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THE WIDER WORLD
Congratulations! You are now embarking on two years of knowledge that will be instrumental in your development as a person.
In order to fully take advantage of the academic opportunities you face you will need to develop your wider reading and knowledge of the world. You will need to read beyond the course texts and consider the political, literary, scientific, moral and philosophical findings that surround you and helped create the world as we know it.
To aid in this I present you with a challenge:❏ There are forty five titles outlined in this
challenge. ❏ Your job is to read a minimum of five in each
year of your Sixth Form journey for a total of ten titles.
This might seem like just another task in already busy time but, I promise you, your engagement with the world around you will make you a better learner as well as a more informed member of society.
This list is not exhaustive - please consult library staff for other recommended reads
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Super Sad True Love Story - Gary Shteyngart
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
A Collection of Poems - Langston Hughes
Volpone - Ben Jonson
A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
Candide - Voltaire
Conditions of the Working Class - Friedrich Engels
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
SCUM Manifesto - Valarie Solanas
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Pop Music: The Textbook - Winterson et al
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
Winter’s Bone - Daniel Woodrell
Burmese Days - George Orwell
Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
The First Three Minutes - Steven Weinberg
Fizz, Nothing is as it seems - Zvi Schreiber
Facades - Bill Cunningham
The Corridor of Certainty - Geoffrey Boycott
Suite Française - Irène Nemirovsky
Just Kids - Patti Smith Life in Motion - Misty Copeland
I Was Vermeer - Frank Wynne
Genie: A Scientific Tragedy - Russ Rymer
The SImpsons & Their Mathematical Secrets - Simon Singh
The Google Story - David Vise
Proud - Gareth Thomas Salt, A World History - Mark Kurlansky
The God Delusion = Richard Dawkins