniBoyhood friendship in AfghanistanLeaving PoppyKate CannHaunting psychological thrillerLife of PiYann MartelRead the book before you see the filmLord of the RingJRR TolkienMiddle Earth adventureMatchedAllie CondieLiving in a controlled societyThe MoonstoneWilkie CollinsClassic detective novelMy Sister’s KeeperJodi PicoultGripping emotional story lineNineteen Eighty FourGeorge OrwellTotalitarian Government of the futureNotes From a SmallIslandBill BrysonTravel book which may make you laughout loudThe Number 1 Ladies’Detective AgencyAlexander McCall SmithHumorous novel set in BotswanaOde to KirihitoOsamu TezukaComic book masteryRebeccaDaphne Du MaurierClassic romantic mysteryPride and PrejudiceJane AustenThe much loved novelSherlock HolmesArthur Conan DoyleVictorian crimeShiverMaggie StiefvaterA chilling love storyThe Time MachineH G WellsClassic time travelUgliesScott WesterfeldA ‘beautiful’ societyVanishing of KatharinaLindenHelen GrantGripping plot and charactersThe White DarknessG McCaughreanDestination AntarcticaWhen Mr Dog BitesBrian ConaghanDylan Mint has Tourette’sWuthering HeightsEmily Bronte“one of the greatest books ever written’See also the Classic book list. Please ask if you need help finding a good book to read.Mrs Roth 2015

St Aidan's Church of England High School LibraryNeed something good to read? Try these classic recommended booksAdams, DAlcott, LAndersen, H CAusten, JBBBallard, JGBallantyne, RMBawden, NBlackmore, LBowler, TBradbury, RBronte, CBurgess, ABurnett, FHCarr, JLCarroll, LChristie, ACollins, WCoolidge, SCooper, JFCooper, SCrossley-Holland, KDefoe, DDickens, CDickens, CDoherty, BDoyle, A ConanDunmore, HEliot, GEliot, T SForster, EMFrank, AGalsworthy, JGardner, SGaskell, EGibbons, SGolding, WGrahame, KGreen, R LancelynGreene, GGrimm BrothersGrossmith, G and WHaddon, MHardy, THartley, LPHeaney, SHemingway, EHines, BHughes, THughes, THuxley, AIbbotson, EJerome, KJKingsley, CThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GalaxyLittle WomenFairy TalesSense and SensibilityBrendon ChaseEmpire of the SunThe Coral IslandCarrie’s WarLorna DooneStarseekerFahrenheit 451Jane EyreA Clockwork OrangeThe Secret GardenA Month in the CountryAlice’s Adventures in WonderlandDeath on the NileThe MoonstoneWhat Katy DidThe Last of the MohicansThe Dark is Rising seriesThe Norse MythsRobinson CrusoeGreat ExpectationsOliver TwistStreet ChildThe Hound of the BaskervillesIngoThe Mill on the FlossOld Possum’s Book of Practical CatsA Room With a ViewDiary of Anne FrankThe Forsyte SagaThe Red NecklaceCranfordCold Comfort FarmThe Lord of the FliesThe Wind in the WillowsThe Adventures of Robin HoodOur Man in HavanaTalesThe Diary of a NobodyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timeTess of the D’UrbervillesThe Go-BetweenThe Rattle Bag (poetry)A Farewell to ArmsA Kestrel for a KnaveCollected Poems for ChildrenTom Brown’s SchooldaysBrave New WorldThe Star of KazanThree Men in a boatThe Water-BabiesPTO

Kipling, RLaird, ELee, HLee, LLewis, C SLively, PLondon, JMarquez, GCMarryat, CptMarshall, JVMartel, YMelville, HMontgomery, LMMore, TMorrison, TNaidoo, BNesbit, ENorton, MOrwell, GPearce, PPeet, MPlath, SPoe, EAPullman, PRemarque, EMRhys, JRushdie, SSalinger, JDScott, WSerraillier, ISewell, AShelley, MSillitoe, ASmith, DSpark, MSpyri, JSteinbeck, JStevenson, R LStoker, BStowe, HBSutcliff, RSyal, MTolkien, JRRTressell, RTrollope, ATwain, MVerne, JVonnegut, KWalpole, HWaterhouse, KWaugh, EWells, HGWestall, RWilde, OWodehouse, PGWoolf, VWyndham, JThe Jungle BookThe Garbage KingTo Kill a MockingbirdCider with RosieThe Magician’s NephewThe House in Norham GardensWhite FangOne Hundred Years of SolitudeThe Children of the New ForestWalkaboutLife of PiMoby-DickAnne of Green GablesUtopiaBelovedThe Other Side of TruthThe Railway ChildrenThe BorrowersAnimal FarmTom’s Midnight GardenTamarThe Bell JarTales of Mystery and TerrorNorthern Lights trilogyAll Quiet on the Western FrontWide Sargasso SeaMidnight’s ChildrenThe Catcher in the RyeRob RoyThe Silver SwordBlack BeautyFrankensteinSaturday Night and Sunday MorningI Capture the CastleThe Prime of Miss Jean BrodieHeidiOf Mice and MenDr Jekyll and Mr HydeDraculaUncle Tom’s CabinThe Eagle of the NinthAnita and MeThe HobbitThe Ragged Trousered PhilanthropistsBarchester TowersThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnAround the World in 80 DaysSlaughterhouse 5The Castle of OtrantoBilly LiarBrideshead RevisitedWar of the WorldsThe Machine GunnersThe Happy PrinceMy Man JeevesTo the LighthouseThe Day of the TriffidsK Roth 2015

