Years 9 & 10 reading guide
Year 9 and 10 Reading
Guide "Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who
wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit
grows and strengthens."
—CarlosRuizZafón,ShadowoftheWind
Contents Coming of Age Page 3
Crime and Mysteries Page 4
Disabilities and Mental Health Page 5
Issues
Dystopias Page 6
First Love and Loss Page 7
Historical Fiction Page 8
LGBTQ Page 9
Sci-fi/Fantasy and Graphic Page 10
Novels
Things That Go Bump in the Night Page 11
Coming of Age
Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
Junk by Melvin Burgess
The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Before I die (Now is Good) by Jenny Downham
Being Billy by Phil Earle
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece & Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
The Catcher In the Rye by JD Salinger
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Refugee Boy – Benjamin Zephaniah
Crime and Mysteries Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Anything by Agatha Christie
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The James Bond series by Ian Fleming
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James
Sally Lockhart Mysteries by Philip Pullman
Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson
Disabilities and
Mental Health Issues
Seven Days by Evie Ainsworth
All The Truth That’s in Me by Julie Berry
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
When Mr Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan
The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
I was Here by Gayle Foreman
One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kessey
Charm and Strange by Stephanie Kuehn
Butter by Erin Lange
More Than This by Patrick Ness
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
She Is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick
Forgive me Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
City of Bones (Mortal Instruments) by Cassandra Clare
Matched by Ally Condie
Wool by Hugh Howey
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Only Ever Yours by Louise O’Neill
1984 by George Orwell
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Dystopian Fiction
First Love and Loss
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Forever by Judy Blume
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
A Room With A View by E.M. Forster
The Year of the Rat by Claire Furniss
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
We Were Liars by E.L. Lockhart
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Historical Fiction Testament of Youth by Vera Britten
Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess
Burning Bright & Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
All Fall Down by Sally Nichols
Tamar by Mal Peet
Witch Child by Celia Rees
Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Bride’s Farewell by Meg Rosoff
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
A world Between Us by Lydia Syson
Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
LGBTQ
Boys Don’t Cry by Malorie Blackman
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Everyday by David Levithan
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Walters
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew smith
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Undone by Cat Clarke
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
Alex as Well by Alyssa Brugman
Sci-fi/Fantasy and
Graphic Novels When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Half Bad by Sally Green
Boonie by Richard Masson
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by
Ransom Riggs
Palestine by Joe Sacco
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Simarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Time Machine by H G Wells
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
"In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in
an astral plain that was never meant to fly, the curling
star-mists waver and part...."
-The Colour of Magic
Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough
Shiver the Whole Night Through by Darragh McManus
Say Her Name by James Dawson
Tell Me What You See by Zoran Dvrenkar
Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge
Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Carrie by Stephen King
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe
My Swordhand is Singing by Marcus Sedgwick
Lord Loss by Darren Shan
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Scarecrows by Robert Westall
The Savages by Matt Whyman
Things That Go Bump
in the Night
Awards and Prizes Carnegie Medal (Last 10 Years)
2014 - The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks
2013 - Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
2012 - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
2011 - Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
2010 - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
2009 - Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
2008 - Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
2007 - Just In Case by Meg Rosoff
2005 - Tamar by Mal Peet
2004 - Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Costa Children’s Book Award
2014 - Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders
2013 - Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell
2012 - Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
2011 - Blood Red Road by Moira Young
2010 - Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace
2009 - The Ask and The Answer (Chaos Walking, Book 2) by Patrick Ness
2008 - Just Henry by Michelle Magorian
2007 - The Bower Bird by Ann Kelley
2006 - Set in Stone by Linda Newbery Branford Boase Award (Last 10 Years)
2014 - Infinite Sky by C. J Flood
2013 - A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton
2012 - My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
2011 - Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace
2010 - Stolen by Lucy Christopher
2009 - The Traitor Game by B. R. Collins
2008 - Before I Die by Jenny Downham
2007 - A Pure Swift Cry by Siobhan Dowd
2006 - Fly by Night By Frances Hardinge
2005 - How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize
2014 - Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
2013 - Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher
2012 - You Against Me by Jenny Downham
2011 - Artichoke Hearts by Sita Brahmachari
2010 - The Great Hamster Massacre by Katie Davies
2009 - 13 Treasures by Michelle Harrison
2008 - Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
2007 - Darkside by Tom Becker
2006 - The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
2005 - The Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill
Guardian Children’s Book Prize (Last 10 Years)
2014 - The Last Wild by Piers Torday
2013 - Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead
2012 - The Unforgettable Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce
2011 - Return to Ribblestrop by Andy Mulligan
2010 - Ghost Hunter by Michelle Paver
2009 - Exposure by Mal Peet
2008 - The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
2007 - Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine
2006 - A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve
2005 - The New Policeman by Kate Thompson
