| The more pupils read, the more successful they tend to be. Here are some suggestions for library visits, presents, browsing in bookshops online, etc. | |
| Author | Title |
| Adams, Richard | Watership Down |
| Aesop | Aesop’s Fables |
| Aiken, Joan | Black Hearts in Battersea |
| Alcock, Vivien | The Cuckoo Sister |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women |
| Allende, Isabel | House of the Spirits |
| Allingham, Margery | Tiger in the Smoke |
| Almond, David | Skellig |
| Amis, Kingsley | Lucky Jim |
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Atkinson, Kate | Behind the Scenes at the Museum |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid’s Tale |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice |
| Bainbridge, Beryl | Young Adolf |
| Ballantyne, R.M. | The Coral Island |
| Ballard, J.G. | Empire of the Sun |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | The L-Shaped Room |
| Barker, Pat | Regeneration |
| Barrie, J.M. | Peter Pan |
| Bates, H.G. | The Darling Buds of May |
| Baum, L.Frank | The Wizard of Oz |
| Bawden, Nina | Carrie’s War |
| Bennett, Arthur | Anna of the Five Towns |
| Blackmore, R.D. | Lorna Doone |
| Blake, Michael | Dances with Wolves |
| Blixen, Karen | Out of Africa |
| Blume, Judy | Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret |
| Boston, Lucy M. | Children of Green Knowe |
| Bowler, Tim | River Boy |
| Boyd, William | A Good Man in Africa |
| Brontë, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Brontë, Emily | Wuthering Heights |
| Brookner, Anita | Hôtel du Lac |
| Bryson, Bill | Notes from a Small Island |
| Buchan, John | The Thirty-Nine Steps |
| Burgess, Anthony | A Clockwork Orange |
| Burnett, Frances H. | The Secret Garden |
| Byars, Betsy | The Eighteenth Emergency |
| Byatt, A.S. | Babel Tower |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland |
| Chandler, Raymond | The Big Sleep |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | The Canterbury Tales |
| Chekhov, Anton | Three Sisters |
| Christie, Agatha | Murder on the Orient Express |
| Collins, Wilkie | The Moonstone |
| Coolidge, Susan | What Katy Did |
| Cormier, Robert | The Chocolate War |
| Cornwell, Patricia | Postmortem |
| Cresswell, Helen | Moondial |
| Cross, Gillian | The Demon Headmaster |
| Dahl, Roald | Tales of the Unexpected |
| Danziger, Paula | Earth to Matthew |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe |
| Desai, Anita | The Village by the Sea |
| Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations |
| Dickens, Monica | One Pair of Hands |
| Doherty, Berlie | Dear Nobody |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| Doyle, Roddy | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
| Drabble, Margaret | Jerusalem the Golden |
| Dumas, Alexandre | The Count of Monte Cristo |
| Du Maurier, Daphne | Rebecca |
| Durrell, Gerald | My Family and Other Animals |
| Eliot, George | The Mill on the Floss |
| Evans, Nicholas | The Horse Whisperer |
| Falkner, John M. | Moonfleet |
| Faulks, Sebastian | Birdsong |
| Fielding, Helen | Bridget Jones’ Diary |
| Fielding, Henry | Tom Jones |
| Fine, Anne | The Flour Babies |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby |
| Forester, C.S. | Captain Hornblower |
| Forster, E.M. | A Room with a View |
| Frank, Anne | The Diary of Anne Frank |
| Galsworthy, John | The Forsyte Saga |
| Garfield, Leon | Smith |
| Garland, A | The Beach |
| Gaskell, Elizabeth | Cranford |
| Gibbons, Stella | Cold Comfort Farm |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies |
| Grahame, Kenneth | The Wind in the Willows |
| Graves, Robert | I, Claudius |
| Greene, Graham | The Tenth Man |
| Grisham, John | The Client |
| Guy, Rosa | The Friends |
| Haggard, H.Rider | King Solomon’s Mines |
| Hardy, Thomas | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Harris, Joanne | Chocolat |
| Hartley, L.P. | The Go-Between |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter |
| Hemingway, Ernest | The Old Man and the Sea |
| Hendry, Frances Mary | Chandia |
| Herriot, James | All Creatures Great and Small |
| Hilton, James | Goodbye Mr. Chips |
| Hines, Barry | A Kestrel for a Knave |
| Hinton, Nigel | Buddy |
| Hinton, S.E. | The Outsiders |
| Holm, Anne | I Am David |
| Hornby, Nick | High Fidelity |
| Hughes, Thomas | Tom Brown’s School Days |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World |
