100 Books to Read
100 fiction books all children should read before leaving primary school
The National Association for the Teaching of English ran a survey to find teachers’ top 100 fiction books all children should read before leaving primary school. Here are the results:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
Dogger by Shirley Hughes
Stig of the Dump by Clive King
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
Winnie the Pooh by A A Milne
Funnybones by Allan and Janet Ahlberg
Owl Babies by Martin Waddell & Patrick Benson
The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Grimm’s Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
Peace at Last by Jill Murphy
Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy by Lynley Dodd
Not Now Bernard by David Mckee
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
The Twits by Roald Dahl
I am David by Anne Holm
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
The Paddington series by Michael Bond
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch
Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
Five Children and It by E Nesbit
Clockwork by Phillip Pullman
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Magic Far Away Tree by Enid Blyton
Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
The Worst Witch series by Jill Murphy
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
A Dark, Dark Tale by Ruth Brown
The Jolly Postman by Allan Ahlberg
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Zoo by Anthony Browne
Treasure Island by R L Stevenson
Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne
Cinderella by Charles Perrault
Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman
The Railway Children by E Nesbit
Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman
Kidnapped by R L Stevenson
The Sheep Pig by Dick King-Smith
Beegu by Alexis Deacon
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
The Mr Men and Little Miss series by Roger Hargreaves
Gentle Giant by Michael Morpurgo
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
Theseus and the Minotaur by David Orme and Wendy Body
The Just William series by Richmal Crompton
On the Way Home by Jill Murphy
Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper
Street Child by Berlie Doherty
The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
Angelo by Quentin Blake
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Draywalt and Oliver Jeffers
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
My Mum by Anthony Browne
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Tunnel by Anthony Browne
Face by Benjamin Zephaniah
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler by Gene Kemp
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Click Clack Moo: cows that type by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
The Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy
The Early Years at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton
Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
Birds Beasts and Relatives by Gerald Durrell
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
The Mrs Pepperpot series by Alf Proysen
The Asterix Series by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
The Fib and Other Stories by George Layton
The Giant’s Necklace by Michael Morpurgo
The Kipper series by Mick Inkpen
The Milly-Molly-Mandy series by Joyce Lankester Brisley
The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
