Recommended Reads – by subject

A list of books put together by HHS teachers:

Recommended reads where characters show resilience

Recommended books by BAME authors

Read your way around the world (Year 7-9)

Year 7 to 9 reading list

Dystopian reading list

Complex issues to make you think

Audiobooks

Year 10-13 reading list

A list of books to read as recommended by teachers in each subject area:

Art
The Definitive Visual Guide – Andrew Graham Dickson (KS4/5)
The Yellow House – Martin Gayford (KS5)
Frida – Heyden Herrera (KS5)
The Art Book for Children – Phaidan Editors (KS3)
13 Art Techniques Children Should Know – Angela Wenzel (KS3/4)
13 British Artists Children Should Know – Alison Baverstock (KS3/4)
Vincent’s Starry Night and Other Stories: A Children’s History of Art – Michael Bird (KS3/4)
Pablo Picasso: Breaking all the Rules –True Kelley (KS3)
Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali and the Artists of Optical Illusion (KS4/5)
Banksy: Art Breaks the Rules – Hettie Bingham (KS3/4/5)

CBM

Alan Turing: The Enigma – Andrew Hodges (Computing) (KS4/5)
Like a Virgin – Richard Branson (Business) (KS4/5)
Newspapers (Media/Business) (KS3/4/5)
Single Minded: My Life in Business – Claude Litner (Business) (KS4/5)
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different – Karen Blumenthal (Computing/Business) (KS4/5)
1984 – George Orwell (Computing) (KS4/5)
Job websites (Business/Media) (KS4/5)
Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson (Computing) (KS4/5)
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov (Computing) (KS4/5)
Blogs (Media)

Dance

No Way Home – Carlos Acosta (KS4/5)
Life in Motion – Misty Copeland (KS4/5)
African-American Dance – Barbara Glass (KS5)
The Painted Girls – Cathy Marie Buchanan (KS3/4)
Marie, Dancing – Carolyn Meyer (KS3/4)
Dancing Times
Dance Matters
Dance Magazine
Ballet Review
Dance Spirit
Online: londondance.com

Drama

Too Much Punch for Judy – Mark Wheeller (KS3)
Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman (KS3)
Hard to Swallow – Mark Wheeller (KS3)
Like a Virgin – Gordon Steel (KS4)
Blood Brothers – Willy Russell (KS4)
Two – Jim Cartwright (KS4)
Junk – Melvyn Burgess (KS4)
Jerusalem – Jez Butterworth (KS5)
The Cracks in My Skin – Phil Porter (KS5)
Monster – Duncan MacMillan (KS5)

DT

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind – William Kamkwamba (KS3)
Machines That Think – Isaac Asimov (KS3/4)
Rosie Revere Engineer – Andrea Beaty (KS3)
Girls Think of Everything – Catherine Thimmesh (KS3/4)
Phlippe Starck Books (KS4/5)
Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products – Leander Kahney (KS4/5)
Charles Remnie Mackintosh – World of Art (KS4/5)

English

Lord of the Flies – William Golding (KS4)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou (KS4)
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (KS4)
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens (KS4)
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (KS4)
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson (KS4)
Misery – Stephen King (KS4)
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (KS4)
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (KS4)
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro (KS4)
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (KS4)
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger (KS4)
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier (KS4)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon (KS3/4)
Heroes – Robert Cormier (KS4)
The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton (KS4)
Animal Farm – George Orwell (KS3/4)
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak (KS3/4)
Life of Pi – Yann Martel (KS3/4)
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini (KS4)

Geography

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded by Simon Winchester
Off the Map: Lost Space, Feral Places and Invisible Cities and What They Tell Us About the World by Alastair Bonnett
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Tribe by Bruce Parry
Amazon by Bruce Parry
Arctic by Bruce Parry
The Travel Book by Lonely Planet (KS3)
If the World were a Village by David J Smith (KS3)
Fast Food Nation: What The All American Meal is Doing To the World by Eric Schlosser
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Horrible Geography Series by Anita Ganeri (KS3)
Spin the Globe: The Incredible Adventures of Frederick von Wigglebottom by Edward Moldenhauer (KS3)
Monsoon by Uma Krishnaswami (KS3)
Wabi Sabi Hardcover by Mark Reibstein (KS3)
Dodsworth in Rome by Tim Egan (KS3)
Tintin in Tibet (The Adventures of Tintin) by Hergé (KS3)
Journey to Jo’burg: A South African Story by Beverley Naidoo (KS3)
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai (KS3)
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq by Jeanette Winter (KS3)
Little Leap Forward – A boy in Beijing by Guo Yue (KS3)

