Trinity School
English Department
IGCSE
Reading List
Your Reading: The iGCSE Years
Everyone knows that reading is good for you. It improves your language
skills, teaches you about the world, helps you understand how other people live and how they feel about things. Most importantly it can be something that entertains you and provides you with hours of pleasure all your
life.
Over the next two years, we are going to encourage you to read as much,
and as widely as possible. We are also going to help you develop a variety of different ways you can respond to a book, that go beyond the simple book review that you have used in the past. So, we have got together
a list of books that we know have been enjoyed by readers of your age.
The list is not intended to prevent you choosing your own reading, but in
the first instance, we would like you to read at least one of the books
listed in the following pages before you return to school in September.
Many of the books are available in the school library, but others you may
wish to obtain from public libraries and bookshops.
It may be helpful to you, to keep some sort of record of what you have
read, and what you initial reactions were to elements like the characters
and the narrative.
1984
George Orwell
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
Catch 22
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in
The Rye
J D Salinger
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Enigma
Robert Harris
Fever Pitch
Nick Hornby
Fight Club
Chuck Palahnuik
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Girlfriend in a Coma
Douglas Coupland
Hard Times
Charles Dickens
High Fidelity
Nick Hornby
The Hitch Hiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
I’m the King of
the Castle
Susan Hill
Jonathan Strange
& Mr Norrell
Susannah Clarke
Junk
Melvin Burgess
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Noughts & Crosses
Malorie Blackman
Notes on a Scandal
Zoe Heller
Portrait of the Artist James Joyce
As a Young Man
Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier
Refugee Boy
Benjamin Zephaniah
The Secret History
Donna Tart
Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut
The Book Thief
Marcus Zusak
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
The Fog
James Herbert
The Human Factor
Graham Greene
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
The Shining
Stephen King
The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
The War of the Worlds
H G Wells