The Autobiography of Henry VIII. Hilary Mantell. Wolf Hall. C. J. Sansom.
Shardlake Novels eg. Dissolution. Geography. Rozens. Floods, when disasters
strike.
Haileybury
Sixth Form Preparation Reading & Viewing List
Welcome The Sixth Form at Haileybury provides a stimulating and friendly environment in which you can continue your academic education beyond I/GCSE examinations. The school offers a real breadth of choice with the academic provision encompassing the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme and A Levels but both require a more developed and ambitious approach to learning. In the Sixth Form, as Haileyburians, you will undoubtedly benefit from the expertise of highly qualified academic staff and the facilities available to support your studies. The Sixth Form is very much a staging post between the largely directed education of the GCSE years and the independent learning that will be undertaken at university. Within a context where appropriate direction is available, Haileybury Sixth Formers can develop the attitudes and skills to enable you to learn on your own. Independent study and intellectual curiosity are qualities that will serve you well both at school and beyond It is absolutely essential that as pupils in the Sixth Form you enjoy your academic work for its own sake. Sixth Form study, whether for A Levels or the IB Diploma, provides a passport to university. But that passport will carry far greater weight if it is imprinted with a genuine desire to learn. With this in mind we very much hope that you will take advantage of a lengthy summer break be it at home or in more exotic locations to engage in some preparatory reading for your Sixth Form studies. The books, TV programmes and films recommended by departments are neither compulsory nor exhaustive but should give you a flavour of what to expect in terms of subject matter and level of complexity, whilst sparking your interest in new and exciting material. You are of course not expected to read or view them all. I do hope however, you will dip your toe into the water and enjoy the experience of reading some really interesting material. If you have any queries or concerns about choosing from the list in terms of accessibility of areas of specific interest please do not hesitate to contact me or the relevant Head of department. I heartily recommend them to you.
Mr Simon R. Smith Director of Studies
Biology Ben Goldacre Matt Ridley Paul Colinvaux Richard Dawkins Steve Jones Jared Diamond
Bad Science (essential reading for all Sixth Form biologists) The Red Queen Genome - The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters
Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare The Blind Watchmaker In the Blood Guns, Germs and Steel
Chemistry RSC Sam Kean
Cutting Edge Chemistry The Disappearing Spoon
Magazines
New Scientist
Classical Civilisation For The Odyssey Nigel Spivey
Homer Odyssey (Penguin Translation) Songs on Bronze: The Greek Myths made real
For Women in Athens and Rome Euripides Aristophanes Aristophanes Susan Pomeroy For background James Renshaw Peter Jones
Medea (Penguin Translation) Lysistrata (Penguin Translation) The poet and the women in Frogs and other plays (Penguin Translation) Goddesses, whores, wives and slaves: women in Classical Antiquity In Search of the Greeks Vote for Caesar: How the ancient Greeks and Romans solved the problems of today
General Interest DVDs Rome (HBO series) Ancient Worlds: Richard Miles I, Claudius (BBC series) Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire I, Caesar The Collection
English Classic Works Austen Dickens Hardy D H Lawrence Shakespeare
Chaucer Marlowe Webster Milton Sterne Richardson Defoe Shelley Eliot Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte Stoker Wilde Conrad Joyce Twain Melville Poe James
Wharton Fitzgerald Hemingway Steinbeck
Selected Selected Selected Selected Selected
Works Works Works Works Works
Beowulf The Canterbury Tales Doctor Faustus The Duchess of Malfi The White Devil Paradise Lost The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Clarissa Robinson Crusoe Frankenstein Middlemarch Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Dracula The Picture of Dorian Gray Nostromo The Secret Agent Heart of Darkness Ulysses Huckleberry Finn Moby Dick Tales of Mystery and Imagination The Portrait of a Lady The Bostonians Washington Square The Turn of the Screw The Age of Innocence The Great Gatsby For Whom the Bell Tolls The Sun Also Rises The Old Man and the Sea East of Eden The Grapes of Wrath
Poetry Any selected works by Byron, Percy Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Browning, Tennyson, Yeats, TS Eliot, Auden Helpful critical/theoretical works: Robert Eagleton Terry Eagleton
Doing English Literary Theory
Sean McEvoy Jonathan Bate Fintan O'Toole David Lodge Stephen Fry Paul Muldoon
Shakespeare: The Basics The Genius of Shakespeare Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life The Art of Fiction The Ode Less Travelled The End of the Poem
Economics Steven Levitt Paul Collier
Superfreakonomics The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing
Magazines
The Economist
French A de Saint Exupéry A Begag Le Clézio Sartre Sempé/Goscinny Albert Camus Voltaire
Le Petit Prince Le gone du Chaâba La Saison des pluies Huis clos Les Aventures du Petit Nicolas L'Etranger Candide
Cinema Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources Etre et Avoir Amélie La Haine
History Nazi Germany Len Deighton Christabel Bielenburg Richard Evans
Winter Past is myself Power and Control
Cold War Isaacs and Downing John Lewis Gaddis John Le Carré Kim Philby
The Cold War The Cold War The spy who came in from the cold My Silent War
India George Macdonald Fraser Denis Judd
Flashman and the Great Game The Lion and the Tiger
Arab-Israeli Robert Fisk Channel 4 Drama Channel 4 Drama Susan Abulhawa
Great War The Prime The Promise Mornings in Jenin
China Jung Chang
Wild Swans
Tudors Philippa Gregory Margaret George, Hilary Mantell C. J. Sansom
The Other Boleyn Girl The Autobiography of Henry VIII Wolf Hall Shardlake Novels eg. Dissolution
Geography Rozens Hartman & Squires Shiles Cohen Patel Friedman Bolton Lins Harris Landes Goudie Holt-Jensen Hoskings Malthus Castellas Sobel Huntford Middleton Barbier Lovelock
Floods, when disasters strike There is no such thing as a natural disaster {New Orleans Flood} Tribes of the Orange Sun How many people can the Earth Support? Stuffed & Starved The World is Flat Poor Story Brick Lane Pompei The Wealth & Poverty of some nations The Students' Companion to Geography Geography: History & Concepts The Making of the English Landscape An Essay on the Principle of Population The Power of Identity Longtitude Scott & Amundsen The Global Casino Blueprint for a Green Economy Gaia Revenge of Gaia
Films & Documentaries Blue Gold: World Water Wars Rising Waves The Island Too Hot to Handle I am Legend Survivors {BBC} We Feed the World Blood Diamond City of Gold
The Full Monty
German Goethe Schiller Th. Mann Schnitzler Kästner Brecht: Böll Frisch
Faust, Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, Don Carlos or Maria Stuart, Die Buddenbrooks or Tod in Venedig. Der Reigen, Remarque: Im Westen nichts Neues Emil und die Detektive, Mutter Courage or Der kaukasische Kreidekreis, Dr Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen, Homo faber or Biedermann und die Brandstifter.
Greek Homer Nigel Spivey Christopher Logue Martin M Winkler Xenophon Mary Renault Stephen Pressfield
Songs on Bronze: The Greek Myths made real War Music Troy: from Homer's Iliad to Hollywood Epic The Persian Boy Gates of Fire: an epic novel of the battle of Thermopylae
background Donna Tartt Alain de Botton Peter Jones
The Secret History The Consolations of Philosophy Vote for Caesar: How the ancient Greeks & Romans solved the problems of today
Italian Umberto Eco Tobias Jones John Dickie Tim Parks
Il Nome della Rosa The Dark Heart of Italy The History of Cosa Nostra Italian Neighbours
Cinema Il Postino Cinema Paradiso La vita è bella Non ho paura
Latin Ted Hughes Charlotte Higgins Robert Harris Beard and Crawford Conn Iggulden & Steven Saylor Suetonius Richard Holland Virgil Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Peter Jones
Tales from Ovid Latin Love Lessons Imperium Lustrum Pompeii Rome in the Late Republic Any novels eg. Emperor Life of Nero in Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars Nero the man behind the Myth The Aeneid (Penguin Translation) Augustan Rome (Classical World Series) Vote for Caesar: How the ancient Greeks and Romans solved the problems of today
General Interest DVDs Murder in Rome I, Claudius Nero in Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire Augustus in I, Caesar: The Collection Cleopatra
Mathematics Fiction Doxiades, A Haddon Mark Harris Robert Dan Brown
Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s conjecture Logicomix (graphical novel) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. Enigma Digital Fortress
Non Fiction Eastaway, Robert Singh Singh Polya Gowers Timothy
Why Do Buses Come In Threes? The Code Book Fermat's Last Theorem How to Solve It A Very Short Introduction to Mathematics
Music Burkholder/Palisca/Grout ed. Sadie Nicholas Cook
A History of Western Music The Cambridge Music Guide Music: A Very Short Introduction
Howard Goodall Leonard Bernstein
Big Bangs: Five Musical Resolutions The Unanswered Question The Joy of Music
Philosophy Martin Cohen Jostein Gaarder Elizabeth Gilbert Thomas Nagel Jodi Picoult Paul Young
101 Ethics Problems 101 Philosophy Problems Sophie's World Eat, Pray, Love What Does It All Mean? My Sister's Keeper The Shack
DVDs
Deja Vu The Fountain Gattaca Inception The Matrix Trilogy Sliding Doors Vera Drake What Dreams May Come Physics Bruce Bassett & Ralph Edney Carlos I. Calle J.P. McEvoy & Oscar Zarate Larry Gonick & Art Huffman J E Gordon
Stephen Hawking William Rankin F.A.E. Pirani & Christien Roche Ziauddin Sardar & Iwona Abrams Joseph Schwartz & Michael McGuinness Magazines
Introducing Relativity Superstrings and Other Things: A Guide to Physics Introducing Quantum Theory Introducing Stephen Hawking Cartoon Guide to Physics Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall down The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor The Universe in a Nutshell Introducing Newton Introducing the Universe Introducing Chaos Introducing Einstein Scientific American New Scientist
Politics UK Peter Hennessy Dennis Kavanagh Anthony Seldon & Dennis Kavanagh Margaret Thatcher Anthony Seldon Jeffrey Archer Michael Dobbs USA Martin Walker Joe Klein Jon Micklethwaite Barack Obama John McCain Bob Woodward Hillary Rodham Clinton Anthony Bennett Mark Steyn George W Bush Sarah Palin
Political DVDs/Movies
The Hidden Wing The Prime Minister Consensus Politics The Power behind the Prime Minister The Major Effect The Downing Street Years Blair Effect First Among Equals The Fourth Estate House of Cards Final Cut Clinton - The President They Deserved Primary Colors The Right Nation: Why America is different The Audacity of Hope Faith of My Fathers Bush at War Living History The Presidency & Presidential Power America Alone Decision Points Going Rogue
Yes Prime Minister Series The West Wing Series JFK W Primary Colors The Manchurian Candidate Charlie Wilson's War Fahrenheit 911 Celsius 41.11
Psychology Geoff Rolls Nigel Benson
Classic Case Studies in Psychology Psychology A Graphic Guide To Your Mind And Behaviour
Spanish John R. King Angel Flores M. De Cervantes Saavedra Laura Esquivel Javier Cercas Gabriel García Márquez Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Isabelle Allende Pablo Neruda & W. S. Merwin Antonio Machado Federico García Lorca
New Penguin Parallel Text: Spanish Short Stories Spanish Stories: Cuentos Españoles Don Quijote/Don Quixote (Bilingual Novels) - Spanish & English Parallel Text Como Agua Para Chocolate Soldados de Salamina El coronel no tiene a quién le escriba Noticias de un Secuestro La Barraca La Casa de los Espíritus Cuentos de Eva Luna De amor y de sombra Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Dispair: Penguin Classics Campos de Castilla La Casa de Bernarda Alba
Sports Science David Wiggins, Vamplew & Stoddart Thomas Hughes Matthew Syed Lance Armstrong
Sport in America from wicked Amusement to National obsession Sport in Australia a Social History Tom Browns Schooldays Bounce It's not about the Bike
Theatre Studies Michael Bloom Alison Hodge Bella Martin Antonin Artaud Peter Brook Peter Thomson & Glendyr Sacks
Thinking Like a Director: A Practical Handbook Twentieth Century Actor Training The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit The Theatre and Its Double The Empty Space The Cambridge Companion to Brecht The Penguin Dictionary of Theatre
Technology Barlex Cave Lefteri Fowler Finney Chapman Morrison Dyson
Product Design Technology in Practice Making It Technology Design & Communication Design & Realisation Design and Capability History of Great Inventions
Dyson
Against the Odds
Visual Arts H.W & Anthony F. Janson Stephen Little Phaidon Sister Wendy Beckett Thames & Hudson E.H. Gombrich Hugh Honour & John Fleming
History of Art for Young People …….Isms. Understanding Art The 20th Century Art Book The Story of Painting Van Gogh's letters Peter Dormer's: The Art of the Maker The Story of Art A World History of Art
