Year

10 Reading List

Short Stories
Roald Dahl Guy de Maupassant Frank OConnor Edgar Allan Poe Saki Tales of the Unexpected Selected Short Stories My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories Tales of Mystery and Imagination Collected Short Stories

Autobiography/Biography
Maya Angelou Helen Forrester Kitty Hart Brian Keenan Christy Brown Jean-Dominique Bauby Floella Benjamin Esther Freud Bharati Minkherjee Thomas Keneally Laurie Lee Christopher Nolan Flora Thompson Peter Townsend Marjorie Wallace Lorna Safe J G Ballard Maeve Binchy Frank OConnoor Pearl S Buck Anita Desai Barry Hines Mingfong Ho Harper Lee Mildred Taylor Caryl Phillips Naruddin Farah Amrita Pritam Roddy Doyle Katherine Paterson I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Two Pence to Cross the Mersey Return to Auschwitz An Evil Cradling My Left Foot The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Coming to England Hideous Kinky Jasmine Schindlers List Cider With Rosie Under the Eye of the Clock Lark Rise to Candleford The Postman of Nagasaki The Silent Twins Bad Blood

Childhood/Family
Empire of the Sun Light a Penny Candle Angelas Ashes The Good Earth The Village by the Sea A Kestrel for a Knave Rice Without Rain To Kill A Mockingbird Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Crossing the River Gifts The Skeleton and the Man Paddy Clarke Ha! Ha! Ha! Bridge to Terebitha

Jane Smiley Amy Tan Andrea Levy

A Thousand Acres The Bonesetters Daughter Every Light in the House Burning Small Island

Classics/Greats
Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte Charles Dickens George Eliot Graham Greene Thomas Hardy Boris Pasternak Alexander Solzhenitsyn John Steinbeck Chinua Achebe Robert Louis Stevenson Mary Shelley Pride and Prejudice Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights David Copperfield Silas Marner The Power and the Glory Far from the Madding Crowd Dr Zhivago One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch Of Mice and Men Things Fall Apart Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Frankenstein

Crime

G K Chesterton Arthur Conan Doyle Dashiel Hammett Patricia Highsmith P D James Ellis Peters Reginald Hill Daniel Keytes George Orwell Isaac Asimov Aldous Huxley Michael Moorcock H G Wells Garth Nix

The Innocence of Father Brown The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Maltese Falcon Ripleys Game Shroud for a Nightingale The Potters Field Bones and Silence

Future Worlds/Fantasy
Flowers for Algernon 1984 Foundation and Empire Brave New World The Dangers of The End of Time The War of the Worlds Sabriel

Humour
Hanif Kureishi Stella Gibbons
George and Weedon Grossmith

Jerome K Jerome Garrison Keillor David Nobbs P G Wodehouse Mark Haddon

Buddha of Suburbia Cold Comfort Farm Diary of a Nobody Three Men in a Boat Lake Wobegone Days A Bit of a Do The Inimitable Jeeves The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

Supernatural/Mystery
Wilkie Collins Susan Hill Daphne De Maurier River Godden Bram Stoker The Moonstone The Woman in Black Rebecca The Black Narcissus Dracula

Teenage Fiction
Ravinder Randhawa Robert Cormier S E Hinton Bernard MacLaverty Morton Rhue Rukshana Smith Robert Westall Lynne Reid Banks Buchi Emecheta Rosa Guy J D Salinger Hari-jan Heroes The Outsiders Cal The Wave Sumitras Story The Scarecrows The L-Shaped Room The Bride Price Edith Jackson Catcher in the Rye