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Bromley 100
“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labour; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
We are proud to announce the launch of ‘The Bromley 100’. The Bromley 100 comprises of 100 books that the staff, students and parents believed to be classic books that students should aim to read during their time at the Academy. Students taking up the challenge will gain hugely from the experience, whether it is reading for pure pleasure or to broaden their knowledge and literary horizons. We would also encourage parents and carers to take up the challenge and read a selection or all of the books and then discuss them with their daughters (or son's in Sixth Form). The staff at the academy will also be embarking on this literary journey and discussing their views on the books with your daughters.
The library has copies of all the books, so that students can continue on with the literary experience. We would welcome any additional copies that you may wish to contribute to the library or a donation so that the library may purchase additional copies.
A copy of the Bromley 100 list can be found below. Please let us know via the info@harrisbromley.org.uk account if there is any way you would like to support with the Bromley 100, whether you would like to share your views on a book on the list or donate a book to the library.
Donations can be made via our Parent Pay system by selecting ‘Bromley 100’. If you do not currently have parent pay login details please contact the finance department to organise. If you are donating a physical copy of the book please ask your daughter to hand it to reception. I would also like to say a big thank you to all parents who have already generously donated to the Bromley 100 on behalf of the students and staff of Harris Girls’ Academy Bromley.
Thank you for your continued support.
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Book |
Author |
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A Bend in the River |
VS Naipaul |
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A Christmas Carol |
Charles Dickens |
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Little Women |
Louisa May Alcott |
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Anna Karenina |
Leo Tolstoy |
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Any Human Heart |
William Boyd |
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Atonement |
Ian McEwan |
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Beloved |
Toni Morrison |
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Between Shades of Grey |
Ruta Sepetys |
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Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
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Catch 22 |
Joseph Heller |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
Roald Dahl |
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Charlottes Web |
E.B. White |
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Crime and Punishment |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Bleak House |
Charles Dickens |
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Diary of a Wimpey Kid |
Jeff Kinney |
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant |
Anne Tyler |
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Dr Zhivago |
Boris Pasternak |
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Dracula |
Bram Stoker |
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Fantastic Mr Fox |
Roald Dahl |
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Frankenstein |
Mary Shlley |
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Gullivers Travels |
Jonathan Swift |
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Harry Potter Series |
JK Rowling |
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Hidden Figures |
Margot Lee Sheterley |
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I Capture the Castle |
Dodie Smith |
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I Corriander |
Sally Gardner |
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Jane Eyre |
Charlotte Bronte |
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Les Miserables |
Victor Hugo |
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Lily Alone |
Jaqueline Wilson |
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Madame Bovary |
Gustave Flaubert |
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Me before you |
Jojo Moyes |
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Middlemarch |
George Eliot |
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Midnight's Children |
Salman Rushdie |
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Moby Dick |
Herman Melville |
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Mrs Dalloway |
Virginia Woolf |
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Nausea |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four |
George Orwell |
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His Dark Materials Trilogy |
Philip Pullman |
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Noughts and Crosses |
Malorie Blackman |
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Of Mice and Men |
John Steinbeck |
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Oliver Twist |
Charles Dickens |
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On the Road |
Jack Kerouac |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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Pigeon English |
Stephen Kelman |
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Poems of the Great War: 1914-1918 |
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Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austin |
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Rebecca |
Daphne Du Maurier |
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Refugee boy |
Benjamin Zephaniah |
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Salt to the sea |
Ruta Sepetys |
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Scoop |
Evelyn Waugh |
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Series of unfortunate events |
Daniel Handler |
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Small Island |
Andrea Levy |
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Suite Francaise |
Irene Neirovsky |
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Swallows and Amazons |
Arthur Ransome |
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Terror Kid |
Benjamin Zephaniah |
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
Thomas Hardy |
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The 39 Steps |
John Buchan |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Mark Twain |
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The Alchemist |
Paul Coelho |
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The Big Sleep |
Raymond Chandler |
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The Book Thief |
Marcus Zusak |
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas |
John Boyne |
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The Catcher in the Rye |
J D Salinger |
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The Colour Purple |
Alice Walker |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time |
Mark Haddon |
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The Diary of a Young Girl |
Anne Frank |
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The Golden Notebook |
Dorris Lessing |
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Brighton Rock |
Graham Greene |
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The Great Gatsby |
F Scott Fitzgerald |
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The Handmaid's Tale |
Margaret Atwood |
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The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy |
Douglas Adams |
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The Hobbit |
J.R.R Tolkien |
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The Hound of the Baskervilles |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
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The Hunger Games |
Suzanne Collins |
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The invention of Hugo Cabret |
Brian Selznick |
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The Kite Runner |
Khaled Hosseini |
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The Life of Pi |
Yann Martel |
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
C S Lewis |
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The Lord of the Rings |
J R R Tolkein |
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The Moonstone |
Wilkie Collins |
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The Name of the Rose |
Umberto Eco |
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The other Boleyn girl |
Philippa Gregory |
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
Stephen Chbosky |
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The Portrait of a Lady |
Henry James |
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
Muriel Spark |
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The Red and Black |
Stendhal |
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One Day |
David Nicholls |
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
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The Stranger |
Albert Camus |
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The Three Musketeers |
Alexandre Dumas |
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The Tin Drum |
Gunter Grass |
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The Twits |
Roald Dahl |
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy |
John le Carre |
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To Kill a Mockingbird |
Harper Lee |
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Tom Jones |
Henry Fielding |
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Tracey Beaker |
Jaqueline Wilson |
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Under the Net |
Iris Murdoch |
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Utterly me - Clarice Bean |
Clarice Bean |
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War Horse |
Michael Morpurgo |
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Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History |
Stephen J Gould |
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Wuthering Heights |
Emily Bronte |
