2016-2017
King’s House School Reading List Year 8
This list contains a variety of books that cover a wide range of reading
interests and abilities. All of these books are available in the school library. If
you would like further information or suggestions please see the librarian. A
comprehensive list including further information and extracts is available at
www.lovereading4schools.co.uk
All Quiet on the Western Front*
Erich Remarque
An Island of Our Own
Sally Nicholls
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Collected Ghost Stories*
M. R. James
Coram Boy
Jamilia Gavin
Dam Busters
James Holland
Dead Ends
Erin Lange
Empire of the Sun*
J.G. Ballard
Firesong
William Nicholson
Ghost Hawk
Susan Cooper
Hill’s End
Ivan Southall
I’m Not Scared
Niccolo Ammanti
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
Keeper
Mal Peet
King Solomon’s Mines*
H.Rider Hagggard
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Maggot Moon
Sally Gardner
My Swordhand is Singing
Marcus Sedgewick
Never Let Me Go*
Kauzo Ishiguro
Night Runner
Tim Bowler
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Nineteen Eighty-Four*
George Orwell
Ostrich Boys
Keith Gray
Out of the Silent Planet
C.S Lewis
Red Shadow
Paul Dowsell
The Plague Dogs*
Richard Adams
Skin
Roald Dahl
Tales of Mystery and Terror
Edgar Allan Poe
The Book Thief
Marcus Zusak
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
The Everest Files
Matt Dickinson
The Fifth Wave
Rick Yancey
The Go-Between*
L.P Hartley
The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Great Death
John Smelcer
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Patrick Ness
The Lie Tree
Frances Hardinge
The Maze Runner
James Dashner
The Moonstone*
Wilkie Collins
The Obsidian Mirror
Catherine Fisher
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
The Perks of Being a Wallflower*
Stephen Chbosky
The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
The Prince of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Prince of the Icemark
Stuart Hill
The Red Necklace
Sally Gardner
The Road of Bones*
Anne Fine
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The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
The Wall
William Sutcliff
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Alan Garner
The Woman in Black
Susan Hill
The World of Jeeves and Wooster
P.G. Wodehouse
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Tom Brown’s Schooldays
Thomas Hughes
Tulku
Peter Dickinson
Under a War-torn Sky
L.M. Elliot
Waterloo
Bernard Cornwell
Wolf of the Plains
Colm Iggulden
*a more challenging read that may contain more mature themes and/or
language
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