Ten books every schoolchild should read

The Royal Society of Literature invited the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, Philip Pullman and Joanne Rowling to nominate ten books that every child should read before they leave school. And good grief, what a kerfuffle it's caused!

You can read my full take on this at my Blogspot. Meanwhile, here's my list. What's yours, I wonder?

1. William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
   
2. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
   
3. Charles Dickens: Bleak House
   
4. Robert Browning: Men and Women
   
5. George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss
   
6. Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
   
7. D H Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
   
8. Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory
   
9. Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus
   
10. Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon
    

(And as with all lists, it's painful having to leave things out.)