ENGLISH
Independent Reading
GCSE Pupils are encouraged to read widely and not just the texts set for examination. Listed below are post-1914 texts that have been identified as suitable for Year 10 and above.
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Attwood
Empire of the Sun JG Ballard
Regeneration Pat Barker
In Patagonia Bruce Chatwin
Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
Howards End EM Forster
Lord of the Flies / The Inheritors William Golding
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timeMark Haddon
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
Catch 22 Joseph Heller
I’m the King of the Castle Susan Hill
A Kestrel for a Knave Barry Hines
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
No 9 Dream David Mitchell
1984 / Homage to Catalonia George Orwell
Cry the Beloved Country Alan Paton
His Dark Materials trilogy Philip Pullman
Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
A Town like Alice Nevil Shute
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry Mildred Taylor
Orlando Virginia Woolf
