100 Awesome Books That Every Kid Should Read!

For more than 100 years, Scout Life has featured thousands of great books. Here are 100 titles that we think every kid should read. Some of these suggestions may require parental guidance, so always check with your parent(s) before choosing a book to read.

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• "The 39 Clues" (series) by various authors
• "The Adventures of Tintin" (series) by Hergé
• "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain
• "Aesop's Fables" by Aesop
• "The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" by Michael Scott
• "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
• "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery
• "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
• "Artemis Fowl" (series) by Eoin Colfer
• "Babe the Gallant Pig" by Dick King-Smith
• "Because of Winn Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo
• "Billy Budd" by Herman Melville
• "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell
• "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
• "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
• "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
• "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
• "The Butter Battle Book" by Dr. Seuss
• "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
• "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss
• "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
• "Charlotte's Web" by E. B. White
• "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
• "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
• "The Chronicles of Narnia" (series) by C. S. Lewis
• "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" (series) by Jeff Kinney
• "Doctor Dolittle" (series) by Hugh Lofting
• "Encyclopedia Brown" (series) by Donald J. Sobol
• "Far North" by Will Hobbs
• "Football Genius" by Tim Green
• "Frog and Toad" (series) by Arnold Lobel
• "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E. L. Konigsburg
• "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
• "Grimm's Fairy Tales" by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
• "The Hardy Boys" (series) by Franklin W. Dixon
• "Harriet the Spy" (series) by Louise Fitzhugh
• "Harry Potter" (series) by J. K. Rowling
• "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
• "Heidi" by Johanna Spyri
• "The Hobbit" by J. R. R. Tolkien
• "Holes" by Louis Sachar
• "Horton Hears a Who!" by Dr. Seuss
• "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
• "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
• "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
• "A Light in the Attic" by Shel Silverstein
• "Little House on the Prairie" (series) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
• "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
• "The Lord of the Rings" (series) by J. R. R. Tolkien
• "Magic Tree House" (series) by Mary Pope Osborne
• "Make Way for Ducklings" by Robert McCloskey
• "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
• "Maximum Ride" (series) by James Patterson
• "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" by Beverly Cleary
• "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
• "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
• "Nancy Drew" (series) by Carolyn Keene
• "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry
• "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
• "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
• "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
• "On My Honor" by Marion Dane Bauer
• "The Outsiders" by S. E. Hinton
• "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" (series) by Rick Riordan
• "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
• "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe
• "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" by Mildred D. Taylor
• "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• "A Series of Unfortunate Events" (series) by Lemony Snicket
• "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
• "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales" by Jon Scieszka
• "The Story of Ferdinand" by Munro Leaf
• "Stuart Little" by E. B. White
• "Sunrise Over Fallujah" by Walter Dean Myers
• "The Sword in the Stone" by T. H. White
• "The Tale of Despereaux" by Kate DiCamillo
• "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter
• "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" by Judy Blume
• "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells
• "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
• "Travel Team" by Mike Lupica
• "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson
• "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt
• "The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams Bianco
• "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
• "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells
• "Wayside School" (series) by Louis Sachar
• "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
• "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
• "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
• "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak
• "White Fang" by Jack London
• "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
• "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame
• "Winnie-the-Pooh" (series) by A.A. Milne
• "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum
• "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
• "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle

Choose books to generate your personalized list!

• "The 39 Clues" (series) by various authors
• "The Adventures of Tintin" (series) by Hergé
• "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain
• "Aesop's Fables" by Aesop
• "The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" by Michael Scott
• "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
• "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery
• "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
• "Artemis Fowl" (series) by Eoin Colfer
• "Babe the Gallant Pig" by Dick King-Smith
• "Because of Winn Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo
• "Billy Budd" by Herman Melville
• "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell
• "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
• "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
• "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
• "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
• "The Butter Battle Book" by Dr. Seuss
• "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
• "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss
• "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
• "Charlotte's Web" by E. B. White
• "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
• "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
• "The Chronicles of Narnia" (series) by C. S. Lewis
• "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" (series) by Jeff Kinney
• "Doctor Dolittle" (series) by Hugh Lofting
• "Encyclopedia Brown" (series) by Donald J. Sobol
• "Far North" by Will Hobbs
• "Football Genius" by Tim Green
• "Frog and Toad" (series) by Arnold Lobel
• "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E. L. Konigsburg
• "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
• "Grimm's Fairy Tales" by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
• "The Hardy Boys" (series) by Franklin W. Dixon
• "Harriet the Spy" (series) by Louise Fitzhugh
• "Harry Potter" (series) by J. K. Rowling
• "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
• "Heidi" by Johanna Spyri
• "The Hobbit" by J. R. R. Tolkien
• "Holes" by Louis Sachar
• "Horton Hears a Who!" by Dr. Seuss
• "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
• "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
• "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
• "A Light in the Attic" by Shel Silverstein
• "Little House on the Prairie" (series) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
• "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
• "The Lord of the Rings" (series) by J. R. R. Tolkien
• "Magic Tree House" (series) by Mary Pope Osborne
• "Make Way for Ducklings" by Robert McCloskey
• "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
• "Maximum Ride" (series) by James Patterson
• "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" by Beverly Cleary
• "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
• "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
• "Nancy Drew" (series) by Carolyn Keene
• "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry
• "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
• "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
• "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
• "On My Honor" by Marion Dane Bauer
• "The Outsiders" by S. E. Hinton
• "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" (series) by Rick Riordan
• "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
• "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe
• "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" by Mildred D. Taylor
• "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• "A Series of Unfortunate Events" (series) by Lemony Snicket
• "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
• "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales" by Jon Scieszka
• "The Story of Ferdinand" by Munro Leaf
• "Stuart Little" by E. B. White
• "Sunrise Over Fallujah" by Walter Dean Myers
• "The Sword in the Stone" by T. H. White
• "The Tale of Despereaux" by Kate DiCamillo
• "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter
• "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" by Judy Blume
• "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells
• "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
• "Travel Team" by Mike Lupica
• "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson
• "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt
• "The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams Bianco
• "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
• "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells
• "Wayside School" (series) by Louis Sachar
• "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
• "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
• "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
• "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak
• "White Fang" by Jack London
• "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
• "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame
• "Winnie-the-Pooh" (series) by A.A. Milne
• "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum
• "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
• "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle

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