KS4 Reading List
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Key Stage 4 Reading List – 50 Books
1. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
2. An Inspector Calls – J.B. Priestley
3. Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
4. Macbeth – William Shakespeare
5. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
6. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
7. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
8. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
9. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
10. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
11. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
12. Animal Farm – George Orwell
13. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
14. The Odyssey (adapted) – Homer
15. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
16. Dracula – Bram Stoker
17. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
18. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
19. Crime and Punishment (adapted) – Fyodor Dostoevsky
20. The Tempest – William Shakespeare
21. Noughts & Crosses – Malorie Blackman
22. Holes – Louis Sachar
23. Skellig – David Almond
24. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
25. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
26. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
27. The Woman in Black – Susan Hill
28. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
29. Wonder – R.J. Palacio
30. A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
31. Animal Farm (modern edition) – George Orwell
32. Room – Emma Donoghue
33. The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
34. The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
35. Private Peaceful – Michael Morpurgo
36. Blood Brothers – Willy Russell
37. Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
38. An Enemy of the People – Henrik Ibsen
39. Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
40. Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare
41. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
42. The Crucible – Arthur Miller
43. The Woman in Black (stage play) – Susan Hill
44. Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
45. The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
46. Selected poems from Power and Conflict anthology (AQA)
47. Selected poems from Love and Relationships anthology (Edexcel)
48. The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (selected)
49. I Am Malala – Malala Yousafzai (memoir)
50. Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela (extracts)