Year 10 Reading List


English

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

The war of the Worlds – HG Wells

Science

Does Anything Eat Wasps? by New Scientist
Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? by New Scientist
Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? by New Scientist

Art

Ways of Seeing by John Berger
The Pre-Raphaelites by Christopher Wood

Music

The Story of Music -Howard Goodall

The AB Guide to Music Theory – by Eric Taylor

How Music Works – David Byrne

How Music got Free – The Inventor, the music man and the Thief – by Stephen Witt.

PE

Moneyball by Michael Lewis

Technology

The stinky cheesemonger & other fairy stupid tales.    By Jon Scieska

Blueberries for Sal.     By Robert McClosky.

Saturday cooking club.  By Deborah Alevine.

History

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Once by Morris Gleitzman

Geography

Wild Weather by John Lynch
Travel guide books for countries covered in tourism section
Read a quality newspaper once a week

 

RS, PSHE and Citizenship

  • Belief in God:

The life of Pi – Yann Marshall

The Alchemist – Paulo Coehlo

Sophies world – Jostein Gaarder

Go tell it on the mountain – James Baldwin

Crime and Punishment:

Junk – Melvin Burgess

Monster – Walter Dean Myers

Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  • Community Cohesion:

Does my head look big in this? – Randa Abdel-Fattah

Gangsta Rap – Benjamin Zephaniah

Anita and me – Meera Syal

The Arrival- Shaun Tan

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

  • Marriage and the Family:

The Member of the Wedding – Carson McCullers

Breathing Underwater – Alex Finn

Anna of the Five Towns – Arnold Bennett

The Scarlett Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Matters of Life and Death:

Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho

The Fault in our Stars – John Green

Death Note – Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata

Me Before You – Jojo Moyes

Big Fish – Daniel Wallace

Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

Where There’s Smoke – Jodi Picoult 

 

  • Environmental and Medical:

My Sisters Keeper – Jodi Picoult

Pig Heart Boy – Malorie Blackman

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

The Boy from Reactor 4 – Orest Stelmach

Blood Ties – Sophie McKenzie

The Handmaids Tale – Margeret Attwood

Flowers for Algernon- Daniel Keyes

 

  • Rights and Responsibilities:

The Wind Singer – William Nicholson

Survivors – Terry Nation

The Other Side of Truth – Beverly Naidoo

The Garbage King – Elizabeth Laird

Talking in Whispers – James Watson

The Wave – Rhue Morton

V is for Vendetta – Alan Moore

 

  • Peace and conflict:

Refugee Boy – Benjamin Zephaniah

Men in the Sun – Ghassan Kanafani

The Book Theif – Markus Zusak

Number the Stars – Lois Lowry

The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West

Maus – Art Spiegelman

Artist in a Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro

 

French

Chocolat by Joanna Harris
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

Spanish

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

 

ICT

The Most Complex Machine, David Eck.

Tools For Thought, Howard Rheingold.

Lauren Ipsum,Carlos Bueno, 2011.

The new Turing omnibus: 66 excursions in computer science, by AK Dewdney

Computational fairy tales, by Jeremy Kubica,

Best Practices of Spell Design, by Jeremy Kubica.

Nine algorithms that changed the world 

Logic, an introduction to elementary logic by Wilfred Hodges.

Hackers by Stephen Levy 

Mindstorms by Seymour Papert 

In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman by William Cook.

Maths

Fermat’s last theorem – Simon Singh

The man who only loved numbers – Paul Hoffman

God created the integers – Stephen Hawking

Lewis Carrol in Numberland – Robin Wilson