Year 10 suggested reading list:
Writing Controlled Assessments
Below
are some suggestions for reading which may help with your work this half term.
In order to write well, you must be well-read. Many of the books listed below
are available in the school library.
Short
stories
Author/Editor
|
Title
|
Clive King
|
Adventure Stories
|
Tony Bradman
|
Amazing Adventure Stories
|
Saul Bellow
|
Collected Stories of Saul Bellow
|
Edgar Allen Poe
|
The Complete Stories
|
David Almond
|
Counting Stars
|
Philip Pullman
|
Detective stories
|
Steven King
|
Different Seasons
|
Miriam Hodgson
|
Family Tree
|
Tom Watt
|
Football shorts
|
Tony Bradman
|
Give me shelter
|
Sonia Nimr
|
Ghaddar the Ghoul and Other
Palestinian Stories
|
Selim Ileri
|
Ilkgenclik Cagina
Oykuler
|
Ernest Hemingway
|
Men Without Women
|
Kemal Ozer
|
Kaleidoscope
|
Guy de Maupassant
|
The Necklace and Other Short
Stories
|
Roald Dahl
|
Roald Dahl Collected Short
Stories
|
Kevin Crossley-Holland
|
Short! A book of very short
stories
|
Michael Morpurgo
|
The White Horse of Zennor and
Other Stories from Below the Eagle's Nest
|
Rehana Ahmed
|
Walking A Tightrope: New
Writing from Asian Britain
|
Travel writing
Author/editor
|
Title
|
Bill Bryson
|
Down Under
Made in America
Notes from a Big Country
Notes from a Small Island
|
Orhan Pamuk
|
Istanbul: Memories of a City
|
Graham Green
|
Journey without Maps
|
Benjamin Zepheniah
|
Kung Fu Trip
|
Tony Hawks
|
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
|
Roger Deakin
|
Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey
Through Britain
|
Writing guides
Author/Editor
|
Title
|
Shaun McCarthy
|
Write That Story
|
Tony Bradman
|
So you want to write fiction
|
Robyn Gee
|
The Usborne Guide to Better
English - Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation
|
Simon Basher
|
Basher Basics: Grammar
|
Don Shiach
|
Basic Grammar
|
Bahire Serif
|
English Grammar (for Turkish Speakers)
|
CGP
|
GCSE English Grammar
|
Angela Burt
|
Grammar Repair Kit
|
Carolyn Humphries
|
Really Simple English Grammar
|
Useful websites:
