This document lists 100 books that teachers in the UK have recommended for students in key stages 3 and 4 (ages 11-16). It includes classic novels such as 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice, as well as more modern titles like The Kite Runner, The Book Thief, Wonder and The Fault in Our Stars. The list covers a wide range of genres including fiction, classics, drama, and young adult literature.
This document lists 100 books that teachers in the UK have recommended for students in key stages 3 and 4 (ages 11-16). It includes classic novels such as 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice, as well as more modern titles like The Kite Runner, The Book Thief, Wonder and The Fault in Our Stars. The list covers a wide range of genres including fiction, classics, drama, and young adult literature.
This document lists 100 books that teachers in the UK have recommended for students in key stages 3 and 4 (ages 11-16). It includes classic novels such as 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice, as well as more modern titles like The Kite Runner, The Book Thief, Wonder and The Fault in Our Stars. The list covers a wide range of genres including fiction, classics, drama, and young adult literature.
This document lists 100 books that teachers in the UK have recommended for students in key stages 3 and 4 (ages 11-16). It includes classic novels such as 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice, as well as more modern titles like The Kite Runner, The Book Thief, Wonder and The Fault in Our Stars. The list covers a wide range of genres including fiction, classics, drama, and young adult literature.
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These are the 100 books teachers have recommended to the Times Educational Supplement
(TES) for students at key stages 3 and 4.
How many have you read? How many will your child(ren) read? 1. 1984 by George Orwell 2. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 3. Animal Farm by George Orwell 4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 5. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 6. The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling 7. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 8. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger 9. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 11. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 12. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne 13. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 14. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 15. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 16. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 17. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 18. A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines 19. The Lord of the Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien 20. Danny, Champion of the World by Roald Dahl 21. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald 22. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 23. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 24. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 25. A Passage to India by EM Forster 26. Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo 27. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien 28. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness 29. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 30. Holes by Louis Sachar 31. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 32. The Noughts and Crosses trilogy by Malorie Blackman 33. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 34. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo 35. Atonement by Ian McEwan 36. The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins 37. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman 38. Dracula by Bram Stoker 39. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury =40. A Room With a View by EM Forster =40. Beloved by Toni Morrison 42. Wonder by RJ Palacio 43. Emma by Jane Austen 44. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift =45. Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngoxi Adichie =45. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 47. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 48. The Sherlock Holmes series by Arthur Conan Doyle 49. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee 50. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 51. Anita and Me by Meera Syal 52. The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett 53. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne 54. Skellig by David Almond 55. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 56. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 57. The Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer 58. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift 59. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell 60. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 61. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene 62. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 63. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green 64. Dubliners by James Joyce 65. Face by Benjamin Zephaniah 66. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr 67. White Teeth by Zadie Smith 68. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson =69. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton =69. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott =71. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick =71. I am David by Anne Holm =73. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath =73. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde =73. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd 76. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 77. A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin 78. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway =79. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison =79. Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard =79. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 82. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy =83. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce =83. Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse =83. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain =86. A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly =86. Heroes by Robert Cormier 88. Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah =89. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn =89. Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally 91. Forever by Judy Blume =92. Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin =92. Stone Cold by Robert Swindells 94. A Time to Dance by Bernard MacLaverty =95. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood =95. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell =97. The War of the Worlds by HG Wells =97. The Tracy Beaker series by Jacqueline Wilson =99. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson =99. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson =99. The Time Machine by HG Wells