List: The Big Read by BBC

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Robert Tressell

Night Watch

Terry Pratchett

Sam Vimes sighed when he heard the scream, but he finished shaving before he did anything about it.

Matilda

Roald Dahl

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers.

Double Act

Jacqueline Wilson

The Twits

Roald Dahl

What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays.

I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

Holes

Louis Sachar

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

Gormenghast

Mervyn Peake

Titus is seven. His confines, Gormenghast. Suckled on shadows; weaned, as it were, on webs of ritual: for his ears, echoes, for his eyes, a labyrinth of stone: and yet within his body something other -- other than this umbrageous legacy. For first and ever foremost he is <i>child</i>.

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month.Maj je v Ajemenemu vroč, morast mesec.

Vicky Angel

Jacqueline Wilson