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• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson
• The Beach by Alex Garland
• Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
• The BFG by Roald Dahl
• Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
• The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon
• The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
• Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
• The Dare Game by Jacqueline Wilson
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
• The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
• Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
• Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Emma by Jane Austen
• Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
• Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
• The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
• The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
• The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
• ✔ Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
• Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson
• Girls in Tears by Jacqueline Wilson
• Girls Out Late by Jacqueline Wilson
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
• Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
• Goosebumps by R. L. Stine
• Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Green Mile by Stephen King
• Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
• His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson
• It by Stephen King
• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
• Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
• Katherine by Anya Seton
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
• The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
• Magician by Raymond E. Feist
• The Magus by John Fowles
• Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• Mort by Terry Pratchett
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• The Once and Future King by T. H. White
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Papillon by Henri Charrière
• Perfume by Patrick Süskind
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
• The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
• The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
• Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• River God by Wilbur Smith
• Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
• Shōgun by James Clavell
• Silas Marner by George Eliot
• The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
• Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
• Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson
• Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
• Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
• Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
• Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
• The Stand by Stephen King
• Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
• The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
• The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson
• Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
• Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• They Used to Play on Grass by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
• Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
• The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan
• The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
• Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
• A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Truth by Terry Pratchett
• The Twits by Roald Dahl
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
• The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
• The Witches by Roald Dahl
• Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
• The World According to Garp by John Irving
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett