WholeSchool Reading List

English Department Top Ten Recommended Reads for ….Yr 10

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

The Help - Kathryn Stockett

Dubliners – James Joyce

The Remains of the Day - Kashuo Ishiguro

Brick Lane – Monica Ali

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer

Enduring Love – Iam McEwen

English Department Top Ten Recommended Reads for ....Yr 11

Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austin

Before I Die – Jenny Downham

The Go Between – L P Hartley

Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

Once in a House on Fire – Andrea Ashworth

The Turn of the Screw – Henry James

Room – Emma Donaghue

Midnight’s Children – Salmon Rushdie

The Rachel Papers – Kingsley Amis

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

DT

1000 Product Designs: Form, Function, and Technology from Around the World: From, Function, and Technology from Around the World- Eric Chan

The Dream Factory: Alessi Since 1921- Alberto Alessi

Design in Britain: Big Ideas (small Island)- The DesignMuseum

The A-Z of Modern Design- Bernd Polster, Claudia Neumann, Markus Schuler and Frederick Leven

RS/PHILOSOPHY

The Life of Pi – Yann Martel

The 5 people you meet in heaven - Mitch Albom

The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad

The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid

The Consolations of Philosophy – Alain De Botton

A Little History of Philosophy – Nigel Warburton

Greek Myths – Olivia Coolidge

History of western philosophy – Bertrand Russell

The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins

God is not great – Christopher Hitchens

There is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind- Antony Flew

ART

The Portrait of Dorian Gray (Penguin)- Oscar Wilde

Girl With A Pearl Earring (Harper 2006) - Tracy Chevalier

Secret Knowledge (Thames & Hudson 2006)- David Hockney

Maus (Penguin 2003)- Art Spiegelman – This is particularly good – the only graphic novel ever to win a Pulitzer Prize

I Paint My Reality (T & H 2008) -Frida Kahlo

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (the ultimate sculpture?)

PHOTOGRAPHY

The Unknown Bown (Guardian Newspapers 2007)- Jane Bown

The Photographer’s Eye (MOMA New York 2007) -John Szarkowski

How to Read a Photograph (T & H 2009) - Ian Jeffrey

The Genius of Photography – (BBC/Quadrille Publishing 2011)

The Art of Lee Miller (V&A 2007) -Mark Howarth-Booth

MATHS

Mathematics: a very short introduction, Oxford Paperbacks - Tim Gowers

Fermat's Last Theorem -Simon Singh

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth- Paul Hoffman

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea -Charles Seife

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography- Simon Singh

The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World’s Most Astonishing Number- Mario Livio

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything-Steven D Levitt:

MUSIC

The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century- Alex Ross

Piano Notes: The Hidden World of the Pianist- Charles Rosen

SCIENCE

Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond

Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

A Short History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

MFL

Marius Marcel Pagnol (play)

L’Avare Molière (play)

Any short stories by Guy de Maupassant

L’Etranger - Albert Camus

HE

‘Olive’ Magazine

‘Good Food’ Magazines

Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals – Jamie Oliver

TEXTILES

‘Double Trouble’ Series by Jan Beeny & Jean Littlejohn

‘Stitch’ Magazines

‘Embroiders’ Guild’ Magazines

DRAMA

A Memory of Lizzie – David Foxton

Shakers - John Godber and Jane Thornton

GEOGRAPHY

Any of Michael Palin’s Travel Writing

Touching the Void – Joe Simpson

'National Geographic' Magazines

HISTORY

Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantell

Civilisation – Niall Ferguson

Any of Simon Schama’s books

Any of Mary Renault's books for Ancient History

‘The Knife Man’ (Blood, Body-snatching and the birth of modern surgery) by Wendy Moore

IT

Steve Jobs – Biography by Walter Isaacson

Weaving the Web: The Past, Present and Future of the World Wide Web by its Inventor- Tim Berners-Lee

LATIN

I, Claudius - Robert Graves

The Aeneid in translation