Global Perspectives IGCSE Reading List
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TOPIC AREA
BELIEF SYSTEMS
ENGLISH 100/195/200
Growing Up Muslim in
America (Richard Wormser)
ENGLISH 200/300. LIT 300
The Church of Fear: Inside
the Weird World of
Scientology (John Sweeney)
The Story of God (Karen
Armstrong)
BIODIVERSITY AND
ECOSYSTEM LOSS
Journey into the Rainforest
(Tim Knight)
Ecology and the
Environment (François
Michel)
CLIMATE CHANGE
CONFLICT AND PEACE
DISEASE AND HEALTH
EMPLOYMENT
FAMILY AND
DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE
FUEL AND ENERGY
Ten Billion (Stephen Emmott)
Climate Change
(Eyewitness)
Do We Need Pandas? (Ken
Thompson)
The Carbon Crunch (Dieter
Helm)
Noble Conflict (Malorie
Blackman)
Fitting In Fitness (Jennipher
Walters)
Global Crisis (Geoffrey
Parker)
War: What Is It Good For?
(Ian Morris)
The Story of the Human Body
(Daniel Lieberman)
Health and Disease
(Richard Spilsbury)
EDUCATION FOR ALL
The God Delusion (Richard
Dawkins)
Nature In The Balance (Dieter
Helm)
Education: A Very Short
Introduction (Gary Thomas)
Lawn Boy (Gary Paulsen)
Where Are My Birth
Parents? (Karen Gravelle)
Fossil Fuel (Steven
Chapman)
Fat Chance (Robert Lustig)
The Health Delusion (Glen
Matten)
I Am Malala (Malala
Yousafzai)
Work (Thich Nhat Hanh)
Ageing Asia (Karen
Eggleston)
The Energy Bus (John
Gordon)
Fuel on the Fire (Greg Muttitt)
Oil 101 (Morgan Downey)
HUMANS AND OTHER
SPECIES
Pig Heart Boy (Malorie
Blackman)
Sea Turtle Scientist
(Stephen R Swinburne)
When Girl Meets Oil
(Christine Bader)
Where Do Camels Belong?
The Story and Science of
Invasive Species (Ken
Thompson)
The Human Body (Ed
Simkins)
Humans and other Animals
(Samantha Hurn)
The Politics of Species
(Raymond Corbey)
Because The Cat Purrs (Janet
Lembke)
LANGUAGE AND
COMMUNICATION
What’s Next For
Communication? (Tom
Jackson)
Mutants (Armand Marie Leroi)
Through the Language Glass
(Guy Deutscher)
Fluent in 3 Months (Benny
Lewis)
Mother Tongue (Bill Bryson)
Empires of the Word
(Nicholas Ostler)
LAW AND CRIMINALITY
POVERTY AND
INEQUALITY
Famous Forensic Cases
(John Townsend)
The Language Instinct
(Steven Pinker)
The Rule of Law (Tom
Bingham)
Cyber Crime Secrets (John
Townsend)
The Bed and Breakfast Star
(Jacqueline Wilson)
Crimes of Style: Urban Graffiti
(Jeff Ferrell)
Why Nations Fail (James A
Robinson)
Rich Dad Poor Dad – For
Teens (Robert T Kiyosaki)
Scarcity (Sendhil
Mullainathan)
The Great Escape (Angus
Deaton)
SPORT AND RECREATION
Lives of the Athletes
(Kathleen Krull)
The Tourism Industry
(Richard Spilsbury)
Snowboarding (Paul
Mason)
Performing Live (Jillian
Powell)
The End of Poverty (Jeffrey
Sachs)
Family: Life, Death and
Football (Michael Calvin)
Soccernomics (Simon Kuper)
The Art of Immersion: How
The Digital Generation is
Remaking Hollywood (Frank
Rose)
Toy Wars (G Wayne Miller)
TECHNOLOGY AND THE
ECONOMIC DIVIDE
Seven Deadly Clicks
(Margo Strupeck)
Game Over (David Sheff)
The Nature of Technology (W
Brian Arthur)
TRADE AND AID
Money and Credit (Sean
Connolly)
International Trade (Sean
Connolly)
Smarter Than You Think
(Clive Thompson)
The Bottom Billion (Paul
Collier)
The White Man’s Burden
(William Easterly)
TRADITION, CULTURE AND
IDENTITY
Geography of Time (Robert
Levine)
Dead Aid (Dambisa Moyo)
The Hare With Amber Eyes
(Edmund de Waal)
Exodus (Paul Collier)
TRANSPORT AND
INFRASTRUCTURE
URBANISATION
WATER, FOOD AND
AGRICULTURE
Engineering The City
(Matthys Levy)
System City (Michael
Weinstock)
Water (Blakes)
Mission: Explore Food (Tom
Morgan-Jones)
Watching the English (Kate
Fox)
Deep Sea and Foreign Going
(Rose George)
Africa’s Urban Revolution
(Susan Parnell)
Empires of Food (Andrew
Rimas)
Slow Food Nation (Carlo
Petrini)
Food and Nutrition (Anita
Tull)
Water 4.0 (David L Sedlak)
The Dirty Life (Kristin
Kimball)
Salt, Sugar, Fat (Michael
Moss)
My Life on the Land (Adam
Henson)
A Greedy Man in a Hungry
World (Jay Rayner)
Eating Animals (Jonathan
Safran Foer)
The One-Straw Revolution
(Masanobu Fukuoka)
Farmageddon (Philip
Lymbery)