Year 10/11 Book List
Teenage /Young Adult Fiction
Refugee Boy- Benjamin Zephaniah (refugees)
Face-Zephaniah (facial disfigurement)
Dear Nobody-Doherty (teenage pregnancy)
Junk- Melvin Burgess (drugs)
Stone Cold- Swindells (homelessness)
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry-Mildred Taylor (1930s Mississippi
racism)
Z for Zachariah- Robert C. O’Brien (post nuclear war)
Caught in the Crossfire/ The Edge/ The Dark Beneath- Alan Gibbons
Adult Fiction About Growing Up/Teenagers
Cider With Rosie- Laurie Lee (Early 20th century Somerset)
Catcher in the Rye- Salinger (USA rebellion)
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha –Roddy Doyle (Ireland)
Cat’s Eye- Margaret Atwood (bullying)
A Kestrel for a Knave- Hines (deprived northern background)
My Family and Other Animals- Gerald Durrell
Comedy
Tales of the Unexpected/ Kiss Kiss- Roald Dahl
The Code of the Woosters/ Aunts aren’t Gentlemen- Wodehouse
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
Cold Comfort Farm- Stella Gibbons
The Queen and I- Sue Townsend
Crime
Brighton Rock/ The Third Man-Graham Greene
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner-Alan Sillitoe
Farewell My Lovely/ The Big Sleep- Raymond Chandler
The Maltese Falcon- Dashiel Hammett
The A.B.C. Murders- Agatha Christie
Cadfael- Ellis Peters
Politics/Society
1984- George Orwell
Animal Farm- George Orwell
Darkness at Noon- Arthur Koestler
Lord of the Flies- William Golding
The Power and the Glory- Graham Greene
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold- John Le Carre
Romance
The Go-Between- L.P. Hartley
The End of the Affair- Graham Greene
Rebecca- Daphne du Maurier
Jamaica Inn- Daphne du Maurier
The Girl With the Pearl Earring- Tracey Chevalier
Science Fiction
Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
The Day of the Triffids- John Wyndham
U.S.A.
The Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck
To Kill A Mocking Bird- Harper Lee
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou
The Color Purple- Alice Walker
Pre-20th Century Literature
Tess of the D’Urbervilles- Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge- Thomas Hardy
Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
The Hound of the Baskervilles- Arthur Conan-Doyle
Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
Others
The Lord of the Rings- Tolkein
Bill Bryson’s travel writing