‘CLASSICS’ READING LIST
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglad Adams
Watership Down
Richard Adams
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Joan Aiken
Little Women
Louis M. Alcotts
Indian in the Cupboard
Lynne Reid Banks
Empire of the Sun
J. G. Ballard
The Secret Garden, A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Incredible Journey
Sheila Burnford
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
The Dark is Rising
Susan Cooper
Just William
Richmal Crompton
The Demon Headmaster
Gillian Cross
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell
Mrs Doubtfire
Anne Fine
The Owl Service
Alan Garner
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Graham
King Solomon’s Mines
Harper Haggard
A Kestrel for a Knave
Barry Hines
The Mouse and His Child
Russell Hoban
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Judith Kerr
The Water Babies
Charles Kingsley
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
The Magician’s Nephew (Narnia series)
C. S. Lewis
The Call of the Wild, White Fang
Jack London
Goodnight Mister Tom
Michelle Magorian
The Railway Children
E. S. Nesbit
Five Children and It
E.S. Nesbit
The Borrowers
Mary Norton
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert O’Brien
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Bridge to Terebithia
Katherine Paterson
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Philippa Pearce
Flambards
K. M. Peyton
Swallows and Amazons
Arthur Ransome
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
101 Dalmations
Dodie Smith
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Strangle Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Ballet Shoes for Anna
Noel Streatfield
Party Shoes
Noel Streatfield
Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
J. R. R. Tolkein
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
Charlotte’s Web
E. B. White
The Sword in the Stone
T.H. White
The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingles Wilder
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham