Name of Book Name of Author Usually Preferred by Black Beauty Anna Sewell Girls The Flour Babies, Anne Fine Madame Doubtfire I Am David Anne Holm Granny, Alex Rider Anthony Horowitz Boys, Stormbreaker Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome and other books in this Redwall Brian Jacques Boys All of the Narnia Series C.S Lewis starting with The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Nancy Drew mysteries Carolyn Keene A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens The Water Babies Charles Kingsley Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Stig of the Dump Clive King The Hitchhiker s Guide D Adams to the Galaxy Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe The Crowstarver, The Dick-King Smith Sheep Pig The Railway Children, E. Nesbit The Phoenix and the Carpet, Five Children and It, The Wouldbegoods, The Treasure Seekers Charlotte s Web E.B. White
Pollyanna Eleanor H. Porter Girls The Little White Horse Elizabeth Goudge Artemis Fowl of Eoin Colfer Boys books Emil and the Detectives Erich Kästner Boys The Star of Kazan Eva Ibbotson The Secret Garden, A Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Princess Animal Farm George Orwell My family and Other Gerald Durrell Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, A Zoo in my Luggage, Encounters with Animals The Time Machine H.G. Wells Ingo adventures Helen Dunmore of books Dr Dolittle Hugh Lofting The Silver Sword Ian Serraillier Harry Potter of J.K. Rowling books The Lord of the Rings (3 J.R.R Tolkein books: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King), The Hobbit All Creatures Great and James Herriot Small Children of the Red King Jenny Nimmo of books (Charlie Bone) The Penderwicks Jeanne Birdsall Wolves of Willoughby Chase Joan Aiken
Heidi Johanna Spyri Girls Boy in the Striped John Boyne Pyjamas Gulliver s Travels Jonathan Swift Journey to the Centre of Jules Verne the Earth, Around the World in 80 days The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Graham Little House on the Laura Ingalls Wilder Girls Prairie, Little House in the Big Woods The Mysterious Lee Trenton Stewart Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carrol Holes Louis Sachar Little Women Louisa May Alcott Girls Anne of Green Gables Lucy Montgomery Girls and other books in this Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman Trilogy, Tell Me No Lies, Thief, Pig Heart Boy The Curious Incident of Mark Haddon the Dog in the Night Time The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
The Borrowers and Mary Norton other books in this The Butterfly Lion, War Michael Morpurgo Horse, From Hereabout Hill, Why the Whales Came Carrie s War Nina Bawden Ballet Shoes, White Noel Stretford Girls Boots The Snow Goose, Paul Gallico Scruffy Tom s Midnight Garden Philipa Pearce Coral Island R.M. Ballantyne Watership Down Richard Adams Just William books Richmal Crompton Boys The BFG, Charlie and Roald Dahl the Chocolate Factory, The Giant Peach Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped Mrs Frisby and the Rats Robert O Brian of Nimh of books Jungle Book, Just So Rudyard Kipling Stories The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles A Series of Unfortunate Snicket Lemony Events of books What Katy Did Susan Coolidge Girls The Sword in the Stone T.H. White
How the Whale Became, Ted Hughes The Iron Man The Fire Thief Fights Terry Deary Back Lord of the Fight Back Willam Golding The Life of Pi Yan Martel