Urmston 100
“Broaden your mind and your horizons…”
Here is a reading list to keep you busy during your time at Urmston Grammar. It contains something for everyone, has been drawn from a variety of sources and you never know where it might lead you.
** Denotes books suitable for Year 7-9
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Book Title: Half of a Yellow Sun
Author: Akala
Book Title: Natives
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Book Title: Little Women **
Author: Isabel Allende
Book Title: The House of the Spirits
Author: Maya Angelou
Book Title: I know why the caged bird sings
Author: Margaret Atwood
Book Title: The Handmaid's Tale
Author: Jane Austen
Book Title: Pride & Prejudice **
Author: James Baldwin
Book Title: The Fire Next Time
Author: Julian Barnes
Book Title: Arthur and George
Author: Malorie Blackman
Book Title: Noughts and Crosses **
Author: Pierre Boulle
Book Title: Planet of the Apes **
Author: Ray Bradbury
Book Title: Fahrenheit 451 **
Author: Emily Brontë
Book Title: Wuthering Heights **
Author: Dee Brown
Book Title: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Author: Bill Bryson
Book Title: A Short History of Everything **
Author: Oliver Burkeman
Book Title: Help! **
Author: Truman Capote
Book Title: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Author: Agatha Christie
Book Title: Murder on the orient express **
Author: Susanna Clarke
Book Title: Piranesi **
Author: Arthur C Clarke
Book Title: Hammer of God **
Author: Chris Cleave
Book Title: The Other Hand
Author: Joseph Conrad
Book Title: Heart of Darkness
Author: Charles Dickens
Book Title: David Copperfield **
Author: Jennifer Donnelly
Book Title: A Gathering Light
Author: Jeremy Dronfield
Book Title: The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz
Author: Jeremy Dronfield
Book Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Author: Umberto Eco
Book Title: The Name of the Rose
Author: George Elliot
Book Title: The Mill on the Floss **
Author: Buchi Emecheta
Book Title: Second Class Citizen: A Novel
Author: Hans Fallada
Book Title: Alone in Berlin
Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
Book Title: The Great Gatsby
Author: E M Forster
Book Title: A Room With a View
Author: Anne Frank
Book Title: Diary of a Young Girl **
Author: Stephen Fry
Book Title: Mythos **
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Book Title: Sophie’s World **
Author: Neil Gaiman
Book Title: The Graveyard Book
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Book Title: North and South **
Author: Jamila Gavin
Book Title: Coram Boy
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Book Title: Sapiens
Author: Thomas Hardy
Book Title: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Author: LP Hartley
Book Title: The Go Between
Author: Joseph Heller
Book Title: Catch 22 **
Author: John Hersey
Book Title: Hiroshima **
Author: Barry Hines
Book Title: A Kestrel for a Knave **
Author: S E Hinton
Book Title: The Outsiders **
Author: Anne Holm
Book Title: I am David **
Author: Homer
Book Title: The Odyssey **
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Book Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Book Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Author: Judith Kerr
Book Title: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Author: Matthew Kneale
Book Title: English Passengers
Author: Jan Krakauer
Book Title: Into the Wild
Author: DH Lawrence
Book Title: Sons and Lovers
Author: Harper Lee
Book Title: To Kill a Mockingbird **
Author: Primo Levi
Book Title: The Periodic Table **
Author: Eric Lomax
Book Title: The Railway Man
Author: Lois Lowry
Book Title: The Giver
Author: Yan Martel
Book Title: Life of Pi **
Author: Daphne du Maurier
Book Title: Rebecca
Author: David Mitchell
Book Title: Cloud Atlas
Author: Toni Morrison
Book Title: Beloved
Author: Maggie O'Farrell
Book Title: Hamnet
Author: George Orwell
Book Title: 1984 **
Author: Delia Owens
Book Title: Where the Crawdads Sing
Author: Katherine Paterson
Book Title: Bridge to Terabithia
Author: Nathanial Philbrick
Book Title: In the Heart of the Sea
Author: Jodi Picoult
Book Title: Small Great Things
Author: Sylvia Plath
Book Title: The Bell Jar
Author: Terry Pratchett
Book Title: Thief of Time **
Author: Onjali Q Rauf
Book Title: The Boy at the Back of the class **
Author: EM Remarque
Book Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Author: Arundhati Roy
Book Title: The God of Small Things
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Book Title: The Little Prince **
Author: Kamila Shamsie
Book Title: Home Fire
Author: Alan Sillitoe
Book Title: The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner **
Author: Joe Simpson
Book Title: Touching the Void **
Author: Rebecca Skloot
Book Title: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Author: Zadie Smith
Book Title: White Teeth
Author: Dodie Smith
Book Title: I Capture the Castle **
Author: Dava Sobel
Book Title: Longitude
Author: Art Spiegelman
Book Title: Maus
Author: Robert Louis Stephenson
Book Title: Treasure Island **
Author: Bram Stoker
Book Title: Dracula **
Author: Jonathan Swift
Book Title: Gulliver's Travels **
Author: Angie Thomas
Book Title: The Hate U Give **
Author: Anna Karenina
Book Title: Leo Tolstoy
Author: Jules Verne
Book Title: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea **
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Book Title: Slaughter House 5 **
Author: Alice Walker
Book Title: The Color Purple
Author: Edith Wharton
Book Title: The House of Mirth
Author: T H White
Book Title: The Sword in the Stone **
Author: Oscar Wilde
Book Title: The Picture of Dorian Grey **
Author: Sarah Wise
Book Title: The Blackest Streets
Author: Malcolm X
Book Title: Malcolm X
Author: Adeline Yen Mah
Book Title: Chinese Cinderella **
Author: Malala Yousafzai
Book Title: I am Malala **
Author: Benjamin Zephaniah
Book Title: Face **
Author: Markus Zusack
Book Title: The Book Thief **