My list of nearly 50 books that every kid/YA should read - not in order of preference

11 April 2011

1. Ranjit Lal
2. Paro Anand
3. The assamese writer - Kaziranga Trail
4. All the CBT and NBT writers 
5. Anushka Ravishankar - Moin and the Monster
6. Shreekumar Varma
7. Samina Mishra
8. Anil Menon
9. Anu Kumar 
10. Anupa Lal
11. Subhadra Sengupta
12. Srivi Kalyan
13. Jaya Mahadevan
14. C S Lewis
15. Anne of Green Gables Series
16. The Barchester Tower series
17. The three musketeer series
18. War and Peace
19. A suitable boy
20. Hardy - all of his novels and short stories
21. DHL - does he count? 
22. Enid Blyton
23. Noel Streatfield
24. Agatha Christie
25. Peter Ackroyd
26. Asimov
27. Target, Tinkle, Panchatantra, Jataka Tales and Amar Chitra Katha 
28.  Pickwick Papers
29. Count of Monte cristo
30. Huck Finn
31. The three investigators
32. The Saint series
33. PG Wodehouse
34. All the sci fi including Ray Bradbury, Asimov, Gene Roddenberry etc
35. PPH books like Vasilisa the beautiful, Raggity the cloud, all the Ivan books, stories about Lenin
36. Byron?
37. Gerald Durrell
38. Arthur Mee encyclopeadias
39. Enid Blyton
40. R L Stevenson
41. The Three Musketeer series
42. Arthurian legends
43. Fairy tales, including the Andrew Lang and Grimm fairy tales 
44. Folk tales
45. Charles and Mary Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare
46. Ken Spillman
47. Peter Pan
48. Nat Hentoff - This School is Killing Me
49. BFG
50. Oscar Wilde
51. E Nesbitt - Railway Children, Five Children and It etc
52. Thomas Hardy
53. Calvo and Hobbes, Snoopy and Charlie Brown, Archie comics, Dennis the Menace, Richie Rich, Superman, Spiderman, Phantom, Batman, etc. 
54. Michael Morpurgo - totally briliant
55. Robin Hood