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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35 so far, I’m in the middle of Great Expectations and Of Mice and Men at the moment.
Every 22 Redwall books should be on here because each are as awesome as anyone of these books.
i got sick at the 18 one
i agree
wheres the kingdom series its like the best series ever!
r u talking about the christen 1s? if so i agree
I’v read Where the Red Fern Grows 15 times and I still cry at the end and I’m not afraid to admit it.
Best. Book. Ever!
i mean 46
ive read40
I’ve read 45!
ok, WHERE is the mysterious benedict society?
Where is Redwall, Fablehaven, Eragon, and the new Beyonders
Redwall is a good series.
you have great taste in books
There can only be 1 best.