| Isherwood, Christopher | The Berlin Stories |
| James, Henry | Portrait of a Lady |
| James, P.D. | The Black Tower |
| Jerome, Jerome K. | Three Men in a Boat |
| Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer | Heat and Dust |
| Joyce, James | The Dubliners |
| Kaye, Geraldine | Comfort Herself |
| Kaye, M.M. | The Far Pavilions |
| Kerr, Judith | When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit |
| King, Clive | Stig of the Dump |
| King-Smith, Dick | The Sheep Pig |
| Kingsley, Charles | The Water Babies |
| Kipling, Rudyard | The Jungle Book |
| Laird, Elizabeth | Kiss the Dust |
| Lawrence, D.H. | Women in Love |
| Le Carré, John | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy |
| Le Guin, Ursula | Wizard of Earthsea |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Lee, Laurie | Cider with Rosie |
| Lessing, Doris | The Grass is Singing |
| Levin, Ira | The Boys from Brazil |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe |
| Lindsay, Joan | Picnic at Hanging Rock |
| Lingard, Joan | The Twelfth Day of July |
| Lively, Penelope | The Ghost of Thomas Kempe |
| London, Jack | The Call of the Wild |
| Magorian, Michelle | Goodnight Mister Tom |
| Manning, Olivia | The Balkan Trilogy |
| Mansfield, Katherine | Collected Stories |
| Marshall, James Vance | Walkabout |
| MacLaverty, Bernard | Cal |
| McCourt, Frank | Angela’s Ashes |
| Miller, Arthur | Death of a Salesman |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone with the Wind |
| Mitford, Nancy | Love in a Cold Climate |
| Montgomery, L. M. | Anne of Green Gables |
| Murphy, Jill | The Worst Witch |
| Nesbit, Edith | The Railway Children |
| Norton, Mary | The Borrowers |
| O’Brien, Edna | The Country Girls |
| O’Brien, R.C. | Z for Zachariah |
| O’Hara, Mary | My Friend Flicka |
| Orwell, George | Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| Paton, Alan | Cry, the Beloved Country |
| Pearce, Philippa | Tom’s Midnight Garden |
| Peyton, K.M. | A Midsummer Night’s Death |
| Price, Willard | Arctic Adventure |
| Priestley, J.B. | An Inspector Calls |
| Porter, Eleanor H. | Pollyanna |
| Puzo, Mario | The Godfather |
| Ransome, Arthur | Swallows and Amazons |
| Read, Miss | Village School |
| Reichs, Kathy | Déjà Dead |
| Rhue, Morton | The Wave |
| Rhys, Jean | Wide Sargasso Sea |
| Russell, Willy | Educating Rita |
| Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone |
| Salinger, J.D. | The Catcher in the Rye |
| Scott, Sir Walter | Ivanhoe |
| Serraillier, Ian | The Silver Sword |
| Sewell, Anna | Black Beauty |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Pygmalion |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein |
| Smith, Dodie | 101 Dalmations |
| Smith, Zadie | White Teeth |
| Spark, Muriel | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Treasure Island |
| Stoker, Bram | Dracula |
| Streatfield, Noel | Ballet Shoes |
| Sutcliffe, Rosemary | Beowulf |
| Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver’s Travels |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club |
| Taylor, Mildred D. | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
| Thackeray, W.M. | Vanity Fair |
| Theroux. Paul | The Mosquito Coast |
| Thurber, James | Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. | The Hobbit |
| Tolstoy, Leo | Anna Karenina |
| Townsend, Sue | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole |
| Trollope, Anthony | Barchester Towers |
| Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Tyler, Anne | Ladder of Years |
| Ure, Jean | A Proper Little Nooryeff |
| Verne, Jules | Around the World in Eighty Days |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Brideshead Revisited |
| Weldon, Faye | Big Women |
| Wells, H. G. | The Time Machine |
| Wesley, Mary | The Camomile Lawn |
| Westall, Robert | The Scarecrows |
| Wharton, Edith | The Age of Innocence |
| White, E.B. | Charlotte’s Web |
| White, T. H. | The Sword in the Stone |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Importance of Being Earnest |
| Wiggins, Kate Douglas | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm |
| Williams, Tennessee | The Glass Menagerie |
| Williamson, Henry | Tarka the Otter |
| Wodehouse, P.G. | Very Good, Jeeves |
| Woodford, Peggy | Out of the Sun |
| Woolf, Virginia | To the Lighthouse |
| Wyndham, John | The Day of the Triffids |
| Wyss, J.D. | Swiss Family Robinson |