Book Lists
Core Reading List for F Forms |
Bentley |
Magic Kitten series; Magic Puppy series; Magic Pony series |
Butterworth |
Jake in Danger |
Cameron |
The Julian Stories |
Carpenter |
The Majeika series |
Clover |
The Sheltie series |
Dahl |
George’s Marvellous Medicine |
Daniels |
Little Animal Ark series |
Edwards |
My Naughty Little Sister |
Fine |
Loudmouth Louis; The Killer Cat series |
King-Smith |
The Guard Dog |
King-Smith |
The Sophie series |
McCall Smith |
Akimbo and the Crocodile |
Meadows |
The Fairy series |
Morpurgo |
The Sandman and the Turtles |
Murphy |
The Worst Witch series |
Offen |
Rita the Rescuer series |
Peyton |
The Pony That Went to Sea |
Rodgers |
The Robodog series |
Simon |
Horrid Henry series |
Strong |
There’s A Viking in My Bed; and others |
Swindells |
The Ice Palace |
Tomlinson |
The Cat Who Wanted To Go Home |
Whybrow |
The Little Wolf series |
Wilde |
The Selfish Giant |
Core Reading List for E Forms |
Aesop |
Fables |
Anholt |
Cinderboy and others in the series |
Banks |
The Indian in the Cupboard |
Bawden |
Keeping Henry |
Child |
The Clarice Bean series |
Cole |
Astrosaurs series; Cows in Action series |
Cowell |
How To Train Your Dragon |
Dahl |
James and the Giant Peach |
Fine |
The Angel of Nitshill Road |
Hinton |
Beaver Towers |
Ibbotson |
The Secret of Platform 13 |
Johnson |
The Ghost Dog |
Kessler |
The Emily Windsnap series |
King |
Stig of the Dump |
King-Smith |
The Fox-Busters; The Hodgeheg |
Leeson |
Smart Girls; Tom’s Private War |
Longfellow |
Hiawatha’s Childhood |
McKay |
Charlie and the Great Escape series |
Melling |
The Goblins series |
Mongredien |
The Oliver Moon series |
Morpurgo |
The Butterfly Lion |
Morpurgo |
The Wreck of the Zanzibar |
Pullman |
The Firework Maker’s Daughter |
Riddell |
The Ottoline series |
Smith |
The One Hundred and One Dalmations |
Stanton |
The Mr Gum series |
Strong |
The Hundred- Mile-An-Hour Dog series |
Wilson |
Buried Alive |
Core Reading List for D Forms |
Aiken |
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase |
Alexander |
The Book of Three |
Blackman |
Thief |
Blade |
The Beast Quest series |
Burnford |
The Incredible Journey |
Chapman |
The Stardust series |
Crompton |
William books |
Cross |
The Demon Headmaster |
Dahl |
Matilda |
Di Terlizzi |
The Spiderwick Chronicles |
D’Lacey |
The Fire Series |
Donaldson |
The Princess Mirror-Belle series |
Fine |
Bill's New Frock |
Funke |
Igraine the Brave |
Gavin |
Grandpa Chatterjee |
Higson |
The Young Bond series |
Hunt |
Jack Stalwart Secret Agent series |
Hunter |
The Warrior Cat series |
King-Smith |
Martin’s Mice |
Lawrence |
The Roman Mystery series |
Lewis |
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
Lively |
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe |
Morpurgo |
The Story of Adolphus Tips; Kaspar, Prince of Cats |
Mould |
Something Wickedly Weird series |
Nolan |
Animal Rescue Stories |
Pearce |
Tom’s Midnight Garden |
Price |
Amazon Adventure and others in the series |
Sage |
The Magyk series |
Said |
Varjak Paw and others |
Seraillier |
The Silver Sword |
Stewart and Riddell |
Hugo Pepper |
Wilder |
Little House on the Prairie |
Wilson |
Hetty Feather |
Poetry Oxford |
A Third Book of Poetry |
Poetry Oxford |
Book of Animal Poems |
Poetry Oxford |
The Oxford Book of Story Poems |
Poetry Oxford |
The New Dragon Book of Verse |
Poetry Puffin |
I Like This Poem |
Core Reading List for C Forms |
Blackman |
Hacker |
Boyce |
Millions; Framed |
Cavendish |
The Lady Grace series |
Colfer |
The Artemis Fowl series |
Cooper |
Over Sea, Under Stone |
Dahl |
Boy |
Deary |
The Fire Thief series |
Doherty |
Children of Winter |
Foreman |
War Game |
Gardner |
I, Coriander |
Garner |
Elidor |
Gavin |
The Singing Bowls series |
Hoffman |
Stravaganza series |
Horowitz |
The Alex Rider series |
Ibbotson |
Journey to the River Sea; The Star of Kazan |
Kemp |
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler |
Landy |
The Skulduggery Pleasant series |
L'Engle |
A Wrinkle in Time |
Lee |
Anne Frank’s Story |
Mark |
Nothing To Be Afraid Of |
Maxwell |
Ring of Bright Water |
McCaughrean |
Peter Pan in Scarlet |
McEwan |
The Daydreamer |
McKay |
The Exiles |
Morpurgo |
Shadow; Robin Hood; The Elephant in the Garden |
