This is a list of books I recommend to my keen readers from Year 8 to Year 12 - in no particular order.
I have added an asterisk against Australian Authors...The Year levels apply to the students I teach.
There are millions of books in the world -- I have mainly concentrated on books I have read/enjoyed or that are on school reading lists.
I will add to this list from time to time.
Many authors have multiple books -- too many to list. If you enjoy a book, seek out that author for more...
BOOK LIST
I have added an asterisk against Australian Authors...The Year levels apply to the students I teach.
There are millions of books in the world -- I have mainly concentrated on books I have read/enjoyed or that are on school reading lists.
I will add to this list from time to time.
Many authors have multiple books -- too many to list. If you enjoy a book, seek out that author for more...
BOOK LIST
- Fly Away Peter - David Malouf * (Yr 9)
- Emma - Jane Austen (Yr 12)
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (Yr 12)
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (Yr 12)
- Persuasion - Jane Austen (Yr 12)
- The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger (Yr 11-12)
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseni (modern - set in Afghanistan) (Yr 12)
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (Yr 11-12)
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (Yr 11-12
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens (Yr 11-12)
- A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (Yr 11-12)
- My Place - Sally Morgan * (Aboriginal) (All years)
- My Brother Jack - George Johnson * (Yr 9-12)
- The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenberger (Yr 11-12)
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel (Yr 10 - 12)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo (Yrs 8 -12)
- Les Miserable - Victor Hugo (Yr 12)
- Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding (Yr 12)
- The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (Yr 12)
- My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin * (early Australian) (Yr 11-12)
- Tomorrow, when the war began and all John Marsden titles * (Yr 8-9)
- Deadly Unna - Phillip Gwynne * (Aboriginal) (Yr 9)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon (Yr 8 or 9)
- Don't Call Me Ishmael - Michael Gerard Bauer (Yr 9)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (Yr 12)
- Future Shock - Alvin Toffler (Yr 11-12) Science Fiction
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (Yr 11-12) - Science Fiction
- The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien (All years) - Science Fiction/Fantasy
- The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien (All years)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (Yrs 9--)
- Harry Potter series, JK Rowling (All years)
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (Yr 10-11)
- The Book Thief - Marcus Zusack (Yr 10-11)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (Yr 12)
- Animal Farm - George Orwell (Yrs 9--)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis (All years)
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (Yr 11-12)
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier (Yr 12)
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (Yrs 8-12)
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres (Ur 11-12)
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy (Yr 12 - adulthood) VERY LONG!
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (Yr 12)
- Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy (Yr 12)
- The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck (Yr 10-12)
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (Yr 10-12)
- Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (All years)
- Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (Yr 9)
- A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute *
- Dune, Frank Herbert (Sci-fi)
- Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
- Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy (Yr 12)
- The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher (Yr 11-12) All books by Rosamunde are wonderful.
- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Lord of the Flies - William Golding (Yr 10-12)
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (Yr 12)
- Black Beauty, Anna Sewell (early High School)
- Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer (sci-fi)
- Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden (Yr 12)
- The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough * (Ye 12)
- The Magus, John Fowles (Yr 12) Fantasy
- Ulysses, James Joyce (Adult)
- Holes, Louis Sachar (Yr 8)
- The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy (Yr 11-12)
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (Ye 12)
- On The Road, Jack Kerouac - (Yr 12)
- The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel (All years - fantasy)
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Attwood (Yrs 11-12)
- The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- Katherine, Anya Seton
- Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer (Yr 11-12)
- The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
- Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
- Empire of the Sun - J G Ballard
- A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (Yr 12)
- The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer (Yr 11-12)
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (Yr 12)
- Robinson Crusoe - Danel Defoe (All years)
- The Last of the Mohicians - James Fennimore Cooper
- A Passage to India - E M Forster (Yr 12)
- Room With a View - E M Forster (Yr 12)
- The Quiet American - Graham Greene (Yr 12)
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (Yr 12)
- The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling (All years)
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John le Carre
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (Yr 11-12)
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (Yr 12)
- Brideshead Revisited - Anthony Trollope (Yr 12)
- The War of the Worlds - H G Wells (sci-fi)
- Invisible Man - H G Wells (sci-fi)
- To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolfe (Yr 11-12)
- The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (All years)
- Twilight - Stephanie Meyer (All years)
- The Iliad - Homer
- The Odyssey - Homer
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
- Deception Point - Dan Brown
- The Lost Symblo - Dan Brown
- Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
- The Power of One - Bryce Courtney *
- Matthew Flinders' Cat - Bryce Courtney * ... many more by Bryce Courtney
- Eragon - full series - The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini (4 books)
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer...and many more by this author
- Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (set in American Civil War)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Heidi - Johanna Spyri
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Moby Dick - Hermann Melville
- Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
- Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
- Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- Gulag Archipelago - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin - many different authors
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- The Arabian Nights - Scheherazade
- The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Riding the Black Cockatoo - John Denalis (Year 9)*
- The Metamorphosis - Frank Kafka (Year 12)
Thanks Denise! Best List Ever!!
ReplyDeleteBut can you please take Twilight off the list? I absolutely hate that book..I can't stand it, in fact!
Twilight has earned a spot. Have to cater to all tastes...D
Deleteoh suck....how did it get there in the first place?!?! ;)
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