Reading list
Just 20 minutes a day! Maybe you feel reading isn’t your thing BUT with the benefits it brings, you need to make it one of your things for just 20 minutes a day.
Still go out with your friends, still go on your phone, still play on your games console – just find a regular 20 minute slot to read. Those who do read will be able to tell you about the magic it brings to their lives – don’t miss out!
A book for everyone We’re all different and so have varying interests and likes.
Luckily, there are thousands (millions even!) of books and they cover all interests. Sometimes, you end up reading a book and only then do you realise you are interested in something – try Pig Heart Boy and you might find you’re actually really interested in genetics, ethics, surgery and the media! The following list is a very tiny selection of the books that exist - we think these are really good books so, if you’re not sure what to read, why not give one of these a try?
11 -14 Reading recommendations Pig Heart Boy
Malorie Blackman
Maze Runner
James Dashner
Harry Potter series
JK Rowling
Bone
Seth Smith
I am Malala
Malala Yousafzai
Time Travelling with a Hamster
Ross Welford
The Bone Sparrow
Zana Fraillon
Flirty Dancing
Jenny MacLachlan
Percy Jackson series
Rick Riordan
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
The Hobbit
JRR Tolkien
The Phantom Toll Booth
Norton Juster
Murder Most Unlady Like Robin Stevens
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
Alex Rider series
Antony Horowitz
Mrs PepperPot stories
Alf Proysen
Jamie Johnson series
Dan Freedman
Gormenghast series
Mervyn Peake
Narnia series
CS Lewis
Crossing the Line
Tia Fisher
Heartstopper
Alice Oseman
Golden Compass series Phillip Pullman
The Machine Gunners
Robert Westall
The Good Thieves
Katherine Rundell
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
The Shark Caller
Zillah Bethall
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Looking for JJ
Anne Cassidy
14 – 16 Reading recommendations The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Perfume
Patrick Suskind
The Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Tsotsi
Athol Fugard
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger Queenie
Candice Carty Williams
Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
Sue Townsend
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
Paper Towns
John Green
Grey Bees
Andrey Kurkov
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
Delirium
Lauren Oliver
The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Mildred D Taylor
Discworld series
Terry Pratchett
American Born Chinese
Gene Luan Yang
Carrie Soto is Back
Taylor Jenkins Reid
More Than This
Patrick Ness
If I Never Met You
Mhari Macfarlane
Piecing Me Together
Renee Watson
The Flat Share
Beth O’Leary
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Punching the Air
Yusef Salaam
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven Juno Dawson
Great books for confident readers Engleby
Sebastian Faulks
The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch
Testaments
Margaret Atwood
The Long Ships
Frans G Bengtsson
Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh
Embers
Sandor Marai
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
A Boy Made of Blocks
Keith Stuart
1984
George Orwell
The Country of Others
Leila Slimani
Delayed Rays of a Star
Amanda Lee Koe
Circe
Madeline Miller
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Diary of a Nobody
G&W Grossmith
Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Farenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Stoner
John Williams
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stewart
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Beloved
Toni Morrison
A Clockwork Orange
Antony Burgess
Bear vs Shark
Chris Bachelder
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
We All Want Impossible Things
Catherine Newman
Independent People
Halldor Laxness