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Reading is one of life’s great pleasures but sometimes we need some help along the way, so here are our suggestions. For the most part, we have included books which the girls may not have come across or read already. We have deliberately included both fiction and non-fiction. Some books are easier to read than others; there are old favourites and some which have only recently been published. We don’t expect the girls to have read everything on the list by September but we do want and expect them to read widely.

Sixth Form students should be in the habit of reading daily newspapers and subject-specific magazines. It is worth following the news on reliable websites such as www.parliament.uk and some subject-specific websites are also useful https://newsademic.com/, http://plus.maths.org/content/ and www.kindernetz.de/minitz/, for example. Watching foreign-language films is a good way of improving language skills: La Gloire de Mon Pere by Marcel Pagnol and Sophie Scholl in German are particularly recommended. Some may find Barrington Stoke useful (https://www.barringtonstoke.co.uk/) for dyslexia-friendly books designed specifically to avoid visual confusion.

The more students do out of lessons the easier they will find them. It is a good idea to visit museums, galleries, and sites of historical interest over the summer, while also finding time to watch plays and attending concerts. The Art Department recommend the Tate Modern, Tate Britain, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Hayward Gallery, The National Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, and The White Cube Galleries. Similarly, it makes sense to see as much live theatre as possible over the summer. Anything at the National Theatre, The Royal Court, The Globe, Young Vic or Battersea Arts Centre would be particularly recommended and if students are in London a prom would be worth seeing.

Reading Lists for Sixth Form

Reading List

10 Books to Make You ThinkHHhH Laurent BinetThe Shallows: How the internet Nicholas Carr is changing the way we think, read and rememberHeretics G K ChestertonThe World Beyond Your Head: Matthew Crawford How to Flourish in an Age of DistractionThe Diving-Bell and the Butterfly Jean-Dominique BaubyLeisure: The Basis of Culture Josef PieperPersonal Knowledge Michael PolanyiAmusing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman Public discourse in the age of show business

The Man Who Mistook Oliver Sacks His Wife for A Hat

Alone Together: Why we expect Sherry Turkle more from technology and less from each other

Biology

Four Laws that drive the Universe Peter AtkinsMicrobes, Bugs and Wonder Drugs F Balkwill & M RolphThe Goldilocks Enigma Paul DaviesThe Selfish Gene Richard DawkinsThe Mould in Dr Florey’s Coat Eric Lax (The story of Penicillin)Observing Animal Behaviour Marian Stamp Dawkins

Business Studies and Economics

The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty Dan Ariely

Economics: A Very Short Introduction Partha Dasgupta

Made in Britain: How the Evan Davis nation earns its livingAdapt: Why Success Always Tim Harford Starts with FailureThe Drunkard’s Walk Leonard MlodinowDead Aid: Why Aid is not Working and Dambisa Moyo How There is Another Way For AfricaDirty Money Marina AdshadeThe Establishment (and how Owen Jones they get away with it)Chavs: The Demonisation Owen Jones of The Working Class

Chemistry

Why Chemical Reactions Happen James Keeler & Peter Wothers

Chemical Structure and Reactivity - James Keeler & Peter Wothers an Integrated Approach

Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of John Elmsley Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life

The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey into Peter Atkins the Land of the Chemical Elements

Colour: The Story of Dyes and Pigments François Delamare and Bernard Guineau

Made to Measure: New Materials Philip Ball for the 21st Century

The Disappearing Spoon S Kean

Reactions: the Private Life of Atoms Peter Atkins

Rosalind Franklin: The dark lady of DNA Brenda Maddox

The Double Helix: A personal account James Watson of the discovery of the structure of DNA

Classics

Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome J P V D BalsdonConfronting the Classics Mary BeardPompeii: the Life of a Roman town Mary BeardSPQR Mary BeardImperium Robert HarrisLustrum Robert HarrisDictator Robert HarrisMedea: Medea and Other Plays EuripidesThe Iliad HomerMetamorphoses OvidThe Aeneid Virgil

Computer Science

Five Golden Rules: Great Theories John Casti of 20th Century Mathematics and Why They Matter

