Whole School Reading List
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