Literacy

Corpus Christi Literary Canon

The ‘Corpus Christi Literary Canon’ consists of a list of texts that you should aim to read before you leave school.

Some of these texts will be available in the school library and all of them will be available from any Cardiff Library. Some of these texts will be read in class, but you are expected to read most of them on your own.

Once you have completed a text, email a brief review to Kate.Saleh@corpuschristihigh.school

Class Charts points will be given for each review received.

The list of texts will be reviewed throughout the year and some changes will be made. The most up-to-date list will always be available on the school website.

1. The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
2. The Famous Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton
3. Danny, Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
4. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
5. BFG by Roald Dahl
6. Matilda by Roald Dahl
7. The Twits by Roald Dahl
8. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
9. Fantastic Mr Fox by Rolad Dahl
10. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
11. The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams
12. Charlotte’s Web by E.B White
13. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
14. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
15. The Story of Tracey Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
16. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
17. Skellig by David Almond
18. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
19. The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
20. Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden
21. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
22. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
23. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
24. Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
25. Artemis Fowl by Eion Colfer
26. Stormbreaker by Anthony Horrowitz
27. Face by Benjamin Zephaniah
28. Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
29. Windrush Child- Benjamin Zephaniah
30. Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
31. The Owl Service by Alan Garner
32. Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
33. Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
34. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
35. Watership Down by Richard Adams
36. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rolwing
37. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
38. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
39. Wonder by R.J. Palacip
40. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
41. The Diary of Anne Frank
42. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
43. Stone Cold  by Robert Swindells
44. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
45. Animal Farm by George Orwell
46. About a Boy by Nick Hornby
47. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
48. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
49. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
50. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
51. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
52. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
53. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
54. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
55. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
56. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
57. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
58. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
59. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
60. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
61. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
62. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
63. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
64.  Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
65. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
66. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
67. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
68. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
69. Heroes
70. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
71. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
72. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
73. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
74. Beloved by Toni Morrison
75. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
76. The Hobbit by JR Tolkien
77. The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
78. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
79. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
80. Dracula by Bram Stoker