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PERSONAL READING SUGGESTIONS WAR HIGHER Joanne Harris - Five quarters of an orange Louis de Bernieres - Captain Corelli’s mandolin Robin Jenkins - The Conegatherers Pat Barker – Regeneration Pat Barker – The eye in the door Pat Barker – Ghost Road Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong Thomas Keneally - Schindler’s Ark Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five Ian McEwan – Atonement David Guterson – Snow falling on cedars Joseph Heller – Catch 22 Norman Mailer – The naked and the dead Primo Levi – If not now, when? Steven Galloway – The cellist of Sarajevo Charles Frazier – Cold mountain INT2 Tim O’Brien – If I die in a combat zone Erich Maria Remarque – All quiet on the Western Front Brian Moore – Lies of silence ROMANCE/LOVE HIGHER Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice Jane Austen – Persuasion Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey Louis de Bernieres - Captain Corelli’s mandolin Karen Blixen - Out of Africa Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D’Urbervilles Margaret Mitchell – Gone with the wind Audrey Niffenegger – The time traveller’s wife Charles Frazier – Cold Mountain Gabriel Gacia Marquez – Love in the time of cholera Ian McEwan – Atonement L.P. Hartley – The go-between David Guterson – Snow falling on cedars Kazuo Ishiguro – The remains of the day Toni Morrison - Beloved INT2 Bernard McLaverty - Cal Nick Hornby - About a boy Nick Hornby - Fever pitch Nick Hornby - High fidelity Margaret Mitchell – Gone with the wind Marian Keyes - Watermelon CHILDHOOD HIGHER Rhidian Brook – The testimony of Taliesin Jones Suzanne Berne – A crime in the neighbourhood L.P. Hartley – The go-between Jodi Picoult – My sister’s keeper Seamus Deane - Reading in the dark Patrick Suskind – Perfume J.G. Ballard – Empire of the sun Khaled Hosseini – The kite runner INT 2 Mark Haddon – Curious incident of the dog in the night-time Roddy Doyle – Paddy Clarke ha ha ha FAMILY HIGHER Isabel Allende – The house of Spirits Kate Atkinson – Behind the scenes at the museum William McIlvanney – Docherty Amy Tan – The joy luck club Philip Roth – American pastoral John Steinbeck – The grapes of wrath INT 2 Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead revisited HUMOUR HIGHER Iain Banks - The wasp factory Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha Douglas Adams – The hitch-hiker’s guide to the galaxy Patrick McCabe – The butcher boy. INT2 Bill Bryson - Notes from a small island Bill Bryson - The lost continent Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones diary 1 and 2 Iain Banks - The wasp factory Douglas Adams – The hitch-hiker’s guide to the galaxy Christopher Brookmyre – Boiling a frog Christopher Brookmyre – One fine day in the middle of the night Tony Parsons – One for my baby Shena MacKay – The orchard on fire. Terry Pratchett – Mort ISSUES (Racism/Abuse/Mental Health) HIGHER Harper Lee - To kill a mockingbird Frank McCourt - Angela’s Ashes Alice Sebold – The lovely bones John Steinbeck - The grapes of wrath Alice Walker - The colour purple James Baldwin - Go tell it on the mountain Toni Morrison - Beloved Sylvia Plath - The Bell jar Alan Spence - The magic flute Jeanette Winterson – Oranges are not the only fruit Elizabeth Wurtzel – Prozac Nation Lionel Shriver – We need to talk about Kevin. Janice Galloway – The trick is to keep breathing Jodi Picoult – Nineteen minutes Jodi Picoult – My sister’s keeper Patrick Gale – Notes from an exhibition INT 2 Fay Weldon – The cloning of Joanna May Melvin Burgess - Junk Ken Kesey – One flew over the cuckoo’s nest John King – The football factory Louise Lawrence – Children of the dust Dave Pelzer – A child called It Theresa Breslin – Divided City Andrea Levy – Small Island Daniel Keyes – Flowers for Algernon Jodi Picoult – Mercy Robert Swindells – Stone Cold Anne Cassidy – Looking for JJ Mark Haddon – Curious incident of the dog in the night-time Frank McCourt – Angela’s Ashes Harper Lee – To kill a mockingbird SCOTLAND/SCOTTISH HIGHER Alan Spence - The magic flute Iain Banks - Whit Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting James Kelman - How late it was, how late Muriel Spark - The prime of Miss Jean Brodie WillIam McIlvanney - Kiln Robin Jenkins - The Conegatherers Robin Jenkins – Fergus Lamont Robin Jenkins – The Thistle and the Grail Compton MacKenzie - Whisky Galore Jessie Kesson – The white bird passes Iain Crichton Smith – Consider the lillies INT 2 Ian Rankin – any Rebus book Christopher Brookmyre - One fine day in the middle of the night Christopher Brookmyre - Boiling a frog Theresa Breslin – Divided City Carl MacDougall – The lights below SCI-FI/FUTURISTIC HIGHER Aldous