Reading Lists by Subject Area
Suggested further subject-specific curriculum reading lists.
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English |
KS3
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Fiction Little Women, Louisa May Alcott Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo
Non Fiction What is Poetry?, Michael Rosen Book, John Agard
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KS4
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Fiction Regeneration Trilogy, Pat Barker Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo
Non Fiction This is Shakespeare, Emma Smith Black Ink, Stephanie Stoke Oliver
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KS5 |
Fiction Stone, Edward Williams The Secret History, Donna Tart
Non Fiction The Ode Less Travelled, Stephen Fry A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
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KS3
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Fiction The Fault in Our Stars, John Green Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
Non Fiction Greta's story: the schoolgirl who went on strike to save the planet - Valentina Camerini Stuff that scares your pants off - the Science Museum book of scary things - Glenn Murphy Hiding Edith - Kathy Kacer |
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KS4
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Fiction 13 minutes, Sarah Pinborough The Children of the King, Sonya Hartnett A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Non Fiction The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Kean The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, Oliver Sacks |
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KS5 |
Fiction The Time Traveler's Almanac, Ann VanderMeer Non Fiction The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Kean The Periodic Table, Primo Levi A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harrari The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins The Vital Question, Nick Lane Genome, Matt Ridley The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins We are our Brains: from the Womb to Alzheimer's, Dick Swaab |
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Health and Social Care |
KS3 |
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KS4
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Fiction The Island, Victoria Hislop (Health Care) Black Box, Julie Schumacher Unbecoming, Jenny Downham Before I Die, Jenny Downham Non Fiction TBC
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KS5 |
Fiction The Island, Victoria Hislop Black Box, Julie Schumacher The Absolution Game (1996), Paul Sayer Known to Social Services (2015), Freya Barrington Unbecoming, Jenny Downham Before I Die, Jenny Downham Non Fiction This is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay (Health Care)
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Business Studies |
KS3
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Fiction TBC Non Fiction TBC |
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KS4 & KS5 |
Non Fiction She Means Business: Turn Your Ideas into Reality and Become a Wildly Successful Entrepreneur, Carrie Green Fighting the Banana Wars and Other Fairtrade Battles, Harriet Lamb Strong Woman: The Truth About Getting to the Top, Karren Brady In the Company of Women, Grace Bonney
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Maths |
KS3
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Fiction The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Non Fiction Alex Bellos, Alex's Adventures in Numberland Simon Singh, The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
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KS4 & KS5 |
Fiction Enigma – Robert Harris
Non Fiction Alex Bellos, Alex's Adventures in Numberland
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Modern Foreign Languages
French
French |
KS3
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Fiction Le petit Nicolas J'aime Lire, Bayard Jeunesse
Non Fiction TBC |
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KS4
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Fiction Short stories in French, Olly Richards Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Le dernier jour d'un condamné, Victor Hugo Voyage au centre de la Terre, Jules Verne Harry Potter, JK Rowling – French translation The Hunger Games, Suzanna Collins – French translation
Non Fiction The Oxford History of the French Revolution, William Doyle The French Revolution – 1789-1799, Peter McPhee Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance, Robert Gildea French Cinema – A Student's Guide, Phil Powrie and Keith Reader Moments Litteraires: An Anthology for Intermediate French, Bette Hirsch & Chantal Thompson
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KS5
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Fiction Le Tartuffe, Moliere Candide, Voltaire Boule de Suif et autres Contes de la Guerre, Guy de Maupassant L'etranger, Albert Camus Bonjour tristesse, Francoise Sagan Elise ou la vraie vie, Claire Etcherelli Un sac de billes, Joseph Joffo Kiffe kiffe demain, Faiza Guene Un secret, Philippe Grimbert No et moi, Delphine de Vigan Le Chat du Rabbin, Joann Sfar Le dernier jour d'un condamne, Victor Hugo Voyage au centre de la Terre, Jules Verne L'avare, Moliere
