Y12 & 13 Stretch & Challenge: WIDER READING
This reading list is intended for ALL pupils in the 6th form. It will help you extend and deepen
your knowledge beyond your course. Pick one or two titles and have a browse. Some books
need not be read from cover to cover - you can dip into them and see where your curiosity
takes you…..
Mathematics
Simon Singh: Fermat’s Last Theorem; The Code Book; Fermat’s Enigma
Timothy Gowers: Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction
R. Courant and H. Robbins: What is Mathematics?
G.H. Hardy: A Mathematician’s Apology
Paul Hoffman: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
D Wells: The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers
English
Chaucer: Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Shakespeare: One or two plays more challenging than GCSE ones, eg Othello, Hamlet, King Lear
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
George Eliot: Silas Marner; Middlemarch
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Northanger Abbey; Sense & Sensibility
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations; Hard Times
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles; Jude the Obscure
TS Elliot – selection of poetry
AS Byatt: Possession
Angela Carter: Wise Children; The Bloody Chamber
F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Elizabeth Gaskell: North & South
Ian McEwan: Enduring Love
Arthur Miller: The Crucible
Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveller’s Wife
George Orwell: 1984
Annie Proulx: Brokeback Mountain
JD Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
Thackeray: Vanity Fair
Jeanette Winterson: Oranges are not the only Fruit
Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
Anything by DH Lawrence & EM Forster
English Review Magazine
Medicine
New Scientist - available in the library
Stephen Hawkin: A Brief History of Time
Hope T, et al: Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, 5th ed. (OUP)
Burton, JL: Aids to Undergraduate Medicine, 6th ed.
Rubenstein D, Wayne D, Bradley J: Lecture Notes on Clinical Medicine. 6th ed (Oxford: Blackwell
Science)
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialities
Website Tomorrow’s Doctors: www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/tomdoc.pdf
The weekly New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet and British Medical Journal contain useful articles
and reviews.
Try to get free local hospital newsletters, usually available at main receptions
History
Historiography:
What is History? with a new Introduction by Richard J Evans by Edward Hallett Carr (Hardcover - 23
Nov 2001)
Topics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism by Hayden V. White (Hardcover - Dec 1978)
In Defence of History by Richard J. Evans (Paperback - 18 Jan 2001)
Re-thinking History (Routledge Classics) by Keith Jenkins (Paperback - 6 Feb 2003)
The Postmodern History Reader by Keith Jenkins (Paperback - 10 Jul 1997)
On What is History?: From Carr and Elton to Rorty and White by Keith Jenkins (Paperback - 2 Nov
1995)
Course based reading:
Derek Beales and Eugenio Biagini: The Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy
Graham Goodland: British Foreign and Imperial Policy (1865-1919)
Andrew Matthews: Nationalism, 1789-1945 (Access to History-Themes)
William Carr: A History of Germany, 1815-1990
The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833
Geography
Periodical: Understanding Global Issues (in Geography Department)
Hulme, M. and Barrow, E: Climates of the British Isles
Graham-Smith, F: Population: The Complex Reality
Johnson, S.P. 1994 World Population: Turning The Tide
Ehrlich P. and A., 1991 The Population Explosion
Malthus, T, 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population
Potter, R. Urbanisation in the Third World
Lloyd, J. Health and Welfare
Nagle, G and Spencer, K. A Geography of the European Union
Music
Grout: A History of Western Music
Any of the “Rough Guides” to music
A Student’s guide to A2 Music (course text book)
Boyden: An Introduction to Music
Headington: A History of Western Music
Rhinegold: A Dictionary of Music in Sound (in the library)
Art/History of Art
Gombrich: The Story of Art
Hughes: The Shock of the New
Betty Edwards: Drawing on the Right Hand Side of the Brain
Robert Hughes: Shock of the New
John Kissick: Art Context and Criticism
Nikos Stangos: Concepts of Modern Art
Drama
Stanislavsky: An Actor Prepares; Building a Character
John Willett: The Theatre of Bertold Brecht
Ronald Harwood: All the World’s a Stage
Antony Sher: The Year of the King
Thomas A Kelly: The Backstage Guide to Stage Management
Periodical: The Stage
‘Thomas Keneally The Playmaker’
Robert Hughes ‘The Fatal Shore’
Sean O’Casey ‘Juno and the Paycock’
French
Camus: La Peste; L’Etranger
Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Racine: Phèdre
Molière: Le Misanthrope
Voltaire: Candide; Zadig
Maupassant: Comtes de la Bécasse, Quinze Contes
Francoise Sagan: Bonjour Tristesse
Zola: Thérèse Raquin; Germinale
Magazine: Ca m’intéresse
German
Brecht: Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis
Storm: der Schimmelreiter
Max Frisch: Biedermann und die Brandstifter; Andorra
Dürrenmatt Der Besuch der Alten Dame; Der Richter und sein Henker; Die Physiker
Lessing: Emilia Galotti
Goethe: Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers
Kafka: Der Prozess; die Verwandlung
Schlink: Der Vorleser
Die Welt
Politics, Philosophy and Economics
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
Plato: Republic
Hobbes: Leviathan
Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations
Jonathan Barnes: The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle
J.O. Urmson: Aristotle’s Ethics
The Economist – available in the library
Psychology
Emily Halban: Perfect: Anorexia and Me
Syvia Nasar: A Beautiful Mind
Russ Rumer: Genie: A Scientific Tragedy
Stanley Milgram: Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
Lauren Slater: Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the 20th Century
EF Loftus: Eyewitness Testimony
Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Richard Wisemen: Quirkology
Oliver Sacks: The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
Theology
Aquinas: Summa Theologica
The Bible
C.S Lewis: Mere Christianity, Miracles, the Screwtape Letters
Physical Education
Honeybourne, Michael Hill & Helen Moors: Advanced Physical Education & Sport
Wesson, Wiggins, Thompson, Hartigan: Sport and PE
James, Thompson & Wiggins: A-Z Physical Education Handbook
Coakley: Sport in Society
Richard A Schmidt: Motor Learning & Performance
Law
Denis Lloyd: The Idea of Law
Granville Williams: Learning the Law
Josef Pieper: Four Cardinal Virtues (chapter on Justice)
Charles Dickens: Bleak House
Answer these questions: What is justice? How do we know? Does the British legal system deliver
justice? Follow a high profile case in the media
Business Studies
The Business Review (in the school library)
The Economist
Joseph Stiglitz: Globalization and Its Discontents
Naomi Klein: No Logo
J. Bradley: Cadbury’s Purple Reign
T. Harford: The Undercover Economist
P. Kotler: FAQs on Marketing
D. Lester: How They Started
D. Bannatyne: Anyone Can Do It
K. Bilimoria: Bottled For Business
www.bized.co.uk
ICT
Computer Active magazine
Click-on-link (E magazine on the BBC Website)
Physics
New Scientist (in school library or see www.newscientist.com)
Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Simon Singh: Big Bang
E =mc²
David Bodaris: a Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation
Chemistry
New Scientist (available in the library or see www.newscientist.com)
Jeffrey Hancock: The Right Chemistry
Peter Atkins: The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey into the Land of the Chemical Elements
Nick Lane: Oxygen – the molecule that made the world
Philip Ball: Stories of the Invisible: a Guided Tour of Molecules
Biology
New Scientist (available in the library or see www.newscientist.com)
John Clark: Science: people, dates and history