Read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Pip, Magwitch on the marshes and Miss Havisham's rotting cake.

Dickens' favourite child, from a blacking factory to a writer's desk; Micawber and Uriah Heep.

A lawsuit that outlives everyone in it, and the fog over Chancery; Dickens' biggest novel.

Charlie's letters through his first year of high school; the tunnel song.

Lyra, her daemon and armoured bears in an Oxford that is not ours; His Dark Materials begins.

Two boys at an English grammar school fall in love; the webcomic that became a Netflix series.

A miner's son in Nottinghamshire, his mother and the women he cannot love; Lawrence's autobiography.

A girl raised alone in the North Carolina marsh and a murder trial; the bestseller of the 2010s.