Maryam Fatimah has been homeschooling her children for over 13 years and has created a rich culture of reading high-quality books at home. Her children are avid readers and have an impressive library of books mashaAllah. Here, Maryam shares some of her favourite books and series, for children from age 5 all the way up to adult readers.
Do you have a favourite book that's not on this list? Or one you see that you'd highly recommend? Please email us your ideas and suggestions, which we can add to this list.
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For 5 - 8 year olds
L. Frank Baum
Wizard of Oz
Enid Blyton
Adventure series
Famous Five series
Secret series
Six Cousins
Michael Bond
Paddington Bear
Dorothy Edwards
My Naughty Little Sister
A. A. Milne
Winnie the Pooh
Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Dick King Smith
Sophie’s Adventures
Pamela Lyndon Travers
Mary Poppins
G. C. Warner
Boxcar Children
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For 8 - 12 year olds
Louise Alcott
Eight Cousins
Little Women
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
The Chalet School series
Marguerite Henry
King of the Wind
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Lord Fauntleroy
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
C. S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe series
Jack London
The Call of the Wild
Ralph Moody
Little Britches series
Edith Nesbit
The Railway Children
George Orwell
Animal Farm
Eleanor H. Porter
Pollyanna
Arthur Ransome
Swallows and Amazons series
Ian Serraillier
The Silver Sword
Anna Sewell
Black Beauty
Johanna Spyri
Heidi
J. R. R. Tolkien
Laura Ingells Wilder
Little House on the Prairie series
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For 12 - 15 year olds
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
The Chalet School series
C. S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters
George Orwell
Animal Farm
J. R. R. Tolkien
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For 15 year olds and beyond
Muhammad Asad
The Road to Mecca
Jane Austen
Agatha Christie
Charles Dickens
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes series
Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South
Marmaduke Pickthall
The Early Hours
Oriental Encounters
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
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For Advanced Readers
George Elliot
Thomas Hardy
George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty Four
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace