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YEAR 10 EMERALD Reading List

The very best English students are those who read widely. Below is a list of challenging
literary novels ranging from classics to more modern winners of literary awards. They
have been chosen for their literary value. This is not an exhaustive list but serves as a
guide to help you select the best books for your wide reading. Enjoy!
Douglas Adams

Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

Bernard Ashley

Little Soldier

Isabelle Allende

House of Spirits

Maya Angelou

I know why the caged bird sings

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice


Emma
Northanger Abbey

Julian Barnes

A History of the World in 10 Chapters

H E Bates

The Darling Buds of May

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights

Melvin Burgess

Loving April
Junk
Bloodtide

Albert Camus

The Outsider

Tracey Chevalier

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Tom Clancy

The Teeth of the Tiger


Red Rabbit

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

Arthur Golden

Memoirs of a Geisha

William Golding

Lord of the Flies

John Grisham

The Client
The Chamber
The Firm

Mark Hadden

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the DUrbervilles

Joanne Harris

Chocolat
Blackberry Wine
Five Quarters of the Orange

Robert Harris

Fatherland
Enigma

Ernest Hemingway

Death in the Afternoon

Susan Hill

The Woman in Black

Nick Hornby

High Fidelity
Fever Pitch

Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner


A Thousand Splendid Suns

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird
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Penelope Lively

Moon Tiger
City of the Mind
Cleopatra's Sister

Melina Marchetta

Looking for Alibrandi

Michelle Magorian

A Little Love Song


A Spoonful of Jam
Goodnight Mr Tom
Cuckoo in the Nest

Cormac McCarthy

The Road

Ian McEwan

Atonement

J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

Alice Sebold

Lovely Bones

Tom Sharpe

Wilt
Blott on the Landscape

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Anita Shreve

Fortune's Rocks

Nevil Shute

A Town like Alice

John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men


The Grapes of Wrath

Jonathan Swift

Gullivers Travels

Meera Syall

Life isnt all ha ha hee hee


Anita and me

Amy Tan

The Bonesetter's Daughter

JRR Tolkien

The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings

Rose Tremain

Music and Silence


Restoration

Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead revisited
Scoop
The Loved One

Robert Westall

Falling into Glory


The Machine Gunners

Adeline Yen Mah

Falling Leaves

Marcus Zusak

The Book Thief

Alternatively, use the internet to search for Top 100 Books to Read or Winners of Literary Awards

Or access http://www.goodreads.com!

Happy Reading

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