Book recommendations from Bryanston
Bryanston recommends these books to their first year pupils:
A |
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Nicholas Adams |
The Horse Whisperer |
Richard Adams |
Plague Dogs / Watership Down |
I. Asimov |
The Foundation Trilogy |
B |
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H E Bates |
The Darling Buds of May |
Marjorie Blackman |
Noughts and Crosses |
Pierre Boulle |
Monkey Planet / Bridge Over the River Kwai |
John Boyne |
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas |
Ray Bradbury |
The Illustrated Man / The Day it Rained Forever |
Branfield |
Nancekuke |
Braithwaite |
To Sir with Love |
John Buchan |
The 39 Steps |
C |
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Raymond Chandler |
The Big Sleep |
Wilkie Collins |
The Moonstone |
Robert Cormier |
I am the Cheese |
D |
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Roald Dahl |
Boy |
Gerald Durrell |
My Family and Other Animals / The Drunken Forest |
F |
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Helen Forrester |
Tuppence to Cross the Mersey |
Anne Frank |
Diary of Anne Frank |
Michael Frayn |
Spies |
Frederick Forsyth |
The Day of the Jackal |
G |
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Paul Gallico |
The Snow Goose |
Leon Garfield |
Black Jack |
Alan Garner |
The Owl Service |
William Golding |
Lord of the Flies |
Graham Greene |
The Third Man |
Hannah Green |
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden |
Robert Graves |
Goodbye To All That |
Philippa Gregory |
The Other Boleyn Girl |
H |
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Helene Harff |
84, Charing Cross Road |
Joanne Harris |
Three Quarters of the Orange |
Ernest Hemingway |
The Old Man and the Sea |
James Herriot |
All Creatures Great and Small |
Susan Hill |
I’m the King of the Castle |
Barry Hines |
Kes |
Nick Hornby |
Slam |
J/K |
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Jerome K Jerome |
Three Men in a Boat |
Rudyard Kipling |
Kim |
L |
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Harper Lee |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
Laurie Lee |
Cider with Rosie |
M |
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James Vance Marshall |
Walkabout |
Daphne du Maurier |
Rebecca |
Margaret Mitchell |
Gone with the Wind |
O |
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O’Brien |
Z for Zachariah |
George Orwell |
Animal Farm |
P |
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Boris Pasternak |
Dr Zhivago |
Ellis Peters |
Brother Cadfael novels (detective stories set in C10th) |
Terry Pratchett |
The Hat Full of Sky |
Philip Pullman |
His Dark Materials / Ruby in the Smoke |
R |
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Lynne Reid-Banks |
The L-Shaped Room |
S |
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John Steinbeck |
The Grapes of Wrath |
David Storey |
The Changing Room |
Nevil Shute |
The Pied Piper |
T |
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J R R Tolkein |
The Hobbit |
Mark Twain |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
W |
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Jill Paton Walsh |
Fireweed |
H G Wells |
War of the Worlds |
T H White |
The Sword in the Stone |
John Wyndham |
The Day of the Triffids |