If you are like Matilda Wormwood, a bibliophile who loves spending hours sitting quietly devouring one book after another, then, you are in the right place. This is a list with some of the Books Matilda read in Roald Dahl's classic tale.
How many have you read?
“I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda
Frances Hodgson Burnett | Children's Classics
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After the death of her parents, Mary is sent live in her uncle's great lonely house on the Moors where she discovers the key to a Secret Garden.
Charles Dickens | Fiction Classics
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Nicholas strives to support his mother and sister after the death of Mr. Nickleby leaves them impoverished.
Charles Dickens | Fiction Classics
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Oliver escapes from a miserable workhouse where he's spent his childhood, travels to London, and befriends Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their group of thieves.
Charlotte Bronte | Romance Classics
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A poor, abused orphan named Jane uses her cleverness and perseverance to win the love of the man she loves.
Jane Austen | Romance Classics
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The beautiful, young Elizabeth falls in love with Mr. Darcy, but he must control his pride while she tries to overcome her prejudice.
Thomas Hardy | Romance Classics
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Tess, a poor country girl is raped and becomes pregnant. When she gets married to Angel, he is infuriated to learn she had a baby by another man.
Rudyard Kipling | Children's Classics
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The tale of an Irish boy raised as an Indian in imperial India. It is the story of his coming of age in a world of high adventure, mystic quests, and the "great game" between the British and the Russians for control of Central Asia.
Herbert George Wells | Sci-Fi Classics
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A scientist creates a serum to render himself invisible, but he can't reverse it, and this and this intolerable state drives him to madness and murder.
Herman Melville | Fiction Classics
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Captain Ahab's is fueled by his desire to kill the great white whale that tore off his leg leads, but his attempts lead to disaster.
Walter Scott | Fiction Classics
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The Saxons and the Normans fight for power in England during the Reign of King Richard the Lionhearted.
James M. Barrie | Children's Classics
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Peter Pan, a little boy who can fly, experiences many adventures in Wonderland with Wendy, her brothers, Tinkerbelle, and Captain Hook.
