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
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
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