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High School Reading List

Title
Author
Chinese Cinderella
Adeline Yen Mah
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Counte of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Looking for JJ
Anne Cassidy
Madame Doubtfire
Anne Fine
Goggle-Eyes
Anne Fine
The Tulip Touch
Anne Fine
I Am David
Anne Holm
Small Steps
Arthur Conan Doyle
A Kestrel for a Knave
Barry Hines
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage
Bill Bryson
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf
Catherine Storr
Boy Proof
Cecil Castellucci
Rose Sees Red
Cecil Castellucci
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Hitler's Willing Executioners
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
Every Day
David Levithan
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Welcome to Nowhere
Elizabeth Laird
The Flame Trees of Thika
Elspeth Huxley
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Journey to the River Sea
Eva Ibbotson
Scoop
Evelyn Waugh
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Horrid Henry
Francesca Simon
Shadowmancer
G.P. Taylor
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Tightrope
Gillian Cross
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Harper Lee
The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks
Atonement
Ian McEwan
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Empire of the Sun
J.G. Ballard
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Amnesia Clinic
James Scudamore
Coram Boy
Jamila Gavin
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
A Separate Peace
John Knowles
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
John le Carré
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
Flambards
K.M. Peyton
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee
Paper Butterflies
Lisa Heathfield
The Giver
Lois Lowry
Small Steps
Louis Sachar
Thief!
Malorie Blackman
The Haunting
Margaret Mahy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
Frankestein
Mary Shelley
How I Live Now
Meg Rosoff
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
Monsters of Men
Patrick Ness
The Dam Busters
Paul Brickhill
Unbearable!
Paul Jennings
The Mosquito Coast
Paul Theroux
The Call
Peadar Ó Guilín
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Collected Poems
Philip Larkin
The Coral Island
R.M. Ballantyne
The Plague Dogs
Richard Adams
Maladapted
Richard Kurti
Z for Zachariah
Robert C. O'Brien
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle
The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
13 Minutes
Sarah Pinborough
Noah Can't Even
Simon James Green
Joby
Stan Barstow
Burning Secret
Stefan Zweig
The Twilight Saga
Stephenie Meyer
The Woman in Black
Susan Hill
I'm the King of the Castle
Susan Hill
We Are All Made of Molecules
Susin Nielsen
Schindler's Ark
Thomas Keneally
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
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