Here are the top 50 books you should read before you leave primary school. How many have you read so far?
1 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
2 Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
3 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
4 Matilda by Roald Dahl
5 The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
6 The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis
7 The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
8 We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
9 Dogger by Shirley Hughes
10 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
11 Stig of the Dump by Clive King
12 Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
13 The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
14 Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
15 Winnie the Pooh by A A Milne
16 Funnybones by Allan and Janet Ahlberg
17 Owl Babies by Martin Waddell and Patrick Benson
18 The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
19 Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss
20 War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
21 Grimm’s Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
22 The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
23 Peace at Last by Jill Murphy
24 Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
25 Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy by Lynley Dodd
26 Not Now Bernard by David Mckee
27 Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
28 The Twits by Roald Dahl
29 I am David by Anne Holm
30 The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
31 The Paddington series by Michael Bond
32 Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch
33 Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
34 Five Children and It by E Nesbit
35 Clockwork by Phillip Pullman
36 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
37 The Magic Far Away Tree by Enid Blyton
38 Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury
39 Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
40 The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
41 The Worst Witch series by Jill Murphy
42 The Alfie and Annie Rose series by Shirley Hughes
43 Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield
44 Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
45 Six Dinner Sid by Inga Moore
46 Sad Book by Michael Rosen
47 The Borrowers by Mary Norton
48 A Dark, Dark Tale by Ruth Brown
49 The Jolly Postman by Allan Ahlberg
50 Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