Computer Science: Les Goldschlager, A Modern Introduction A M Lister & A Lister

How would you move Mount Fuji? William Poundstone Microsoft’s Cult of the Puzzle: How the World’s Smartest Companies select the Most Creative Thinkers

Steve Jobs: The Man who Karen Blumenthal Thought Different

Contemporary Fiction

Brick Lane Monica AliThe Clan of the Cave Bear Jean Auel (Earth’s Children series)The Miniaturist Jesse BurtonNever Let Me Go Kazuo IshiguroOne Day David NichollsThe Outcast Sadie JonesThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg LarssonA Short History of Marina Lewycka Tractors in UkrainianWolf Hall Hilary MantelThe Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey NiffeneggerPlease Look After Mom Kyung-Sook ShinPerfume Patrick SüskindThe Goldfinch Donna Tartt

Design Technology

Material Innovation - Andrew H Dent Product Design and Leslie SherrDesign Secret: ProductsTwentieth-Century Design Catherine McDermott Designing the 21st Century Charlotte and Peter FiellPackaging Design Chris van UffelenGerman Design: The classics Bernd Polster The Eco-Design Handbook Alastair Faud-LukeThe Design of Everyday Things Donal A Norman

Drama

The History of Theatre Glynne WickhamHedda Gabler Henrik IbsenYerma LorcaTheatre and Audience Dr Helen FreshwaterThe Empty Space Peter Brook The Director’s Craft Katie MitchellThe Complete Brecht Toolkit Stephen UnwinAn Actor’s Work Konstantin Stanislavski 100 Great Plays for Women Lucy KerbelTheatre in Practice Nick O’Brien / Annie SuttonWhy is this so Funny? John Wright

English Literature

The Madness of King George Alan BennettPossession A S ByattAutobiography of Red Anne CarsonThe World’s Wife Carol Ann DuffyThe Name of the Rose Umberto EcoTender is the Night F Scott FitzgeraldTranslations Brian FrielNever Let Me Go Kazuo IshiguroBeloved Toni MorrisonBetrayal Harold PinterThe God of Small Things Arundhati RoyMuch Ado About Nothing William ShakespeareUnder Milk Wood Dylan ThomasThe Color Purple Alice WalkerThe Waves Virginia Woolf

English Criticism

The Art of Fiction David LodgeHow to Read Literature Terry EagletonFaulks on Fiction Sebastian FaulksShakespeare’s Language Frank KermodeBlindness and Insight Paul de ManPoetry and the Fate of the Senses Susan StewartOrientalism Edward SaidWriting and Difference Jacques DerridaThe Pleasure of the Text Roland BarthesThe Concept of Ecriture Simon Wortmann Feminine in Helen Cixous’s ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir

French

En attendant Godot Samuel BeckettL’Etranger Albert CamusA Traveller’s History of France Robert ColeMadame Bovary Gustave FlaubertL’Avare / Le Tartuffe MolièreNo et Moi Delphine de ViganBonjour tristesse Françoise Sagan

Films

Les 400 coups François TruffautLa Haine Mathieu KassovitzEntre les murs Laurent CantetL’auberge espagnole Cédric Klapisch

Geography

The Earth: An Intimate History Richard Fortey Small Places, Large Issues Thomas Hylland EriksenThe Vanishing face of Gaia: James Lovelock A Final WarningThe Revenge of Gaia: Why the James Lovelock Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save HumanityFewer: How the New Ben J Wattenberg Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our FutureFive Billion Years of Global Change Denis WoodThe Earth After Us Jan ZalasiewiczPeople, Land and Time Atkins, Simmons, RobertsThe Human Impact on the Andrew Goudie Natural Environment: Past, Present and Future, 7th Edition

German

Der Vorleser / The Reader Bernhard Schlink

Eine Frau in Berlin / Anonyma A Woman in Berlin

Lyrische Hausapotheke Erich Kästner

Im Westen Nichts Neues / Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front

Das Parfum / The Perfume Patrick Süskind

The Awful German Language Mark Twain

Government and Politics

Red Rosa Paul BuhleThe Future of Socialism Anthony CroslandDevelopments in British Politics R HeffernanBritish Politics Leach, Coxall and RobinsDreams from My Father Barack ObamaThe Oxford Handbook Freeden of Political ideologiesA Very Short Introduction Oxford series…. to British Politics, American Politics, Liberalism, Socialism, Conservatism, Feminism

