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The 50 Reading Challenge
Reading is the gateway to every subject in school, but more than that, it is the gateway to a world of imagination, learning, growth and experience.
Without an excellent standard of literacy, it is proven that students struggle to access lessons, curriculum and exams but more importantly, they are missing out on a whole world of incredible stories, and fascinating characters.
That is why we at Nuneaton all students take part in the reading challenge: to read 50 of the best books ever written before you leave in year 11.
Will you win an award?
10 books read? – Bronze award
25 books read? – Silver award
50 books read? – Gold award
50 Book Challenge books:
Year 7
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Harry Potter |
JK Rowling |
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Romeo and Juliet |
William Shakespeare |
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Treasure Island |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Alice in Wonderland |
Lewis Carrol |
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Divergent |
Veronica Roth |
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The Hunger Games |
Suzanne Collins |
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The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Hodgson Burnett |
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The Hobbit - J. R |
R. Tolkien |
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Wind in the Willows |
Kenneth Grahame |
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A Monster Calls |
Patrick Ness |
Year 8
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The Chrysalids |
John Wyndham |
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The Giver |
Lois Lowry |
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Dune |
Frank Herbert |
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Lord of the Rings |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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The Fault in our Stars |
John Green |
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Of Mice and Men |
John Steinbeck |
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Lord of the Flies |
William Golding |
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A MidsummerNight's Dream |
William Shakespeare |
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Gulliver's Travels |
Jonathan Swift |
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Little Women |
Louisa May Alcott |
Year 9
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Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
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1984 |
George Orwell |
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The History of Bees |
Maja Lunde |
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Sherlock Holmes |
Conan Doyle |
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I Am Legend |
Richard Matheson |
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To Kill A Mockingbird |
Harper Lee |
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Wonder |
J. Palacio |
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Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley |
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To The Lighthouse |
Virginia Woolf |
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Fahrenheit 451 |
Ray Bradbury |
Year 10
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Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austin |
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The Great Gatsby |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Oscar Wilde |
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Dracula |
Bram Stoker |
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Jane Eyre |
Charlotte Brontë |
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Jekyll and Hyde |
Louis Stevenson |
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Great Expectations |
Charles Dickens |
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Rebecca |
Daphne du Maurier |
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Wuthering Heights |
Emily Brontë |
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The Time Travellers Wife |
Audrey Niffenegger |
Year 11
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The Kite Runner |
Khaled Hosseini |
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Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
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Never Let Me Go |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
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The Children of Men |
P. D. James |
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The Catcher in the Rye |
J. D. Salinger |
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The Road |
Cormac McCarthy |
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The Colour Purple |
Alice Walker |
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The Shining |
Stephen King |
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Atonement |
Ian McEwan |
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The Handmaid's tale |
Margaret Atwood |
