KS4/5 STRETCH AND CHALLENGE READING LIST
The Botanist’s Daughter – Kayte Nunn
All the Little Bird-Hearts – Viktoria Lloyd Barlow
The Bookbinder of Jericho – Pip Williams
House of Fortune – Jessie Burton
The Nightingale – Kristen Hannah
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
The People on Platform 5 – Claire Pooley
The Marriage Portrait – Maggie O’Farrell
The Whalebone Theatre – Joanna Quinn
Other Women – Emma Flint
The Household – Stacey Halls
Crook Manifesto – Colson Whitehead
Devotion – Hannah Kent
Things in Jars – Jess Kidd
Moonflower Murders – Anthony Horowitz
Unsheltered – Barbara Kingsolver
Vox – Christina Dalcher
The Silence Project – Carole Hailey
Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese
The Island of Missing Tress – Elif Shafak
The Beauty of Your Face – Sahar Mustafah
Julia – Sandra Newman
The Overstory – Richard Powers
The Book of Fire – Christy Lefteri
Yellowface – Rebecca F Kuang
Chalk Man – C.J. Tudor
The Bees – Laline Paull
The Fraud – Zadie Smith
Normal Rules Don’t Apply – Kate Atkinson
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
James – Percival Everett
A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
You Are Here – David Nicholls
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes – Anna McPartlin
Water – John Boyne
Sisters Under the Rising Sun – Heather Morris
The Three Graces – Amanda Craig
The Cabin – Jorn Lier Horst
The Power of One – Bryce Courteney
The Invisible Hour – Alice Hoffman
Notes on an Execution – Danya Kukafka
China Room – Sunjeev Sahota
Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
The Book of Form and Emptiness – Ruth Ozeki
The Crocodile Hunter – Gerald Seymour
Any Human Power – Manda Scott
Where the Forest Meets the Stars – Glendy Vanderah
Kala – Colin Walsh
The Turnglass – Gareth Rubin
Slough House Series – Mick Herron
The Wool Trilogy – Hugh Howey
Britt-Marie Was Here – Frederik Backman
Non-Fiction
London Belongs to Me – Norman Collins
Unnatural Causes – Dr. Richard Shepherd
The Places In Between and/ or Politics on the Edge – Rory Stewart
The Dictionary People – Sarah Ogilvie
Finding Hildasay – Christian Lewis
Otherlands – Thomas Halliday
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake – Tiya Miles
Forget-Me-Not – Sophie Pavell
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking – Kerri Andrews
Stalingrad – Anthony Beevor
Abroad in Japan – Chris Broad
The Comfort Crisis – Michael Easter
Journey Through India: Two pensioners backpack their way across the subcontinent – Mark Probert
The Book of Trespass – Nick Hayes
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World – Tim Marshall
Late Light – Michael Malay
Tiger Work – Ben Okri
The Elephant Whisperer – Lawrence Anthony
The Art Thief – Michael Finkel
By Tank into Normandy – Stuart Hills
White Holes: Inside the Horizon – Carlo Rovelli
Why We Sleep – Michael Walker
Just One Thing – Dr. Michael Moseley