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Guiseley School Recommended Subject Reading Lists
Music
- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
- Gangsta Rap by Benjamin Zephaniah
- The card turner by Louis Sachar
- In the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido
- Solo by Kwame Alexander
- The Mozart Season by Virginia Euwer Wolff
- Magic Flutes by Eva Ibbotson
- Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
- The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
- Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
- Songs about a Girl by Chris Russell
- Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
- The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
- If I Stay by Gayle Forman
- The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
- The Mozart Question by Michael Morpurgo
- Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
- This Song Will Save Your Life by Lelia Sales
Maths
- The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacey McNulty
- The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- I, Ada by Julia Gray
- The Imitation Game (Graphic Novel) by Jim Ottaviani
- Reaching for the Moon: The autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine Johnson
- Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
- Humble Pi by Matt Parker
- Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture Paperback by Apostolos Doxiadis
- White Rabbit, red Wolf by Tom Pollock
- Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
- Flatterland by Ian Stewart
- An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Geography
- Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick
- The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird
- The Explorer by Katherine Rundell
- The River Boy by Tim Bowler
- Tsunami Girl by Julian Sedgwick
- In Darkness by Nick Lake
- There is No Planet B by Mike Berners-Lee
- Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean
- An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
- Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
- Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
- Somerset Tsunami by Emma Carroll
- Flood Child by Emily Diamand
- At the World’s End by Catherine Fisher
- City of the Beast by Isabel Allende
- Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
- Sky Dancer by Lewis Gill
- The Explorer by Katherine Rundell
- Holes by Louis Sacher
Science
- The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day by Christopher Edge
- George's Secret Key to the Universe by Christophe Galfard
- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate: 1 by Jacqueline Kelly
- Unlocking the Universe by Stephen and Lucy Hawking
- Pig-heart Boy by Malorie Blackman
- Apollo by Matt Fitch
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
- Itch by Simon Mayo
- The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- Unwind by Neal Schusterman
- Hidden Figures by Margaret Lee Shetterly
Criminology
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
- One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- The Loop by Ben Oliver
- Oliver Twit by Charles Dickens
- The Boy Who Steals Houses by CG Drew
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- The Green Mile by Stephen King
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy
Psychology
- Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
- 1984 by George Orwell
- All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
- The Girls I Have Been by Tess Sharpe
- We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen
- Still Alice by Lisa Genova
- Where Did You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
- Girl on a Train by Paula Hawkins
- Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesic by Gabrielle Zevin
- My Mad Fat Diary by Rae Earl
- Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- Darius the Great is Not OK by Adib Khorram
- The Thirteenth Tale by Dianne Setterfield
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
English
- Pages & Co.: Tilly and the Bookwanderers: Book 1 by Anna James
- Monsters by Sharon Dogar
- The Poet X (Paperback) by Elizabeth Acevedo
- The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
- Hamnet by Maggie Farrell
- Regeneration by Pat Barker
- Possession by AS Byatt
- Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
- The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
- The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Attwood
- The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
- Off the Page by Jodi Picoult
- The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
- Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
- The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K.Dick
RS
- Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
- A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
- Tamarind & the Star of Ishta by Jasbinder Bilan
- Guard Your Heart by Sue Divin
- The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon
- Philomena by Martin Sixsmith
- Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
- Heretics! The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy by Steven Nadler
- There is no Dog by Meg Rosoff
- Not the End of the World by Geraldine McCaughrean
- Moonrise by Sarah Crossan
- The Life of Pi by Yann Martell
- Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman
- I am Malala by Malala Yousaf
- October, October by Katya Balen
- Does My Head Look Big in This by Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Who Let the Gods Out by Maz Evans
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- The Buddha of Surburbia by Hanif Kureshi
- Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist
- Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Alborn
History
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
- Things A Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls
- Windrush Child by Benjamin Zephaniah
- Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
- Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Mezolith by Ben Haggarty (Graphic Novel)
- MAUS by Art Spiegelman (Graphic Novel)
- Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell
- City of Ghosts by Bali Rai
- Twelve Minutes to Midnight by Christopher Edge
- The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
- Parade’s End by Ford Maddox Ford
- Armistice Runner by Tom Palmer
- Small Island by Andrea Levy
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Buffalo Soldier by Tanya Landman
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre
- The Last Paper Crane by Kerry Drewery
ICT
- Hacker by Malorie Blackman
- In the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido
- Higher Geometry by Sharelle Byars Moranville
- Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Shadow of the Minotaur by Alan Gibbons
- The Eye of Minds by John Dashner
- Z-Rex by Steve Cole
- Enigma by Robert Harris
- 1984 by George Orwell
- War Cross by Marie Lu
- Feed by MT Anderson
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
Business
- Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
- Pyramid of Lies by Duncan Mavin
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies
- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar
- It Started with Goodbye by Christina June
- A Paperboy’s Fable: The 11 Principles of Success by Deep Patel
- The Babysitter’s Club by Raina Telgemeier
Drama
- King of Shadows by Susan Cooper
- Wise Children by Angela Carter
- The Swish of the Curtain by Pamela Brown
- The Understudy by David Nicholls
- An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
- Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
- The Secret Hen House Theatre by Helen Peters
- Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
- Theatre Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
- The Marvels by Brian Selznick
- Drama by Raina Telgemeier
MFL
- The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Prisoner of the Inquisition by Theresa Breslin
- The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
- Pan’s Labyrinth: the Labyrinth of Faun by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke
- Toro, Toro by Michael Morpurgo
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- The House of Spirits by Isabella Allende
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
- The Neverending story by Michael Ende
- The Edelweiss Pirates by Dirk Reinhardt
- Traitor by Gudrun Pauseway
- Sophie’s world by Jostein Gaarder
- The reader by Bernard Schlink
- Perfume by Patrick Suskind
- Tell Me What You See by Zoran Drvenkar
Food Technology
- The Hundred Foot Journey by Richard C.Morais
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Pumpkin Hearts by Rainbow Rowell
- The Apple Tart of Hope by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- Sweet Pizza by GR Gemin
- When Life Gives You Mangoes by Kereen Getten
- With Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Sundae Girl by Cathy Cassidy
Graphics and Product Design
- Cinder by Marissa Meyer
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
- Mortal Engines by Phillip Reeve
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Airman by Eoin Colfer
- Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
- I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
- Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
Textiles
- Geek Girl by Holly Smales
- Airhead by Meg Cabot
- The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
- The Red Ribbon by Lucy Addington
- Boys Don’t Knit by TS Easton
- The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
- Needles by Patrice Lawrence
- The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
Art
- Framed by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
- I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
- Bitter By Akwaeke Emezi
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
- Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
- Medici Seal by Theresa Breslin
- Midwinter Blood by Marcus Sedgwick
- Guggenheim Mystery by Tobin Stevens
- Fire Colour One by Jenny Valentine
Politics
- The Supreme Lie by Geraldine McCaughrean
- Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
- The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- House of Cards by Michael Dobbs
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
- Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
- Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
- Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera
- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
PSHE (Mental health, sexuality, diversity)
- Heartstoppers by Alice Oseman
- Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend
- Lucas by Kevin Brooks
- Junk by Melvin Burgess
- Are We All Lemmings & Snowflakes? Holly Bourne
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
- We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen
- Where Did You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
- Girl on a Train by Paula Hawkins
- Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham
- Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesic by Gabrielle Zevin
- My Mad Fat Diary by Rae Earl
- Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
- Darius the Great is Not OK by Adib Khorram
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig