Booktrust's Ultimate List: 100 Books to Read Before You're 14


The charity Booktrust is celebrating Children’s Book Week this week by announcing their definitive list of 100 books every child should aim to read before they're 14.

Drawing from over 90 years' experience of recommending children’s books, Booktrust experts selected the final 100 from an initial list of 500 books. They are asking everyone to join the debate and vote online for their favourites from the list (at www.booktrust.org.uk/cbw), – with the nation’s top books announced on November 25th.

How many have you or your kids read? We've always got a book on the go here at The Madhouse so I was surprised to see that we haven't read that many of them ! I've marked in red the ones that we've already read.

The 100 selected titles:

Title /Author / Age range

The Cat in the Hat - Dr Seuss - 0 - 5 years
Where the Wild Things Are -Maurice Sendak - 0 - 5 years
The Tiger Who Came to Tea - Judith Kerr - 0 - 5 years
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle - 0 - 5 years
The Elephant and the Bad Baby - Elfrida Vipont - 0 - 5 years
Meg and Mog - Helen Nicholl - 0 - 5 years
Dogger - Shirley Hughes - 0 - 5 years
Each Peach Pear Plum - Allan Ahlberg - 0 - 5 years
Would You Rather? - John Burningham - 0 - 5 years
The Snowman - Raymond Briggs - 0 - 5 years
Not Now, Bernard - David McKee - 0 - 5 years
Where's Spot? - Eric Hill - 0 - 5 years
Dear Zoo - Rod Campbell - 0 - 5 years
Gorilla - Anthony Browne - 0 - 5 years
Hairy Maclary From Donaldson's Dairy - Lynley Dodd - 0 - 5 years
The Jolly Postman - Allan Ahlberg - 0 - 5 years
Princess Smartypants - Babette Cole - 0 - 5 years
I Want My Potty - Tony Ross - 0 - 5 years
We're Going on a Bear Hunt - Michael Rosen - 0 - 5 years
I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato - Lauren Child - 0 - 5 years
Room on a Broom - Julia Donaldson - 0 - 5 years
Lost and Found - Oliver Jeffers - 0 - 5 years
Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears - Emily Gravett - 0 - 5 years
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes - Mem Fox - 0 - 5 years
I Want My Hat Back - Jon Klassen - 0 - 5 years
Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren - 5 - 7 years
Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne - 6 - 8 years
The Story of Babar - Jean de Brunhoff - 6 - 8 years
Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder - 6 - 8 years
The Enchanted Wood - Enid Blyton - 6 - 8 years
Five on a Treasure Island - Enid Blyton - 6 - 8 years
Finn Family Moomintroll - Tove Jansson - 6 - 8 years
My Naughty Little Sister - Dorothy Edwards - 6 - 8 years
Charlotte's Web - EB White - 6 - 8 years
A Bear Called Paddington - Michael Bond - 6 - 8 years
Asterix the Gaul - Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo - 6 - 8 years
Flat Stanley - Jeff Brown - 6 - 8 years
The Worst Witch - Jill Murphy - 6 - 8 years
Mister Magnolia - Quentin Blake - 6 - 8 years
The Queen's Nose - Dick King-Smith - 6 - 8 years
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs - Jon Scieszka - 6 - 8 years
Amazing Grace - Mary Hoffman - 6 - 8 years
The Adventures of Milly Molly Mandy - Joyce Lankester Brisley - 6 - 8 years
Horrid Henry - Francesca Simon - 6 - 8 years
The Sheep-Pig - Dick King Smith - 6 - 8 years
Clarice Bean, That's Me - Lauren Child - 6 - 8 years
That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown - Cressida Cowell - 6 - 8 years
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney - 6 - 8 years
The BFG - Roald Dahl - 6- 8 years
The Arrival - Shaun Tan - 6- 8 years
The Adventures of Tin Tin - Herge - 9 - 12 years
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome - 9 - 12 years
Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfield - 9 - 12 years
The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien - 9 - 12 years
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - 9 - 12 years
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis - 9 - 12 years
The Borrowers - Mary Norton - 9 - 12 years
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aitken - 9 - 12 years
Stig of the Dump - Clive King - 9 - 12 years
Carrie's War - Nina Bawden - 9 - 12 years
Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian - 9 - 12 years
The Witches - Roald Dahl - 9 - 12 years
Matilda - Roald Dahl - 9 - 12 years
Truckers: The First Book of the Nomes - Terry Pratchett - 9 - 12 years
The Story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson - 9 - 12 years
Flour Babies - Anne Fine - 9 - 12 years
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling - 9 - 12 years
Skellig - David Almond - 9 - 12 years
Holes - Louis Sachar - 9 - 12 years
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer - 9 - 12 years
Journey to River Sea - Eva Ibbotson - 9 - 12 years
Private Peaceful - Michael Morpurgo - 9 - 12 years
Millions - Frank Cottrell Boyce - 9 - 12 years
Once - Morris Gleitzman - 9 - 12 years
A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness - 9 - 12 years
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith - 12 - 14 years
The Fellowship of the Ring - J R R Tolkien - 12 - 14 years
The Owl Service - Alan Garner - 12 - 14 years
Watership Down - Richard Adams - 12 - 14 years
Forever - Judy Blume - 12 - 14 years
The Ruby in the Smoke - Philip Pullman - 12 - 14 years
Northern Lights - Philip Pullman - 12 - 14 years
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging - Louise Rennison - 12 - 14 years
Witch Child - Celia Rees - 12 - 14 years
Coram Boy - Jamila Gavin - 12 - 14 years
Kite Rider - Geraldine McCaughrean - 12 - 14 years
Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve - 12 - 14 years
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon - 12 - 14 years
Looking for JJ - Anne Cassidy - 12 - 14 years
Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz - 12 - 14 years
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne - 12 - 14 years
Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman - 12 - 14 years
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman - 12 - 14 years
The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness - 12 - 14 years
Revolver - Marcus Segdwick - 12 - 14 years
Life: An Exploded Diagram - Mal Peet - 12 - 14 years
Maggot Moon - Sally Gardner - 12 - 14 years
Junk - Melvin Burgess - 12 - 14 years. At top end of age band
How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff - 12 - 14 years. At top end of age band
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins - 12 - 14 years. At top end of age band

Now the summer has come to an end, we'll be going to the library more so I'll see how many more we can tick off over the coming months. How many have you read?

Other reviews you may be interested in :

Children's book review : Don't You Dare - Sharky & George

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