In Year 9 and stuck for something to read? Here are 31 of our favourite books or series to get you started. Don’t forget to talk to your school librarian as well — they’re experts on all things bookishly good!
Updated January 2024
- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen
- Firekeeper’s daughter / Angeline Boulley
- Graceling / Kristin Cashore
- The Hunger Games / Suzanne Collins
- The maze runner / James Dashner
- Legendborn / Tracy Deonn
- I, Coriander / Sally Gardner
- To all the boys I’ve loved before / Jenny Han
- The whale rider / Witi Ihimaera
- The henna wars / Adiba Jaigirdar
- Howl’s moving castle / Diana Wynne Jones
- The pōrangi boy / Shilo Kino
- Mortal fire / Elizabeth Knox
- Skulduggery Pleasant / Derek Landy
- Falling into Rarohenga / Steph Matuku
- Anne of Green Gables / L. M. Montgomery
- The recruit / Robert Muchamore
- Heartstopper / Alice Oseman
- Eragon / Christopher Paolini
- Northern Lights / Philip Pullman
- Percy Jackson and the lightning thief / Rick Riordan
- Holes / Louis Sachar
- Steelheart / Brandon Sanderson
- Witch hat atelier / Kamome Shirahama
- Nimona / ND Stevenson
- The sunbearer trials / Aiden Thomas
- The hobbit / J. R. R. Tolkien
- Tim Te Maro and the subterranean heartsick blues / H. S. Valley
- The prince and the dressmaker / Jen Wang
- Iris and me / Philippa Werry
- The book thief / Markus Zusak
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