St Aidan’s High School LibraryNon Fiction – a selection of wider reading availableBerger, JWays of Seeing – unique look at the way we view artBryson, BA Short History of Nearly Everything – from the big band to the rise ofCivilization500 BRYCapote, TIn Cold Blood – chilling true crime novel364 CAPCarson, RSilent Spring – pesticides and the environment363.73CARDarwin, CThe Origin of Species – theory of natural selection575 DARDawkin, RThe Selfish Gene – evolutionary biology575 DAWDe Beauvoir, SThe Second Sex – ground breaking study of women305.3 DEBFeynman, RPQED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter530 FEYFrank, AThe Diary of a Young Girl – fleeing the occupation (fact)FictionFreud, SThe Interpretation of Dreams – by the master of psychoanalysisGombrich, EThe Story of Art – art historyHawking, SA Brief History of Time – secrets of space and time530 HAWHerodotusThe Histories – Greek history938 HERLevi, PThe Periodic Table – autobiographical account of Nazi Germanywith a scientific theme546 LEVLevitt, SFreakonomics – applying economics to real life scenariosLovelock, JThe Revenge of Gaia – global warming and the environment 500 LOVMachiavelli, NThe Prince – political theory and history320 MACMukherjee, SThe Emperor of All Maladies – a biography of cancer616.9 MUKOrwell, GHomage to Catalonia – experience during the Spanish CivilFictionWar330LEV(fact)PlatoThe Republic – philosophical ideas and ideologies182 PLASaid, EOrientalism – Western conceptions of the Orient950 SAISkloot, RThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – one woman who changed themedical world forever (fiction based on fact)FictionSmith, AThe Wealth of Nations – economic theories330.1 SMIPTO

Solzhenitsyn, AThe Gulag Archipelago – four decades of Soviet terror947.084SOLSontag, SOn Photography – ground-breaking critique of photographySun TzuThe Art of War - military strategy355 TZUWatson, JDThe Double Helix – the discovery of the structure of DNA572 WATSee also Travel Fiction and Autobiography listsK Roth 2015

Pre 20th Century English Novels in the School LibraryAusten, JaneEmmaMansfield ParkNorthanger AbbeyPersuasionPride and PrejudiceSense and SensibilityBlackmore, RLorna DooneBronte, CharlotteJane EyreBronte, EmilyWuthering HeightsDefoe, DRobinson CrusoeDickens, CharlesA Tale of Two CitiesBleak HouseDavid CopperfieldGreat ExpectationsMystery of Edwin DroodNicholas NicklebyOliver TwistEliot, GeorgeMiddlemarchMill on the FlossSilas MarnerGaskell, ECranfordMary BartonNorth and SouthShelley, MaryFrankensteinStevenson, Robert LTreasure IslandThackeray, WilliamVanity FairTrollope, AThe Barchester ChroniclesK Roth 2015

St Aidan’s Church of England High SchoolA Selection of Travel Writing Available in the School LibraryFictionArmitage, SWalking HomeBernieres, L DeCaptain Corelli’s MandolinBlanchard, M & RA Trip to the BeachBlixen, KOut of AfricaBryson, BNotes from a Small IslandNotes from a Big IslandButcher, TBlood RiverChatwin, BIn PatagoniaDarlington, TNarrow Dog to CarcassonneDew, JSlow Coast HomeDurrell, GMy Family and Other AnimalsDurrell, LBitter Lemons of CyprusGarland, AThe BeachGuevara, CMotorcycle DiariesHawks, TRound Ireland with a FridgeJoyce, RThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold FryKerouac, JOn the RoadThe Dharma BumsMcCarthy, PMcCarthy’s BarMayes, FUnder the Tuscan SunMayle, PA Year in ProvenceNaipaul, VAn Area of DarknessNewby, EA Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

Orwell, GDown and Out in Paris and LondonPalin, MAround the World in 80 DaysStewart, CDriving Over LemonsA Parrot in the Pepper TreeThe Almond Blossom Appreciation SocietySwift, GGulliver’s TravelsTheroux, PThe Great Railway BazaarThompson, HFear and Loathing in Las VegasViner, BTales of the CountryWright, MC’Est La FolieNon FictionBlanton, CTravel Writing808.88 BLAGeorge, DLonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Writing808.88 GEOHulme, PCambridge Companion to Travel Writing808.88 HULThompson, CTravel Writing808.88 THOYoungs, TCambridge Introduction to Travel Writing808.88 YOUK Roth 2015

Thompson, H Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Viner, B Tales of the Country Wright, M C’Est La Folie Non Fiction Blanton, C Travel Writing 808.88 BLA George, D Lonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Writing 808.88 GEO Hulme, P Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing 808.88 HUL