The year after the book was published, it received the 1989 Red House Children's Book Award. In 2000, it received the Blue Peter Book Award.[8] In 2003, Matilda was listed at number 74 in The Big Read, a BBC poll of the British public of the top 200 novels of all time.[1] In 2012 Matilda was ranked number 30 on a list of the top 100 children's novels published by School Library Journal, a monthly with primarily US audience. It was the first of four books by Dahl among the Top 100, more than any other writer.[2] Time magazine included Matilda in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time.[9] Worldwide sales have reached 17 million, and since 2016 sales have spiked to the extent that it outsells Dahl's other works.[10] In 2023, the novel was ranked by BBC at no. 10 in their poll of "The 100 greatest children's books of all time".[11]
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