Year 7
SUGGESTED READING
Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve
John Carter of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Pellucidor – Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Enemy Stars – Poul Anderson
The Robot Series – Isaac Asimov
King Solomon’s Mines – H Rider Haggard
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
Invasion of the Body Snatchers – Jack Finney
His Majesty’s Starship – Ben Jeapes
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Cirque de Freak - Darren Shan
Witch Child – Celia Rees
Stig of the Dump – Clive King
The Artemis Fowl Series Eoin Colfer
Haunting of Alaizabel - Clay Chris Wooding
The Dark is Rising Series – Susan Cooper
The Discworld Series – Terry Pratchett
The Narnia Series – C.S. Lewis
His Dark Materials Series – Phillip Pullman
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
Knights of the Lost Domain – Julian Atterton
The Hounds of the Morrigan – Pat O’Shea
The Hobbit - J.R.R.Tolkein
The Young Bond Series - Charlie Higson
Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
James Bond – Ian Flemming
Biggles – Captain WE Johns
A Series of Unfortunate Events Lemony Snicket
The Borrowers – Mary Norton
Across the Roman Wall - Theresa Breslin
Coram Boy - Jamila Gavin
The Dark Room- Rachel Seiffert
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Machine Gunners - Robert Westall
Remembrance - Theresa Breslin
A Homecoming for Kezzie - Theresa Breslin
Out of the Hitler Time - Judith Kerr
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Cruel Sea – Nicholas Monsarrat
Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Father Brown Stories – G.K. Chesterton
Jamaica Inn - Daphne DuMaurier
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
Shakespeare Stories – Leon Garfield
Coraline – Neil Gaiman
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh - Robert C O'Brien
Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian
Holes – Louis Sacher
Tightrope - Gillian Cross
Clockwork - Philip Pullman
Year 7
SUGGESTED AUTHORS
David Almond - Skellig
Rachel Anderson - Paper Faces
Malorie Blackman - Hacker
Tim Bowler – Shadows
Richmal Crompton – The William Series
Gillian Cross – Wolf
Michael Morpurgo - Arthur High King of Britain
Berlie Doherty - Dear Nobody
Anne Fine - Flour Babies
Frances Mary Henry - Chandra
Robert Swindells - Stone Cold
Sue Welford - The Night After Tomorrow
Ann Holm - I am David
Laurie Lee - Cider With Rosie
Arthur Ransome - Swallows and Amazons
Richard Adams – Watership Down
Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass
Dianna Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle
SOME CHALLENGING BUT UNMISSABLE CLASSICS
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R.Tolkein
Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
The Pearl – John Steinbeck
The books listed here are general suggestions only - a starting point. For suggestions that may be more to your personal taste: ask your English teachers, librarians, parents, brothers, sisters and especially your friends.