Recommended reading for Years 11 to 13, with an emphasis on Reading for Pleasure, for the 2026/27 academic year.
Year 11-13 (age 15-18): 48 books, including Persepolis I and II, Beloved and Beautiful Broken Things.
Last updated 28 August 2026
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Persepolis I and II
Marjane Satrapi
Paperback
In Stock
£11.69 £12.99
Beloved
Toni Morrison
£8.99 £9.99
Beautiful Broken Things
Sara Barnard
Not Available
Nettle
Bex Hogan
£8.09 £8.99
The Boy Lost in the Maze
Joseph Coelho
Glasgow Boys
Margaret McDonald
A Flood of Memories
Nadia Mikail
You Think You Know Me
Ayaan Mohamud
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
1984
George Orwell
£6.29 £6.99
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
£9.89 £10.99
You Could Be So Pretty
Holly Bourne
Asking For It
Louise O'Neill
The Great Godden
Meg Rosoff
£7.19 £7.99
The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks
There Will be Lies
Nick Lake
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
Saint Death
Marcus Sedgwick
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie
Monsters
Emerald Fennell
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult
Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
Flowers in the Attic
Virginia Andrews
When Mr Dog Bites
Brian Conaghan
Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur
Promise Boys
Nick Brooks
The Cats We Meet Along the Way
Junk 25th Anniversary Edition
Melvin Burgess
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
Little Bang
Kelly McCaughrain
The Things We Leave Behind
Clare Furniss
Not Like Other Girls
Meredith Adamo
Young Gothic
M.A. Bennett
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now
Jason Reynolds
Almost Nothing Happened
Of Flame and Fury
Mikayla Bridge
The Heirs
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Wearing My Mother's Heart
Sophia Thakur
The Boy I Love
William Hussey
Not Going to Plan
Tia Fisher
Noughts & Crosses
Malorie Blackman
Hardback
£18.00 £20.00
Last One To Die
Cynthia Murphy
Day of Now
Miranda Reason
£15.29 £16.99
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera
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