Additional Reading

As a Sixth Form we want to encourage our students to become engrossed in their learning and find a love of developing their knowledge.

With this in mind, please see an additional reading list below that our subjects believe can promote a love of knowledge for students.

Many of these books will be found in our library, available for all students to borrow at any time.

Art	History of Art a Students Guide The shock of the New: art and the Century of change' by Robert Hughes
Biology	Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene The Blind Watchmaker. Nessa Carey: Hacking the Code of Life Nick Lane: Power, sex, suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of life. Yuval Noah Harari:: A brief history of humankind Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. Barry Gibb: The Rough Guide to the Brain Adam Rutherford: A brief history of everyone who ever lived Lewis Wolpert: How we live and why we die: The secret lives of cells.
Business Studies	Rich Dad Poor Dad Robert Kyosaki and Sharon Lechter Shoe Dog Phil Knight Richard Branson Autobiography Edexcel AS/A Level Textbook D Hall et al 5th Edition
Chemistry	The Science of Everyday Life: Why Teapots Dribble, Toast Burns and Light Bulbs Shine Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements
Computer Science	Computational Fairy Tales Jeremy Kubica OCR Computer Science for A and A Level
Drama	Yerma - Lorca Antigone – Sophocles An Actor Prepares - Stanislavski
Design and Technology	AQA A Level Design and Technology Essential Maths skills for A level DT 100 Ideas that changed design Making It – Manufacturing techniques for product design – Chris Lefteri Product Design in the sustainable era – Julius Wiedemann
Economics	Why Nations Fail: Darren Acemoglu The Undercover Economist: Tim Harford How to make the world add up: Tim Harford
English	Frankenstein', Mary Shelley and Andrew Green's guide to Frankenstein Never Let Me Go', Kazuo Ishiguro Streercar Named Desire', Tennessee Williams and York Notes A Level study guide 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. King Lear', Shakespeare and Philip Allan's A level guide to King Lear The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse' and Liz Croft 'Victorian Verse'. Poems of the Decade', an 'Understanding Poems of the Decade for A Level Edexcel
Finance	LIBF CeFS & DipFS Financial Studies
French	L’Etranger – Albert Camus Calligrammes – Apollinaire Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac Contes de la Bécasse – Guy de Maupassa
Further Maths and Maths	How to Think like a Mathematician Kevin Houston (CUP, 2009) Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World Mariana Cook Alan Turing, the Enigma A. Hodges (Vintage, 2014) The Music of the Primes Marcus du Sautoy (Harper-Collins, 2003)
Geography	The Geography of Genius Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the world’s most unusual corners
History	The Tudor Century (I Dawson) England 1485-1603 (D Murphy) Rivalry and accord (J. Lowe/R. Pearce) The First World War: a short introduction (M Howard)
Law	The Secret Barrister ‘Stories of the Law and how it is broken’. By the Secret Barrister What About the Law? - Catherine Barnard, Janet O'Sullivan and Graham Virgo In Black and White by Alexandra Wilson The Rule of Law Tom Bingham Eve was Framed Helena Kennedy The Childrens Act Ian McEwan Fake Law The Secret Barrister Under the Wig William Clegg
Media	The Media Student's Book. Gill Branston and Roy Stafford The Story of Film: A concise history of film and an odyssey of international cinema. Mark Cousins Digital Culture: understanding new media. Glen Creeber and Royston Martin
Physics	Very Short Introduction series of books by Oxford University Press: Physics, Nuclear Physics, Radioactivity, Particle Physics, Quantum Physics, Astrophysics and The Laws of Thermodynamics. A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
Politics	Essentials of UK Politics and Government (Schindler) Pearson, 2021 Essentials of Political Ideas: For A- Level, (Heywood) 2018 UK Politics Annual Update (Gallop) 2021
Psychology	The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist Kerry Daynes Thinking, Fast and Slow: Daniel Kahneman K-Pax by Gene Brewer Chimp paradox by Steve Peters
Philosophy and Ethics	The Heart of the Buddhas Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh ‘Think’ by S Blackburn Ethics the basics by John Mizozni Sophies World by J Gaarder
Sociology	Chavs by Owen Jones Living Dolls by Natasha Walter "Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs”, Paul Willis "The McDonaldization of Society”, George Ritzer Criminology: The Essentials, James Treadwell
Health and Social Care	What to Expect when you're expecting by Heidi Murkoff The Positive birth book by Milli Hill This is going to hurt by Adam Kay The Fault in Our stars by John Green K-Pax by Gene Brewer Elizabeth is missing by Emma Healy
Enterprise	Steve Jobs – The exclusive bibliography Thrive (The third metric to success (Ariana Huffington)
Sport	Sport Science: A complete introduction Functional Anatomy for Sport and Exercise.