Reading List - Year 10
Top 25 books for Year 10 students to read. A more comprehensive list can be downloaded below.
Classics
Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
The Big Sleep by R Chandler
Wuthering Heights by E Bronte
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Adventure/Crime/Thriller
No Time For Goodbye by L Barclay
The Runaways by V Canning
Different Cultures
Burn my Heart by B Naidoo
When the Snow Fell by H Mankel
Biography/Autobiography
It’s Not About the Bike by L Armstrong
Fever Pitch by N Hornby
Science Fiction
The Player of Games by I M Banks
Farseer Trilogy by R Hobb
Eye of the World by R Jordan
Fantasy/Horror
Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge (Carnegie Award Shortlist)
Say her Name by James Dawson (Ashcroft Winner FAB Award 2015)
Black Magician Trilogy by T Canavan
History/Current Affairs
The Silver Pigs by L Davis
Nicholas Dane by M Burgess
General
When Mr Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan (Carnegie Award Shortlist)
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Angela’s Ashes by F McCourt
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by A Pitcher
The Lovely Bones by A Sebold
Chocolat by J Harris
Notes from a small island by B Bryson
Boys Don’t Cry by M Blackman