Non Fiction Mot à Mot, New advanced French vocabulary Short Stories in French: New Penguin Parallel Text, Richard Coward Made in France: Studies in Popular Music, Gérôme Guibert
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Modern Foreign Languages
Spanish |
KS3
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Fiction TBC
Non Fiction TBC
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KS4
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Fiction
Harry Potter series in Spanish:http://www.alconet.com.ar/varios/libros/e-book_h/Harry_Potter_y_la_Piedra_Filosofal_01.pdf Muerte en Buenos Aires, Paco Ardit El Bosque Animado, Wenceslao Fernandez Florez Neimhaim Los hijos de la Nieve y la Tormenta, Aranzazu Serrano Lorenzo Play, Javier Ruescas Olvidado Rey Gudu, Ana Maria Matute Lagrimas en la Liuvia, Rosa Montero Campo de Fresas, Jordi Sierra i Fabra Los Renglones Torcidos' Dios, Torcuato Luca de Tena El Ladron de Minutos, David Lozano La Segunda Revolucion – Heredero, Georgia Costa y Fernando Alcala Misterios a Domicilio, Begona Oro
Non Fiction The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction, Helen Graham
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Spanish |
KS5
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Fiction La casa de Bernarda Alba, Federico García Lorca Cronica de una Muerte Anunciada, Gabriel García Marquez Como Agua Para Chocolate, Laura Esquivel Requiem por un Campesino Espanol, Ramon J. Sender La Sombra del Viento, Carlos Ruiz Zafon La Casa de los Espiritus, Isabel Allende Becquer Rimas, Gustavo Adolfo Las Bicicletas son Para el Verano, Fernando Fernan-Gomez El Otro arbol de Guernica, Luis de Castresana El Coronel no Tiene Quien le Escriba, Gabriel García Marquez El Corazon Helado, Almudena Grandes Malena es un Nombre de Tango, Almudena Grandes Cien anos de Soledad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Non Fiction Palabra Por Palabra, New Advanced Spanish Vocabulary Neoliberalismo Sexual : el Mito de la Libre Eleccion, Ana de Miguel A Companion to Spanish Cinema, Jo Labanyi, Tatjana Pavlovic The A to Z of Spanish Cinema, Alberto Mira
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Art |
KS3
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Fiction TBC Non Fiction Mind Fields - The Art of Jacek Yerka, the Fiction of Harlan Ellison, Jacek Yerka and Harlan Ellison Art Matters, Neil Gaiman Yayoi Kusama-From Here to Infinity, Sarah Suzuki |
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KS4
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Fiction The Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
Non Fiction Why You Can Go Out Dressed Like That: Modern Fashion Explained, Marnie Fogg
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KS5
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Fiction The Goldfinch, Donna Tart
Non Fiction The Design of Everyday Things Donald A. Norman Ways of Seeing and Ways of Seeing a Photograph, John Berger
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Dance |
KS3
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Fiction The Nutcracker, E.T.A Hoffman Swan Lake, Rachel Isadora Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfeild A Time To Dance, T.V Padma
Non Fiction Ballet and Modern Dance, Susan Au Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques, Joshua Leg Out Of Line, Judith Mackrell West Side Story And The American Imagination, Misha Berson |
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KS4
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Fiction Giselle, Cyril W Beaumont Coppelia, Margot Fonteyn Hope In A Ballet Shoe, Michela DePrince Ella Bella Ballerina and The Sleeping Beauty, James Mayhew
Non Fiction Art Without Boundaries, The World Of Modern Dance, Jack Anderson Evolved, Darcy Bussell No Fixed Points, Dance In the Twentieth Century, M. McCormick & N. Reynolds A Life Of Dance and Dreams, Alvin Yudkoff
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KS5 |
Fiction BunHeads, Sophie Flack West Side Story, Irving Shulman Breaking Pointe, Miriam Wenger- Landis Tiny Pretty Things, Dhonielle Clayton and Sona Charaipotra
Non Fiction Akram Khan's Rush, Lorna Sanders 20th Century Dance in Britain, Joan White Somewhere: The Life Of Jerome Robbins, Amanda Vaill
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Music |
KS3
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Fiction Stargirl, Jenny Spinelli The Bear Comes Home, Rafi Zabor
Non Fiction The AB Guide to Music Theory, Eric Taylor
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KS4
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Fiction An Equal Music, Vikram Seth The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
Non Fiction The AB Guide to Music Theory Part 2, Eric Taylor Billie Holiday, John Szwed How Music Works, David Byrne
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KS5 |
Fiction Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, Kazuro Ishiguro The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie
Non Fiction Harmony in Practice, Anna Butterworth Stylistic Harmony Work Book, Anna Butterworth Music: A Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cook The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Alex Ross |
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Physical Education |
KS3
