Year 8 Suggested reading for pleasure list:

● 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.

● Angela Carter: The Magic Toyshop

● First love, and a toyshop that is magical.

● Kathryn Stockett: The Help

● Detailed exploration of American “help” in a time of intense racism and segregation.

● Bram Stoker: Dracula

● The original vampire book.