If you've taken up this term's book bingo challenge, the English Dept thought it might help you out with a few suggestions for each of the categories. So here are a few titles we think you might enjoy in some of the 'bingo' categories (and obviously, all our suggestions fit the 'book suggested by a teacher category'!).
A book in translation
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Mr Hager)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (Miss Warner)
Something from the 4th form reading list
The Hunters by James Salter (Mr Hager)
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Miss McLaren)
A classic
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Mr Hager)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Miss McLaughlin)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (Miss McLaughlin)
The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger (Miss McLaughlin)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Miss McLaren)
Leave it to Psmith by P G Wodehouse (Miss McLaren)
A book set in a foreign country
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Mr Hager)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Miss Warner)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Miss McLaughlin)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Miss McLaughlin)
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Miss McLaughlin)
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (Miss McLaren)
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville (Miss McLaren)
A non-fiction book
Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane (Mr Hager)
Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman by Richard Feynman (Miss McLaughlin)
The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones (Miss McLaughlin)
Dispatches by Michael Herr (Miss McLaren)
A book with a red spine
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (Mr Hager)
Small Island by Andrea Levy (Miss McLaughlin)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (Miss McLaren)
The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth (Miss McLaren)
A short book
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (Mr Hager)
Company by Samuel Beckett (Miss Warner)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard (Miss McLaren)
A book set in the future
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Mr Hager)
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (Miss McLaughlin)
The Martian by Andy Weir (Miss McLaughlin)
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (Miss McLaren)
The Book of Dave by Will Self (Miss McLaren)
And if you've got any good ideas for books in any of the bingo categories, or would like to recommend one you've just read, please feel free to suggest them in the comments box below - happy reading!
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Mr Hager)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (Miss Warner) 
The Hunters by James Salter (Mr Hager)
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Miss McLaren)
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (Mr Hager)
You may be surprised that the shortest book in the Library is by J.K. Rowling. It's not a Harry Potter book but rather the text of a speech she gave at Harvard back in 2008. "Very Good Lives : The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination" is both a very good read, and at 70 pages will only take a short while.
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