Education secretary Nicky Morgan wants schools to be able to access novels by the likes of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and Emily Brontë.
Ms Morgan revealed that “a number of publishers” were already exploring how this might be achieved.
It is part of a wider campaign by the Department for Education (DfE) which has also created resources to help parents and early years providers get more younger children reading.
The campaign, which is being spearheaded by children’s author and comedian David Walliams, has already unveiled plans to enrol all eight-year-olds at their local library and to create 200 primary school-based book clubs.
However, this is the first aspect of the campaign that stretches to secondary schools.
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