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  1. Reading List by Genre

    01/06/2022 by axonite

    Now is always the perfect time to chill out with a good book.

     

    “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”
    — Groucho Marx

     

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    “So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
    — Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

    “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”
    — Walt Disney

     

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    Best Sci-Fi Authors

    01 Isaac Asimov
    02 Arthur C Clarke
    03 John Wyndham
    04 John Christopher
    05 Ray Bradbury
    06 H.G. Wells
    07 Fritz Leiber
    08 Orson Scott Card
    09 Brian Aldiss
    10 Jack Chalker
    11 Theodore Cogswell
    12 Theodore Sturgeon
    13 Harry Harrison
    14 Jack Williamson
    15 William Nolan
    16 Harlan Ellison
    17 Larry Niven
    18 Jack Vance
    19 Margaret Atwood
    20 Bob Shaw

     

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    Best Fantasy Authors

    01 J.R.R. Tolkien
    02 Terry Brooks
    03 Steven Erikson
    04 Philip Jose Farmer
    05 George R.R. Martin
    06 Ursula K. Le Guin
    07 Robin Hobb
    08 Roger Zelazny
    09 Terry Pratchett
    10 David Eddings
    11 Frank Herbert
    12 Raymond E. Feist
    13 T.H. White
    14 Robert Jordan
    15 David Gemmell
    16 Stephen R. Lawhead
    17 Mervyn Peake
    18 Jack Vance
    19 H.P Lovecraft
    20 George Clayton Johnson

     

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    Best Comedy Authors

    01 P.G. Wodehouse
    02 Bill Bryson
    03 Harry Harrison
    04 Terry Pratchett
    05 Jerome K. Jerome
    06 Kingsley Amis
    07 Tony Hawks
    08 Stella Gibbons
    09 Evelyn Waugh
    10 Douglas Adams
    11 Joseph Heller
    12 James Herriott
    13 Isaac Bashevis Singer
    14 Malcolm Bradbury
    15 Grant Naylor
    16 Bob Shaw
    17 J.K. Rowling
    18 Spike Milligan
    19 Sue Townsend
    20 Gerald Durrell

     

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    Best Crime Authors

    01 Arthur Conan Doyle
    02 Agatha Christie
    03 Stieg Larsson
    04 Raymond Chandler
    05 Dashiell Hammett
    06 Ruth Rendell
    07 Henning Mankell
    08 P.D. James
    09 Dorothy L Sayers
    10 Patricia Cornwell
    11 James Patterson
    12 Colin Dexter
    13 Ellis Peters
    14 Patricia Highsmith
    15 Ed McBain
    16 Harlan Coben
    17 Ian Rankin
    18 Ann Cleeves
    19 Barbara Vine
    20 Josephine Tey

     

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    Best Horror Authors

    01 M.R. James
    02 Stephen King
    03 Bram Stoker
    04 Mary Shelley
    05 Jack Williamson
    06 Richard Matheson
    07 Edgar Allan Poe
    08 H.P. Lovecraft
    09 Ray Bradbury
    10 Clive Barker
    11 Robert Bloch
    12 Algernon Blackwood
    13 Ambrose Bierce
    14 Dean Koontz
    15 Clarke Aston Smith
    16 James Herbert
    17 Anne Rice
    18 Peter Ackroyd
    19 Charles Beaumont
    20 Ira Levin

     

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    Best Modern Playwrights

    01 Tom Stoppard
    02 Arthur Miller
    03 Brian Friel
    04 Samuel Beckett
    05 Bertolt Brecht
    06 Caryl Churchill
    07 Harold Pinter
    08 George Bernard Shaw
    09 Willy Russell
    10 David Williamson
    11 T.S. Eliot
    12 David Mamet
    13 Ariel Dorfman
    14 Stephen Sondheim
    15 Lucy Prebble
    16 Wole Soyinka
    17 Alan Bennett
    18 Alan Ayckbourn
    19 J. B. Priestley
    20 Terence Rattigan

     

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    Best Graphic Novels

     

    01 Charlie’s War
    02 Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
    03 V For Vendetta
    04 Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm
    05 Persepolis
    06 Space 1999: To Everything That Was
    07 Nausicaä
    08 Thorgal
    09 Galaxy Express 999
    10 Dan Dare
    11 Watchmen
    12 Maus
    13 Storm (Don Lawrence)
    14 The Freedom Collective
    15 2001 Nights of Space
    16 Wulf, The Briton
    17 The Vagabond of Limbo
    18 Citizen of the Galaxy
    19 Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth
    20 Strontium Dog

     

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    Links

    The Big Read

    The 100 Best Novels

    Libraries that look like Alien Spaceships

    Who killed Literature?

    Ursula K. Le Guin Names the Books She Likes and Wants You to Read

     

    Book Suggestions (by Year Group)

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  2. Year 8 Book Reviews

    05/12/2017 by axonite

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  3. Ditch the phone and open a book

    07/10/2017 by axonite

    While nuclear energy, global warming, deforestation and Donald Trump continue to be major threats to the environment, mobile phones can rob us of our very humanity.
     

     

    Students arrive for my lessons with their phones in their hands – despite signs on the doors clearly indicating that phones are forbidden in my classroom. The very concept of leaving the phone in a locker is horrifying to most students. They even have to reach out and touch their phones periodically just to be reassured that they’re still there. This is ADDICTION. No ifs, no buts. ADDICTION. Forgot to bring your books to school? We have reading lessons at the same time every week, and yet about six students in each class forget to bring books with them. The same six students would never dream of being without their phones. This is ADDICTION.
     

    Walk around the school. You’ll see many students playing with their phones, but very few actually talking to each other and none at all reading books. This is a change that has occurred gradually over the last few years so that most never even noticed it.

     

    You may well think that this is a gross exaggeration – but if so, perhaps you haven’t observed the slow slide into a digital dystopia, a world of social exclusion where families stare mindlessly at their phones rather than talk to each other. Even dating couples are to be seen romantically gazing into each other’s eyes the screens on their mobile devices.

     

    Paul Lewis, writing in The Guardian says that:
     

    There is growing concern that as well as addicting users, technology is contributing toward so-called “continuous partial attention,” severely limiting people’s ability to focus and possibly lowering IQ.

     
    If this weren’t bad enough, serious scientific research (not funded by the industry) indicates that mobile phones can cause cancer and “may be exposing us to harmful levels of electromagnetic radiation.”
     
    At parent teacher conferences, I am often asked, “how can my son/daughter raise his/her grades?” The answer is simple. But like the rich man who asks Jesus how he can enter heaven, you may not like the answer – Ditch the phone and open a book. Lewis goes on to note that many people within the mobile phone and computer business severely limit their own children’s access to digital technology:
     

    It is revealing that many of these younger technologists are weaning themselves off their own products, sending their children to elite Silicon Valley schools where iPhones, iPads and even laptops are banned.

     

     
    Is buying a mobile phone a form of self-destruction? Is buying a mobile phone for a child actually a form of child abuse? The very people who design these products think so.

     

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