Year 9
SUGGESTED READING
Empire of the Sun - J. G. Ballard
Hansi (The Girl Who Loved the Swastika) - M.A. Hirschman
The Sharpe Series - Bernard Cornwell
Sloop of War - Alexander Kent
Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves
The Sterkarm Series - Susan Price
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum - Mary Hooper
Big Mouth and Ugly Girl - Joyce Carol Oates
The Book of Dead Days - Marcus Sedgewick
The Edge - Alan Gibbons
Exodus - Julie Bertagna
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
The Dark Horse - Marcus Sedgewick
Feeling Sorry for Celia - Jaclyn Moriarty
Firesong - William Nicholson
From Out of the Shadows - Jamila Gavin
Grass for His Pillow - Lian Hearn
Letters from the Inside - John Martsen
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Remembrance - Theresa Breslin
Sequins, Stardom and Chloe’s Dad - John Farman
The Shell House - Linda Newbery
Starseeker - Tim Bowler
Thursday’s Child - Sonya Hartnett
Dear Nobody - Berlie Doherty
Junk - Melvyn Burgess
Sparkleshark - Philip Ridley
Sorceress - Celia Rees
Homebird - Terence Blacker
Kiss the Dust - Elizabeth Laird
The Protectors - Pete Johnson
The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
Fifteen - Beverley Cleary
St Agnes Stand - Thomas Eidson
Children of the Dust - Louise Lawrence
Across the Barricades - Joan Lingard
We All Fall Down - Robert Cormier
Short Stories - Roald Dahl
Collision Course - Nigel Hinton
Whispers in the Graveyard - Theresa Breslin
The Wave - Morton Rhue
A Child Called 'It' - David Pelzer
Anne Frank - Beyond the Diary - Miriam Pressler
The Throwaways - Ian Strachan
Red Sky in the Morning - Elizabeth Laird
Out of the Darkness - Nigel Hinton
A River Ran Out of Eden - James Vance Marshall
Waiting for the Rain - Sheila Gordon
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
Empty World - John Christopher
Brother in the Land - Robert Swindells
The Scarecrows - Robert Westall
Year 9
SUGGESTED AUTHORS
Susan Hill - The Woman in Black
Celia Rees – Witch Child
George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty Four
Roald Dahl – Tales of the Unexpected
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the
Sea
Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep
Douglas Adams – The Hitchhikers Guide to
the Galaxy Series
Terry Pratchett – The Discworld Series
Ken Follet – Hornet Flight
James Vance Marshall – Walkabout
John Christopher – No Blade of Grass
Richard Adams - Shardik
Mildred Taylor - The Road to Memphis
S. E. Hinton - Rumblefish
John Wyndham – The Day of the Triffids
Douglas Adams – The Hitchhikers Guide to
the Galaxy Series
Terry Pratchett – The Discworld Series
Daphne DuMaurier - Rebecca
John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men
Philip K. Dick - Ubik
SOME CHALLENGING BUT UNMISSABLE CLASSICS
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria
Remarque
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas
Hardy
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Forrest Gump – Winston Groom
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest
Hemingway
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Trial – Franz Kafka
Brave New World – Aldus Huxley
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep –
Philip K. Dick
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
Allan Quatermain – H Rider Haggard
The Napoleon of Notting Hill – G.K.
Chesterton
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Kes - Barry Hines
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
The books listed here are general suggestions only - a
starting point. For suggestions that may be more to
your personal taste: ask your English teachers,
librarians, parents, brothers, sisters and especially your
friends.