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Reading Lists

Primary Reading List 
Middle School Reading List
Senior School Reading List
Fantasy Novels - Year 7
Reading Lists on different topics
Book Reviews
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The Children's Literature web Guide 
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Science Fiction and Fantasy for Children: An annotated bibliography for educators 
Books not to be missed! (by phase of development) 

Favourite teenage angst books
 
Reading (by themes)
Allen & Unwin Book Search (by themes)
Top 100 books in Australian educational libraries

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Children's Literature - Electronic journals and book reviews  
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Website
Literature (OzLit's collection of literary sites) 
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Read yourself RAW: comics, cartoons, illustrations

Middle School Reading List

Adams, Douglas  
Briggs, Raymond
Card, Orson Scott
Caswell, Brian


Christopher, John
Colfer, Eoin
Crichton, Michael
Dahl, Roald
Dixon, Franklin W.
Donals, Steve
Facey, A.B.

Gaarder, Jostein
Ghinsberg, Yossi
Gleitzman, Morris
Golding, William
Gwynne, Phillip
Hearn, Lian
Herrick, Steven
Herbert, Frank
Honey, Elizabeth
Horowitz, Anthony
Innocenti, Roberto
Jinks, Catherine
Jacques, Brian
Kelleher, Victor


Larkin, Phillip
Lawrence, Louise
Le Guin, Ursula
Lewis, C.S.
Lowry, Brigid
MacDonald, Caroline

Marsden, John

McRobbie, David
Metzenthen, David

Nilsson, Eleanor
O’Brien, Robert C.
Orr, Wendy 
Orwell, George
Paulsen, Gary
Peters, Ellis
Pratchett, Terry
Pullman, Phillip

Reeve, Philip
Reilly, Matthew

Rodda, Emily
Rowling, J.K.
Sachar, Louis
Scott, Hugh
Sutcliffe, Rosemary
Swindell, Robert
Tolkein, J.R.R.

Townsend, Sue
Verne, Jules
White, T.E.
Winton, Tim

*Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy (series)
When the wind blows
*Ender's game
Merryl of the stones
A Cage of butterflies  
any title
*Artemis Fowl (series)
*Prey, Airframe
(Year 9 and up)
any title
Hardy Boys
Orson Cart (series)
A fortunate life
Sophie’s world
*Lord of the flies
*Deadly unna?, Nukkin Ya
*Across the nightingale floor
Love ghosts and nose hair
Dune (series)
*Don't pat the wombat
*Stormbreaker (Alex Rider series)
Rose Blanche
Pagan (series)
*Redwall (series)
The Hunting of Shadroth
The Forbidden paths of Thual
*Master of the grove
*Taronga
Baily’s bones
*Ghostbyte
Children of the dust
The Wizard of Earthsea (series)
Narnia (series)
Guitar highway rose
The Lake at the end of the
world
Spider mansion
Tomorrow when the war began (series)
So much to tell you
Mandragora
Johnny Hart’s heroes
Gilbert's ghost train
House Guest
*Mrs Frisby and the rats of Nimh
Peeling the onion
*Animal Farm
any title
Brother Cadfael (series)
Johnny and the bomb
Clockwork
*His dark materials (series)
*Mortal engines
*Ice Station 
(Year 9 and up)
*Contest (Year 9 and up)
*Deltora Quest (series)
Harry Potter (series)
*Holes
Why weeps the Brogan?
The Eagle of the Ninth
Stone Cold
The Hobbit
The Lord of the rings
Adrian Mole (series)
any title
The once and future king (series)
*Lockie Leonard, human
torpedo (series)

Senior School Reading List
(contributed by Mrs Argall)

Author

Title

Twain, Mark

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Wharton, Edith

The Age of Innocence

Carroll, Lewis

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Remarque, Erich Maria

All Quiet on the Western Front

Orwell, George

Animal farm

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Chopin, Kate

The Awakening

Plath, Sylvia

The Bell Jar

Huxley, Aldous

Brave New World

Salinger, J.D.

The Catcher in the Rye

Walker, Alice

The Color Purple

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Brothers Karamazov

Hemingway, Ernest

The Old Man and The Sea
A Farewell to Arms
The Sun Also Rises
Death in the Afternoon
For Whom The Bell Tolls

Shelley, Mary

Frankenstein

Steinbeck, John

Grapes of Wrath
Cannery Row
East of Eden

Dickens, Charles

Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities
A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
Little Dorrit
Hard Times
Oliver Twist

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Great Gatsby

Swift, Jonathan

Gulliver's travels

Conrad, Joseph

Heart of Darkness
Nostromo
Victory

Bronte, Charlotte

Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily

Wuthering Heights

Golding, William

Lord of the Flies

Elliot, George

The Mill on the Floss

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera

Forster, E.M.

