The 50 Books

Here are the books Luke will be reading. We've included links to Amazon in case you are interested in reading any of them with us, although there was one we could not find. We might make a couple of tweaks to the list but I'll explain about that in a minute:

1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass - reviewed here
2. Pinocchio - reviewed here
3. Emil and the Detectives - reviewed here
4. Swallows and Amazons - reviewed here
5. Blackhearts at Battersea - reviewed here
6. The Owl Service - reviewed here
7. The Phantom Toll Booth - reviewed here
8. Moominsummer Madness - reviewed here
9. A Hundred Million Francs - reviewed here
10. The Castafiore Emerald - reviewed here
11. The Star of Kazan - reviewed here
12. A Christmas Carol - reviewed here
13. Just William - reviewed here
14. The Happy Prince - reviewed here
15. The Elephant's Child - reviewed here
16. Treasure Island - reviewed here
17. The Old Man and the Sea - reviewed here
18. The Man Who Planted Trees - reviewed here
19. The Singing Tree - reviewed here
20. The Secret Garden - reviewed here
21. Refugee Boy - reviewed here
22. Finn Family Moomintroll - replaced by this review (see notes below)
23. Diary of a Wimpy Kid - reviewed here
24. I Capture The Castle - Luke played a wild card, reviewed here
25. The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings - reviewed here
26. The Tygrine Cat - reviewed here
27. Carry On Jeeves - reviewed here
28. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - reviewed here
29. Moving Pictures - reviewed here
30. The Story of Tracy Beaker - reviewed here
31. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - reviewed here
32. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - reviewed here
33. Mistress Masham's Repose
34. Little Women
35. How To Be Topp - reviewed here
36. Stormbreaker - reviewed here
37. Private Peaceful - reviewed here
38. Artemis Fowl - reviewed here
39. The Silver Sword - reviewed here
40. Animal Farm
41. Skellig - reviewed here
42. Red Cherry Red - reviewed here
43. Talkin Turkeys - reviewed here
44. Greek Myths - reviewed here
45. People Might Hear You - reviewed here
46. Noughts and Crosses - reviewed here
47. Einstein's Underpants and How They Saved The World - reviewed here
48. After The First Death - reviewed here
49. The London Eye Mystery - reviewed here
50. Beano Annual - reviewed here

Those that chose the Moomin books both said any one of the series would do, so we think reading just one of them will satisfy the challenge. Luke's read a few of the titles on this list already himself (although he was faintly insulted by the inclusion of Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, which he thinks is for 9 year olds). As long as he can remember enough about them to do his review we'll tick them off his list. We don't think we'll bother with the version of Greek myths listed here and Luke has pretty much memorised them from the wonderful D'aulaire's Greek Myths so I think we've got that covered.

I'm relieved to see we own a fair few of the books already. Otherwise it might have become a rather expensive project as not all that many seem to be available at the library!

Personally, I think Little Women will present the biggest challenge for Luke in both style and content, but I look forward to seeing what he thinks of them all.