TKS Teachers’ Reading Picks
We asked our senior school teachers to recommend a good read and we were bowled over by the response. Some selected just one, whilst others could just not narrow their choices down that far. Here is the list:
| Staff member | Title | Author |
| Mr Barry | Red Storm Rising | Tom Clancy |
| The Hunt for Red October | Tom Clancy | |
| Mr Bell | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak |
| Works by | Simon Scarrow | |
| Miss Benz | Works by | Astrid Lindgren |
| Works by | Rafik Schami | |
| Mrs Binet | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ | Sue Townsend |
| Harry Potter novels | JK Rowling | |
| Dr Bril | The Aeneid | Virgil |
| Cranford | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| Greek Particles | JD Denniston | |
| Mr Chadwick | Boy | Roald Dahl |
| Bravo Two Zero | Andy McNabb | |
| Eragon | Christopher Paolini | |
| Papillon | Henri Charrière | |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | |
| Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom | |
| Mr Clowes | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak |
| Mr Colclough | Cloud Street | Tim Winton |
| Ice Station | Matthew Riley | |
| Kings in Grass Castles | Mary Durak | |
| Mr Curtois | Puckoon | Spike Milligin |
| Schindler’s Ark | Thomas Keneally | |
| The Great World | David Malouf | |
| Mrs Dean | The Power of One | Bryce Courtenay |
| Mr Dean | Angels & Demons | Dan Brown |
| Rev Edwards | The Everlasting God | D. Broughton Knox |
| To Serve Them All My Days | R.F. Delderfield | |
| MrsFalconer | Pompeii | Robert Harris |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |
| Spartan | Valerio Massimo Manfredi | |
| The Belgariad & Malloreon series | David Eddings | |
| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | |
| To Kill a Mocking Bird | Harper Lee | |
| Mr Felton | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| The Boy in Striped Pyjamas | John Boyne | |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | |
| To Kill a Mocking Bird | Harper Lee | |
| Mr Gordon | Poo Lorn of the Elephants | Reginald Campbell |
| Mr Green | Go ask Alice | Anonymous |
| Les Miserables | Victor Hugo | |
| Mrs Helleman | Short Stories | Alistair MacLeod |
| The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| Works by | Harlan Coben | |
| Emma | Jane Austen | |
| Mr Kelly | February Dragon | Colin Thiele |
| Mr Kitzinger | A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute |
| An Equal Music | Vikram Seth | |
| Captain Corelli’s Mandolin | Louis de Bernières | |
| Je voudrais que quelqu’un m’attende quelque part | Anna Gavalda | |
| La Sombra del Viento | Carlos Ruis Zafon | |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | |
| Mr Lyall | Catcher in th Rye | JD Salinger |
| To Kill a Mocking Bird | Harper Lee | |
| Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | |
| Mr Moulds | The Alchemist | Paul Coelho |
| Mrs Pagano | Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| Mr Phillips | The Fight | Norman Mailer |
| Mr Purser | Jitterbug Perfume | Tom Robbins |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | |
| Mr Rainey | A Horse of Air | Dal Stivens |
| Aesthetics (various titles) | Jerome Stolnitz | |
| Catch 22 | Joseph Heller | |
| Children Solve Problems | Edward de Bono | |
| Christabel (poetry) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |
| Coleridge (vol. 1): Early Visions | R. Holmes | |
| Skin and Other Stories | Roald Dahl | |
| Empty Raincoat | C Handy | |
| Endgame | Samuel Beckett | |
| Every Book It’s Reader | N. Basbane | |
| Fairy Tales | Brothers Grimm | |
| Hamlet | Shakespeare | |
| The Hunting of the Snark | Lewis Carroll | |
| Measure for Measure | Shakespeare | |
| Much Ado about nothing | Shakespeare | |
| Played Strong Done Fine | Jack Gibson | |
| The Birthday Party (drama) | Harold Pinter | |
| The Dragon Book of Verse | ||
| The Duchess of Malfi (play) | John Webster | |
| The Elephant | Slawomir Mrozek | |
| The Homecoming (drama) | Harold Pinter | |
| The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner (poetry) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |
| To Kill a Mocking Bird | Harper Lee | |
| Twelfth Night | Pict Shakespeare | |
| Waiting for Godot (drama) | Beckett | |
| Lyrics | Bob Dylan | |
| Lyrics | Neil Young | |
| Mr Ronzini | Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| Wild Swans | Jung Chang | |
| Works by | Matthew Riley | |
| Mr Ruddock | All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy |
| No Country for Old Men | Cormac McCarthy | |
| Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | |
| The Snow Leopard | Peter Matthiessen | |
| To Kill a Mocking Bird | Harper Lee | |
| Mr Sowden | Lord of the Rings | JRR Tolkein |
| Mr Talty | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey |
| Mrs Thomson | The French Lieutenant’s Woman | John Fowles |
| Sabriel | Garth Nix | |
| The Children of Violence series | Doris Lessing | |
| The Tivington Nott | Alex Miller | |
| The Go-between | LP Hartley | |
| The Glass Bead Game | Hermann Hesse | |
| Mr Tong | 1984 | George Orwell |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | |
| Mrs Trick | Captain Corelli’s Mandolin | Louis de Bernières |
| Mr Walkden-Brown | The Spy who came in from the cold | J le Carre |
| Mrs Walmsley | Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |
| Swiss Family Robinson | Johann David Wyss | |
| The Loved One | Evelyn Waugh | |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | |
| Mr Webb | Works by | Richard North Patterson |
| Works by | Iris Murdoch | |
| Works by | John Grisham | |
| Mr Wykes | The Secret People | John Beynon (John Wyndham) |
| Mr Yorston | Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
