School librarians have come up with a list of their top 100 books, in response to a list made by TES.
The list below shows the top 100 books, chosen by school librarians, listed in alphabetical order rather than rank. The top 10 books, however, are in bold. (There are actually 11 in bold, but presumably two tied.)
SCHOOL LIBRARIANS’ TOP 100 BOOKS
Skellig – David Almond
Flowers in the Attic – Virginia Andrews
Atkins’ Molecules – Peter Atkins
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Crow Road – Iain Banks
Rebecca’s Tale – Sally Beauman
Noughts and Crosses series – Malorie Blackman
Junk – Melvin Burgess
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Looking for JJ – Anne Cassidy
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
Artemis Fowl series – Eoin Colfer
The Hunger Games trilogy – Suzanne Collins
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
The Dark is Rising series – Susan Cooper
Framed – Frank Cottrell Boyce
Gatty’s Tale – Kevin Crossley-Holland
Matilda – Roald Dahl
Everything Happens for a Reason – Kaista Daswani
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
The Hare with Amber Eyes – Edmund De Waal
The Gruffalo – Julie Donaldson
A Gathering Light – Jennifer Donnelly
Frenchman’s Creek – Daphne Du Maurier
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
A Room with a View – EM Forster
The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend – Matthew Green
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
The Raw Shark Texts – Stephen Hall
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
Black Daisies for the Bride – Tony Harrison
Tales of the Otori series – Lian Hearn
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
The Strange Meeting – Susan Hill
The Outsiders – SE Hinton
The Island – Victoria Hislop
Stravaganza series – Mary Hoffman
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
The 13th Horseman – Barry Hutchinson
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Journey to the River Sea – Eva Ibbotson
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
The Fionavar Tapestry series – Guy Gavriel Kay
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
The Giver – Lois Lowry
Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian
A Song of Fire and Ice series – George RR Martin
I Carried you on Eagle’s Wings – Sue Mayfield
Atonement – Ian McEwan
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things – Jon McGregor
Breathe – Cliff McNish
Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
Anne of Green Gables – L Montgomery
Private Peaceful – Michael Morpurgo
War Horse – Michael Morpurgo
Trash – Andy Mulligan
A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
Chaos Walking trilogy – Patrick Ness
The Time Traveller’s Wide – Audrey Niffenegger
The Abhorsen trilogy – Garth Nix
Z for Zachariah – Robert C O’Brien
1984 – George Orwell
The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series – Michelle Paver
Seeing the Blossom – Dennis Potter
Tom’s Midnight Garden – Philippa Pearce
Tamar – Mal Peet
Soul Music – Terry Pratchett
His Dark Materials trilogy – Philip Pullman
The Long Walk – Slavomir Rawicz
Mortal Engines series – Philip Reeve
The Wave – Morton Rhue
Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
Holes – Louis Sachar
The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Brian Selznick
Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
Mahabharata – Margaret Simpson
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
The Help – Katherine Stockett
Under Milk Wood – Dylan Thomas
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – JRR Tolkien
The Enchanted April – Elizabeth Von Arnim
Out of Shadows – Jason Wallace
The Tadpole’s Promise – Jean Willis
The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Book Thief – Marcus Zusak
When eleven-year-old Brian Pankhurst has to stay with his grandparents, he’s not exactly enthusiastic. He barely knows them, after all, and they’re a little strange. They’re stranger than he realises, in fact. Very soon after he arrives at their ancient house, Brian starts to feel that something isn’t right. Why has someone sent his granddad a completely blank letter? Why don’t people who go in to the local bookshop ever seem to come out again? What does his granddad mean when he says Brian’s father wasn’t really an accountant? Then Brian wakes in the middle of the night and finds he’s going to have to adjust to three things very quickly: magic is real, monsters are real, and he and his family are in terrible danger…
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