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The Complete Matilda Wormwood Reading List

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Matilda, undoubtedly one of the best children's books ever written, is influential for kids and adults around the world. I believe the quote from its infamous Matilda: The Musial "Sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty." tells us everything we need to know. Below is a list of Matilda's favorite reads.

  • Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

  • The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

  • The Red Pony by John Steinbeck

  • Kim by Rudyard Kipling

  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

  • Gone to Earth by Mary Webb

  • Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens​

  • Tess of the D'Urbevilles by Thomas Hardy

  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

  • Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

  • Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

  • The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

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"The books transported her into new worlds."

--- Matilda

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