UK government and politics websites:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politicshttps://www.politicshome.com/https://www.parliament.uk/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/commentisfreehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnq2cY299xshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLGGzZ8VCQ

USA government and politics:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/https://fivethirtyeight.com/politics/http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/our-blogs/ http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/https://uk.isidewith.com/

History

What is History? E H CarrIn Defence of History Richard J EvansPenguin History of the USA Hugh BroganAmerican History: Paul S Boyer A Very Short IntroductionThe Grapes of Wrath John SteinbeckA History of Modern Britain Andrew MarrWhite Heat: A Cultural History Dominic Sandbrook of Britain in the SixtiesWhite Teeth Zadie SmithSmall Island Andrea LevySix Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII David Starkey

History of Art

Learning to Look at Paintings Mary ActonThis is Civilisation Matthew CollingsThe Story of Art E H GombrichA World History of Art H Honour and J FlemingA Concise History of Painting: Michael Levey From Giotto to CezanneThe Classical Language John Summerson of Architecture100 Ideas that Richard Weston Changed ArchitectureUnderstanding Italian Stefano Zuffi Renaissance PaintingMichelangelo and Ross King the Pope’s CeilingThe Girl in the Green Gown Carola Hicks

International Relations

Understanding International Chris Brown and Relations Kirsten AinsleyAn International History Jussi Hanhimaki, of the Twentieth Century Joseph A Maiolo, and Beyond Kirsten Schulze and Anthony Best Diplomacy Henry KissingerWorld Politics: James Mayall Progress and its Limits Geographies of Globalisation W E MurrayThe Evolution of Adam Watson International Society

Law

What about Law? Catherine Barnard, Janet O’Sullivan and Graham VirgoThe Rule of Law Tom BinghamEve Was Framed: Women Helena Kennedy and British Justice Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer Michael MansfieldLetters to a Law Student: A Guide Nicholas J McBride to Studying Law at UniversityCrimes against Humanity: Geoffrey Robertson The Struggle for Global JusticeLawless World Philippe Sands

Mathematics

Flatland: A Romance Edwin A Abbott of Many DimensionsThe Tiger That Isn’t Michael Blastland and Andrew DilnotHow Long is a Piece of String? Rob EastawayWhy do Buses come in Threes? Rob EastawayThe Music of the Primes Marcus du SautoyFermat’s Last Theorem Simon SinghThe Simpsons and their Simon Singh Mathematical SecretsThe Indisputable Existence Hannah Fry of Santa ClausThings to Make and Do Matt Parker in the 4th DimensionThe Maths of Love Hannah Fry

Media Studies

Ill Effects: The Media Martin Barker and Violence Debate Julian Petley (Eds)Ways of Seeing John BergerManufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and The Political Economy Edward S Herman of the Mass MediaMedia, Gender and Identity: David Gauntlett An IntroductionUnreasonable Behaviour: Don McCullin An AutobiographyAmusing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman Public Discourse in the Age of Show BusinessOne Dimensional Woman Nina PowerLiving Dolls: The Return of Sexism Natasha Walker

Medicine

Ten Fingers for God Dorothy Clarke WilsonTaking the Medicine Druin BurchDeadly Companions Dorothy CrawfordThe Life and Death of Smallpox Ian GlynnNerve Endings – the Discovery Richard Rapport of the Synapse The End of Polio: a Global Effort Sebastiao Salgado to End a DiseaseDirect Red (a surgeon’s story) Gabriel Weston

Music

A History of Western Music Burkholder, Grout and Palisca(i) Chapter 11 – Instrumental music in the late Baroque period (Concerto & Purcell)(ii) Chapter 12 – Music in the early 18th century (Vivaldi, Concerto, Bach);(iii) pp488-509 (Mozart)(iv) Chapter 17 – pp571-586 (piano, Chopin, Brahms)

What to Listen for in Music Aaron Copland

Websiteshttp://www.keepingscore.org/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3

