Year 7 Suggested reading for pleasure list: 

● John Green: The Fault in Our Stars 

● A girl suffering from cancer meets a boy… Very romantic. 

● Helen Grant: The Vanishing of Katharina Linden 

● An adventure story and one of friendship – it will intrigue you. ● Anne Cassidy: Looking for JJ 

● An interesting look at psychology and forgiveness. 

● Marcus Sedgewick: Revolver 

● Step into a different world and time for a book about a revolver. ● Jostein Gaarder: Sophie’s World 

● Kids are smarter than adults – this is the way this book opens! Like to think deeply? This is the book for you! 

● Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist 

● Dickens’ orphan story is epic and full of twists and turns. 

● George Eliot: Silas Marner 

● Explore a small village and a man who loves his pot of gold. ● Dodie Smith: I Capture the Castle 

● Romantic; a book which is also about sisters. 

● Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime 

● Told by an autistic boy, extremely funny too! 

● Marcus Zusak: The Book Thief 

● An imaginative and moving account exploring life in World War 2. ● Dave Eggers: What is the What 

● One man’s struggle to escape the civil war in Sudan. 

● Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird 

● Racism, civil rights and a very likeable narrator. 

● Philip Pullman: Northern Lights 

● Fantasy; Pullman creates a completely new world. 

● Frederik Douglass: Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave 

● Douglass escaped slavery, taught himself to read and write and told the world about what happened. 

● Lewis Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 

● A girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a whole new world. ● Louisa May Alcott: Little Women 

● One family and many sisters. 

● John Steinbeck: The Pearl 

● Boy dives for pearl… But this book is about so much more.