CBSE Recommended Reading List

Here is the list of books recommended by CBSE under CCE to promote reading habit among children.

Majority of these books are available in our school library. Many of the books can be download free from Amazon (links provided) now and others available at attractive discounts.



Class V to VI

• TheNoddy Series – Enid Blyton


• Talesfrom Panchtantra


• KaradiTales


• TheYoung Visitors- Daisy Ashford


• Thewind in the Willows-Kenneth Graham


• TheTale of Mr. Tod- Beatrix Potter


• Gulliver’sTravels- Jonathan Swift


• TheFamous Five Series - Enid Blyton


• TheHappy Prince – Oscar Wilde


• Charlie and theChocolate Factory- RoaldDahl

For classes VII and VIII:

1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain (Kindle version available for free download now)

2. The Adventures of Hucklebury Finn – Mark Twain  (Kindle version available for free download now)

3. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

4. Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne

5. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells  (Kindle version available for free download now)

6. Harry Potter – The Series – J K Rowling

7. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the sea – H.G. Wells

8. Books by James Herriott

9. The Curious Case of a Dog in the Nighttime – Alexander McCall Smith

10. Stories by Roald Dahl

For classes IX and X

1. Books by Agatha Christie

2. Books by Arthur Conan Doyle

3. The Room on the Roof – Ruskin Bond

4. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

5. The Call of the Wild – Jack London

6. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
– Kate Douglas Wiggin (Kindle version available for free download now)

7. The Canterville Ghost – Oscar Wilde

8. The Great Grammatizator and other Stories – Roald Dahl

9. Snappy Surprises – Ruskin Bond

10. Moby Dick – Herman Melville

11. Artemis Fowl series - Eoin Colfer

12. Daddy Long Legs - Jean Webster

13. School Stories by P.G. Wodehouse

For classes XI and XII

1. Father Brown – GK Chesterton  (Kindle version available for free download now)

2. Pay It Forward

3. Uncle Tom’s cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe

4. To kill a Mocking Bird – Harper Lee

5. Animal Farm – George Orwell

6. Nineteen eighty four-George Orwell

7. Short Story Collections By Indian Authors

8. Books by Jane Austen (Kindle version available for free download now)

9. Books by George Elliot

10. Books by Charlotte Bronte (The Professor available free for Kindle now)

11. Books by Emily Bronte

12. Pickwick Papers
- Charles Dickens

13. The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

14. Three men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome

15. My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell

16. Rosie is My Relative
- Gerald Durrell

17. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Other Books and Authors suggested by the Committee:

1. Satyajeet Ray

2. RK Narayan

3. Sudha Murthy

4. Ismat Chugtai

5. Vikas Swaroop

6. APJ Abdul Kalam

7. Mark Twain

8. Guy de Maupassant

9. O’Henry