Year 8 and Beyond Recommended Reading
General Reading
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The Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore
The Gallagher Girls Series by Alley Carter
The watcher in the shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Enemy Series by Charlie Higson
Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy
A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Tamar by Mal Peet
Turbulence by Jan Mark
A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
Her Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine
Apache by Tanya Landman
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
Creature of the Night by Kate Thompson
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Walkabout by James Vance Marshall
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Rule of Thoughts by James Dashner
The Fastest Boy in the World by Elizabeth Laird
Buffalo Soldier by Tanya Landman
The Middle of Nowhere by Geraldine McCaughrean
Black Rabbit Summer by Kevin Brooks
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by Michael Boyne
Thursday’s Child by Sonya Hartnett
Rowan The Strange by Julie Hearn
The Bride’s Farewell by Meg Rosoff
White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick
Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace
The 10th Circle by Jodi Picoult
Spirit Hunter (Bloodline) by Katy Moran
Falling by Sharon Dogar
Waves by Sharon Dogar
The Numbers trilogy by Rachel Ward
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman
Doublecross by Malorie Blackman
Z for Zachariah by Robert O'Brien
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Emperor Series by Conn Iggulden
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Across the Barricades by Joan Lingard
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
To Sir With Love by ER Braithwaite
Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
More than this by Patrick Ness
Dark Satanic Mills by Julian Sedgwick
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly
The African Queen by C. S. Forrester
Inventing Elliot by Graham Gardner
I’m the King of the Castle by Susan Hill
The Light/Gone series by Michael Grant
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
The Maze Runner series by James Dashner
The Eye of Minds by James Dashner