Key Stage 4 - English (Reading List)
Key Stage 4 - English (Reading List)
CLASSIC FICTION | |||
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Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | Witty and profound |
Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | Individual triumphs over adversity | |
David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | Hugh cast of memorable characters | |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | Amercian classic | |
Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | Gothic novel meets science fiction | |
Jekyll and Hyde* | Robert Louis Steveson | Classic exploration of split personality | |
Wessex Tales* | Thomas Hardy | Country life from the comic to the macabre | |
MODERN CLASSICS | |||
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Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | Crazy wartime story |
The Great Gatsby | F.Scott Fitzgerald | High society America in the jazz age | |
Lord of the Flies* | William Golding | Just how civilised are we? | |
Animal Farm* | George Orwell | Clever political allegory | |
Of Mice and Men* | John Steinbeck | Two friends and their dream | |
The Lord of the Rings
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J.R.R. Tolkein | Epic fantasy | |
The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | Dark dystopia | |
CONTEMPORARY FICTION WE LIKE | |||
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | A long title! |
The Life of Pi | Yann Martel | One boy and a tiger in the middle of the ocean | |
Gentlemen and Players | Joanne Harris | Psychological suspense | |
The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | Romance meets sci-fi | |
The Road | Cormac McCarthy | Bleak and terrifying vision of the near future | |
The Island | Victoria Hislop | Uncovering a tragic family history | |
Sophie's World | Jostein Gaarder | Philosophical jounrney | |
CONTEMPORARY NON-FICTION | |||
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Touching the Void | Joe Simpson | Narrow-escape on a mountain |
It's Not About the Bike | Lance Armstrong | Classic comeback story for sports fans | |
Freakonomics | Levitt and Dubner | Bizarre economic findings | |
A Child Called 'It' | Dave Pelzer | Graphic account of an abusive childhood | |
Books marked * are currently on the GCSE English/English Literature syllabus - check whether you will be studying them with your English teacher |