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EPA 50 Book Challenge

In addition to the Accelerated Reader programme, we are challenging students to read as many of our EPA 50 books as possible during their time at the academy.

The books have been selected by the academy to expand boundaries, enhance vocabulary, make students more knowledgeable and take them to the limits of their imagination.

Students can receive merit points for completing additional books:

  • 5 books – 10 merits and
  • 15 books – 15merits
  • 25 books – 50 merits
  • 30 books – 70 merits
  • Full EPA 50 – 100 merits

Key Stage 3 book list

  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  • Little Women - Louisa May Alcott 
  • Skellig - David Almond 
  • The Fire Eaters - David Almond 
  • Carrie's War - Nina Bawden 
  • The Wizard of Oz - Frank L. Baum
  • Thief! - Malorie Blackman 
  • Five on a Treasure Island - Enid Blyton
  • A Bear Called Paddington - Michael Bond
  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne 
  • Whispers in the Graveyard - Theresa Breslin 
  • The Bunker Diary - Kevin Brooks
  • The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 
  • Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism - Georgie Byng 
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 
  • Al Capone Does My Shirts - Gennifer Choldenko 
  • The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho 
  • Cosmic - Frank Cottrell Boyce 
  • Millions - Frank Cottrell Boyce
  • The Unforgotten Coat - Frank Cottrell Boyce
  • The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
  • Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
  • Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
  • The Seeing Stone - Kevin Crossley - Holland 
  • Boy - Roald Dahl
  • The Spook’s Apprentice - Joseph Delaney
  • A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
  • A Dog Called Grk - Josh Doder
  • A Greyhound of a Girl - Roddy Doyle
  • Small Change for Stuart - Lissa Evans
  • Moonfleet - John Meade Falkner
  • How to Write Really Badly - Anne Fine
  • The More the Merrier - Anne Fine
  • The Tulip Touch - Anne Fine
  • The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
  • Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
  • Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
  • The Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke
  • Coraline - Neil Gaiman
  • Once - Morris Gleitzman
  • Two Weeks with the Queen - Morris Gleitzman
  • Diamond of Drury Lane - Julia Golding
  • The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
  • The Midnight Zoo - Sonya Hartnett
  • Hoot - Carl Hiaasen
  • Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz
  • Point Blanc - Anthony Horowitz
  • The Switch - Anthony Horowitz
  • Journey to the River Sea - Eva Ibbotson
  • The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
  • Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia - C.S. Lewis
  • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis
  • The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis
  • The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis
  • The Magician’s Nephew - C.S. Lewis
  • The Last Battle - C.S. Lewis
  • The Call of the Wild - Jack London
  • Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian
  • The Death Defying Pepper Roux - Geraldine McCaughrean
  • Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
  • Kensuke's Kingdom - Michael Morpurgo
  • King of the Cloud Forests - Michael Morpurgo
  • My Friend Walter - Michael Morpurgo
  • Out of the Ashes - Michael Morpurgo
  • Private Peaceful - Michael Morpurgo
  • Shadow - Michael Morpurgo
  • War Horse - Michael Morpurgo
  • The Other Side of Truth - Beverly Naidoo
  • The Ask and the Answer - Patrick Ness
  • The Railway Children - Edith Nesbit
  • The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
  • Monsters of Men - Patrick Ness
  • Wolf Brother - Michelle Paver
  • Spirit Walker - Michelle Paver
  • Tom’s Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce
  • Johnny and the Bomb - Terry Pratchett
  • Nation - Terry Pratchett
  • The Firework – Maker’s Daughter - Philip Pullman
  • The Ruby in the Smoke - Philip Pullman
  • Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
  • The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
  • The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
  • Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
  • Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
  • Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse - Rick Riordan
  • Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth - Rick Riordan
  • Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian - Rick Riordan
  • Witch Child - Celia Rees
  • Larklight - Philip Reeve
  • Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone - J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets -  J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
  • Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes - Louis Sachar
  • Holes - Louis Sachar
  • A Boy and a Bear in a Boat - Dave Shelton
  • Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
  • The Amulet of Samarkand - Jonathon Stroud
  • The Arrival - Shaun Tan
  • Creature of the Night - Kate Thompson
  • The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ - Sue Townsend
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
  • Mr. Stink - David Walliams
  • Ratburger - David Walliams
  • The Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Four Children and It - Jacqueline Wilson
  • My Sister Jodie - Jacqueline Wilson
  • The Story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
  • The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
  • Face - Benjamin Zephaniah
  • Refugee Boy - Benjamin Zephaniah

Key Stage 4 book list

  • The Blind Assassin - Margaret Attwood
  • The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Attwood
  • Northanger Abbey - Jane Austin
  • Pride and Prejudice -  Jane Austin
  • The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
  • Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières
  • Unheard Voices -  Malorie Blackman
  • Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
  • Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
  • The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë  
  • The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
  • The 4:50 from Paddington - Agatha Christie
  • City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare
  • City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
  • City of Glass - Cassandra Clare
  • Matched - Ally Condie
  • Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
  • David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  • Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
  • Middlemarch - George Eliot
  • The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
  • Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
  • The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Spies - Michael Frayn
  • Howard’s End - E. M. Forster    
  • A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
  • A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
  • Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  • The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  • Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  • Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
  • Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
  • Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
  • I'm the King of the Castle - Susan Hill
  • Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
  • Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  • Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Dubliners - James Joyce
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
  • Pigeon English - Stephen Kelman
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
  • The Shining - Stephen King
  • The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
  • To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  • Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee
  • A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas
  • A Court of Mist and Fury - Sarah J. Maas
  • A Court of Wings and Ruin - Sarah J. Maas
  • A Court of Frost and Starlight - Sarah J. Maas
  • Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
  • Atonement - Ian McEwan
  • Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
  • Firesong - William Nicholson
  • Slaves of Mastery - William Nicholson
  • The Wind Singer - William Nicholson
  • Animal Farm - George Orwell
  • 1984 - George Orwell
  • The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  • Clockwork - Philip Pullman
  • Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
  • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
  • Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
  • Blood Brothers - Willy Russell
  • Agent 21: Deadfall - Chris Ryan
  • Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
  • Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  • King Lear - William Shakespeare
  • Macbeth - William Shakespeare
  • The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
  • Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
  • Othello - William Shakespeare
  • Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
  • Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
  • Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  • Touching the Void - Joe Simpson
  • I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
  • East of Eden - John Steinbeck
  • The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  • Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson 
  • Dracula - Bram Stoker
  • Room 13 - Robert Swindells
  • Stone Cold - Robert Swindells
  • War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  • The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
  • Oranges are not the only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
  • Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
  • The Book Thief - Markus Zusak