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Key Stage 4 Reading List
Classic Books
- Jane Austen – Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey
- Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
- Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
- Charles Dickens – Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
- H.G. Wells – War of the Worlds, The Time Machine
- Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr Jeykll and Mr Hyde
- Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Urbevilles, Far From the Madding Crowd
- Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
- Edgar Allan Poe – The Fall of the House of Usher and other stories
- Arthur Conan Doyle – any of the Sherlock Holmes Series, eg. The Speckled Band
- Henry James – The Turn of the Screw
- Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
- Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White
- Bram Stoker – Dracula
- George Eliot – The Mill on The Floss
Fiction
- J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
- Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
- Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
- Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
- George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty Four, Animal Farm
- E.M. Forster – A Room with a View, A Passage to India
- William Golding – Lord of the Flies
- James Joyce – Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Muriel Spark – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Joseph Heller – Catch 22
- Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar
- Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale, Alias Grace
- Laurie Lee – Cider with Rosie
- J.G. Ballard – Empire of the Sun
- Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea
- Jean-Dominique Bauby – The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
- Louis de Bernieres – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
- Susan Hill – I’m The King of the Castle, The Woman in Black
- Barry Hines – A Kestrel for a Knave
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera
- Phillip Pulman – Northern Lights, The Amber Spyglass, The Subtle Knife
- Khalid Hossein – The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Ian McEwan – Atonement, Enduring Love
- Yann Martel – Life of Pi
- Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Audrey Niffenegger – The Time Traveller’s Wife
- Monica Ali – Brick Lane
- Andrea Levy – Small Island
- Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook
- Kate Atkinson – Behind The Scenes at the Museum, Human Croquet
- Peter Carey – True History of the Kelly Gang, Oscar and Lucinda
- Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones
- Jean Rhys – Wide Sargasso Sea
Non-Fiction/ Autobiography
- Jung Chang – Wild Swans
- Frank McCourt – Angela’s Ashes
- Stephen Fry – Moab is my Washpot
- Bill Bryson – A Short History of Nearly Everything, Shakespeare
- Gerald Durrell – My Family and Other Animals
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