What’s happening in the library?

Four categories:

• 20th Century Classics
• Modern Award-winners
• Children’s Classics
• Literary Classics

A. 20^th Century Classics

• The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — by Douglas Adams – or others in the series
• Watership Down — by Richard Adams
• Foundation – by Isaac Asimov – or one of its sequels, e.g., Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation
• Farenheit 451 or The Martian Chronicles — by Ray Bradbury
• A mystery by Agatha Christie, such as Murder on the Orient Express, or The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, or And Then There were None
• Rebecca – by Daphne Du Maurier
• My Family and Other Animals – by Gerald Durrell
• The Diary of a Young Girl – by Anne Frank
• Dune – by Frank Herbert – or another book in the series
• Kon Tiki – by Thor Heyerdahl
• The Iron Man — by Ted Hughes
• A Wizard of Earthsea – by Ursula Le Guin – or another in the same series – or The Left Hand of Darkness
• Ring of Bright Water – by Gavin Maxwell
• 1984 or Animal Farm – both by George Orwell
• The Little Prince – by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Daughter of Time — by Josephine Tey
• The Hobbit or a book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy — by JRR Tolkien
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 ½ — by Sue Townsend – or others in the series
• The Time Machine or War of the Worlds — by H.G. Wells
• The Once and Future King or The Sword in the Stone — by T.H. White
• The Day of the Triffids – by John Wyndham

B. Modern Award-winners

• The Book of Three – by Lloyd Alexander – or others in the Prydain Chronicles
• It’s Not About the Bike – by Lance Armstrong
• Tuck Everlasting – by Natalie Babbitt
• Anna of Byzantium – by Tracey Barnett
• Ender’s Game – by Orson Scott Card – or others in the series
• Mama’s Babies – by Gary Crew
• Mao’s Last Dancer – by Li Cunxin
• Boy – by Roald Dahl – or its sequel Going Solo
• Enchantress from the Stars – by Sylvia Engdahl – or its sequel The Far Side of Evil
• The House of the Scorpion – by Nancy Farmer
• The Tulip Touch – by Anne Fine
• The Thief Lord – by Cornelia Funke – or Dragon Rider, or Inkheart or its sequel Inkspell
• Sophie’s World – by Jostein Gaarder
• Across the Nightingale Floor – by Lian Hearn – or others in the Otori series
• Redwall – by Brian Jacques – or another in the series
• The Dark Lord of Derkholm – by Diana Wynne Jones – or Howl’s Moving Castle
• A Pack of Lies – by Geraldine McCaughrean
• Mandragora – by David McRobbie
• The Changeover or Memory – by Margaret Mahy
• Z for Zachariah – by Robert C. O’Brien
• The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents – by Terry Pratchett – or Wee Free Men or its sequel A Hat Full of Sky
• The Sterkarm Handshake – by Susan Price – or its sequel The Sterkarm Kiss
• Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) – by Philip Pullman – or others in His Dark Materials trilogy
• Homecoming – by Cynthia Voigt – or another in the series

C. Children’s Classics

• Peter Pan – by J.M. Barrie
• Carrie’s War – by Nina Bawden
• The Secret Garden – by Frances Hodgson Burnett – or A Little Princess
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – by Lewis Carroll – or Through the Looking Glass
• Julie of the Wolves – by Jean Craighead George – or one of its sequels
• The Wind in the Willows – by Kenneth Grahame
• The Mouse and his Child – by Russell Hoban

• Finn Family Moomintroll – by Tove Jansson – or others in the series
• The Phantom Tollbooth – by Norton Juster
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – by C.S. Lewis – or others in the Narnia Chronicles
• The Magic Pudding – by Norman Lindsay
• Anne of Green Gables – by L.M. Montgomery – or any of its sequels
• The Borrowers – by Mary Norton – or another in the series
• Tom’s Midnight Garden – by Philippa Pearce
• Swallows and Amazons – by Arthur Ransome – or any of its sequels
• The Silver Sword – by Ian Serraillier
• One Hundred and One Dalmatians – by Dodie Smith – or its sequel The Starlight Barking
• Heidi – by Johanna Spyri
• The Eagle of the Ninth – by Rosemary Sutcliff
• Charlotte’s Web – by E. B. White
• Mistress Masham’s Repose – by T.H. White
• Tarka the Otter – by Henry Williamson
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm – Kate Douglas Wiggin

D. Literary Classics

• Little Women – by Louise May Alcott – or one its sequels
• The Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen
• Jane Eyre – by Charlotte Bronte
• Wuthering Heights – by Emily Bronte
• Robinson Crusoe – by Daniel Defoe
• Oliver Twist – by Charles Dickens – or A Tale of Two Cities
• The Hound of the Baskervilles – by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – or any of his other books
• The Count of Monte Cristo – by Alexander Dumas – or The Man in the Iron Mask or The Three Musketeers
• Moonfleet – by J. Meade Falkner
• King Solomon’s Mines – by H. Rider Haggard
• The Prisoner of Zenda – by Anthony Hope – or its sequel Rupert of Hentzau
• The Metamorphosis – by Franz Kafka
• Just So Stories – by Rudyard Kipling – or The Jungle Book or Kim
• Phantom of the Opera – by Gaston Leroux
• The Call of the Wild – by Jack London – or White Fang
• 1001 Arabian Nights – retold by Geraldine McCaughrean — or another version
• The Scarlet Pimpernel – by Baroness Orczy
• Black Beauty – by Anna Sewell
• Treasure Island – by R.L. Stevenson – or Kidnapped or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Dracula – by Bram Stoker
• Gulliver’s Travels – by Jonathan Swift
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – by Mark Twain – or Huckleberry Finn or The Prince and the Pauper
• Journey to the Center of the Earth – by Jules Verne – or 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• The Picture of Dorian Gray – by Oscar Wilde