Recommended+Wide+Reading


 * Recommended wide reading list **
 * Years 9 -11 **

Composed by Strathmore Secondary teachers with the help of the BBCs top 100


 * Jasper Jones - ** Chris Silvey
 * The Book Thief - ** Marcus Zusak
 * Year of Wonders - ** Geraldine Brooks
 * Butterfly - ** Sonya Hartnett
 * My Sister’s Keeper - ** Jodi Picoult
 * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time ** - Mark Haddon
 * The Hunger Games - ** Suzanne Collins
 * The Story of Tom Brenan ** - JC Burke
 * Gone with the Wind ** - Margaret Mitchell
 * Oliver Twist ** - Charles Dickens
 * A Place like This - ** Steven Herrick
 * The Portrait of Dorian Gray ** - Oscar Wilde
 * Jessica - ** Bryce Courtney
 * Slaughterhouse Five ** - Kurt Vonnegut
 * This Boy's Life ** - Tobias Wolff
 * The Handmaid's Tale ** - Margaret Atwood
 * The Secret River - ** Kate Grenville
 * Things we didn't see coming ** - Steven Amsterdam
 * In Cold Blood ** - Truman Capote
 * True History of the Kelly Gang ** - Peter Carey
 * The Memory Keeper’s Daughter - ** Kim Edwards
 * The Lord of the Rings ** - JRR Tolkien
 * Pride and Prejudice ** - Jane Austen
 * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ** -Douglas Adams
 * To Kill a Mockingbird ** - Harper Lee
 * Nineteen Eighty-Four ** - George Orwell
 * Jane Eyre ** - Charlotte Brontë
 * Catch-22 ** - Joseph Heller
 * The Catcher in the Rye ** - JD Salinger
 * The Hobbit ** - JRR Tolkien
 * Tess of the D'Urbervilles ** - Thomas Hardy
 * The Grapes of Wrath - ** John Steinbeck
 * Alice's Adventures In Wonderland ** - Lewis Carroll
 * Persuasion ** - Jane Austen
 * The Great Gatsby ** - F Scott Fitzgerald
 * Animal Farm ** - George Orwell
 * A Christmas Carol ** - Charles Dickens
 * Of Mice and Men ** - John Steinbeck
 * The Stand ** - Stephen King
 * Artemis Fowl ** - Eoin Colfer
 * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ** - JK Rowling
 * Memoirs of a Geisha ** - Arthur Golden
 * A Tale of Two Cities ** - Charles Dickens
 * The Thorn Birds ** - Colleen McCollough
 * Lord of the Flies ** - William Golding
 * Bridget Jones's Diary ** - Helen Fielding
 * Brave New World ** - Aldous Huxley
 * The Princess Diaries ** - Meg Cabot