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# Vote for Your Favorite Roald Dahl Books

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by 

[Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/)


## Mahita Gajanan


Gajanan is an editor at TIME.

Sep 12, 2016 1:20 PM UTC

![Roald Dahl books from left, Dirty Beasts, Boy, and Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcf60eefd445dbdc/6988a53ecd1bba7ee27023d7/roald-dahl-cover.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=3:2)

Roald Dahl books from left, Dirty Beasts, Boy, and Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life.

Roald Dahl books from left, Dirty Beasts, Boy, and Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. Roald Dahl

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[Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/)


## Mahita Gajanan


Gajanan is an editor at TIME.

Sep 12, 2016 1:20 PM UTC

Tuesday marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Roald Dahl, the beloved, phizz-whizzing—a term [Dahl coined](http://wonderfuldahl.blogspot.com/p/dahl-dictionary.html) meaning “brilliant”—author of dozens of children’s books over the course of more than four decades.

Dahl’s legacy continues more than 20 years after his death—just this year, Steven Spielberg [released the film adaptation of _The BFG_](http://time.com/4336467/review-bfg-steven-spielberg-cannes/), a classic tale about a friendly giant. Several of his books have been turned into movies over the years, including _Matilda_, _Fantastic Mr Fox_ and _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_.

To mark the 100th anniversary of Dahl’s birth on Sept. 13, scroll through more than 30 of his books for children and adults and decide which ones you like best:

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