This time apparently a whole bunch of teachers were asked to vote on the 100 novels they think every child should read before leaving school. Wonder how many of them I've read (and I left school 23! yikes! years ago). I've bolded those books that I have read. Only 35 - although I do have to admit that the majority of those I did read for the first time when I was still in school. Quite surprised at some of the titles on this list - education has obviously come on a lot since I was in the classroom.
1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. Animal Farm by George Orwell
4. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
5. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
6. The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling
7. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
8. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
9. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
11. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
12. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
13. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
14. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
15. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
16. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
17. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
18. A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
19. The Lord of the Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien
20. Danny, Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
21. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
22. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
23. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
24. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
25. A Passage to India by EM Forster
26. Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
27. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
28. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
29. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
30. Holes by Louis Sachar
31. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
32. The Noughts and Crosses trilogy by Malorie Blackman
33. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
34. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
35. Atonement by Ian McEwan
36. The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
37. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
38. Dracula by Bram Stoker
39. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
40. A Room With a View by EM Forster
41. Beloved by Toni Morrison
42. Wonder by RJ Palacio
43. Emma by Jane Austen
44. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
45. Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngoxi Adichie
46. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
47. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
48. The Sherlock Holmes series by Arthur Conan Doyle
49. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
50. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
51. Anita and Me by Meera Syal
52. The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
53. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
54. Skellig by David Almond
55. Life of Pi by Yann Marte
l56. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
57. The Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer (well, I've read the first one anyway)
58. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
59. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
60. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
61. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
62. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
63. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
64. Dubliners by James Joyce
65. Face by Benjamin Zephaniah
66. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
67. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
68. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
69. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
70. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
71. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
72. I am David by Anne Holm
73. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
74. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
75. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
76. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
77. A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin
78. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
79. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
80. Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
81. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
82. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
83. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
84. Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
85. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
86. A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly
87. Heroes by Robert Cormier
88. Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah
89. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
90. Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally
91. Forever by Judy Blume
92. Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin
93. Stone Cold by Robert Swindells
94. A Time to Dance by Bernard MacLaverty
95. Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
96. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
97. The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
98. The Tracy Beaker series by Jacqueline Wilson
99. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
100. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
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