Year 11 Reading List


English

Macbeth – Shakespeare

Selection of sonnets – Shakespeare

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

1984 – George Orwell

Science

Why Big Fierce Animals are Rare? by Paul A Colinvaux
How to Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O’Hare

Art

Savage Messiah By HS Ede

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

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby

Technology

It’s disgusting & we ate it.  By James Solheim.

Nelly Nit pick . Kid food critic.   By Jamie Michalak.

Upside down greats. By Jo franks

History

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Geography

Natural Disasters and How We Cope by Robert Coenraads
Around the World in Eighty Days by Michael Palin
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

Sarah’s Key byTatiana De Rosnay

Spanish

Incantation by Alice Hoffman

 

ICT

Rebel Code by Glyn Moody.

Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges 

Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hoftstadter 

What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff 

Algorithms Unplugged, ed Vocking, 2011.

The Pattern on the Stone, Danny Hillis, 1999

Algorithmic Puzzles, Levitin & Levitin, 2011.

The Singularity is Near, Ray Kurzweil, 2006.

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, Charles Petzold, 2000.

Bebop To The Boolean Boogie , Clive ‘Max’ Maxfield,

Bit by Bit: Illustrated History of Computers, Stan Augarten

Hey, T (2014) The computing universe: a journey through a revolution.

Algorithms to live by: the computer science of human decisions. Christian and Griffiths

Maths

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Babylon Game by Katherine Roberts
100 Cupboards by ND Wilson