Year 10 Reading List
Adventure/Crime/Thriller
The Hunt for Red October by T Clancy
Genesis Alpha by R Michaels
The Blue Nowhere by J Deaver
No Time For Goodbye by L Barclay
Child 44 by T R Smith
Last Light by A Scarrow
The Runaways by V Canning
The Blue Nowhere by J Deaver
FantasyHorror
Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge (Carnegie Award Shortlist)
Say her Name by James Dawson( Ashcroft Winner FAB Award 2015)
Let the Right One In by J A Linquist
Interview with Vampire by A Rice
The Reformed Vampire Support Group by C Jinks
Bloodtide by M Burgess
Bloodsong by M Burgess
Black Magician Trilogy by T Canavan
Pelinor Trilogy by A Croggan
Glass Demon by H Grant
Biography/Autobiography
It’s Not About the Bike by L Armstrong
The Motorcycle Diaries by E Guevara
Fever Pitch by N Hornby
Science Fiction
Doctor Mirabilis by J Blish
The Player of Games by I M Banks
Frankenstein Unbound by B Aldiss
Farseer Trilogy by R Hobb
Eye of the World by R Jordan
The Declaration & The Resistance by G Malley
One of Us by M M Smith
Prey by M Crichton
The Long Walk by S King
History/Current Affairs
The Silver Pigs by L Davis
Ash on a Young Man’s Sleeve by D Abse
Enigma by R Harris
Nicholas Dane by M Burgess
Baby Father by J Kenrick
The Medici Seal by T Breslin
Newes from the Dead by M Hooper
Different Cultures
Burn my Heart by B Naidoo
When the Snow Fell by H Mankell
General
When Mr Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan (Carnegie Award Shortlist)
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The 10pm Question by K de Goldi
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by A Pitcher
Brick Lane by M Ali
The Lovely Bones by A Sebold
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by J Barnes
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by L de Bernieres
Chocolat by J Harris
The Darwin Wars by A Brown
Notes from a small island by B Bryson
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha by R Doyle
Sugar Rush by J Burchill
Gifted by N Lalwani
Under the Skin by M Faber
Black Rabbit Summer by K Brooks
The Knife that Killed Me by A McGowan
Red Rage by B Blobel
The Witness by J Jauncey
Boys Don’t Cry by M Blackman
Sarah’s Face by M Burgess
Slam by N Hornby
Angela’s Ashes by F McCourt
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by K Kesey
Classics
Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
The Jeeves Stories by P G Wodehouse
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Big Sleep by R Chandler
Pride and Prejudice by J Austen
Jane Eyre by C Bronte
Wuthering Heights by E Bronte
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
The book is a film that takes place in the mind
of the reader. That s why we go to the movies
and say Oh, the book is better .
Paulo Coelho