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Fiction The Crossover, Wame Alexander Booked, Kwame Alexander Racing in the rain John.L.Parker
Non Fiction Sportopedia, Adam Skinner Unbelievable, Jessica Ennis Hope in a ballet shoe, Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince
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KS4 & KS5
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Fiction
Running the Rift, Naomi Benaron In these girls, Hope is a Muscle, Madeleine Blais Out of Nowhere, Maria Padian
Non Fiction Showboat: The life of Kobe Bryant Making the Jump to take Netball to the Top of the World, Geva Mentor Between the Lines, Victoria Pendleton
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Humanities
Geography
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KS3
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Fiction Bear Grylls Adventures - Bear The Ice Man & Extreme Survival - Alan Parkinson Race to the Pole - Mike Gould The Explorer & Wolf Wider - Katherine Rundell The Carbon Diaries 2015 & 2017 - Saci Lloyd Thin Air - Michelle Paver Dark Matter - Michelle Paver Northern Lights' trilogy - Philip Pullman Gaffer Samson's Luck - Gill Paton Walsh Journey to the River Sea - Eva Ibbotson Refugee Boy - Benjamin Zephaniah Running Wild - Michael Morpurgo Kick - Mitch Johnson
Non Fiction Touching the Void - Joe Simpson Great Adventurers & The Boy who Cycled the World - Alastair Humphreys Horrible Geography series of books - Anita Ganeri Shackleton's Journey - William Grill Plate Tectonics - Iain Stewart Shackleton - Ben Saunders Climate Change - Charles, Prince of Wales Evolution - Steve Jones How bad are bananas? - Mike Berners-Lee |
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KS4
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Fiction Endangered – Eliot Schrefer
Non Fiction Horrible Geography book collection – Anita Ganeri Disaster Dossiers series e.g. Earthquakes – Anne Rooney Graphic Expeditions series e.g. Getting to the Bottom of Global Warming – Terry Collins Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference – Greta Thunberg How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time – Will McCallum Our Planet – Alastair Fothergill, Fred Pearce, and Keith Scholey Where on earth? Geography without all the boring bits –Jim Doyle The Man who Cycled the World –Mark Beaumont The Accidental Adventurer –Ben Fogle Factfulness – Hans Rosling The Scramble for Africa–Thomas Pakenham Geography – Danny Dorling and Carl Lee Around the World in 80 Days There is no Planet B – Mike Berners-Lee World Development – Barry Baker Adventures in the Anthropocene This is Planet earth – New scientist instant expert Beyond the Map – Alastair Bonnet Canoeing in the Congo – Phil Harwood Prisoners of Geography – Tim Marshall The Bottom Billion – Paul Collier The Almighty Dollar – D. Dharshini Diaster by Choice – I. Kelman Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond – S. Shah
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KS5
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Fiction Where the Crawdads Sing. – D. Owens The Hungry Tide – A. Ghosh Brick lane – M. Ali Last man in Tower – A. Adiga The Beekeeper of Aleppo – C. Leftari Americanah – C. Adichie The Poisonwood Bible – B. Kingsolver The Alchemist – P.Coelho
Non Fiction Six Degrees of Climate Emergency – M. Lynas No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference – Great Thunberg There is no Planet B – M. Berners-Lee Losing Earth: The Decade We Could have Stopped Climate Change – N. Rich The Pebbles on the Beach. – C. Ellis Coast: Our Island Story. A Journey of Discovery Around Britain's Coastline – N. Crane The Salt Path – R. Winn Notes from a small Island – B. Bryson The Road to Wigan pier – G. Orwell Poverty Safari – D. McGarvey Red Dust – M. Jian Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City – J. White We are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World – M. Yousafzai
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Humanities
History
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KS3
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Fiction The Ruby in the Smoke - A Sally Lockhart Mystery by Philip Pullman Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian The TimeTraveller's Guide to Medieval England – Ian Mortimer
Non Fiction The Book of Awesome Women: Boundary Breakers, Freedom Fighters, Sheroes and Female Firsts - Becca Anderson What happened when in the world – Dorling Kindersley (DK) Black Heroes – Arlisha Norwood
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KS4
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Fiction Dear Martin - Nic Stone Lies We Tell Ourselves - Robin Talley Non Fiction Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali – African Empires, Volume 1 – LP Martin
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KS5
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Fiction The Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris
Non Fiction Black and British: A Forgotten History – David Olusoga African Dominion – Michael A. Gomez
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Humanities
Religious Studies Citizenship
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KS3
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KS5 |
Fiction
Non Fiction
Fiction
Non Fiction
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Science
