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’
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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’