Recommended titles
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The War Orphan - R Anderson
Any science fiction by Isaac Azimov
The L Shaped Room - L R Banks
Darling Buds of May - H E Bates
Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
Anapurna - Chris Bonnington
The Dambusters - Paul Brickhill
The Road of the Dead - Kevin Brooks
Junk - Melvin Burgess
Sharpe’s Fury - Bernard Cornwell
Walk Two Moons - Sharon Creech
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
Tales of the Unexpected - Roald Dahl
The Divine Wind - Garry Disher
A pure swift cry - Siobhan Dowd
The Eyes of Karen Connors - Lois Duncan
The Drowning Pond - Catherine Forde
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
Green Jasper - K.M.Grant
Warehouse - Keith Gray
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
Any of the vet books - James Herriot
Born Confused - Tanuja Desai Hidier
No Limits - Pete Johnson
Kiss the Dust - Elizabeth Laird
Children of the Dust - Louise Lawrence
Tug of War - Joan Lingard
Roxy’s Baby - Catherine MacPhail
Falling Leaves - Adeline Yen Mah
Walkabout - James Vance Marshall
Thud! - Terry Pratchett
Just in case - Meg Roscoff
The Panic Wall - Alick Rowe
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Brother in the Land - Robert Swindells
The Homecoming - Cynthia Voigt
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin
Like a more challenging read?
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Empire of the Sun - JG Ballard
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Restless - William Boyd
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
A Passage to India - EM Forster
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Grace Notes - Bernard MacLaverty
1984 - George Orwell
Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Unless - Carol Shields
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - RL Stevenson
Recommended websites:
Have trouble choosing a book? http://www.readingmatters.co.uk/bookchooser.php
Want to read something Scottish? http://www.braw.org.uk/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx
Want to know what people your age think of books? http://www.cool-reads.co.uk/
Want to read reviews and extracts of good teenage books? http://www.teenreads.com/
