Heathcote's Recommended Reads
At Heathcote, we challenge all of our pupils to achieve their goals. One way in which pupils can ensure they are at the ‘top of their game’ in lessons is to read a minimum of 60 minutes every week. Below is a list of recommended books which we think you will enjoy, all of which pupils can borrow from the School Library. Feel free to print this list out and tick off the books as you read them, and please ask the Librarians if you need any help!
Year 7 readers
Title |
Author |
Completed |
Jessica's Ghost | Andrew Norriss | |
Tom Gates | L. Pichon | |
Harry Potter | J. K. Rowling | |
Billionaire Boy | David Walliams | |
Shadow House | Dan Poblocki | |
Dork Diaries | Renee Russell | |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Jeff Kinney | |
Zom-B | Darren Shan | |
Storm Catchers | Tim Bowler | |
Joe Cowley | Ben Davis | |
Ghost Mine | M.G. Harris | |
Darkmouth | Shane Hegarty | |
Millions | Frank Cotterill Boyce | |
Maggot Moon | Sally Gardner |
Year 8 readers (or books with more challenge)
Title |
Author |
Completed |
I am Number 4 | Pitticus Lore | |
Gone | Michael Grant | |
Geek Girl | Holly Smale | |
Checkmate | Malorie Blackman | |
Once | Morris Gleitzman | |
Gallagher Girls | Ally Carter | |
Recruit | Robert Muchamore | |
Ratburger | David Walliams | |
What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible | Ross Welford | |
Murder Most Unladylike | Robin Stevens | |
Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | |
Young Sherlock Holmes | Andrew Lane | |
Boy X | Dan Smith | |
Middle School | James Patterson | |
Maze Runner | James Dashner |
Year 9 readers (or books with even more challenge)
Title |
Author |
Completed |
Paper Towns | John Green | |
Dark Prophecy | Rick Riordan | |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | |
Lie Truth | Frances Hardinge | |
The Earth is Singing | Vanessa Curtis | |
Demon Road | Derek Landy | |
Everything Everything | Nicola Yoon | |
Found | Harlan Coben | |
Hour of the Bees | Lindsay Eagar | |
Bud not Buddy | C. P. Curtis | |
Divergent | Veronica Roth | |
Percy Jackson | Rick Riordan | |
Woman in Black | Susan Hill | |
Stolen | Lucy Christopher | |
Silence is Goldfish | Annabel Pitcher |
Reading at GCSE level
Title |
Author |
Completed |
Holding Up the Universe | Jennifer Niven | |
One | Sarah Crossan | |
Under My Skin | James Dawson | |
Wait For Me | Caroline Leech | |
Quiet Kind of Thunder | Sara Barnard | |
The Giver | Lois Lowry | |
Flawed | Celia Ahern | |
Problem with Forever | Jennifer Armentrout | |
Confessions of a Shopaholic | Sophie Kinsella | |
Looking Glass Girl | Anne Cassidy | |
Oblivion | Anthony Horowitz | |
Resurrection | Derek Landy | |
Bodyguard-Hostage | Chris Bradford | |
Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | |
The Dead | Charlie Higson |
Reading at A-Level
Fiction |
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Title |
Author |
Completed |
Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | |
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |
War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells | |
Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | |
Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | |
Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | |
The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorn | |
The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins | |
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Lewis Stevenson | |
Little Women | Louisa M. Alcott | |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | |
Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | |
The Call of the Wild | Jack London | |
The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan | |
The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | |
Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | |
Catcher in the Rye | J. D Salinger | |
The Lord of The Rings | J.R.R Tolkien | |
Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | |
Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | |
Lanark | Alasdair Gray | |
Money | Martin Amis | |
Wise Children | Angela Carter | |
Atonement | Ian McEwan | |
Northern Lights | Philip Pullman | |
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | |
Death in Venice | Thomas Mann | |
On the Road | Jack Kerouac | |
The Chrysalids | John Wyndham | |
The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula Le Guin | |
The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | |
The Colour Purple | Alice Walker | |
Non-Fiction |
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Title |
Author |
Complete |
The Establishment and How They Get Away With It | Owen Jones | |
I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World | Malala Yousafzai | |
Inequality and the 1% | Danny Dorling | |
The Rights of Man and/or Common Sense | Thomas Paine | |
Honourable Friends? | Caroline Lucas | |
Syriza | Kevin Ovenden | |
Essays | George Orwell | |
Poor Economics | Abhijit Banerjee and Ester Duflo | |
Suffagette: My Own Story | Emmeline Pankhurst | |
A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | |
Portrait of An Age: Victorian England | G. M. Young | |
The Mismeasure of Man | Steven Jay Gould | |
The Voyage of the Beagle and/or On The Origin of the Species | Charles Darwin | |
Hiroshima | John Hersey | |
The Story of Art | Ernst Gombrich | |
Image Music Text | Roland Barthes | |
The Revenge of Gaia | James Lovelock | |
The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon | |
The History of England | Thomas Babington Macaulay | |
The Making of the English Working Class | E.P. Thompson | |
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World 1914-1991 | Eric Hobsbawm | |
Postwar | Tony Jodt | |
The Journalist and the Murderer | Janet Malcolm | |
Dispatches | Michael Herr | |
The Image of Africa | Chinua Achebe | |
Godel, Escher, Bach: An External Golden Braid | Douglas Hofstadter | |
Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | |
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Mary Wollstonecraft | |
The Wretched of the Earth | Franz Fanon | |
The Medium is the Message | Marshall McLuhan | |
The Character of Physical Law | Richard Feynman | |
The Double Helix | James Watson | |
The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins | |
A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking |