100 Books That Every Kid Should Read
Boys’ Life has provided 100 years of great reading. Here are 100 other titles that every kid should read. Some suggestions will require parental guidance.
The 39 Clues (series)
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tintin (series)
Aesop’s Fables
The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Artemis Fowl (series)
Babe the Gallant Pig
Billy Budd
Black Like Me
The Book Thief
Bridge to Terabithia
Bud, Not Buddy
The Butter Battle Book
The Call of the Wild
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlotte’s Web
The Chosen
A Christmas Carol
The Chronicles of Narnia (series)
David Copperfield
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)
Doctor Dolittle (series)
Dune
Encyclopedia Brown (series)
Falling Up
Far North
Football Genius
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Giving Tree
The Graveyard Book
Great Expectations
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
The Hardy Boys (series)
Harriet the Spy (series)
Harry Potter (series)
Hatchet
The Hobbit
Holes
Horton Hears a Who!
The Hunger Games
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
James and the Giant Peach
A Light in the Attic
Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Rings (series)
Magic Treehouse (series)
Maniac Magee
Maximum Ride (series)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM
My Side of the Mountain
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
Old Yeller
On My Honor
The Outsiders
Percy Jackson & the Olympians (series)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Phantom Tollbooth
Robinson Crusoe
The Sea Wolf
A Separate Peace
A Series of Unfortunate Events (series)
Shiloh
Sounder
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairy Stupid Tales
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stuart Little
Sunrise Over Fallujah
The Sword in the Stone
The Tale of Despereaux
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
The Time Machine
To Build a Fire
To Kill a Mockingbird
Travel Team
Treasure Island
Tuck Everlasting
Tuesdays with Morrie
The War of the Worlds
Watership Down
Wayside School (series)
The Westing Game
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Where the Red Fern Grows
Where the Wild Things Are
White Fang
Wonder
A Wrinkle in Time
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Wish there were Eragon(series) Books:Eragon,Eldest,Brisingr,Coming in 2011 (It has a green cover) Author:Christopher Paolini
My Mom gave me most of these books to read before this list ever came out 🙂 . Great reference. Buut, they should put what ages probably would like them.
yeah.
I have allready read most of these
Ive read most of these already… 🙂
Harry Potter is fine too. I understand your thoughts, myself having a Christian background. Have you read them? Very fun fantasy. Classics are wonderful. Parents need to read or re-read too. I am.
Harry Potter is good and probably will become a classic eventually but right now it’s not old enough.
The later diskworld series have gotten darker and less fun to read. Also my favorites missing from the list were Tripods, Day of the triffids, and Harlon Ellison’s Memos from Pergatory. Overall, a good list.
Great reference list. My oldest has read at least 25 of these, including lots of the series.
Not too bad of a list with a few exceptions (Harry Potter). I would like to see more Christian authors.
Harry Potter rules and just because it’s about wizards doesn’t mean it teaches witchcraft!
In response to “The Indian”, I think Harry Potter should be on there. I know a lot of people object to books that contain references to magic, but I don’t really think that you should worry about that with Harry Potter. It is rather dark though.
I think that Inheritance series-Eragon,Eldest,Brisingr should be on there as well. Speaking of which, I wonder when Christopher will finish the series.
harry potter rules!
right on!
Cool! Add 1 next year!
The reason they made 1 this year is only because it’s the 100 year anniversary of BL