Key Stage 4 Reading List

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book." J K Rowling

Reading is cool. Books are cool.

That’s it. That’s the tweet.

Marcus Rashford MBE

Here at Wilden we actively encourage you to read, and here's why…

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Reading is the key to improving all aspects of your school work across your curriculum areas.

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It will help with your vocabulary, it may improve your memory and help you to relax.

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But also, and possibly most importantly, reading may inspire you and help to make your imagination flourish.

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➸Blood Red Road - Moira Young

➸Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman

➸Fated - Teri Terry

➸The Boy at the Top of the Mountain - John Boyne

➸Phoenix Rising - Bryony Pearce

➸The Cherub Series - Michael Muchamore

➸Brink of Darkness - Jeff Giles

➸Far Rockaway - Charlie Fletcher

➸Bearmouth - Liz Hyder

➸Noble Conflict - Malorie Blackman

➸Silverfin - Charlie Higson

➸Where the World Ends - Geraldine McCaughrean

➸Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard

➸The island at the End of Everything - Kiran Millwood Hargrave

➸Cherry Heaven - J Adlington

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Adventure Books

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Fantasy Books

• The Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
• Harry Potter - J K Rowling
• Percy Jackson - Rick Riordan
• Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo
• The Light Between Worlds - Laura Weymouth
• Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkien
• City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
• Assassin's Creed Series - Oliver Bowden
• Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
• Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater
• Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi
• Throne of Glass Series - Sarah J Maas
• King of Scars - Leigh Bardugo
• The Lie Tree - Frances Hardinge
• The Secret of Birds and Bone - Kiren Millwood Hargrave
• A Skinful of Shadows - Frances Hardinge
• Shadow of the Fox - Julie Kagawa
• Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard

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Mystery Books

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
• The Truth About Keeping Secrets - Savannah Brown
• Truly Devious Series - Maureen Johnson
• What Kind of Girl - Alyssa Sheinmel
• Safest Lies - Megan Miranda
• The Pearl Thief - Elizabeth Wein
• Hey Sherlock - Simon Mason
• Bunker Diary - Kevin Brooks
• Girl Missing Series - Sophie McKenzie
• Moonrise - Sarah Crossman
• Encounters - Jason Wallace
• Young Sherlock Holmes - Andrew Lane
• Theodore Boone Series - John Grisham

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Romance Books

Twilight - Stephenie Meyer

An Abundance of Katherines - John Green

The Fault in our Stars - John Green

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han

Fly on the Wall - E Lockhart

Only Love can Break your Heart - Katherine Webber

When the Stars are Scattered - Omar Mohamed

Hello Now - Jenny Valentine

Tell us Something True - Dana Reinhardt

Love at First Like - Hannah Orenstein

The Museum of Heartbreak - Meg Leder

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• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
• Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
• The Catcher in the Rye - J.D.Salinger
• Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
• 1984 - George Orwell
• Emma - Jane Austen
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
• Any Agatha Christie
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Classic Books

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• Divergent Trilogy - Veronica Roth
• Dune Series - Frank Herbert
• Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve
• Arc of Scythe Series - Neal Shusterman
• The Gilded Ones - Namima Forma
• Green Rising - Lauren James
• Earthfall - Mark Walden
• Itch - Simon Mayo
• The Lorien Legacy - Pittacus Lore
• This Mortal Coil - Emily Suvada
• Bzrk - Michael Grant
• Ascension - Victor Dixen
• I am Number 4 - Pittacus Lore
• The Fever Code - James Dasher
• The Unlisted - Justine Flynn
• The Dog Runner - Bren MacDibble

Science-Fiction Books

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Thriller

Books

• Are You Watching - Vincent Ralph
• A Danger to Herself and Others - Alyssa Sheinmel
• A Good Girls Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson
• One of Us is Lying - Karen McManus
• Fractured - Teri Terry
• I Know You Did It - Sue Wallman
• Truly Devious Series - Maureen Johnson
• The Ace of Spades - Faridah Abike- Iyimide
• Things to do before the End of the World - Emily Bar

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Historical Books

• The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
• Cane Warriors - Alex Wheatle
• I am the Blade - P Buxton
• Unheard Voices - Malorie Blackman
• The Boy in Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
• Red Ribbon - Lucy Adlington
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
• We Played with Fire - Catherine Barter
• When the Sky Falls - Phil Earl
• How High the Moon - Karyn Parsons

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Horror Books

• Women In Black - Susan Hill
• The Lie Tree - Frances Hardinge
• The Adjusters - Andrew Taylor
• Red Eye Series - Various
• Zom-B Series - Darren Shan
• Horowitz Horror - Anthony Horowitz
• Blink Once - Cylin Busby
• Wranglestones - Darren Charlton

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Coming Of Age and LGBTQ+

• Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
• They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera
• Concrete Rose - Angie Thomas
• Dear Evan Hansen - Val Emmich
• Clap When You Land - Elizabeth Acevedo
• Black Flamingo - Dean Atta
• Heartstopper Series - Alice Oseman
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Saenz
• The Gifted and Talented Me - William Sutcliffe
• Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo

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