--- title: Roald Dahl: Vote Your Favorite Books to Mark 100th Birthday description: Tuesday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Roald Dahl, the beloved author of dozens of children's books spanning the 20th century canonical: https://time.com/4483825/roald-dahl-anniversary-best-books/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-12T13:20:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:28:17.471Z article:section: History og:title: Vote for Your Favorite Roald Dahl Books og:description: To mark the 100th anniversary of his birth og:url: https://time.com/4483825/roald-dahl-anniversary-best-books/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcf60eefd445dbdc/6988a53ecd1bba7ee27023d7/roald-dahl-cover.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: roald-dahl-cover og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Vote for Your Favorite Roald Dahl Books twitter:description: To mark the 100th anniversary of his birth twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcf60eefd445dbdc/6988a53ecd1bba7ee27023d7/roald-dahl-cover.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Vote for Your Favorite Roald Dahl Books 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. Roald Dahl books from left, Dirty Beasts, Boy, and Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life.Roald Dahl by [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: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4483825/roald-dahl-anniversary-best-books/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4483825/roald-dahl-anniversary-best-books/"},"headline":"Vote for Your Favorite Roald Dahl Books","datePublished":"2016-09-12T13:20:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:28:17.471Z","description":"To mark the 100th anniversary of his birth","url":"https://time.com/4483825/roald-dahl-anniversary-best-books/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcf60eefd445dbdc/6988a53ecd1bba7ee27023d7/roald-dahl-cover.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcf60eefd445dbdc/6988a53ecd1bba7ee27023d7/roald-dahl-cover.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"roald-dahl-cover","caption":"Roald Dahl books from left, Dirty Beasts, Boy, and Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life.","creditText":"Roald Dahl","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4483825/roald-dahl-anniversary-best-books/","name":"Vote for Your Favorite Roald Dahl Books"}}]}] ```