Huxley - Brave New World George Orwell - 1984 Margaret Atwood - The handmaid’s tale Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451 William Gibson – Neuromancer Jeff Noon – Automated Alice Alasdair Gray – Lanark Anthony Burgess – A clockwork orange INT 2 DIFFERENT CULTURES/TRAVEL HIGHER Adeline Yen Mah - Fallen leaves Alexander Solzhenitsyn - One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a geisha Joanne Harris - Chocolat Joanne Harris - Five quarters of the orange Karen Blixen - Out of Africa EM Forster - A passage to India Alex Garland – The beach Amy Tan – The kitchen god’s wife Amy Tan – The Joy Luck club Zadie Smith – White Teeth Amy Tan – The kitchen god’s wife Andrea Levy – Small Island Cormac McCarthy – All the pretty horses Thomas Eidson – St Agnes’ stand Isabel Allende – The house of the spirits Arundhati Roy - The God of small things Chinua Achebe – Things fall apart Jack Kerouac – On the road Khaled Hosseini – The kite runner Asne Seierstad - The bookseller of Kabul INT 2 Robert Twigger – Angry white pyjamas Bill Bryson – Notes from a small island Bill Bryson – The lost continent Paul Theroux – The Mosquito coast Khaled Hosseini – The kite runner BIOGRAPHIES/ TRUE LIFE HIGHER Adeline Yen Mah - Fallen leaves Jung Chang - Wild Swans Brian Keenan – An evil cradling Eric Lomax – The railway man Maya Angelou – I know why the caged bird sings Alex Haley – Roots Norman Mailer – The Fight Truman Capote – In cold blood Asne Seierstad – The bookseller of Kabul INT 2 Robert Twigger – Angry white pyjamas Robert Twigger – Big snake – hunt for the world’s biggest python Dave Pelzer – A child called It Joe Simpson – Touching the void Lorenzo Carcaterra – Sleepers Sebastian Junger – The perfect storm Jean-Dominique Bauby – The diving-bell and the butterfly Frank McCourt – Angela’s ashes Asne Seierstad – The bookseller of Kabul HORROR HIGHER Mary Shelley - Frankenstein Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde James Herbert - Jonah Bram Stoker – Dracula Doris Lessing – The fifth child INT 2 Thomas Harris - Hannibal Stephen King – various Susan Hill – the woman in black THRILLER/CRIME HIGHER Patricia Highsmith – The boy who followed Ripley PD James – The children of men John Fowles – The Collector Donna Tartt – The secret history Dermot Bolger – Father’s music David Guterson - Snow falling on cedars. Peter Carey – The true history of the Kelly gang Graham Greene – Brighton Rock Anthony Burgess – A clockwork orange Iain Banks – Complicity Peter Carey – Jack Maggs Patrick Suskind - Perfume INT 2 Dan Brown -The Da Vinci code Christopher Brookmyre – various John Grisham – various John Buchan – The thirty-nine steps Patricia Cornwell – any Walter Mosley – Devil in a blue dress Jennifer Donnelly – Gathering light Jed Rubenfield – Interpretation of murder CLASSICS HIGHER Charles Dickens - David Copperfield Charles Dickens – Great Expectations George Eliot – Silas Mariner H.G Wells – War of the Worlds J.R.R Tolkien – Lord of the Rings Wilkie Collins – The woman in white Graham Greene – Our man in Havana INT 2 Harper Lee – To kill a mockingbird SHORT STORIES HIGHER Robin Jenkins – various John Steinbeck – various Devil and the Giro – compilation John McGill - That Rubens guy A.L. Kennedy – Now that you are back INT 2 Robin Jenkins – various Philip Dick - Blade runner Roald Dahl – various John Steinbeck – various SPORT HIGHER John King – Headhunters Jonathon Tulloch – The season ticket Dougie Brimson – The crew Bill Bufford – Among the thugs Robin Jenkins – The Thistle and the Grail Norman Mailer – The fight INT 2 John King – The football factory Nick Hornby – Fever pitch David Thomson – 4-2 POT LUCK!! HIGHER Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe Iain Banks - The Crow Road JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye Kate Atkinson - Behind the scenes at the museum Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace Yan Martel – The life of Pi INT 2 Mark Haddon – The curious incident of the dog in the night time William Golding – Lord of the flies Alex Garland – The beach Lynne Reid Banks – The L-shaped room THIN BOOKS!!!! HIGHER Robert Louis Stevenson – Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Muriel Spark – The prime of Miss Jean Brodie Anthony Burgess – A clockwork orange. INT 2 George Orwell – Animal farm John Steinbeck – The pearl John Buchan – The thirty-nine steps Meg Rosoff – How I live now HELPFUL WEBSITES http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/literacy/findresources/bookmaze/index.asp http://www.highlandschools-virtualib.org.uk/reading_webs.htm http://www.novelguide.com/ These are just suggestions!! Remember books are shelved alphabetically by the author’s surname (last name). Good Luck!
