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Series, Trilogies etc

Harry Potter – JK Rowling
Biggles – Captain WE Johns
William – Richmal Crompton
Jennings – Anthony Buckeridge
Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narnia – CS Lewis
[The Magician’s Nephew,
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Prince Caspian
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle]
Tarzan – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Dark Materials – Phillip Pullman
[Northern Lights
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass]
The Dark is Rising – Susan Cooper
Lensman – EE ‘Doc’ Smith
Skylark – EE ‘Doc’ Smith
Gnomes – Terry Pratchett
[Truckers
Diggers
Wings]
Discworld – Terry Pratchett
Shakespeare Stories – Leon Garfield
[This is a collection of rewritten Shakespeare Stories, briefly summarised. It is ideal for having a brief overview of Shakespeare]
The Once and Future King – TH White
[These are about King Arthur & Knights of the Round Table]
John Carter of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Pellucidor – Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Viking Saga – Henry Treece
James Bond – Ian Flemming
The Borrowers – Mary Norton

 

Individual Books and Good Authors

NB Many of these authors have produced a lot of good books, generally I have provided a few examples for each author but those who produced books which are pretty much all worth reading I have put “etc” next to a title by that author.

The Enemy Stars – Poul Anderson
Planet of the Apes – Pierre Boulle
She [etc] – H Rider Haggard
Kidnapped by Cannibals – Dr Gordon Stables
The Road to Wigan Pier [etc] – George Orwell
The Hounds of the Morrigan – Pat O’Shea
The Carpet People – Terry Pratchett
Pig-Heart Boy – Malorie Blackman
Thief!
Hacker
The Cruel Sea – Nicholas Monsarrat
Runner – Elizabeth Hawkins
The Tin Princess [etc] – Phillip Pullman
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
Invasion of the Body Snatchers – Jack Finney
Beyond the Hanging Wall – Sara Douglass
Knights of the Lost Domain – Julian Atterton
Knights of the Sacred Blade
His Majesty’s Starship – Ben Jeapes
Postcards from No Man’s Land – Aidan Chambers
Bowman of Crécy – Ronald Welch
Witch Child – Celia Rees
Stig of the Dump – Clive King
The Otterbury Incident – C Day Lewis
Harry and the Wrinklies – Alan Temperley
Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
Flour Babies – Anne Fine
Tulku – Peter Dickinson
A Bone from a Dry Sea
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
The Man Called Thursday – GK Chesterton
Ghost Dance – Susan Price
The Sterkarm Handshake
The Bearwood Witch
Rebecca – Daphne DuMaurier
Jamaica Inn
The King’s General
Ivanhoe [etc] – Sir Walter Scott
Sense and Sensibility [etc] – Jane Austen
The Pickwick Papers [etc] – Charles Dickens
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [etc] – Jules Verne
The Count of Monte Cristo [etc] – Alexandre Dumas
The Mark of the Horse Lord [etc] – Rosemary Sutcliffe
The Other Side of Truth – Beverly Naidoo

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