Crime/Detective/Thriller

  1. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
  2. Buried Thunder – Tim Bowler
  3. Finding Jennifer Jones – Anne Cassidy
  4. Blood and Ink – Steven Davies
  5. We Were Liars – E. Lockhart

Science Fiction/Dystopian 

  1. Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman
  2. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
  3. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
  4. The Accidental Time Traveller – Janice MacKay
  5. The Hunger Games Series – Suzanne Collins
  6. 1984 – George Orwell
  7. The Iron Man – Ted Hughes
  8. The Demon Headmaster – Gillian Cross
  9. Gamer – Chris Bradford
  10. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
  11. The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
  12. Orphan Monster Spy – Matt Killeen
  13. War of the Worlds – H.G Wells
  14. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  15. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’Engle
  16. The Giver – Lois Lowry

Horror and Mystery

  1. Dracula – Bram Stoker
  2. Where I Belong – Gillian Cross
  3. Tyme’s End – B. R. Collins
  4. The Tulip Touch – Anne Fine
  5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
  6. A Dangerous Crossing – Jane Mitchell

Fantasy 

  1. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
  2. Thief of Time – Terry Pratchett
  3. Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
  4. Shadowmancer – G.P. Taylor
  5. Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling
  6. The Amber Spyglass – Phillip Pullman
  7. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  8. The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
  9. Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi
  10. Children of Virtue and Vengeance – Tomi Adeyemi
  11. The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
  12. The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling

Coming of Age

  1. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  2. The Weight of Water – Sarah Crossan
  3. The History of Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
  4. Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

Realistic Novels

  1. Jackdaw Summer – David Almond
  2. We Can Be Heroes – Catherine Burton
  3. My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece – Annabel Pitcher
  4. The Other Side of Truth – Beverley Naidoo
  5. The Bone Sparrow – Zana Fraillon
  6. Watch Us Rise – Renée Watson
  7. Offside – Ian McLaughlin
  8. Unstoppable – Dan Freedman
  9. Mosi’s War – Cathy MacPhail
  10. My Name is Parvana – Deborah Ellis
  11. Jasmine Skies – Sita Brahmachari
  12. Refugee Boy – Benjamin Zephaniah
  13. In the Sea there are Crocodiles – Fabio Geda
  14. Running on Empty – S.E. Durrant
  15. Mockingbird – Kathryn Erskine
  16. Wonder – R.J. Palacio

Adventure

  1. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
  2. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
  3. The Star of Kazan – Eva Ibbotson
  4. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
  5. Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy – Andy Briggs
  6. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
  7. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
  8. The Coral Island – R.M. Ballantyne

Historical

  1. Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
  2. The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
  3. The Book Thief – Marcus Zusak
  4. Carrie’s War – Nina Bawden
  5. I am David – Anne Holm
  6. Apache: Girl Warrior – Tanya Landman
  7. Inside Out and Back Again – Thanhha Lai
  8. Brown Girl Dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson
  9. Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry – Mildred Taylor
  10. A Tudor Turk – Rehan Khan

Romance/Tragedy

  1. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  2. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  3. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote

Non-Fiction

  1. Freakonomics – S.D. Levitt and S.J. Dubner
  2. Night – Elie Wiesel
  3. Why do Buses Always Come in Threes? – Rob Eastawayand Jeremy Wyndham
  4. The History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
  5. Great Mathematical Problems – Ian Stewart