GREAT READS FOR KS5 STUDENTS:

ACTION & ADVENTURE:

Clancy, Tom: ‘The Hunt for Red October’

Defoe, Daniel: ‘Moll Flanders’

Dumas, Alexandre: ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’

Garland, Alex: ‘The Beach’

London, Jack: ‘The Call of the Wild’

Martin, George R.R: ‘Game of Thrones’ series

COMEDY/ HUMOUR:

Austen, Jane: ‘Emma’

Carter, Angela: ‘Wise Children’

Gibbons, Stella: ‘Cold Comfort Farm’

Jonasson, Jonas: ‘The Hundred Year Old

Man Who Climbed out the Window and

Disappeared’

Moran, Caitlin: ‘How to be a Woman’

Wong, David: ‘John Dies at the End’

Wodehouse, P.G: ‘Jeeves and Wooster’ series

CRIME:

Atkinson, Kate: ‘Case Histories’

Capote, Truman: ‘In Cold Blood’

Christie, Agatha: ‘And Then There were None’

Collins, Wilkie: ‘The Moonstone’

Highsmith, Patricia: ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’

Horowitz, Anthony: ‘The House of Silk’

Larsson, Steig: ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’

Nesbo, Jo: ‘The Snowman’

Puzo, Mario: ‘The Godfather’

DRAMA/ PLAYS:

Aeschylus: ‘Oristeia’

Albee, Edward: ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’

Beckett, Samuel: ‘Waiting for Godot’

Bennett, Alan: ‘The History Boys’

Bond, Edward: ‘Saved’

Butterworth, Jez: ‘Jerusalem’

Chekov, Anton: ‘The Cherry Orchard’

Churchill, Caryl: ‘Top Girls’

Coward, Noel: ‘Blithe Spirit’

Euripides: ‘Medea’

Friel, Brian: ‘Translations’

Hansberry, Lorraine: ‘A Raisin in the Sun’

Ibsen, Henrik: ‘A Doll’s House’

Kushner, Tony: ‘Angels in America’

Letts, Tracy: ‘August : Osage County’

Lorca, Frederico Garcia: ‘Blood Wedding’

Marlowe, Christopher: ‘Dr. Faustus’

Middleton, Thomas & Rowley, William: ‘The Changeling’

Miller, Arthur: ‘The Crucible’

Pinter, Harold: ‘The Birthday Party’

Russell, Willy: ‘Educating Rita’

Samuels, Diane: ‘Kindertransport’

Shakespeare, William: Any play

Shaffer, Peter: ‘Equus’

Sophocles: ‘Oedipus Rex’

Stoppard, Tom: ‘Arcadia’ & ‘Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead’

Strindberg, August: ‘Miss Julie’

Wertenbaker, Timberlake: ‘Our Country’s Good’

Williamson, Tennessee: ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ & ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’

Wilde, Oscar: ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’

DYSTOPIAN FICTION:

Bradbury, Ray: ‘Fahrenheit 451’

Burgess, Anthony: ‘A Clockwork Orange’

Dick, Philip K: ‘Do Androids Dream of

Electric Sheep?’

Huxley, Aldous: ‘Brave New World’

King, Stephen: ‘Running Man’ & ‘The

Stand’

McCarthy, Cormac: ‘The Road’

Mitchell, David: ‘Cloud Atlas’

FANTASY:

Clarke, Susanna: ‘Jonathan Strange and Mr

Norrell’

Gaiman, Neil: ‘American Gods’

Herbert, Frank: ‘Dune’

Le Guin, Ursula: ‘The Lathe of Heaven’

Mitchell, David: ‘The Bone Clocks’

Peake, Mervyn: ‘Gormenghast’

HISTORICAL FICTION:

Atwood, Margaret: ‘AliAs GrAce’

Chang, Jung: ‘Wild sWAns’

Chevalier, Tracy: ‘The Girl WiTh The PeArl eArrinG’

De Bernieres, Louis: ‘cAPTAin correlli’s MAndolin’

Diamant, Anita: ‘The red TenT’

Frazier, Charles: ‘cold MounTAin’

Lampedusa, Giuseppi, Tomasi di: ‘The leoPArd’

Martin, Valerie: ‘ProPerTy’

Miller, Arthur: ‘Pure’

Palliser, Charles: ‘Quincunx’

HISTORICAL FICTION BASED ON THE CLASSICAL WORLD:

Atwood, Margaret: ‘The Penelopiad’

Graves, Robert: ‘I, Claudius’

Harris, Robert: ‘Pompeii’

Malouf, David: ‘An Imaginary Life’

Miller, Madeline: ‘The Song of Achilles’

Renault, Mary: ‘The King Must Die’

Sienkiewicz, Henryk: ‘Quo Vadis’

Williams, John: ‘Augustus’

HORROR/ GOTHIC:

Bronte, Emily: ‘Wuthering Heights’

Collins, Wilkie: ‘The Woman in White’

Cronin, Justin: ‘The Passage’

James, Henry: ‘The Turn of the Screw’

King, Stephen: ‘It’ & ‘The Shining’

Lindqvist, John Ajvide: ‘Let the Right One In’

McGrath, Patrick: ‘Dr Haggard’s Disease’

Rice, Anne: ‘Interview with a Vampire’

Stevenson, Robert Louis: ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’

Suskind, Patrick: ‘Perfume’

Wilde, Oscar: ‘A Picture of Dorian Gray’

