Novels I grow up with, every time I read them
- Lucy Maud Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables and everything else she wrote
- Madeleine L’Engle – The Young Unicorns and Certain Women and everything else she wrote
- Anne McCaffrey – Dragon Song, Dragon Singer, Dragon Drums, and everything else she wrote
- Ursula LeGuin – Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
- Betty Smith – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Eva Ibbotson – Journey to the River Sea
- Isabel Allende – City of the Beasts
- JK Rowling – Harry Potter
- Louisa May Alcott – Little Women and everything else she wrote
- KM Peyton – Flambards trilogy
- Johanna Spyri – Heidi
- Marguerite de Angeli – The Door in the Wall
- EL Konigsburg – From the Mixed up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler
- James Herriot – All Creatures Great and Small etc.
- CS Lewis – The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe etc.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett – A Little Princess and everything else she wrote
- Seredy – The Good Master