Places to goBBC Proms July-September 2018 Royal Albert HallENO (Coliseum) Royal Opera HouseRoyal Festival Hall London’s jazz clubs

ListenMozart: Le nozzi di Figaro (The marriage of Figaro)

Physical Education

Friday Night Lights: a Town, HG Bissinger a Team and a Dream The Spirit of the Game Mihir BoseUnbelievable: From My Childhood Jessica Ennis Dreams to Winning Olympic Gold The Sports Gene: Talent, Practice David Epstein and the Truth about Success Twin Ambitions: Mo Farah My Autobiography Running with the Kenyans: Adharanand Finn Discovering the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth Running like a Girl Alexandra HeminsleyBlack, White & Gold: Kelly Holmes My Autobiography Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey Scott Jurek to Ultra-marathon Greatness

The Blind Side: Michael Lewis Evolution of a Game

Born to Run: The Hidden Tribe, Christopher McDougall the Ultra-Runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

What Sport Tells Us about Life Ed SmithBounce: The Myth of Talent Matthew Syed and the Power of Practice A Life without Limits Chrissie Wellington

Physics & Engineering

How Things Work Louis A BloomfieldQED: The Strange Theory Richard Feynman of Light and MatterWhy Buildings Fall Down M Levy & M Salvadori Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Arthur Miller Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black HolesInvention by Design H PetroskiWhy Buildings Stand Up Mario SalvadoriThe First Three Minutes Steven WeinbergThe Elegant Universe Brian GreeneRelativity made relatively easy Andrew M SteaneSix Easy Pieces Richard P Feynman

Psychology

The Skeleton Cupboard Tania ByronBad Science Ben GoldacreThe Private Life of the Brain S GreenfieldGreat Myths of the Brain Christian JarrettThinking, Fast and Slow Daniel KahnemanPsychology: The Science of R D Gross Mind and BehaviourHow the Mind Works S PinkerPhantoms in the Brain: Human V S Ramachandran Nature and the Architecture and S Blakeslee of the Mind Nature via Nurture: Genes, M Ridley experience and what makes us human Awakenings; The Man who Oliver Sacks mistook his Wife for a Hat; Musicophilia; HallucinationsConnectome Sebastian SeungHappy Derren BrownThe Lucifer Effect Philip Zimbardo

Any of the Short Introduction series on Psychology eg – child development, the brain, anxiety, autism, consciousness etc.

Spanish

Leer en español – ‘Pepita Jimenez’ Español SantillanaLeer en español – ‘La celestina’ Español SantillanaEspaña de la dictadura R Carr / JP Fusi a la democraciaThe Spanish Civil War: Helen Graham A Very Short Introduction La guerra civil española Paul PrestonRéquiem por un campesino Ramón J. Sender español - Easy readers.Como agua para chocolate Laura Esquivel“La guerra civil contada a los Alfaguara jóvenes” (Arturo Perez-Reverte) The Penguin History Edwin Williamson of Latin AméricaOpen veins of Latin America Eduardo Galeano

Also refer to the same authors’ books in English

FilmsAll about my mother Pedro AlmodovarWomen on the verge of Pedro Almodovar a nervous breakdownVolver Pedro AlmodovarPan’s Labyrinth Guillermo del ToroThe devil’s backbone Guillermo del ToroLa voz dormida Benito ZambranoOcho apellidos vascos Emilio Martinez LázaroLos diarios de motocicleta Walter SallesBelle Epoque F F Gomez

Theology, Philosophy & Ethics

The Experience of God: David Bentley Hart Being, Consciousness, Bliss The Philosophy Files 2 Stephen LawThink: A Compelling S Blackburn Introduction to Philosophy Breaking the Spell D DennettA Short History of Ethics A MacintyreThe God Delusion R DawkinsThe Dawkins Delusion A McGrathDiscovering Right and Wrong L PojmanThe Puzzle of Ethics P VardyThe Puzzle of God P VardyThe Puzzle of Christianity P VardyA Short History of Philosophy N WarburtonA History of Christianity D MacCullochJesus: A Short Introduction R BauckhamTheology: A Short Introduction D Ford

And any of the ‘Short Introductions’ series, many of which have titles directly relevant to this subject.

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