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Gcse Suggested Reading List: The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

This document provides a suggested reading list for GCSE students. It includes 50 novels from various genres such as classics, horror, science fiction and contemporary fiction. It also recommends any Shakespeare play or collection of sonnets as well as poetry from various poets such as Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath and Carol Ann Duffy. The reading list aims to expose students to important and influential works from different time periods and literary traditions.

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Gcse Suggested Reading List: The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

This document provides a suggested reading list for GCSE students. It includes 50 novels from various genres such as classics, horror, science fiction and contemporary fiction. It also recommends any Shakespeare play or collection of sonnets as well as poetry from various poets such as Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath and Carol Ann Duffy. The reading list aims to expose students to important and influential works from different time periods and literary traditions.

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GCSE SUGGESTED READING LIST


1. 1984 – George Orwell
2. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
3. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
4. The Aneid – Virgil
5. Anita and Me – Meera Syal
6. Atonement – Ian McEwen
7. Beowulf – trans. Seamus Heany
8. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
9. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
10. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
11. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
12. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
13. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
14. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
15. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
16. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
17. Dracula – Bram Stoker
18. Enigma – Robert Harris
19. Fever Pitch – Nick Hornby
20. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
21. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
22. Girlfriend in a Coma – Douglas Coupland
23. The Great Gatsby – F.Scott Fitzgerlad
24. Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
25. The Illiad – Homer
26. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
27. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
28. Junk – Melvin Burgess
29. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
30. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
31. Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman
32. Notes on a Scandal – Zoe Heller
33. Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson
34. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
35. The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde
36. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
37. Refugee Boy – Benjamin Zephania
38. The Road – Cormac McArthy
39. Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
40. The Shining – Stephen King
41. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Lewis Stevenson
42. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
43. Touching the Void – Joe Simpson
44. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
45. Ulysses – James Joyce
46. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
47. The Wasp Factory – Ian Banks
48. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
49. Woman in Black – Susan Hill
50. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
Any Shakespeare play or collection of sonnets
Poetry [Rudyard Kipling, William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost, Carol Ann
Duffy, Christina Rossetti, Robert Browning, Simon Armitage, Grace Nichols, John Betjeman, Ted Hughes, Gillian
Clarke]

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