Recommended Reading List for ages 11-16+
AUTHOR
Anthony Horowitz
Sue Townsend
William Golding
Mark Haddon
Terry Pratchett
C S Lewis
Dan Brown
Harper Lee
Richard Adams
Philip Pullman
Malorie Blackman
Geraldine
McCaughrean
Nicky Singer
Sylvia Plath
Berlie Doherty
TITLE
Any
Adrian Mole 13 ¾
Lord of the Flies
Curious Incident…
Any
Chronicles of Narnia
Angels and Demons
To Kill a Mockingbird
Watership Down
Northern Lights Trilogy
Noughts and Crosses
Kite Rider
Judy Blume
Feather Boy
The Bell Jar
Dear Nobody
Granny was a Buffer
Girl/Deep Secret
Artemis Fowl
The Jungle Book
Secret Garden/Little
Princess
Railway Children
Back Home, Goodnight
Mister Tom
Anne of Green Gables
The Seeing Stone
(Arthur)
Skellig/Kit’s Wilderness
Snow Spider Trilogy
The Machine Gunners
The Call
Holes
Mrs Doubtfire/The Tulip
Touch/Flour Babies
Forever
Judy Blume
Robert C O’Brien
Charlotte Bronte
Are you there God…
The Rats of NIMH
Jane Eyre
Eoin Colfer
Rudyard Kipling
Frances Hodgson
Burnett
E Nesbitt
Michelle Magorian
L M Montgomery
Kevin CrossleyHolland
David Almond
Jenny Nimmo
Robert Westall
Louis Sachar
Anne Fine
AGE
12-14
13+
13+
12+
12+
13+
14+
13+
Comments
Diary style/funny
Classic boys
5* (recommended by Year 10)
Fantasy classic
classic
Classic (weepie)
Fantasy (new film)
Highly recommended
12+
15+
15+
Topical issue
12+
Recommended
12 - 14
12-14 Classic girls
12 - 14 classic
12+
Year 7 recommends
12 - 14 Classic girls
Bookshop recommends
12+
10-14
12-14
13+
12-14
12-14
15+
13+
12-14
12+
Magic & Mystery
Year 8 recommends
Short ghost story
Year 8 recommends
Teenage topical
Banned from school libraries
for a while
Teenage angst and issues
School classic
classic
Jane Austen
Celia Rees
E B White
Michael Morpurgo
JRR Tolkein
Robert Swindells
S E Hinton
Ray Bradbury
Charles Dickens
Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle
Thomas Hardy
Barry Hines
George Orwell
Edgar Allan Poe
Oscar Wilde
H G Wells
T H White
Sally Grindley
Marcus Sedgwick
Arthur Miller
John Steinbeck
Louise Rennison
Roald Dahl
Frank Cotterell
Boyce
Stephanie Meyer
Darren Shan
Derek Landy
John Boyne
Rick Riordan
Robert
Muchamore
Adeline Yen Mah
Pride and
Prejudice/Sense and
Sensibility
Witch Trials
Stuart Little
12+
Classic
(films)
13+
12+
Witch hunts
Private Peaceful + others
War Horse
The Hobbit
Stone Cold
The Outsiders
Fahrenheit 451
A Christmas Carol
Sherlock Holmes
11+
First World War
11+
13+
13+
Recommended by Year 9 boys
12+
Short story
Short stories -detective
The Mayor of
Casterbridge
A Kestrel for a Knave
Animal Farm, 1984
Tales of Mystery and
Imagination
The Canterbury Ghost
The War of the Worlds
The Sword in the Stone
Spilled Water
My Swordhand is Singing
The Crucible
Of Mice and Men
Angus, Thongs and Full
Frontal Snogging (series)
Boy, Esio Trot
Tales of the Unexpected
Millions
Framed
Twilight Series
Cirque du Freak series
Skulduggery pleasant
The Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas
Percy Jackson series
any
14+
Chinese Cinderella
12+
12+
11+
11+
12+
12+
14+
14+
13+
Classic school text
Futuristic classic novels
Horror
Comic ghost short story
Futuristic classic
Recommended by Year 8
Vampire thriller
Play: witch hunts in Salem
Teenage Girls
11+
13+
11+
Autobiographical
Mystery, horror short stories
12+
12+
Teenage girls favourite
11+
14+
Teenage boy favourite
Biographical story