English - Recommended reading: senior phase
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
The Winter Soldier - Daniel Mason
Macolm X The Autobiography – Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Mr Mercedes – Stephen King
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
I Know Why the Caged Bird sings – Maya Angelou
The Cursebreaker Series – Brigid Kemmerer
I was Dead for 13 minutes and Now I Want to Know Why – Sarah Pinborough
We were Liars – e lockhart
Wonder – R J Palaciao
Ready Player one – Ernest Cline
Torn – Cat Clark
One of Us is Lying – Karen M McManus
Butter – Erin Lange
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
Perfume – Patrick Suskind
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Emma – Jane Austen
The Prince who Walked with Lions – Elizabeth Laird
My Name is Asher Lev – Chaim Potok
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Normal People – Sally Rooney
Silence of the Lambs / Red Dragon – Thomas Harris
We are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Jay Fowler
If Beale Street could Talk – James Baldwin
Where the Crawdads sing – Delia Owens
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
The Book Thief – Marcus Zusak
All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven
Sythe – Neal Shusterman
The Fifth Science – Exurb 1a
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Bookshop on the Shore – Jenny Colgan
American Psycho – Brett Easton Ellis
The Hate u Give – Angie Thomas
My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder – Holly Jackson
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Six of Crows – Leigh Burdogo
With the Fire on High - Elizabeth AcevedoPage Break
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Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
American Dirt – Jeanine Cummins
The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead
Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
The Hearts Invisible Furies – John Boyne
The Dutch House – Ann Patchett
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
The Volunteer – Jack Fairweather
A Place called Winter – Patrick Gale
Everything Brave is Forgiven – Chris Cleave
Night Boat to Tangiers – Kevin Barry
The Beekeeper of Aleppo – Christy Lefteri
Middle England – Jonathan Coe
Eye of the Needle – Ken Follett
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Hossei
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine –
The Reader – Bernard Schlink
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Fever Pitch – Nick Hornby
Augustown – Kei Miller
Night Watch – Terry Pratchett
The Human Stain – Philip Roth
Possession – A S Byatt
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
All the Little Animals – Walker Hamilton
Circe and Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
The Beach – Alec Garland
The Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris
Crime thriller/ murder mystery / police procedural 
The Woman in the Window- AJ Finn
I am Watching You - Teresa Driscoll
Salt Lane - William  Shaw
The Reckoning - John Grisham
The Rooster Bar - John Grisham
The Woman in Cabin 10 - Ruth Wade
Coffin Road - Peter May
The Lewis Men trilogy - Peter May
The Girl Beneath the Sea - Andrew Mayne 
Never Look Back - Mary Burton
The Girl in the Ice - Robert Bryndza
An American Bullet - John  Stonehouse
A Killer's Wife - Victor Methos
What Have You Done - Matthew Farrell 
The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury - Marc Levy
The Moon Sister  - Lucinda Riley (and the other books the Seven sisters series)
After the Fire A Still Small Voice - Evie Wyld
Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie
After the Fire- Will Hill
Buffalo Soldier - Tanya Landman