The 100 Best Children’s Books of the 21st Century

By Tygertale Children's Books

By Tygertale Children's Books

The 100 Best Children’s Books of the 21st Century

Crowdsourced from 1000 votes for tygertale.com, a list of the top 100 children's books published between 2001 and 2020. 
 

A Monster Calls

Siobhan Dowd, Patrick Ness, et al.

£9.99
£9.29

The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas

£7.99
£7.43

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

J. K. Rowling

£8.99
£8.36

I Want My Hat Back

Jon Klassen

£7.99
£7.43

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

£8.99
£8.36

Mortal Engines

Philip Reeve

£7.99
£7.43

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

£7.99
£7.43

The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness

£7.99
£7.43

The Arrival

Shaun Tan

£10.99
£10.22

Varjak Paw

SF Said and Dave McKean

£6.99
£6.50

The House with Chicken Legs

Sophie Anderson and Elisa Paganelli

£7.99
£7.43

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1)

Rick Riordan

£7.99
£7.43

Rooftoppers

Katherine Rundell

£7.99
£7.43

The Lost Words: Rediscover our natural world with this...

Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris

£20.00
£18.60

Oi Frog!

Kes Gray and Jim Field

£6.99
£6.50

Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer

£7.99
£7.43

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow Book 1

Jessica Townsend

£7.99
£7.43

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The...

Mark Haddon

£7.99
£7.43

The Wee Free Men: A Tiffany Aching Novel

Terry Pratchett and Laura Ellen Andersen

£7.99
£7.43

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

£7.99
£7.43

The Explorer: WINNER OF THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2017

Katherine Rundell and Hannah Horn

£7.99
£7.43

The Poet X - WINNER OF THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019

Elizabeth Acevedo

£8.99
£8.36

You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum!

Andy Stanton and David Tazzyman

£6.99
£6.50

The Legend of Podkin One-Ear

Kieran Larwood and David Wyatt

£7.99
£7.43

How I Live Now

Meg Rosoff

£8.99
£8.36

Once

Morris Gleitzman

£6.99
£6.50

Noughts & Crosses

Malorie Blackman

£7.99
£7.43

The Day The Crayons Quit

Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers

£7.99
£7.43

The Skylarks' War

Hilary McKay

£7.99
£7.43

Room on the Broom

Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

£6.99
£6.50

Chronicles of Ancient Darkness: Wolf Brother: Book 1 in the...

Michelle Paver

£7.99
£7.43

Skulduggery Pleasant

Derek Landy

£6.99
£6.50

Inkheart (2020 reissue)

Cornelia Funke

£8.99
£8.36

Coraline

Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell

£7.99
£7.43

The Wizards of Once: Book 1

Cressida Cowell

£7.99
£7.43

Code Name Verity

Elizabeth Wein

£8.99
£8.36

The Paper Dolls

Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb

£7.99
£7.43

Millions

Frank Cottrell Boyce and Steven Lenton

£7.99
£7.43

The Girl who Speaks Bear

Sophie Anderson and Kathrin Honesta

£7.99
£7.43

Across the Nightingale Floor

Lian Hearn

£8.99
£8.36

How to Train Your Dragon: Book 1

Cressida Cowell

£7.99
£7.43

Fortunately, the Milk . . .

Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell

£6.99
£6.50

A Boy Called Christmas

Matt Haig and Chris Mould

£7.99
£7.43

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo

£25.00
£23.25

The Lie Tree

Frances Hardinge

£8.99
£8.36

Wonder

R. J. Palacio

£7.99
£7.43

Railhead

Philip Reeve

£7.99
£7.43

I, Coriander

Sally Gardner

£7.99
£7.43

The London Eye Mystery

Siobhan Dowd

£7.99
£7.43

Letters from the Lighthouse

Emma Carroll

£7.99
£7.43

Julian Is a Mermaid

Jessica Love

£7.99
£7.43

Rollercoasters The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Boyne

£9.99

Refugee Boy

Benjamin Zephaniah

£7.99
£7.43

The Boy At the Back of the Class

Onjali Q. Rauf and Pippa Curnick

£7.99
£7.43

CHERUB: The Recruit: Book 1

Robert Muchamore

£7.99
£7.43

La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One: From the world...

Philip Pullman

£8.99
£8.36

The War That Saved My Life

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

£6.99
£6.50

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

Mo Willems

£7.99
£7.43

Long Way Down

Jason Reynolds and Chris Priestley

£7.99
£7.43

Cloud Busting: Puffin Poetry

Malorie Blackman

£6.99
£6.50

Scorpia

Anthony Horowitz

£7.99
£7.43

The Girl of Ink & Stars

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

£7.99
£7.43

Beetle Boy

M.G. Leonard

£6.99
£6.50

Throne of Glass

Sarah J. Maas

£8.99
£8.36

Wed Wabbit

Lissa Evans

£6.99
£6.50

Brightstorm: A Sky-Ship Adventure

Vashti Hardy

£7.99
£7.43

The Book With No Pictures

B. J. Novak

£6.99
£6.50

Black Dog

Levi Pinfold

£6.99
£6.50

Lirael: The Old Kingdom 3

Garth Nix

£8.99
£8.36

The Brilliant World of Tom Gates

Liz Pichon

£7.99
£7.43

The Worst Princess

Anna Kemp and Sara Ogilvie

£6.99
£6.50

Framed

Frank Cottrell Boyce

£7.99
£7.43

Mrs Noah's Pockets

Jackie Morris

£12.99
£12.08

Five Children on the Western Front

Kate Saunders

£7.99
£7.43

Lost and Found

Oliver Jeffers

£6.99
£6.50

Raymie Nightingale

Kate DiCamillo

£6.99
£6.50

The Murderer's Ape

Jakob Wegelius

£9.99
£9.29

The Storm Whale

Benji Davies

£6.99
£6.50

Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase: Book 1

Jonathan Stroud

£7.99
£7.43

Pax

Sara Pennypacker and Jon Klassen

£7.99
£7.43

Who Let the Gods Out?

Maz Evans

£7.99
£7.43

The Bear and the Piano

David Litchfield

£6.99
£6.50

My Swordhand is Singing

Marcus Sedgwick

£7.99
£7.43

A Song for Ella Grey

David Almond

£7.99
£7.43

You Choose

Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt

£6.99
£6.50

Phoenix

SF Said and Dave McKean

£6.99
£6.50

There May Be a Castle

Piers Torday

£7.99
£7.43

Vango: Between Sky and Earth

Timothee de Fombelle

£8.99
£8.36

Life: An Exploded Diagram

Mal Peet

£8.99
£8.36

If All the World Were...

Joseph Coelho and Ms. Allison Colpoys

£6.99
£6.50

High-Rise Mystery

Sharna Jackson

£6.99
£6.50

The Orphans of St Halibut's

Sophie Wills and David Tazzyman

£7.99
£7.43

The Midnight Guardians

Ross Montgomery

£7.99
£7.43

The Space We're In: from the winner of the Yoto Carnegie...

Katya Balen and Laura Carlin

£6.99
£6.50

Bearmouth

Liz Hyder

£7.99
£7.43

The End

Lemony Snicket

£6.99
£6.50
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