Year 12+
Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith: Tom Keneally
The Reader: Bernhard Schlink
Brave New World: Aldous Huxley
Fringe of Leaves; Eye of the Storm: Patrick White
The Patron Saint of Eels: Gregory Day
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Ken Kesey
The Help: Kathryn Stockett
A Private Life: Michael Kirby
Life of Pi: Yann Martel
1984: George Orwell
Falling: Anne Provoost
The Slap: Christos Tsiolkas
Dirt Music; Scission: Tim Winton
Autumn Laing: Alex Miller
In the Shadow of No Towers: Art Spiegelman
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: J-D Bauby
The Rip; The Body Surfers: Robert Drewe
The Heart of Things: A C Grayling
Remembering Babylon; Ransom: David Malouf
Junk: Melvyn Burgess
True History of the Kelly Gang: Peter Carey
Orlando; Mrs Dalloway: Virginia Woolf
Atonement: Ian McEwan
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: Junot Diaz
Triage: Scott Anderson
Android Karenina: Ben Winters
A Decline in Prophets: Sulari Gentill
Someday this pain will be useful to you: Peter
Cameron
Child 44: Tom Rob Smith
Interview with the Vampire: Anne Rice
The Man Who Loved Children: Christina Stead
Truth; In the Evil Day: Peter Temple
Midnight in Peking: Paul French
What makes us tick?:Hugh Mackay
Three Dog Night: Peter Goldsworthy
No Country for Old Men: Cormac McCarthy
The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath
Border Crossing: Pat Barker
And When did you last see your Father?: Blake
Morrison
Water for Elephants: Sara Gruen
The White Tiger: Aravind Adiga
The Lake in the Woods: Tim O’Brien
To read without reflecting is
like eating without digesting.
~ Edmund Burke ~
Harley Stumm Senior Library
The Southport School
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Southport QLD 4215
Australia
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More Good
Books
for
Boys
Year 7+
Year 8+
Unfortunate Events: Lemony Snicket
Guardians of Ga’Hoole series: K Lasky
Stravaganza: Mary Hoffman
Soldier Boy: Anthony Hill
Why can’t elephants jump?: Mick O’Hare
Specky Magee series: Felice Arena
Artemis Fowl series: Eoin Colfer
Parvana: Deborah Ellis
Hatchet series: Gary Paulsen
Ranger’s Apprentice: John Flanagan
Quentaris series: Paul Collins
Heroes of Olympus series: R Riordan
Dragonkeeper; Dragon Moon: C Wilkinson
Chronicles of Ancient Darkness: M Paver
Market Blues: Kirsty Murray
Pagan’s series: Catherine Jinks
Pharaoh: Jackie French
Skulduggery Pleasant series: Derek Landy
Cry of the Wolf: Melvyn Burgess
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: B Selznick
Boy Overboard; Girl Underground;
Once; Then; Now: Morris Gleitzman
Conspiracy 365: Gabrielle Lord
The Arrival: Shaun Tan
Cherub series: Robert Muchamore
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: J Boyne
The Book of Lies: James Moloney
Keys to the Kingdom: Garth Nix
Philosophy for kids: David White
Bartimaeus Trilogy: Jonathan Stroud
Parkland: Victor Kelleher
Alex Rider series: Anthony Horowitz
Inheritance series: Christopher Paolini
Strange Objects: Gary Crew
The Hunger Games series: Suzanne Collins
Percy Jackson series: Rick Riordan
Code Red series: Chris Ryan
The Whitechapel Horrors: Rick Boyer
Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck
Burning Eddie: Scot Gardner
Erebos: Ursula Poznanski
Australian History series: Jackie French
Uglies series: Scot Westerfeld
The Incredible Shrinking Man: R Matheson
Year 9 +
My Mother’s Eyes: the story of a boy soldier:
Mark Wilson
Why don’t penguins’ feet freeze?: M O’Hare
Adrian Mole series: Sue Townsend
Dreamwalker; Metro Winds: I Carmody
The Outsiders: S E Hinton
Chinese Cinderella: Adeline Yen Mah
The Fault in our Stars: John Green
Peeling the Onion: Wendy Orr
The Silver Donkey: Sonya Hartnett
Fear; BZRK: Michael Grant
Chaos Walking series: Patrick Ness
Taronga; Del Del: Victor Kelleher
I am Number Four; Power of Six: P Lore
Tumbleturn: Doug McLeod
Lord of the Flies: William Golding
The Man who Loved Crocodiles: M Carroll
Requiem for a Beast: Matt Ottley
Heroes of the Kokoda Track: Nicolas Brasch
The Tomorrow series: John Marsden
Palace of the Damned: Darren Shan
So Yesterday; Last Days: Scott Westerfeld
A Military History of Australia: Jeffrey Grey
The Happiest Refugee: Anh Do
The Gathering: Isobelle Carmody
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde
Bullet Boys: Ally Kennen
Mountain Wolf: Rosanne Hawke
Deadly Unna?; Jetty Rats: Philip Gwynne
Drive By: Jim Carrington
The Architecture of Song: Gary Crew
Boy Soldier series: Andy McNab
Old Kingdom Trilogy: Garth Nix
Occy: Mark Occhilupo
Animal Farm: George Orwell
Area 7: Matthew Reilly
Boys of Blood and Bone: D Metzenthen
Hunting Elephants; Town: James Roy
Luke Harding series: Malcolm Rose
The Steve Jobs Way: Jay Elliot
Thirst series: Christopher Pike
Scott Pilgrim series: Bryan O’Malley
Love Notes from Vinegar House: K Tayleur
The ANZACS: P A Pederson
Year 10+
Year 11+
Nick McGowan: Rebecca Sparrow
The Book Thief: Markus Zusak
Maximum Ride: James Patterson
Living with Max: Chloe Maxwell
The Arrival: Shaun Tan
Ratking: Michael Dibdin
On Shakespeare: John Bell
We All Fall Down: Robert Cormier
Gravity; The Dead I Know: Scot Gardner
Secrets of the Immortals series: Michael Scott
Sarah Thornhill: Kate Grenville
The Divine Wind: Garry Disher
After January: Nick Earls
The Shining; The Green Mile: Stephen King
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: J Foer
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–
Time: Mark Haddon
Butterfly; The Ghost’s Child: Sonya Hartnett
Tales from Outer Suburbia: Shaun Tan
Death of Kings: Bernard Cornwell
Three Cups of Tea: Greg Mortenson
The Kite Runner: Khaled Hosseini
Six Sacred Stones; Seven Ancient Wonders:
Matthew Reilly
Armada: John Stack
Mao’s Last Dancer: Cunxin Li
Graffiti Moon: Cath Crowley
The Ghost’s Child: Sonia Hartnett
Fly Away Peter: David Malouf
Hamlet: John Marsden
How I Live Now: Meg Rosoff
Will Grayson … : Green and Levithan
48 Shades of Brown: Nick Earls
The Boat: Nam Le
The Gum Thief: Douglas Coupland
Breathe; The Riders: Tim Winton
Heat Wave; Heat Rises: Richard Castle
Bones to Ashes: Kathy Reichs
Maestro: Peter Goldsworthy
Quiet American; Our Man in Havana:
Graham Greene
Empire of the Sun: JG Ballard
Playing with Fire: Peter Robinson
The Golden Notebook: Doris Lessing