These texts are not your core texts, nor are they your guided secondary reading. Rather, they are suggestions of what else you could dip your toe into to support your studies and understanding of your subjects.

It is by no means an exhaustive list; it should give you somewhere to start when faced with a whole world of further reading possibilities!

Happy reading!

 

Fiction we can all enjoy

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

In Memorandum by Alice Winn

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin 

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

Non-Fiction we can all learn from

Sapiens: A brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Educated by Tara Westover

Why we Sleep by Matthew Walker

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Start with Why by Simon Sinek

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Down and Out in London and Paris by H. G Wells

 

Subject Specific Readling List

Art

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

 

Biology

The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

 

Business Studies

Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg

The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford

 

Chemistry

Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik

The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Keen

 

Classics

Theogony by Hesiod

Mythos / Heroes/ Troy / Odyssey by Stephen Fry

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

Circe by Madeline Miller

The Iliad by Homer

The Cicero Trilogy (Imperium, Lustrum, Dictator) by Robert Harris

Rubicon by Tom Holland

SPQR by Mary Beard

 

Computer Science

The Code Book by Simon Singh

The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

 

Drama

An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavski

We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman

National Theatre Backstage Guide - Auditioning by Sam Stevenson

National Theatre Backstage Guide - Acting by Lucian Msamati

Getting Into Drama School: The Compact Guide by Nick Moseley 

 

English Literature

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Perfume by Patrick Süskind

I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith

We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson 

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman 

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. 

The Quiet American by Graham Green.  

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

 

Geography

There is no Planet B by Mike Berners-Lee

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall

Disaster by Choice: How our actions turn natural hazards into catastrophes (Hardcover) by Ilan Kelman

The Almighty Dollar: Follow the Incredible Journey of a Single Dollar to See How the Global Economy Really Works (Hardcover) by Dharshini David 

 

Graphics

A Designer's Art by Paul Rand

The Passport by Saul Steinberg

 

History

Postwar by Tony Judt

Dominion by Tom Holland

The Houses of History by Green & Troup

The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson

Normandy 44 by Tom Holland

Catastrophe by Max Hastings

Churchill by Andrew Roberts

The Making of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr

A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

The Mind of South Africa by Allistair sparks

 

Maths

The Music of Prime Numbers by Marcus du Sautoy

Fermat’s Last Theorem by Simon Singh

 

Media Studies

Mythologies by Roland Barthes

5 The Media Student’s Book

 

Music

A History of Western Music by Burkholder, Grout & Palisca

This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin

How Music Works by David Byrne

Photography

1001 Photographs You Must See Before You Die by Paul Lowe

On Photography by Susan Sontag

 

Physics

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

 

Politics

How Democracy Dies by Levitsky and Ziblatt

Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu and Robinson

The Political Animal: An Anatomy by Jeremy Paxman

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall

The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It by Owen Jones

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

 

Product Design

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

Hooked by Nir Eyal

Psychology

The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo

Behave by Robert Sapolsky

 

Sociology

The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills

Modernity and Self Identity by Anthony Gidden

 

Sport

The Sports Gene by David Epstein

The Champions Mind by Jim Afremow