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