Reading is Power! During these times of school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, here's a list of favourite books to read as selected by Stratford TY students. So unplug, get out a book, relax and read!
Also check out great recommended reads from WorldBookDaySocial and the Great Reads Award as recommended by Irish School Librarians (Junior and Senior recommendations). For those of you who prefer to listen to books, Amazon have made their audibles collection completely free to access during these times.
Thanks to Ms Reynolds, Ms Kenny, the TYs and Student Council for their inputs.
Faraway Home by Marilyn Taylor
Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
Dunkirk
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
I was a boy in Belsen by Tomi Reichental
The Portrait of the Artist by James Joyce
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Any text by Jane Austen, George Eliot or the Bronte sisters!
Silas Marner by George Eliot
'Letters to a Young Poet' by Rainer Maria Rilke
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1984/Animal Farm by George Orwell
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
And then there were none by Agatha Christie
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Well of Loneliness by Radcliffe Hall
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
STAGS by M A Bennett
I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan
Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Veronica Decides to Die (by Jostein Gaarder)
Bruised by Siobhan Parkinson
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Rest of us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
Am I normal Yet? By Holly Bourne
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan
Ms Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson
Monsters by Emeral Fennell
The Book Thief by Markus Frank Zusak
Simon Vs the Homosapien Agenda
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The life of Pi by Yann Martel
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
The Catcher in the Rye (by J.D Salinger)
Panther in the Basement by Amos Oz
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeymoon
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Call of Cthluhu by HP Lovecraft
Casino Royale by Ian Flemming
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
Barrytown Trilogy’ (Roddy Doyle)
We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Outsiders by S. E Hinton
Argo by Matt Baglio
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton
20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Tangleweed and Brine by Deirdre Sullivan
It by Stephen King
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien
It's not yet Dark by Simon Fitzmaurice
A Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
The Cow Book by John Connolly
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique
Why be happy when you could be normal? By Jeanette Winterson
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Argo by Antonio Mendez
A Street Cat named Bob by James Bowen
2001 Space Odyssey
I Robot by Isaac Asimov
Neuromancer by Neil Gibson
The Giver
The Ones who walk away from Omelas (Science Fiction) short story Ursula K LeGuin
Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
The left hand of darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Dawn (Part 1 of Trilogy) by Octavia Butler
Nova by Samuel R. Delany
Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
Boycott by Colin Murphy
Burmese Days by George Orwell
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigerian setting)
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing (South African setting)
Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The White Tiger by Avavind Adiga
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
One Hundred years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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