KS3 LRC Recommended Reading List 2019/2020

Classic Titles Historical Fiction

Title	Author	Title	Author
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Code Name Verity	Elizabeth Wein
King Solomon’s Mines	H Rider Haggard	The Call of the Wild	Jack London
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte	My Name’s not Friday	Jon Walter
Treasure Island	R L Stevenson	War Horse	Michael Morpurgo
The Time Machine	H G Wells	The Book Thief	Markus Zusak
War of the Worlds	H G Wells	Five Children on the Western Front	Kate Saunders
Animal Farm	George Orwell	Hetty Feather	Jacqueline Wilson
Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	The Way of the Warrior	Chris Bradford
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	John Boyne
Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens	Private Peaceful	Michael Morpurgo
The Catcher in the Rye	J D Salinger	The Doll maker of Krakow	R M Romero

Action and Adventure Fantasy/Science Fiction

Relationships and Conflicts Diversity

Title	Author	Title	Author
The Smell of Other People’s Houses	Sue-Bonnie Hitchcock	The Fastest Boy in the World	Elizabeth Laird
Wonder	R J Palacio	Rhythm and Poetry	Karl Nova
Life on the Refrigerator Door	Alice Kuipers	Refugee Boy	Benjamin Zephaniah
One	Sarah Crossan	Lies We Tell Ourselves	Robin Talley
Goldfish Boy	Lisa Thompson	Buffalo Soldier	Tanya Landman
Boy under Water	Adam Baron	George	Alex Gino
Face	Benjamin Zephaniah	Anita and Me	Meera Syal
The Harder they Fall	Bali Rai	Out of Bounds	Beverley Naidoo
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time	Mark Haddon	The Crossover	Kwame Alexander
Gangsta Rap	Benjamin Zephania	Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe

Horror Comedy

Title	Author	Title	Author
The Graveyard Book	Neil Gaimon	Matilda	Roald Dahl
Chill	Alex Nye	Mr Popper’s Penguins	Richard Atwater
Doll Bones	Holly Black	Just William	Richmal Crompton
Thornhill	Pam Smy	Kid Normal	Greg James
Frozen Charlotte	Alex Bell	Lightening Girl	Alesha Dixon
Thirteen Chairs	Dave Shelton	Who Let the Gods Out	Maz Evans
The Hunting Ground	Cliff McNish	The Parent Agency	David Baddiel
The Woman in Black	Susan Hill	Demon Dentist	David Walliams
The Twisted Tree	Rachel Burge	Petunia Perry and the Curse of the Ugly Pigeon	Pamela Butchart
Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children	Ransom Riggs	Gangsta Granny	David Walliams
The Hazel Wood	Melissa Albert	Louisiana’s Way Home	Kate Camillo
The Stuff of Nightmares	Malorie Blackman	The 13-Story Treehouse series	Andy Griffiths

The Top Twenty Five Books Every Child Should Read

· Harry Potter Series – J K Rowling

· Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

· The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C S Lewis

· Winnie the Pooh – A A Milne

· Wonder – R J Palacio

· The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne

· Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman

· The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson-Burnett

· The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank

· The Catcher in the Rye – J D Salinger

· Black Beauty – Anna Sewell

· Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

· Matilda – Roald Dahl

· The Railway Children – E Nesbit

· Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

· Five on a Treasure Island – Enid Blyton

· The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

· Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi

· The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling

· Charlotte’s Web – E B White

· Once – Morris Gleitzman

· Watership Down – Richard Adams

· Goodnight Mr Tom – Michelle Magorian

· Lord of the Flies – William Golding

· Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

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