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Great Reads for Key Stage 4 Students * = more challenging reads
Action/Adventure Chris Bradford: ‘The Bodyguard’ series Robert Cormier: ‘After the First Death’ Ian Fleming: James Bond series Charlie Higson: Young Bond series Claire McFall: ‘Bombmaker’ Andy McNab: Liam Scott series Chris Ryan: Agent 21 series
Aliens!
Gene Brewer: ‘K-PAX’
Patrick Ness: The Chaos Walking series
John Wyndham: ‘Chocky’
Rick Yancey: The 5th Wave trilogy
Being Different Brian Conaghan: ‘When Mr Dog Bites’ Nathan Filer: ‘The Shock of The Fall’ Kate Scott: ‘Counting To D’ Nicola Yoon: ‘Everything Everything’
Coming of Age
Stephen Chbosky: ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ Charles Dickens: ‘Great Expectations’ * Gayle Forman: ‘I Was Here’ Chrissie Keighery: ‘Whisper’ J.D. Salinger: ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ *
Crime mysteries
Sarah Alexander:’ The Art Of Not Breathing’
Kevin Brooks: ‘Black Rabbit Summer’
Anne Cassidy: ‘Moth Girls’
Graham Greene: ‘Brighton Rock’ *
Heaberlin Julia: ‘Black-Eyed Susans’
Demons and Zombies!
Max Brooks: ‘World War Z’
Charlie Higson: ‘The Enemy’ series
Derek Landy: ‘Demon Road’ trilogy
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: ‘Good Omens’
Carrie Ryan: ‘The Forest Of Hands And Teeth’ trilogy
Detectives
Agatha Christie: ‘Murder On The Orient Express’ *
Harlan Coben: Mickey Bolitar novels
Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes series *
Andrew Lane: Young Sherlock Holmes series
Ellis Peters: The Cadfael series
Alexander McCall Smith: ‘The No.1 Ladies’
Detective Agency’ series
Ian Rankin: Inspector John Rebus novels
Dystopias
Margaret Atwood: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ *
Julianna Baggott: ‘Pure’ trilogy
Ernest Cline: ‘Ready Player One’
Lois Lowry: ‘The Giver’
Gemma Malley: ‘Declaration’ trilogy
George Orwell: ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ *
Veronica Roth: ‘Divergent’ trilogy
Teri Terry: ‘Slated’ trilogy
Scott Westerfeld: ‘Uglies’ trilogy
Families
Louisa May Alcott: ‘Little Women’ Sarah Crossan: ‘Apple and Rain’ Jenny Downham: ‘You Against Me’ Phil Earle: ‘Heroic’ Jonathan Safran Foer: ‘Extremely Loud and
Incredibly Close’ Michael Frayn: ‘Spies’ Clare Furniss: ‘How Not To Disappear’ Laura Jarratt: ‘Louder Than Words ‘
Jodi Picoult: ‘My Sister’s Keeper’
Fantasy adventure
Leigh Bardugo: ‘Grisha’ novels
Cassandra Clare: ‘Mortal Instruments’ series
Anthony Horowitz: ‘The Power of Five’ series
Ursula Le Guin: Earthsea series
Terry Pratchett: ‘The Colour of Magic’
Philip Reeve: ‘Mortal Engines’ quartet
Sabaa Tahir: ‘An Ember in the Ashes’ series
J.R.R. Tolkien: ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy *
Fantasy romance
Josephine Angelini: ‘Starcrossed’ trilogy Amanda Bouchet: ‘The Kingmaker’ trilogy Kiera Cass: ‘The Selection’ series Erin Morgenstern: ‘The Night Circus’ Amy Plum: ‘Die for Me’ trilogy
Gender
Perry Moore: ‘Hero’
Julie Anne Peters: ‘Luna’
Meredith Russo: ‘If I Was Your Girl’
Lisa Williamson: ‘The Art of Being Normal’
Ghosts
