Reading lists: Year 10-13 Reading list



Surname of author |First Name of author |Name of book |Genre of book |Merits for reading bk and writing a 350 word review (marked piece) |Suitable Year group |Comment |Ranking | |Chandler |Raymond |Big Sleep /others |Thriller |4 |Year 10-13 |Chandler was the first and best tough private eye writer in the world. |1 | |Ali |Monica |Brick Lane |Romance/other culture |3 |Year 10-13 |A classic contemporary novel set in East End of London. Highly readable. |1 | |Fraser |Charles |Cold Mountain |Historical -- romance |5 |Year 10-13 |A quiet, tough American soldier tries to get home to his loved one. Will he make it? |2 | |Easton-Ellis |Brett |Less Then Zero |Teenage angst |4 |Year 10-13 |This is a great novel. If you like sex, death and weird parties, this is the one for you. |2 | |Austen |Jane |Emma |Classics |3 |Year 10-13 |Great film, even better book |2 | |Allende |Isabelle |House of the spirits |Magic realism/thriller |3 |Year 10-13 |One of the great magic realist novels. A real page turner. |3 | |Turgenev |I |First Love |Classics |5 |Year 10-12 |I greatly enjoyed this love story. Teenage angst and rivalry with a father! |4 | |Durrell |Gerald |A Zoo in my luggage |Animals |5 |Year 10-12 |Comic recollections of an amazing animal lover |4 | |Carter |Angela |The Magic Toyshop |Magic realism/thriller |4 |Year 11-13 |I love Carter. Sexy, witty, poetic coming-of-age story set in the strangest toyshop you ever read about! |4 | |Waterhouse |K |Billy Liar |Fantasy |4 |Year 10-13 |A loser is always day-dreaming. Good film,too. |5 | |Coetzee |J |Disgrace |Thriller/ other cultures |4 |Year 12-13 |This is a fantastic but frightening novel about a lecturer whose daughter is brutally raped. |6 | |Cunningham |Michael |The Hours |Historical -- romance |5 |Year 10-13 |Made into a good film. It's about writers, romance and modern life. |7 | |Dickens |C |Great Expectations |Classics |5 |Year 10-13 |The original coming-of-age story. |8 | |Grisham |John |The Client |Crime/Thrillers |2 |Year 10-13 |Grisham makes you turn the pages. |9 | |Dexter |Colin |Way Through the Woods |Crime/Thrillers |2 |Year 10-13 |All of Dexter's Inspector Morse stories are gripping. |10 | |Heller |J |Catch 22 |Humour |6 | | | | |

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