34 UKYA(ish) Books You Should Read But Probably Haven't

Classic Children's/YA returns next week, but first, after a couple of posts on Twitter, I got to thinking what would be my absolute favourite books of all time by UK authors? And what are the books that not enough bloggers are talking about? I was surprised to find there was a significant overlap, so here - either because they're a bit older, or because they seem to be flying under the radar - are 34 recommendations.

Edit: I restricted it to books either currently in print or at least available on Kindle (explaining the lack of my beloved Drina series and of The Chalet School in Exile, amongst others.)

Thanks go to LH Johnson, Faye, Debbie and Sue Ransom and her daughter for giving me feedback on what counted as 'under the radar'. (There are a few borderline calls, generally made by looking at number of ratings/reviews on Goodreads as a very rough estimate of popularity amongst bloggers - I know several bloggers who love The Bone Dragon, but it's one of those books that EVERYONE should read rather than just quite a few people. Susie Day's staggeringly great Pea series seems to have less bloggers raving about it than her also-wonderful YA books, as well. And I'm pleased that quite a few teens today still love I Capture The Castle, for example, but anyone who hasn't read it needs to do so NOW!)

As ever, comments would be awesome! (Unless you're trying to sell me whatever 50% of my recent commenters have been trying to sell me, in which case, not today thank you.) For those not trying to sell stuff, how many have you read? Any you particularly agree/disagree with? What would be on your list?

Autumn Term	Antonia Forest	classic children's
Clever Polly series	Catherine Storr	classic children's
Dark is Rising sequence	Susan Cooper	classic children's
Five Children And It	E Nesbit	classic children's
I Capture The Castle	Dodie Smith	classic children's
Jennings series	Anthony Buckeridge	classic children's
The Snow Spider	Jenny Nimmo	classic children's
Mike series	PG Wodehouse	classic children's
The Dark Behind The Curtain	Gillian Cross	classic children's
Trebizon series	Anne Digby	classic children's
Tulip Touch	Anne Fine	classic children's
Whispers in the Graveyard	Theresa Breslin	classic children's
Dougal Trump series	Jackie Marchant	MG
For The Record	Ellie Irving	MG
Life, Death and Gold Leather Trousers	Fiona Foden	MG
My Big Fat Teen Crisis	Jenny Smith	MG
Pea's Book series	Susie Day	MG
Black Sheep	Na'ima B Robert	YA
Daylight Saving	Edward Hogan	YA
Debutantes series	Cora Harrison	YA
Have A Little Faith	Candy Harper	YA
Heroic	Phil Earle	YA
In Bloom	Matthew Crow	YA
Lottie Biggs trilogy	Hayley Long	YA
Love in Revolution	BR Collins	YA
My Family and Other Freaks	Carol Midgley	YA
St Thomas's books	Simon Packham	YA
Tarzan series	Andy Briggs	YA
The Bone Dragon	Alexia Casale	YA
The Summer of Telling Tales	Laura Summers	YA
The Things We Did For Love	Natasha Farrant	YA
Weirdos vs Quimboids	Natasha Desborough	YA
Lost Art Of Keeping Secrets	Eva Rice	Adult but teen characters
Coming Home	Rosamunde Pilcher	adult, but characters teens for part.