History

Horrible Histories – Terry Deary (KS3)
Road to Nab End – William Woodruff (KS3)
Two Brothers – Ben Elton (KS4)
The Machine Gunners – Robert Westall (KS3/4)
Band of Brothers – Stephen E Ambrose (KS4)
A Song of Ice and Fire – George R. R. Martin (KS4)
The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank (KS3)
Fatherland – Robert Harris (KS4)
Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian (KS3)
War of the Roses – Christine Carpenter (KS5)
The Sunne in Splendour – Sharon Kay Penman (KS5)
Warhorse – Michael Morpurgo (KS3/4)
Private Peaceful – Michael Morpurgo (KS3)
War of the Roses: Stormbird – Conn Iggulden (KS5)
Dodger – Terry Pratchett (KS4)

LSF

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon (KS3)
Quick Reads (KS3)
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s – John Elder Robison (KS4)

Subject Specific Non-Fiction Magazines
Guinness Book of Records
The Boys’ Book of Survival – Guy Campbell
Tracy Beaker – Jacqueline Wilson
Beano
Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Jeff Kinney

Maths

Fermat’s Last Theorem – Simon Singh (KS4/5)
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon (KS3)
Figuring, the Joy of Numbers – Shakuntala Devi (KS3)
How Many Socks Make a Pair? – Rob Eastaway
Alan Turing: The Enigma – Andrew Hodges (KS4)
The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets – Simon Singh (KS3/4)
The Code Book – Simon Singh (KS4/5)

Media

A RANGE of newspapers – ensure you read and access broadsheets and tabloids (KS4/5)
A RANGE of magazines – niche and mass market appeal (KS4/5)
The Times Website (KS4/5)
The Film Book – A Complete Guide to the World of Cinema – DK (KS4/5)
Behind the Scenes at the BBC – Edward Lamberti (KS4/5)
Any novel that has been adapted to film

MFL

Mary Glasgow Magazines (Library) (French and German) (KS3/4)
Tintin (French)
Asterix (French)
Le Petit Prince – St. Exupery – translation (French)
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne (abridged) (French)
The Three Musketeers – Dumas (abridged) (French)
Teen Magazines (French and German) (KS5)
Grimms’ Fairy Tales – Brothers Grimm (German)
A Bag of Marbles – Joseph Joffo (French)
All Quiet on the Western Front (German)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (German)

Music

History of Western Music – D.J. Grout
The Story of Music – Howard Goodall
Big Bangs – Howard Goodall
BBC Music Magazine
Sound on Sound
Guitarist
Logic Pro X
Concert Reviews
Rock Music Timeline (website)

PE

Bounce – Matthew Syed
Put Me Back on My Bike – Tom Simpson
Sport Gene – David Epstein
Money ball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game – Michael L. Lewis
Inventing the Pyramid – Jonathan Wilson (KS5)
The Climb – Chris Froome
Eat, Sweat, Play – Anna Kessel
Fever Pitch – Nick Hornby
Inside Team Sky – David Walsh
Roy of the Rovers
Sports Biographies/Autobiographies
Magazine – Shoot/Match/Four Four Two
Newspapers – Sports Sections
APPS – BBC Sports News

Religious Studies

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Shiguro
Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
Exodus by Julie Bertagna
Does My Head Look Big In This by Randa Abdel-Fattah
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Sophie’s World: The Greek Philosophers by Jostein Gaardner
What is Humanism? How do you live without a God? And other big questions for kids by Anne Marie Young and Michael Rosen

Science

The Martian – Andy Weir
The Theory of Everything – Stephen Hawking
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
Dune – Frank Herbet (KS5)
The Foundation Trilogy – Isaac Asimov (KS4)
Aliens Love Underpants – Claire Freedman
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? – New Scientist Series
Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
Brilliance Series – Marcus Sakey
Thing Explainer – Randall Munroe
What If? – Randall Munroe

Social Science

How to be a Woman – Caitlin Moran (KS5)
Amusing Ourselves – Neil Postman (KS5)
The Runaway Jury – John Grisham (Law) (KS5)
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini (KS5)
Das Kapital (Capital: Critique of Political Economy) – Marx (KS5)
A Vindication of the Rights of Women – Mary Wollstonecraft (KS5)
The Casual Vacancy – Robert Galbraith (KS5)
The Lucifer Effect – Phillip Zimbardo (Psych)
The Psychopath Test – Jon Ronson (Psych)
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat – Oliver Sacks (Pysch)
The Interpretation of Dreams – Sigmund Freud (Pysch)