Years 7-9 2018-19Recommended

Reading List

This booklet is full of great books that you might enjoy

during KS3. Use it to support your studies, not just for

English but for all subjects.

The books have been divided up by genre (the type of

book) to help you to choose.

It is by no means an exhaustive list; you will find other

books you love that aren’t here so please recommend

those to your friends and teachers!

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* indicates a more demanding book for accomplished

readers who like a challenge. The content, language or

style may be more suited to older readers.

+ indicates more mature themes: parental permission may

be requested prior to the book being loaned.

‘Reading is to the

mind what exercise

is to the body’

Sir Richard Steele

‘Books are a

uniquely portable

magic’

Stephen King

MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE:Lauren Child – Look Into My Eyes (Ruby Redfort series)

Sam Hepburn – Chasing The Dark

Charlie Higson – Silverfin (Young James Bond series)

Anthony Horowitz – Stormbreaker (Alex Rider series)

Anthony Horowitz – The Switch

Andrew Lane – Death Cloud ( Young Sherlock Holmes Series)

John Lloyd – Wild Boy

Sophie McKenzie – Girl, Missing (series)

Andy McNab – Boy Soldier (series)

Ali Sparks – Car-Jacked

Robin Stevens - Murder Most Unladylike

HAVE A GIGGLE:Roald Dahl – Any!

Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid

James Patterson – Middle School Books

Liz Pichon – Tom Gates Books

David Walliams – Any!

Recommended by your peers:Kevin Brooks – Travis Delaney Investigates (series)

Lauren Child – Look Into My Eyes (Ruby Redfort series)

Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games (series)*

Michael Grant – Gone (series)*

Lisa Heathfield – Paper Butterflies*

Anthony Horowitz – Stormbreaker (Alex Rider series)

Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)

Michael Morpurgo – Private Peaceful

Robert Muchamore - Cherub (series)*

R.J Palacio - Wonder

Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson (series)

J.K Rowling – Harry Potter (series)

Carter Roy – The Blood Guard (trilogy)

Darren Shan – Cirque du Freak Series,

Demonata Series *

J.R.R Tolkien – The Hobbit

Nicola Yoon – The Sun Is Also A Star +, Everything, Everything+

FANTASY:Soman Chainani – The School of Good and Evil (series)

Cassandra Clare – Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

(series)*

Paul Durham – The Luck Uglies (series)

Becca Fitzpatrick – Hush Hush (series)*

Cornelia Funke – Inkheart (series)

Phillip Pullman - Northern Lights (series)

Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson (series)

J.K Rowling – Harry Potter (series)

JRR Tolkien -The Hobbit

CREEPY TALES:Theresa Breslin – Whispers In The Graveyard

Catherine Fisher – The Ghost Box

Neil Gaimon – Coraline, The Graveyard Book

Derek Landy – Skullduggery Pleasant (series)

Sally Nichols – Close Your Pretty Eyes

Tom Palmer – Ghost Stadium

Chris Priestly – Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror

Jonathan Stroud - Lockwood & Co. The Screaming

Staircase(series)

CLASSICS:Richard Adams – Watership Down

Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol,

Oliver Twist

William Golding – Lord Of The Flies

Barry Hines - Kes

Harper Lee – To Kill A Mockingbird

C.S. Lewis – The Chronicles Of Narnia

Jack London – The Call Of The Wild

George Orwell – Animal Farm, 1984

John Steinbeck – Of Mice And Men

H.G .Wells – War of The Worlds

John Wyndham – Day Of The Triffids

NON-FICTION:Tony Bradman (editor) – Stories of WW1

Roald Dahl – Boy

Ann Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl

Glen Murphy – Why is Snot Green? Or How

Loud Can You Burp? (Science)

Minecraft: The Official Construction

Handbook

WILL YOU LOVE THESE BOOKS?Eve Ainsworth – 7 Days

Kevin Brooks – The Bunker Diary+

Lucy Christopher – Stolen*

Sarah Crossan – One*

Sam Hepburn – Chasing The Dark

Leo Hunt – 13 Days Of Midnight (trilogy)*

Mitch Johnson – Kick

Ransome Riggs – Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar

Children (series)*

Kim Slater – Smart

OR THESE BOOKS?Malorie Blackman – Boys Don’t Cry*

Andy Briggs –Iron Fist (The Inventory series)

Gillian Cross – After Tomorrow

C.J. Flood – Infinite Sky

Stewart Foster – All The Things That Could Go Wrong

Clare Furniss – The Year Of The Rat

Alex Gino - George

Michael Morpurgo – Eagle In The Snow

Patrick Ness – A Monster Calls

Non Pratt – Trouble+

Bali Rai – Honour Killing+

William Sutcliffe – The Wall*

Lisa Williamson – The Art Of Being Normal*

Lauren Wolk – Wolf Hollow

Marcus Zusak – The Book Thief*

HISTORICAL / OTHER CULTURES:Nina Bawden – Carrie’s War

John Boyne – The Boy At The Top Of The Mountain

Ann Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl

Morris Gleitzman – Once, Then, Now, After

Sam Hepburn – If You Were Me

Tanya Landman – Buffalo Soldier +

Harper Lee – To Kill A Mockingbird*

Michelle Margorian – Goodnight Mister Tom

Michael Morpurgo – Private Peaceful

Beverly Naidoo – The Other Side of Truth

Ruta Sepetys – Salt To The Sea*

Benjamin Zephaniah – Refugee Boy

DYSTOPIAN:Cecelia Ahern - Flawed

Malorie Blackman – Noughts and Crosses

Ray Bradbury – Farenheit 451

James Dashner – The Maze Runner (series)

Sally Gardner – Maggot Moon*

George Orwell – 1984+

Scott Westerfield – Uglies (series)

SCIENCE FICTION:Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game*

Mark Cheverton – Invasion of The Overworld (series)

Pittacus Lore – I Am Number Four (series)

Sophie McKenzie – The Medusa Project (series)

James Patterson – The Dangerous Days Of Daniel X (series),

The Angel Experiment (series)

Alex Scarrow – Re-Made (series)

Tanya Unsworth – One Safe Place

POETRYMalorie Blackman – Cloud Busting

101 Poems For Children – Chosen By Carol Ann Duffy

Literary Greats:William Blake (The Tyger)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Rime Of The Ancient

Mariner)

Rudyard Kipling (If)

Christina Rossetti (Remember)

William Wordsworth (Daffodils)

War Poets:Rupert Brooke (The Soldier)

Wilfred Owen (Futility, Anthem for Doomed Youth,

Dulce et Decorum Est)

Jessie Pope (The Call, Who’s for the Game?)

Isaac Rosenburg (In the Trenches)

Siegfried Sassoon (Suicide in the Trenches)