School Year Reading List 22/23
Reading Lists – 2022/2023
Year 7
Freedom (1783) by Catherine Johnson
The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson
Watership Down by Richard Adamson
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Framed by Frank Cotterill-Boyce
Some Places More Than Others by Renée Watson
War Horse by Michael Morpugo
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Year 8
Wink by Rob Harrell
Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
Journey to The River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
I Am David by Anne Holm
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Year 9
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Noah Can’t Even by Simon James Green
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Thief by Malorie Blackman
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume
Lionheart Girl by Yaba Badoe
The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill
Year 10
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen
Every Day by David Levithan
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Paper Butterflies by Lisa Heathfield
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
Year 11
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
How It All Blew Up by Aruin Ahmadi
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Baby Teeth by Meg Grehan
Year 12
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Notes On A Scandal by Zoe Heller
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out
the Window and Disappeared by Jona Jonasson.
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
Many Different Kinds of Love: A Story of Life, Death & the NHS by Michael Rosen
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
Year 13
The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Philomena by Martin Sixsmith
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