Malorie Blackman: ‘The Stuff of Nightmares’ Charles Dickens: ‘The Haunted House’ Helen Dunmore: ‘The Greatcoat’ Shirley Jackson: ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ M.R. James: Collected Ghost Stories Hilary Mantel: ‘Beyond Black’ Audrey Niffenegger: ‘Her Fearful Symmetry’ Michelle Paver: ‘Dark Matter’
Historical fiction
Bernard Cornwell: ‘The Last Kingdom’
Helen Dunmore: ‘The Siege’
Ken Follett: ‘Pillars of the Earth’
Philippa Gregory: ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’
Alice Hoffman: ‘The Dovekeepers’
Conn Iggulden: ‘The Conqueror’ series
Hilary Mantel: ‘Wolf Hall’
Ruta Sepetys: ‘Between Shades of Grey’
Horror
Keith Austin: ‘Snow, White’ Stephen King: ‘Carrie’ Kenneth Oppel: ‘His Dark Endeavour’ Mary Shelley: ‘Frankenstein’ * Bram Stoker: ‘Dracula’ *
Carlos Ruiz Zafon: ‘The Prince of Mist
Humour
Bill Bryson: ‘The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid’
Dave Cousins: ‘15 Days Without a Head’
Stephen Fry: ‘The Star’s Tennis Balls’
Helen Fielding: ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’
Graeme Simsion: ‘The Rosie Project’
Holly Smale: ‘Geek Girl’ series
Other cultures
Chinua Achebe: ‘Things Fall Apart’
Khaled Hosseini: ‘The Kite Runner’ *
Anna Perera: ‘The Glass Collector’
Bali Rai: ‘Killing Honour’
William Sutcliffe: ‘The Wall’
Vikas Swarup: ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
Amy Tan: ‘The Joy Luck Club’
Alice Walker: ‘The Color Purple’ *
Matt Whyman: ‘Boy Kills Man’
Romance Cecelia Ahern: ‘P.S. I Love You’ Eve Ainsworth: ‘Crush’ Jane Austen: ‘Emma’ * F. Scott Fitzgerald: ‘The Great Gatsby’ * John Green: ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ Jojo Moyes: ‘Me Before You’ Nicholas Sparks: ‘The Notebook’
Science fiction Isaac Asimov: ‘I, Robot’ Orson Scott Card: ‘Ender’s Game’ Michael Crichton: ‘Jurassic Park’ James Dashner: ‘The Mortality Doctrine’ trilogy Dan Wells: ‘Partials’ trilogy
H.G. Wells: ‘The Island of Doctor Moreau’ * John Wyndham: ‘The Midwich Cuckoos’
Thriller/mystery
Dan Brown: ‘The Da
Vinci Code’
Anne Cassidy: ‘Looking
For JJ’
Gillian Flynn: ‘Gone
Girl’
John Fowles: ‘The
Collector’ *
Daphne du Maurier:
‘Rebecca’ *
Sophie McKenzie: ‘Girl, Missing’ trilogy
Liane Moriarty: ‘Big Little Lies’
Iain Pears: ‘Stone’s Fall’
S J Watson: ‘Before I Go to Sleep’
War
J.G.Ballard: ‘Empire of the Sun’
John Boyne: ‘The Boy at the Top of the
Mountain’
Robert Cormier: ‘Heroes’
Ben Elton: ‘The First Casualty’
Sebastian Faulks: ‘Birdsong’ *
William Osborne: ‘Hitler’s Angel’
Ian Serraillier: ‘The Silver Sword’
Elizabeth Wein: ‘Code Name Verity’
Autobiography:
Maya Angelou: ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’
Elizabeth Gilbert: ‘Eat, Pray, Love’
Dave Pelzer: ‘A Child Called It’
Elie Wiesel: ‘Night’
Malala Yousafza: ‘I am Malala’
Literary Non-Fiction:
Bill Bryson: ‘A Walk in the Woods’
John Hersey: ‘Hiroshima’
Jon Krakauer: ‘Into Thin Air: A Personal Account
of the Mt Everest Disaster’
George Orwell: ‘Down and Out in London and Paris’
Art Spiegalman: ‘Maus: A Survivor’s Guide’
Sport: Nick Hornby: ‘Fever Pitch’
Simon Hughes: ‘And God Created Cricket’ David Peace: ‘The Damned United’ Tom Rubython: ‘The Life of Senna’ Joan Ryan: ‘Little Girls in Pretty Boxes’