KS3

Here is a list of suggested reads: 

• S.T.A.G.S - M.A Bennett 
• Noughts & Crosses - Malorie Blackman 
• To Kill a Kingdom - Alexandra Christo 
• One - Sarah Crossan 
• A Good girl’s guide to Murder - Holly Jackson 
• A Million to one - Adiba Jaigirder 
• Letters to the Lost - Brigid Kemmerer 
• Every Day - David Levithan 
• More Than This - Patrick Ness 
• Wonder - RJ Palacio 
• Ghost Boys - Jewell Parker Rhodes 
• Scythe - Neal Shusterman 
• Everything Everything - Nicola Yoon 
• Goodbye Days - Jeff Zentner 
• The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak 

KS4

Here is a list of suggested reads  

• Where Sleeping Girls Lie – Faridah Abike-lyimide 
• Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo 
• The Places I’ve Cried in Public – Holly Bourne 
• Wranglestone – Darren Charlton 
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky 
• Meat Market – Juno Dawson 
• After the Fire – Will Hill 
• The Outrage – William Hussey 
• Moxie – Jenifer Matthieu 
• I’ll Give You the Sun – Jandy Nelson 
• Only Ever Yours – Louise O’Neill 
• Wilder Girls – Rory Power 
• What Kind of Girl – Alyssa Scheinmel 
• Sadie – Courtney Summers 
• House of Hollow – Krystal Sutherland 

KS5

Here is a list of suggested reads  

• The Handmaids Tale – Margaret Attwood 
• Pretending – Holly Bourne 
• Magpie – Elizabeth Day 
• This is How You Lose the Time War – Amal El-Mohtar 
• Girl, Woman, Other – Bernadine Evaristo 
• Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus 
• How to Stop Time – Matt Haig 
• The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith 
• A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini 
• The House in the Cerulean Sea – TJ Klune 
• One Day – David Nicholls 
• Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 
• My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell 
• White Teeth – Zadie Smith
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin

Health and Wellbeing

Here is a list of suggested reads  

• Am I Normal Yet? - Holly Bourne 
• Toffee - Sarah Crossan 
• Clean - Juno Dawson 
• Dancing at the Pity Party - Tyler Feder 
• The Eternal Return of Clara Hart - Louise Finch 
• The Space Between - Meg Grehan 
• The Midnight Library - Matt Haig 
• When We Collided - Emery Lord 
• A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness 
• All the Bright Places - Jennifer Niven 
• Jessica’s Ghost - Andrew Norris 
• Asking for It - Louise O’Neill 
• What Kind of Girl - Alyssa Scheinmel 
• Jemima Small vs the Universe - Tamsin Winter 
• I Am change - Suzy Zail 

Characters with SEND

Here is a list of suggested reads  

• A Taxonomy of Love - Rachael Allen 
• A Different Sort of Normal - Abigail Balfe 
• A Quiet Kind of Thunder - Sara Barnard 
• El Deafo - Cece Bell 
• Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution - Kacen Callender 
• Frankie’s World - Aoife Dooley 
• The First Thing About You - Chaz Hayden 
• Not if I Can Help It - Carolyn Mackler 
• A Kind of Spark - Elle McNicoll 
• Show Us who You Are - Elle McNicoll 
• Wonder - RJ Palacio 
• The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh - Helen Rutter 
• Can You See Me? - Libby Scott 
• Spectrums - Maxfield Sparrow 
• Wired Differently - Joe Wells 

Dyslexia Friendly

Here is a list of suggested reads  

• Know My Place – Eve Ainsworth 
• What Magic is This? – Holly Bourne 
• Thicker Than Water – Anne Cassidy  
• Letting Go – Cat Clarke 
• The Disconnect – Keren David 
• Grave Matter – Juno Dawson 
• At the World’s End – Catherine Fisher 
• Jet Black Heart – Teresa Flavin 
• The Climbers – Keith Gray 
• Run Wild – Gill Lewis 
• Trapped – Sophie McKenzie 
• Welcome to Camp Killer – Cynthia Murphy 
• Shadow Girl – Sally Nicholls 
• Seven Ghosts – Chris Priestley 
• A Sudden Storm – Bali Rai 

LGBT+

Here is a list of suggested reads  

• The Black Flamingo – Dean Atta 
• Cinderella is dead – Kalynn Bayron 
• Felix Ever After – Kacen Callender 
• What’s the T – Juno Dawson 
• Queerly Autistic – Erin Ekins 
• The Deepest Breath – Meg Grehan 
• The Outrage – William Hussey 
• The Henna Wars – Adiba Jaigirder 
• Queerbook – Malcolm McKenzie 
• Like a Love Story – Abdi Nazemian 
• Heartstopper – Alice Oseman 
• Queer There and Everywhere – Sarah Prager 
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Saenz 
• More Happy Than Not – Adam Silvera 
• Proud – Various Authors 

Culturally Diverse

Here is a list of suggested reads  

• Ace of Spades – Faridah Abike-lyimide 
• The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo 
• Asha and the Spirit Bird – Jasbinder Bilan 
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race – Reni Eddo Lodge 
• The Black Kids – Christine Hammonds Reed 
• And the Stars Were Burning Brightly – Danielle Jawando 
• Safiyyah’s War – Hiba Khan 
• Zara Husaain is Here – Sabina Khan 
• Ghost Boys – Jewell Parker Rhodes 
• Oxygen Mask – Jason Reynolds 
• The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas 
• The Sun is Also a Star – Nicola Yoon 
• I Am Malala – Malala Yousafzai 
• Windrush Child – Benjamin Zephaniah 
• Fight Back – A M Dassu 

Poetry and Novels

Here is a list of suggested reads  

• Clap when You Land – Elizabeth Acevedo 
• The Black Flamingo – Dean Atta 
• Everything all at Once -  Steven Camden 
• Moonrise – Sarah Crossan 
• Three Things I know are True – Betty Culley 
• The Final Year – Matt Goodfellow
• The Deepest Breath – Meg Grehan 
• Milk and Honey – Rupi Kaur 
• The Sun and Her Flowers – Rupi Kaur 
• Run Rebel – Manjeet Mann 
• Gloves Off – Louisa Reid 
• Long Way Down – Jason Reynolds 
• Punching the Air – Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam 
• Hold Your Own – Kae Tempest 
• Somebody Give his Heart a Pen – Sophie Thakur