All these texts are currently in the school library at the time of writing.
Modern Fiction aimed at under 16s
- Skellig – David Almond
- Noughts and Crosses – Blackman
- Boys Don’t Cry – Blackman
- Starseeker – Bowler
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – Boyne
- The Hunger Games – Collins
- Heroes – Cormier
- Toffee – Crossan
- The Graveyard Book – Gaiman
- Coram Boy – Gavin
- Once – Gleitzman
- A Little History of the World – E.H. Gombrich
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time – Haddon
- Stormbreaker – Horowitz
- Jake’s Tower – Laird
- Fearless – Lott
- War Horse – Morpurgo
- The Knife of Never Letting Go – Ness
- A Monster Calls – Ness
- Wolf Brother – Paver
- Northern Lights – Pullman
- Ruby in the Smoke – Pullman
- Mortal Engines – Reeve
- The Amulet of Samarkand – Stroud
- Stone Cold – Swindells
- The Book Thief – Zusak
Classic Fiction aimed at under 16s
- Watership Down - Adams
- Little Women – Alcott
- The Book Of Lost Things – Connelly
- The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
- Lord of the Flies – Golding
- The Woman in Black - Hill
- Stig of the Dump – King
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Lewis
- Goodnight Mister Tom – Magorian
- The Railway Children – Nesbitt
- Z for Zachariah – O’Brien
- Treasure Island – Stevenson
Modern Adult
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Adams
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Albom
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Angelou
- Foundation – Asimov
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Atwood
- Regeneration – Barker
- Good Omens – Gaiman and Pratchett
- Archangel – Harris
- Fatherland – Harris
- High Fidelity – Hornby
- A Thousand Splendid Suns - Hosseini
- The Kite Runner – Hosseini
- Never Let Me Go – Ishiguro
- The Stand – King
- Freakonomics – Levitt
- Serious – McEnroe
- Enduring Love – McEwan
- Life of Pi – Martel
- Occasional Magic – The Moth
- Where the Crawdads Sing – Owens
- An Instance of the Fingerpost – Pears
- Winning! - Woodward
Classic Adult
- Emma – Austen
- Pride and Prejudice – Austen
- Fahrenheit 451 – Bradbury
- Jane Eyre – Bronte
- The Woman in White - Collins
- The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories – Dahl
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Doyle
- Rebecca – Du Maurier
- The Name of the Rose – Eco
- North and South - Gaskill
- Brighton Rock - Greene
- The Power and the Glory – Greene
- Far From the Madding Crowd - Hardy
- The Mayor of Casterbridge – Hardy
- Catch 22 – Heller
- Three Men in a Boat – Jerome
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Lee
- A Wizard of Earthsea – Le Guin
- 1984 – Orwell
- Animal Farm – Orwell
- Tales of Mystery and Imagination – Poe
- The Catcher in the Rye – Salinger
- Frankenstein – Shelley
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Silitoe
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Stevenson
- Dracula – Stoker
- The Lord of the Rings – Tolkein
- The Invisible Man – Wells