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Posted on March 6th 2019
Orpington 100 - One Hundred Books to Enjoy
We're proud to announce the launch of the Orpington 100 - a list of 100 books that students can aim to read during their time at the Academy.
Including both contemporary fiction and classics, take a look at the books listed below and then choose which one to read first! Students taking up the challenge of reading all 100 books will gain hugely from the experience, whether reading for pure pleasure or to broaden their knowledge and literary horizons.
We'll be referring to the list in lessons and discussing books with students too, whenever we get the chance. So check out the list below and decide which one you will read next! Copies of all the books will be found in our school library.
The Orpington 100 list
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Book |
Author |
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A Bend in the River |
VS Naipaul |
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A Christmas Carol |
Charles Dickens |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events |
Daniel Handler |
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Anna Karenina |
Leo Tolstoy |
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Any Human Heart |
William Boyd |
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Atonement |
Ian McEwan |
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Beloved |
Toni Morrison |
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Between Shades of Gray |
Ruta Sepetys |
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Bleak House |
Charles Dickens |
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Brighton Rock |
Graham Greene |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
Roald Dahl |
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Charlotte’s Web |
EB White |
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Crime and Punishment |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Diary of a Wimpey Kid |
Jeff Kinney |
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant |
Anne Tyler |
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Dr Zhivago |
Boris Pasternak |
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Dracula |
Bram Stoker |
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Fantastic Mr Fox |
Roald Dahl |
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Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley |
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Gulliver’s Travels |
Jonathan Swift |
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Harry Potter series |
JK Rowling |
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Hidden Figures |
Margot Lee Shetterley |
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His Dark Materials trilogy |
Philip Pullman |
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I Capture the Castle |
Dodie Smith |
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I, Corriander |
Sally Gardner |
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Jane Eyre |
Charlotte Bronte |
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Les Miserables |
Victor Hugo |
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Lily Alone |
Jaqueline Wilson |
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Little Women |
Louisa May Alcott |
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Me Before You |
Jojo Moyes |
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Middlemarch |
George Eliot |
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Midnight's Children |
Salman Rushdie |
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Moby Dick |
Herman Melville |
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Mrs Dalloway |
Virginia Woolf |
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Nausea |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four |
George Orwell |
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Noughts and Crosses |
Malorie Blackman |
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Of Mice and Men |
John Steinbeck |
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Oliver Twist |
Charles Dickens |
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On the Road |
Jack Kerouac |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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Pigeon English |
Stephen Kelman |
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Poems of the Great War: 1914-1918 |
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Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austen |
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Rebecca |
Daphne Du Maurier |
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Refugee Boy |
Benjamin Zephaniah |
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Salt to the Sea |
Ruta Sepetys |
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Scoop |
Evelyn Waugh |
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Small Island |
Andrea Levy |
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Suite Francaise |
Irene Neirovsky |
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Swallows and Amazons |
Arthur Ransome |
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Terror Kid |
Benjamin Zephaniah |
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
Thomas Hardy |
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The 39 Steps |
John Buchan |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Mark Twain |
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The Alchemist |
Paul Coelho |
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The Big Sleep |
Raymond Chandler |
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The Book Thief |
Marcus Zusak |
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas |
John Boyne |
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The Catcher in the Rye |
JD Salinger |
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The Color Purple |
Alice Walker |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time |
Mark Haddon |
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The Diary of a Young Girl |
Anne Frank |
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The Golden Notebook |
Doris Lessing |
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The Great Gatsby |
F Scott Fitzgerald |
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The Handmaid's Tale |
Margaret Atwood |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
Douglas Adams |
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The Hobbit |
JRR Tolkien |
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The Hound of the Baskervilles |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
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The Hunger Games |
Suzanne Collins |
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
Brian Selznick |
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The Kite Runner |
Khaled Hosseini |
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The Life of Pi |
Yann Martel |
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
CS Lewis |
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The Lord of the Rings |
JRR Tolkein |
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The Moonstone |
Wilkie Collins |
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The Name of the Rose |
Umberto Eco |
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The Other Boleyn Girl |
Philippa Gregory |
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
Stephen Chbosky |
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The Portrait of a Lady |
Henry James |
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
Muriel Spark |
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The Red and Black |
Stendhal |
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One Day |
David Nicholls |
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
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The Stranger |
Albert Camus |
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The Three Musketeers |
Alexandre Dumas |
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The Tin Drum |
Gunter Grass |
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The Twits |
Roald Dahl |
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy |
John le Carre |
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To Kill a Mockingbird |
Harper Lee |
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Tom Jones |
Henry Fielding |
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Tracy Beaker |
Jaqueline Wilson |
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Under the Net |
Iris Murdoch |
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Utterly Me |
Clarice Bean |
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War Horse |
Michael Morpurgo |
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Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History |
Stephen J Gould |
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Wuthering Heights |
Emily Bronte |