A Passage to India
Where Angels Fear To Tread
A Room With A View
Howard’s End

Joyce, James

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Dubliners
Ulysses

Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice
Northanger Abbey
Emma
Sense and Sensibility
Mansfield Park
Persuasion

Defoe, Daniel

Robinson Crusoe

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The Scarlet Letter

Lawrence, D.H.

Sons and Lovers
St Mawr
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Aaron’s Rod
The Rainbow

Camus, Albert

The Outsider

Hesse, Herman

Steppenwulf

Byatt, A.S.

Possession
The Biographer’s Tale

Rhys, Jean

Wide Sargasso Sea

Hardy, Thomas

Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Under The Greenwood Tree
Far From The Madding Crowd
The Woodlanders
Jude The Obscure

Woolf, Virginia

To the Lighthouse
Mrs Dalloway
The Waves
Orlando

James, Henry

The Turn of the Screw
A Portrait of A Lady

de Bernieres, Louis

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Calvino, Italo

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller

Heller, Joseph

Catch 22

Winton, Tim

Dirt Music
Cloudstreet

Ondaatje, Michael

In The Skin of a Lion
Anil’s Ghost
The English Patient

Gaarder, Jostein

Sophie’s World

Lee, Harper

To Kill A Mockingbird

Atwood, Margaret

The Handmaid’s Tale
The Robber Bride
Cat’s Eye
The Blind Assassin
Alias Grace

Modjeska, Drusilla

The Orchard

Malouf, David

The Great World
Johnno
An Imaginary Life
Remembering Babylon

Ishiguro, Kazuo

The Remains of the Day
Pale View of Hills
An Artist of the Floating World

Carey, Peter

Oscar and Lucinda
Bliss
Jack Maggs
True History of the Kelly Gang

Dumas, Alexandre

The Count of Monte Cristo

Greene, Graham

The Heart of the Matter
The Quiet American
The End of the Affair
The Power and the Glory

Guterson, David

Snow Falling on Cedars

Poe, Edgar Allen

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Tolstoy, Leo

Anna Karenina
War and Peace

Hugo, Victor

Les Miserables
Hunchback of Notre Dame

White, Patrick

Voss
The Tree of Man

Fowles, John

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Frazier, Charles

Cold Mountain

Hughes, Robert

The Fatal Shore

 

Fantasy Novels – Year 7

Adams, Richard
Anthony, Piers
Banks, Lynne Reid
Brooks, Terry
Carmody, Isobelle

 

 

Caswell, Brian
Colfer, Eoin
Cooper, Susan
Croggon, Alison
Crossley-Holland, Kevin
Dahl, Roald
Eddings, David
Feist, Raymond

 
Forsyth, Kate
Funke, Cornelia
Gaarder, Jostein

Gleitzman, Morris
Herbert, Frank
Jacques, Brian
Jones, Diana Wynne
Kelleher, Victor

 

 

Jordan Robert
L’Engle, Madeleine
Larkin, Phillip
Lawhead, Stephen
Le Guin, Ursula
Lewis, C.S.
Luckett, Dave
McKinley, Robin
Nicholson, William
Nix, Garth

O’Brien, Robert C.
Park, Ruth
Pratchett, Terry
Pullman, Phillip



Pierce, Tamora

 

 



Rodda, Emily
Rowling, J.K.
Rubinstein, Gillian

 

Rushby, Pamela
Snicket, Lemony
Tolkien, J.R.R.

  White, T.E.

Watership Down
Xanth series
Indian in the cupboard series
Shannara series
The Obernewtyn Chronicles
The Gateway Trilogy
Scatterlings
Greylands
The gathering
Merryl of the stones
Artemis Fowl series
The dark is rising series
The gift
Arthur: The seeing stone
The witches
The Belgariad series
The magician
Silverthorn
Darkness at Sethanon
The Witches of Eileanan series; Dragonclaw
The thief lord
The Christmas mystery; The solitaire mystery;
Through a glass darkly
Toad Rage
Dune series
Redwall series
Chrestomanci series
The hunting of Shadroth
The forbidden paths of Thual
Master of the grove
Taronga
Earthsong
Wheel of Time series
A wrinkle in time
Ghostbyte
Arthur; Merlin; Taliesin
Wizard of Earthsea series
The Narnia series
Tenabran Trilogy – A dark winter
Beauty; The blue sword
Windsinger; Slaves of the mastery
Lirael ; Sabriel ; Abhorsen
The Seventh Tower series
Mrs Frisby and the rats of Nimh
Playing Beatie Bow
Discworld series
His dark materials series
Northern lights
The subtle knife
The amber spyglass
Clockwork
Song of the lioness quartet
Circle of magic series
The circle opens series
Protector of the small series
The immortals series
Rowan of Rin series
Deltora Quest series
Harry Potter series
Space demons
Galaxarena
Skymaze
Circles of stone
Series of unfortunate events
The hobbit
Lord of the Rings
The once and future king
Sword in the stone

 


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