Nimmo |
The Charlie Bone series |
O'Brien |
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH |
Palmer |
Football Academy series |
Paver |
Wolf Brother series |
Pearce |
Minnow on the Say |
Pratchett |
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents |
Price |
Amazon Adventure and others in the series |
Ransome |
Swallows and Amazons |
Reeve |
Fevercrumb and the Mortal Engine series |
Riordan |
The Percy Jackson series |
Rowling |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
Ryan |
Black Gold |
Sachar |
Holes |
Scholastic |
My Story series |
St John |
The Elephant’s Tale |
Stewart |
Beyond the Deep Woods – The Edge Chronicles |
Tolkien |
The Hobbit |
Wilkinson |
The Dragon Keeper series |
Poetry Benson |
this poem doesn’t rhyme |
Poetry Kingfisher |
Book of Children's Poetry |
Poetry Stuart-Clark |
Young Dragon Book of Verse |
Core Reading List for B Forms |
Aiken |
Midnight Is A Place |
Almond |
Skellig; My Name is Mina |
Ashley |
Johnnie's Blitz |
Ballard |
Empire of the Sun |
Blackman |
Pig-Heart Boy |
Boyne |
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas |
Bradford |
Young Samurai series |
Breslin |
Divided City |
Caveney |
Sebastian Darke series – Prince of Explorers |
Conan Doyle |
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
Cooper |
Victory |
Creech |
Walk Two Moons |
Cross |
Where I Belong |
Crossley-Holland |
Arthur, the Seeing Stone |
Cushman |
Catherine Called Birdy |
Delaney |
The Spooks series |
Dowswell |
Powder Monkey |
Durrell |
My Family and Other Animals |
Fine |
Flour Babies |
Forsyth |
The Shepherd |
Funke |
Inkheart; Inkdeath; Inkspell; Reckless |
Fynn |
Mister God, This is Anna |
Gallico |
The Snow Goose |
Golding |
The Cat Royal series |
Gordon |
The Tunnel series |
Grindley |
Spilled Water |
Holm |
I Am David |
Jacques |
The Redwall series |
Kerr |
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit |
Laird |
Lost Riders |
Magorian |
Goodnight Mister Tom |
Maxwell |
Ring of Bright Water |
Morpurgo |
Escape from Shangri-la; Out of the Ashes; War Horse |
Mulligan |
Trash |
Naidoo |
Journey to Jo'burg |
Nix |
The Keys to the Kingdom series |
Pullman |
Ruby in the Smoke; The Tin Princess |
Rodman |
Yankee Girl |
Sage |
Septimus Heap series |
Sedgwick |
Revolver; My Swordhand is Singing |
Singer |
Feather Boy |
Stevenson |
Treasure Island |
Sutcliff |
The Eagle of the Ninth |
Walden |
H.I.V.E. series |
Walsh |
A Parcel of Patterns |
Westall |
Blitzcat |
Wyndham |
The Day of the Triffids |
Core Reading List for A Forms |
Adams |
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
Almond |
Clay |
Asimov |
I, Robot |
Banks |
One More River |
Bateman |
SOS series Tusk |
Blackman |
Noughts and Crosses Saga |
Bradbury |
The Golden Apples of the Sun |
Cross |
Where I Belong |
Crossley-Holland |
Arthur Trilogy |
Cunxin |
Mao’s Last Dance |
Cushman |
Catherine Called Birdy |
Doherty |
The Snake-Stone |
D'Lacey |
Fly Cherokee, Fly |
Elliott |
Under A War-Torn Sky |
Fine |
The Tulip Touch |
Fletcher |
The Stone Heart Trilogy |
Frank |
The Diary of Anne Frank |
Hearn |
Tales of the Otori |
Hill |
The Woman in Black |
Howker |
The Nature of the Beast |
Laird |
Crusade |
Magorian |
A Spoonful of Jam |
Mah |
Chinese Cinderella |
Morpurgo |
Private Peaceful; The Kites Are Flying |
Naidoo |
The Other Side of Truth |
Ness |
The Knife of Never Letting Go |
Nicholson |
The Wind Singer Trilogy |
Nix |
Lirael, Sabriel, Abhorsen |
O'Brien |
Z for Zachariah |
Orwell |
Animal Farm |
Paulsen |
Hatchet |
Pratchett |
Discworld series |
Prowse |
The Revenge of the Praying Mantis |
Pullman |
His Dark Materials Trilogy |
Rees |
Witch Child |
Reeve |
Here Lies Arthur |
Robson |
Imperial Spy series |
Stevenson |
Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde |
Swindells |
Brother in the Land |
Taylor |
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry |
Tolkien |
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy |
Tomlinson |
The Forest Wife Trilogy |
Walsh |
Fireweed |
Wells |
The Time Machine |
Westall |
The Promise |
Wilde |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Wyndham |
Chocky |
Please click here to see a list of the books that Bryanston recommends to their first year pupils.