Key Stage 4 Recommended Reading
We will produce a Book Review Summary on each of these Books with a Comprehension exercise with each
Here is a comprehensive list of recommended books for Key Stage 4 (ages 14-16):
“1984” by George Orwell
“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck
“Macbeth” by William Shakespeare
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë
“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley
“Animal Farm” by George Orwell
“Dracula” by Bram Stoker
“Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë
“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini
“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak
“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” by Mark Haddon
“Life of Pi” by Yann Martel
“Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro
“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy
“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green
“An Inspector Calls” by J.B. Priestley
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare
“Blood Brothers” by Willy Russell
“The Crucible” by Arthur Miller
“A View from the Bridge” by Arthur Miller
“Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller
“Othello” by William Shakespeare
“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare
“The Tempest” by William Shakespeare
“A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen
“I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban” by Malala Yousafzai
“Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race” by Margot Lee Shetterly
“The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank
“Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari
“Educated” by Tara Westover
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot
“H is for Hawk” by Helen Macdonald
“Becoming” by Michelle Obama
“The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” by Oliver Sacks
“Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup” by John Carreyrou