Zafon, Carlos Ruis: ‘Shadow of the Wind’

IDENTITY:

Banks, Iain: ‘The Wasp Factory’

Dickens, Charles: ‘David Copperfield’

Eugenides, Jeffrey: ‘The Virgin Suicides’ &

‘Middlesex’

Kesey, Ken: ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’

McEwan, Ian: ‘Enduring Love’ & ‘The Child in Time’

McGrath, Patrick: ‘Asylum’ & ‘Trauma’

Morrison, Toni: ‘Beloved’

Palahniuk, Chuck: ‘Fight Club’

Plath, Sylvia: ‘The Bell Jar’

Winterson, Jeannette: ‘Oranges are not the Only Fruit’

OTHER CULTURES:

Adichie, Chimamanda: ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’

Ali, Monica: ‘Brick Lane’

Golden, Arthur: ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’

Hamid, Mohsin: ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’

Johnson, Adam: ‘The Orphan Master’s Son’

Barbara Kingsolver: ‘The Poisonwood Bible’

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: ‘100 Years of Solitude’

Roberts, Gregory David: ‘Shantaram’

Roy, Arundhati: ‘The God of Small Things’

Stockett, Kathryn: ‘The Help’

POETRY:

Angelou, Maya: ‘And Still I Rise’

Armitage, Simon: ‘Selected Poems’

Blake, William: ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’

Boland, Eavan: ‘In a Time of Violence’

Browning Robert

Chaucer, Geoffrey: ‘The Canterbury Tales’

Cope, Wendy: ‘Family Values’

Dickinson, Emily

Duffy, Carol Ann: ‘The World’s Wife’

Eliot, T.S: ‘The Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’

Heaney, Seamus: ‘New Selected Poems’

Hughes, Langston: ‘Selected Poems’

Hughes, Ted: ‘Birthday Letters’

Keats, John

Larkin, Philip: ‘Whitsun Weddings’

Milton, John: ‘Paradise Lost’

Oswald, Alice: ‘Dart’

Plath, Sylvia: ‘Ariel’

Rossetti, Christina

Sheers, Owen: ‘Skirrid Fawr’

Tennyson, Alfred

Walcott, Derek: ‘Selected Poems’

Whitman, Walt: ‘Leaves of Grass’

REAL LIFE/ FAMILIES:

Donoghue, Emma: ‘Room’

Hawley, Noah: ‘The Good Father’

Heller, Zoe: ‘Notes on a Scandal’

Oates, Joyce Carol: ‘My Sister, My Love’

St Aubyn, Edward: Patrick Melrose series

Walls, Jeannette: ‘The Glass Castle’

Waugh, Evelyn: ‘Brideshead Revisited’

Yanagihara, Hanya: ‘A Little Life’

ROMANCE:

Austen, Jane: ‘Sense and Sensibility’

Bronte, Charlotte: ‘Jane Eyre’

Forster, E.M: ‘A Room with a View’

Ishiguro, Kazuo: ‘Remains of the Day’

Mitchell, Margaret: ‘Gone with the Wind’

Niffenegger, Audrey: ‘The Time Traveller’s Wife’

Seton, Anya: ‘Katherine’

Wharton, Edith: ‘The Age of Innocence’

SCIENCE-FICTION:

Dick, Philip K: ‘The Man in the High Castle’

Keyes, Daniel: ‘Flowers for Algernon’

Le Guin, Ursula: ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’

Schatzing, Frank: ‘Swarm’

Wells, H.G: ‘The Time Machine’

Thriller/ Mystery:

Crace, Jim: ‘Being Dead’

Galbraith, Robert: ‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’

Grisham, John: ‘A Time to Kill’ and ‘The Client’

James, P.D: ‘Children of Men’

Le Carre, John: ‘The Constant Gardener’

Tartt, Donna: ‘The Secret History’

Zola, Emile: ‘La Bete Humaine’

TRAGEDY:

Allende, Isabel: ‘The House of Spirits’

Chopin, Kate: ‘The Awakening’

Eliot, George: ‘The Mill on the Floss’

Flaubert, Gustav: ‘Madame Bovary’

Hardy, Thomas: ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’

Sebold, Alice: ‘The Lovely Bones’

Wharton, Edith: ‘Ethan Frome’

Zola, Emile: ‘Germinal’

WAR:

Barker, Pat: ‘Regeneration’ trilogy

Greene, Graham: ‘The Quiet American’

Heller, Joseph: ‘Catch 22’

Hemingway, Ernest: ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’

Keneally, Thomas: ‘Schindler’s Ark’

O’Brien, Tim: ‘The Things They Carried’

Ondaatje, Michael: ‘The English Patient’

Remarque, Erich Maria: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

West, Rebecca: ‘The Return of the Soldier’

AUTOBIOGRAPHY:

Hemingway, Earnest: ‘A Movable Feast’

Hughes, Langston: ‘The Big Sea’

Mandela, Nelson: ‘Long Walk to Freedom’

Obama, Barack: ‘Dreams from my Father’

Woolf, Virginia: ‘A Room of One’s Own’

Wright, Richard: ‘Black Boy’

LITERARY NON-FICTION:

Albom, Mitch: ‘Tuesday’s with Morrie’

Didion, Joan: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’

Greer, Germaine: ‘The Female Eunuch’

Holland, Tom: ‘Rubicon’

Steinbeck, John: ‘Travels with Charley’

King, Stephen: ‘On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft’