Reading
The following book list contains wide ranging texts that are enjoyable, challenging and diverse. It contains page turning fiction as well as non-fiction. These books are purposefully chosen to help you prepare for life after sixth form. They will provoke you to think outside the box, question the status quo and debate topics you may never have considered before. We hope you enjoy them.
- Eve out of her Ruins by Ananda Devi
- Witch List by Susan Fletcher
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi
- Atomic Habits: An easy & Proven way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
- The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in and Age of Lies by The Secret Barrister
- City of Glass by Paul Auster
- Ultra: The Underworld of Italian Football by Tobias Jones
- Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
- Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
- Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
- Shtum by Jem Lester
- Mother tongue: The Story of the English Language by Bill Bryson
- The Ballad of Jacob Peck by Debra Komar
- Why Elephants Cry: How Observing Unusual Animal Behaviours Can Predict the Weather by John T Hancock
- Many Different Kinds of Love: A Story of life, death and the NHS by Michael Rosen
- Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis
- A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
- Born to Run: The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
- The selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacFarlane
- This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Brave New World by Vintage Huxley
- The Humans by Matt Haig
- 1984 by George Orwell