100 BOOKS YOUR CHILD MUST READ - what are your nominations?

[TillyBookClub]

Childhood books stay with you forever. Whether Roald Dahl's dark humour or the derry-do of Hardy Brothers, the earthy anarchy of Stig of the Dump or the magical excitement of The Secret Garden, they have a lasting effect on how you approach the big wide world.

What book do you think children MUST read before they leave home?

And while we're at it, what book should every adult read?

(My children's nomination: The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
My adult nomination: 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Need a reminder of the all-time classics? This Daily Telegraph list brings back the memories...

The Giant Jam Sandwich - children

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Adult

NONE- don't make your child read any book. Schools make children read a book. If that child is lucky enough to have a parent who loved, treasured and escaped into a book that child might still grow up to love reading - even if the first book they are MADE to read happens to be one they hate. Please parents, carers and grandparents (especially grandparents) don't make children read any books.

Talk to children about books you loved, accept they might not but with hope, encouragement and open-mindedness they may find one book they enjoy or even LOVE.

Take your children to the library. Encourage them to take 6 books. Don't worry if they are comic strip, too young; a picture book; too old, too .... too anything. Let them enjoy choosing, take them home, maybe only read one and take them back, confident that they can choose again.
Ah and yes I work in a library but my motivation for writing this is .. the desire to share the joy of reading for fun..... please don't MAKE your child read this summer .. unless they are about to do their GCSEs in which case.... MAKE them read the book now and not next JUNE - a week before the exam!

For kids roald dahl or enid blyton. yes know she is out of fashion now with pc police but still a gd read.
Kids books I read again and again-
Little women
The silver sword
Anne of green gables
and when I hit the tricky teen years-
Jane eyre
wuthering heights
The rainbow
women in love
To kill a mockingbird

Molesworth
Marianne Dreams
Little Women

Anything by Roald Dahl - he was such a brilliant writer, coupled with Quentin blake's illustrations - fab, fab, fab books.

Red Roofs - Enid Blyton
Muby Dick
Ladybird fairytales

Moby

i would love my children to read when they can read
the grufflo
going on a bear hunt
the hungery caterpillar
and when they are older
chronicles of narnia,
the serect garden,
to kill a mockingbird
the last 3 titles are my favourite even now i love to read them when im feeling down they cheer me up x

I would love DCs to read Roald Dahl but that is because I love the creepiness of his stories (his adults stories are a bit hard to digest though).

If they wanted a nicer read I would suggest Oliver Twist / A Christmas Tale.

Adult is harder. There are so many amazing books I don't know where to start. Portrait of Dorian Gray, Grapes of Wrath - actually anything by Oscar Wilde, John Steinbeck and Charles Dickens.

I've just read The Invention of Hugo Cabret because DS's junior school are structuring all their lessons around it at the moment - 'tis FABULOUS!. Scorcese's doing a film.

My daughter is 7 and I have just introduced her to Enid Blyton books. My mum read me the Magic Faraway Tree and I just loved it so now I'm passing the same enjoyment on to my daughetr.

Also recommend:
Black Beauty
Little Women
I Can Jump Puddles (Aussie classic)
The Magic Pudding
Possum Magic

Happy Reading.

The diary of Ann Frank, when they are old enough. I read it when I was 10.

Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter and The Family from One End Street.

For adults it would be The Red Tent.

Harry Potter books are amazing. I read them myslef [fblush, my children all love them.
I know for pre-teen and young girls Cathy Cassidy is a good writer and my dd liked her very much around the ages of 10 and 11.
MrsSdownunder is rigth about Enid Blyton books, they are brilliant, pure joy and imagination.
For teens I'd have to say alot of Marlorie Blackman.

And for adults you have to read Stolen By Lucy Christoper, it's very gripping.

ah def little women

But i think i would recomend

Famous five (all enid blightgon books)
(brings out brill imagination)
Also the Chonicals of narnia for slightly older children...

oh gosh

Winnie the poh

The Velveteen rabbit

Uncle Toms Cabin

I'm not including adult books that I think children/teens should read before they leave home, or this list would be too long. I'm also not including books for very young children (picture books or Milly-Molly-Mandy etc). Other than Comet in Moominland and The Little Prince, they are books without illustration.

These are the books I would do my darnedest to ensure my kids had read in their childhood - top quality literature of a variety of genres and moods. I am loathe to leave out Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines series or David Almond or lots of others I love - Nichols' The Tree That Sat Down - but if I had to reduce my shelf to the minimum top books for kids to read, this would be it. After the series of books, it's younger children rising to older YA reads.

His Dark Materials series ? Philip Pullman
Narnia sequence ? CS Lewis
Little House series ? Laura Ingalls Wilder
Earthsea trilogy ? Ursula le Guin

Comet in Moominland ? Tove Jansson
The Secret Island/Naughtiest Girl in the School books ? Enid Blyton
A Little Princess ? FH Burnett
The Secret Garden ? FH Burnett
Charlotte?s Web ? EB White
The Otterbury Incident ? C. Day-Lewis
The Phantom Tolbooth ? Norman Juster
The Machinegunners ? Robert Westall
The Little Prince ? Antoine de St-Exupery
Bridge to Terabithia ? Katherine Paterson
Charmed Life ? Diana Wynne Jones
What Katy Did ? Susan Coolidge
Treasure Island ? Robert Louis Stevenson
Little Women ? LM Alcott
The Silver Sword ? Ian Serrailier
The Mouse and His Child ? Russell Hoban
The Outsiders ? SE Hinton
The Chocolate War ? Robert Cormier
The Devil on the Road ? Robert Westall
The Eclipse of the Century ? Jan Mark
Fire & Hemlock ? Diana Wynne Jones
Postcards from No Man?s Land ? Aidan Chambers
Red Shift ? Alan Garner

Adult :
Paddy Clark HaHaHa by Roddy Doyle. (and all his others)

J.P. Donleavy "Onion Eaters"

Go Ask Alice, (blimey I was amazed any one other than me read it!)

Childrens:
All Allan Ahlberg books. e.g Jolly Postman, Each Peach Pear Plum, his range is from first book up to teens. Fabulous man!!

One I bet nobody has ever heard of is "Garth Pig and the Ice Cream Lady". My boys love it.

Everything written by Rosemary Sutcliff for children, starting with Eagle of the Ninth.
You will be as enthralled as your children if you read the books to/with them.

Children: Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
Adult: Katherine by Anya Seton

And for teenage girls/11ish: swallows and amazons, little women, anne of green gables, little house on the prairie

Teenage - The Catcher in the Rye
Adult - A Prayer for Owen Meany

I can't wait to see what my one year old will reccommend to me!

Narnia

His dark Materials

The Dark Is Rising

A Stitch in Time

The Secret Garden

Ballet Shoes

The Chalet School

Harry Potter

For love of a horse

Noughts and crosses

The Moonstone

Uncle Toms garden

Back Home

I could go on!

Oooh And Little women and what katy did! I really could go on!

I think most of the ones I would recommend have been mentioned.

How about 'The Saturdays' by Elizabeth Enright?

Also anything by E. Nesbitt.