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Bishop Ramsey
Church of England School
English Department
KS4 Recommended Reading
2022-2023Reading at BR
At Bishop Ramsey we encourage all our students to read often and widely.
There are many benefits to reading:
• It makes you smarter! Reading increases your vocabulary, command of English and communication skills. It
increases your knowledge of the world and will support your studies.
• It improves your concentration and memory. Immersing yourself in a book can really hold your attention.
Remember, your brain is a muscle and needs to be used.
• It reduces stress. Studies have shown that just six minutes of reading can reduce stress levels up to 68% It can
also help you sleep better
• It supports your emotional development. Reading books allows you explore a range of different emotions, either
through the characters themselves, or through your response to them. Reading also develops your empathy
skills and can introduce you to new ideas and cultures.
• Most of all reading is fun! Books are written as entertainment, and you should enjoy them.
This reading list includes suggestions for readers of all abilities and interests, but it is not an exhaustive list. Fantastic
new books are being published all the time.
As well as general suggestions there is a wider reading list linked to the units you study in English – these might be link
by genre, themes or settings.
Some of the books on the list are more challenging or have more mature themes.
If you are not enjoying a book it is perfectly fine not to finish it! There are too many great books to read ones you do not
like.
Other ways to find suggestions for reading:
• Check out the Bishop Ramsey reading lists on www.lovingreading4schools.co.uk. Use the link and password
below:
https://www.lovereading4schools.co.uk/school/12251
Password: BRlovesreading
• Browse the school library and speak to Ms Neal
• Join a public library
• Check out the Carnegie Medal winners list
Carnegie Medal Winners – The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards
• Use the Goodreads App to create your own reading lists
• Share books with your friends and family!KS4 Suggested Reading
Mental Health Great YA
• Beautiful Broken Things by Sara Barnard • Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
• Are We All Snowflakes and Lemmings? by Holly • Americal Royal by Katharine McGee
Bourne
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen • A sing Below Water by Bethany C Morrow
Chbosky
• Turtles All the Way Down by John Green • All The Bight Places by Jennifer Niven
• Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen • My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• The Science of Breakable Things by Tae Keller • Wilder Girls by Rory Power
• Blame My Brain by Nicola Morgan • Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath • I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L.
Sanchez
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell • The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Classics Now Read the Book
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott • Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen • Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte • Firefly Lane by Kristen Hannah
• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins • One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens • Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
• Middlemarch by George Eliot • Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald • Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence • The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh • The Vampire Diaries by L. J. Smith
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R. L. Stevenson • The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
Hot on Booktok Prize Winners
• Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard • The Power by Naomi Alderman
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor • My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Jenkins Reid
• The Cruel Prince by Holly Black • Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune • Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover • The Midnight Library by Matthew Haig
• The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood • An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• We Were Liars by E. Lockhart • The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• Circe by Madeline Miller • Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue by V. E. • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Schwab
• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld • The Goldfinch by Donna TarttMysteries and Thrillers Modern Classics
• Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• S.T.A.G.S. by M. A. Bennett The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Rules by Tracy Darnton The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
• They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• You’ll Be the Death of me by Karen M. McManus The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Dystopian Fiction Interesting Lives
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury • Coming Up for Air by Tom Daley
• The Selection by Kiera Cass • Up Close by Jane Goodall
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline • The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
• The Hungar Games by Suzanne Collins • Endurance by Scott Kelly
• The Maze Runner by James Dasher • Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro • Twelve Years a Slave by Soloman Northup
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy • Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• 1984 by George Orwell • Will by Will Smith
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card • Educated by Tara Westover
• The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham • Star Child by Ibi Zoboi
Non-fiction Drama
• Bonnie and Clyde by Karen Blumethal • History Boys by Alan Bennett
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson • Hobson’s Choice by Harold Brighouse
• Amelia Lost by Candace Fleming • Tales of Honey by Sheelagh Delaney
• A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking • The Empress by Tankia Gupta
• A Night to Remember by Walter Lord • DNA by Dennis Kelly
• The Missing by Michael Rosen • The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• The Five by Hallie Rubenhold • Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca • Othello by William Shakespeare
Skloot
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly • Journey’s End by R. C. Sheriff
• We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai • Blood Brothers by Willy RussellGCSE English Literature Wider Reading
Macbeth A Christmas Carol
• The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom • Dickens by Peter Ackroyd
• Shakespeare’s Macbeth by Harold Bloom • Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
• Shakespearean Tragedy by A. C. Bradbury • The Man Who Invented Christmas by Les
Standiford
• William Shakespeare; A Reader’s Guide by Alfred • The World of Charles Dickens by Angus Wilson
Harbage
• Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Macbeth by • Charles Dickens and the Making of A Christmas
Terence Hawkes Carol by Michael Norris
• Shakespeare’s Tragic Sequence by Kenneth Muir • Chales Dickens’ England by David Nicholas
Wilkinson
• Shakespearean Tragedy and the Elizabethan • Dickens’ Christmas: A Victorian Celebration by
Compromise by Paul Siegel Simon Callow
Power and Conflict Poetry Unseen Poetry
• The Not Dead by Simon Armitage • Collected Poems by W H Auden
• Half-Caste by John Agard • Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson
• Songs of Innocence and Experience by William • The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
Blake
• Collected Poems by Robert Browning • Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
• The Terrorist At my Table by Imtiaz Dharker • Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
• Selected Poems by Carol Ann Duffy • Collected Poems by Langston Hughes
• The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes • Ariel by Sylvia Plath
• Collected Poems by Wilfred Owen • In a Green Night by Derek Walcott
• The Prelude by Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
• The Way I Dressed by Jane Weir • Poems, New and Collected by Wislawa
Szymborska
Other useful books: An Inspector Calls
• Collins English School Dictionary • J. B. Priestley: The Last of the Sages by John Alfred
Atkins
• Collins English School Thesaurus • J. B. Priestley: Portrait of an Author by Susan
Cooper
• There are lots of revision guides for all of the • J.B. Priestley: An Annotated Bibliography by Alan
topics in GCSE English Language and GCSE English Edwin Day
Literature. Publishers include Collins, CGP and • J.B. Priestley by A. A. Vitis
York Notes for GCSE • The Vision of J.B. Priestley by Roger Fragge
• J. B. Priestley: An Informal Study of his Work by
David Hughes
• J.B. Priestley, the Dramatist by Gareth Lloyd Evans
• J.B. Priestley and the Theatre by Rex PogsonYou can also read
