ENRICHMENT

SHSG students recommend playlist (2025 edition)

This playlist contains books that have been recommended by our students this year. They are particularly aimed at new students in Year 7. As with the other playlists, these are not ordered by priority. Each one has a rough genre to help you decide what might be of interest to you.

Student recommendations — 2025-26

  • Little Bird Flies by Karen McCombie (Historical Fiction)

  • Impossible Creatures series by Katherine Rundell (Fantasy)

  • Pony by R J Palacio (Adventure)

  • The Lion Above the Door by Onjali Q Rauf (Historical/Fantasy)

  • Murder Most Unladylike series by Robin Stevens (Crime/Mystery)

  • King of Nothing by Nathanael Lessore (Comedy/Coming of Age)

  • Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan (Historical/Thriller)

  • The Thief Who Sang Storms by Sophie Anderson (Fantasy/Dystopia)

  • I Am Wolf series by Alastair Chisholm (Dystopian fiction)

  • The Elemental Detectives by Patrice Lawrence (Historical/Mystery)

  • The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell (Adventure/Mystery)

  • The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow (Verse Novel)

  • The First Year by Matt Goodfellow (Verse Novel)

  • October, October by Katya Balen (Adventure/Nature)

  • The Week at World’s End by Emma Carroll (Historical Fiction)

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