Year 10 – Suggested (Light!) Reading List
Try reading a few of these; they will help improve your vocabulary, general knowledge, expression and you
may even find the books interesting or fun!
Joanne Harris -
Chocolat* Recommended
Blackberry Wine
Five Quarters of the Orange
Sebastian Faulks
Birdsong* Recommended
Charlotte Gray
Fiction based during the First and Second World Wars.
Louis de Bernieres
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Lynee Reid-Banks
The L-Shaped Room
Tracey Chevalier
The Girl With A Pearl Earring
JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings
Patricia Cornwell
All That Remains
The Last Precinct
 Good crime writing (but not for those of a sensitive disposition!)
Terry Pratchett
The Discworld Series
John Grisham
The Client
The Chamber
The Firm
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
Fever Pitch