The Complete Matilda Wormwood Reading List

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

"The books transported her into new worlds."

--- Matilda