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
How About The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
The Hardy boys books ROCK!!!!!!!
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59+ of these, counting the following books in series’.
the hunger games are cool
The Chronicles of Narnia AWESOME!!!!!
Wow, I’ve only read 14 of these. By they way, thumbs up if you love Percy Jackson!
I like its raning pigs and noodles
Holes is probaly the best on this list
I have read 41, 59 to go
I love Maniac Magee.
I have read 83…..wow what a list. I was looking for some books to share with my grandson, I have found the list I was looking for. Many of these classics , I had forgotten about but the stories came back to me from the cover pages and can’t wait to share them with him. Thank you Boys Life
I’ve read so many of them, both the classics and the new popular ones
This is a great list! Thanks for the ideas for my four boys! 🙂
I’ve read 52, and a few more on are on my list. (And I should confess I’m a children’s librarian in a public library, a relatively rare guy among that breed.) This is a good list for recommendations, though a little light on picture books and shorter books for younger and beginning readers.
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Go Artemis Fowl! Although they all are amazing, my favorite is the Opal Deception.
I prefer The Time Paradox
27! boom!
They should have put Hunger Games (series) because there are 3 books in the series. I prefer the third, Mockingjay.
I think the 1st book in the hunger games series is the best written.
harry potter ROCKS!!!!!! best series ever, it should totaly be on the list!!!!
it is
the Kane series by Rick Riordan should also be on there.
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27. Sad to see so little Sci-Fi on the list. Almost anything from Robert Heinlein could pass the muster.
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What about Ender’s Game?
Must add: “If I Built a Car” by Chris van Dusen; “Ox Cart Man” by Donald Hall; “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel” by Virginia Lee Burton; “Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe” by Vera B. Williams; “The Berenstain Bears go to Camp” by Stan and Jan Berenstain; and most shockingly absent Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book”!
Harry potter series rocks!!!
Lord of the Rings is way better, bro!!!!!!!
Percy Jackson is better than both of those!
STINKY CHEEZ MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think that The nick of time series should be there and the rangers apprentice series
I’ve read 44 of these.
Read “Knightley Academy”! It’s an awesome book! I was surprised that the Charlie Bone Series wasn’t on this list. They are awesome books!
57. we did 4 as literiture books.
HUNGER GAMES ROCKS 10/10 stars!!!!!
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Gotta read em all!
Teehee
ive read 38 of them
the missing seires should be on there
agreed
PEECHTIVAL!
ive read a couple
read maybe half
I have read 100. None to go
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i read 37..more or less
If it was written by Rick Riordan, or Gary Paulsen, you better BELIEVE I have read it.
I’ve read 12 and I am working on my 13th
i have read 12 and 8 of them were series(The 39 Clues Percy Jackson & the Olympians and so on)
yes you can
I’m a girl scout and I’ve read a lot of these! I loved them all though!
I’ve read 15 of the books (Not including the full series).
I’ve Read 21.
I’ve read 16…but I want to read a lot of them if I can get my hands on them. 🙂
Everybody needs to read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Its High School reading, but an amazing book with great morals.
I’ve only read 3 of them.
I’ve read 22. 78 to go!!!!