Wednesday 3 July 2013

Book Recommendations for the Summer Holiday

What your classmates are reading:

Ink Pulsing Through the Veins, Woldingham School

After, Morris Gleitzman
Arctic Adventure, Willard Price
Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys
Bog Child, Siobhan Dowd
The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Delirium series, Lauren Oliver
The Diamond of Drury Lane, Julia Golding
Dirty Hands, Jean-Paul Sartre
Divergent series, Veronica Roth
The Fault in our Stars, John Green
First Love, Last Rites, Ian McEwan
Gone series, Michael Grant
The Host, Stephenie Meyer
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
Infernal Devices series, Cassandra Clare
The Inheritance cycle, Christopher Paolini
The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness
The Luxe, Anna Godbersen
Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir
The Midnight Palace, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Mortal Instruments series, Cassandra Clare
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
Numbers, Rachel Ward
The Painter of Silence, Georgina Harding
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
Private series, James Patterson
Sherlock Holmes series, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Small Wars, Sadie Jones
Solace of the Road, Siobhan Dowd
A Song for Summer, Eva Ibbotson
Step on a Crack, James Patterson
Stravaganza series, Mary Hoffman
A Swift, Pure Cry, Siobhain Dowd
Throne of Glass, Sarah J Maas
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
War Horse, Michael Morpurgo
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga


Other great books that you might enjoy:
1984, George Orwell
And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini (author of The Kite Runner)
The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Maus, Art Spiegelman
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Pigeon English, Stephen Kelman
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Room, Emma Donoghue
Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut
Still Alice, Lisa Genova
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks

Happy Reading!