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Sixth Form Reading List

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

Just Kids - Patti Smith Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler

Bounce - Matthew Syed

The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje

Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

The Book of Negroes - Lawrence Hill

One Summer, America 1927 - Bill Bryson

Sophie’s World - Jostein Gaarder

The Second Sx - Simone de Beauvoir