Reading for Pleasure
Here are suggestions for reading that you can complete for each of the subjects we offer:
Art
- Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevlier
- Lust for Life by Irving Stone
- Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
Criminology
- Peaky Blinders – The Real Story by Carl Chinn
- Talking with Serial Killers by Christopher Berry-Dee
- The Krays: The Final Word by James Morton
- The Prison Doctor by Dr Amanda Brown
- Written in Bone by Professor Sue Black
English
- Gothic - Dracula, Frankenstein, Edgar Allen Poe
- Dystopia - 1984, The Handmaid's Tale
- Young Adult - The Hunger Games, THUG
- Classic - Rebecca, Pride and Prejudice
- Memoir - Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Thriller and Mystery - Agatha Christie
Health and Social Care
- Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healy
- No child of mine by Susan Lewis
- I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman
- Savage Girls and Wild Boys by Michael Newton
- This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
- The Story of Baby P by Ray James
Maths
- Charlie Thorn and the last equation by Stuart Gibbs
- Genius, the game by Leopoldo Gout
- Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker
- Math Curse by Jon Scieszka
- The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Physical Education
- Gareth Thomas: Proud
- Nicole Cooke: The Breakaway
- Roy Keane: The Second Half
- Luis Suarez: Crossing the Line
- Tyson Fury: Behind the Mask
Psychology reads
- Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Bosse
- Fight Club by Chuck Palaniuk
- Girl, Interrupted by Gillian Flynn
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo
Science
- A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
- Excession by Ian Banks
- Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Host Paperback by Stephenie Meyer
- Me Before you by Jojo Moyes
- Use of Weapons by Iain Banks