Rosie Sumner's Recommended Reads

The following list is a compilation of some of the books, book series and stage or screenplays that I have read and would highly recommend. They are only some of my most beloved literary works and are listed in no particular order as I cannot begin to choose even my top five favourites, in the words of Neil Gaiman “Picking five favourite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose”, it is also a certainty that this list will always continue to grow. They are all my most cherished books and all for many different reasons (another contributing factor as to why I cannot select my most favoured or rather the many that I favour).  I hope that you will adore them as much as I do and maybe even adopt some as your own treasured reads. -Rosie Sumner

*-Indicates that a recommendation is part of a series and/or has books that accompany it and may be deemed optional reads.  

1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy (First in ‘Trilogy of Five’)- Douglas Adams *
2. The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-time- Mark Haddon
3. The Hobbit- J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Lord of The Rings- J.R.R. Tolkien *
5. The Shadow of the Wind-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
6. Cogheart-Peter Bunzl
7. The Nation’s Favourite Poems- (A series of anthologies compiled by the BBC)*
8. Jekyll and Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson
9. Northern Lights (first in his dark materials trilogy)- Phillip Pullman *
10. Miss Peregrine’s home for Peculiar children (first in trilogy)- Ransom Riggs *
11. Tales of the Peculiar (Accompanies Miss Peregrine’s)- Ransom Riggs*
12. Red Queen series- Victoria Aveyard *
13. Cruel Crown- Victoria Aveyard (Accompanies Red Queen)*
14. Perfume-Patrick Suskind
15. The Pigeon- Patrick Suskind
16. The Last Wild-Piers Torday*
17. Sabrina Fludde- Pauline Fisk
18. Waterfire Saga series- Jennifer Donnelley *
19. The Giver (first in quartet)- Lois Lowry *
20. The Girl of Ink and Stars- Kiran Milwood-Hargrave
21. The Unforgotten Coat-Frank Cottrell-Boyce
22. The Watchers- Dean. R. Koontz
23. Animal Farm-George Orwell
24. Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984- George Orwell
25. Throne of Glass series- Sarah J. Maas *
26. Wonder- Raquel J. Palacio*
27. One- Sarah Crossan
28. The Magpie and the Wardrobe- Alexandrine Portelli and Sam Mckechnie
29. The Book Thief- Markus Zusak
30. Macbeth-William Shakespeare
31. Hamlet-William Shakespeare
32. Romeo and Juliet- William Shakespeare
33. King Lear-William Shakespeare
34. A Midsummer Night’s Dream-William Shakespeare
35. The Tempest-William Shakespeare
36. Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman *
37. Love, Rosie- Cecelia Ahern (also alternatively published as ‘Where Rainbows End’)
38. The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
39. An Inspector Calls-John Boynton Priestley
40. Sherlock Holmes series- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle *
41. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking-glass- Lewis Carrol *
42. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe- (an anthology compiled by Racepoint Publishing)
43. Bright Star- (an anthology of selected works by John Keats compiled by Vintage Classics)
44. Once- Morris Gleitzman *
45. Tilly’s Moonlight Fox- Julia Green
46. Oh! The places you’ll go- Dr. Seuss
47. Redwall- Brian Jaques *
48. Me Before You- Jojo Moyes*
49. Flawed- Cecilia Ahern *
50. Haunted Liverpool- Tom Slemen *
51. If You could see me now- Cecelia Ahern
52. The Great Gatsby- F. Scott. Fitzgerald
53. Solomon’s Tale/Solomon’s Kitten* Sheila Jeffries
54. A Street Cat named Bob* James Bowen
55. Doctor Strange: The beginning- Marvel Publishers
56.  Watership Down- Richard Adams*
57. All the bright places-Jennifer Niven
58. Varjak Paw-S.F. Said*
59. How I live Now-Meg Rosoff
60. The Perks of being a wallflower-Stephen Chbosky
61. Century-Sarah Singleton
62. The Fox and The Star- Coralie Bickford-Smith
63. The Secret of Nightingale Wood- Lucy Strange
64. A Thousand Nights*- E.K Johnston
65. Inkheart*- Cornelia Funke
66. More Than This-Patrick Ness
67. The rest of us just live here-Patrick Ness
68. A Monster Calls-Patrick Ness
69. Amphigorey*-Edward Gorey
70. The Doubtful Guest-Edward Gorey
71. Harry Potter- J.K Rowling*
72.  The Hogwarts Library Trilogy (Accompanies the Harry Potter Series)- J.K Rowling*
73. The Cursed Child (Original Stage-play Script)- J.K Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany*
74. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them- (original screenplay)- J.K Rowling*
75. The Diaries of Adrian Mole- Sue Townsend*