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Key Stage 4 - English (Reading List)

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Published: 23 March 2012 23 March 2012

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CLASSIC FICTION
	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
	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	J.R.R. Tolkein	Epic fantasy
	The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood	Dark dystopia
CONTEMPORARY FICTION WE LIKE
	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
	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