FICTION, CLASSIC

• Alcott, Louisa May
  • The Inheritance
  • Little Women
  • Little Men
  • Eight Cousins
  • Under the Lilacs
  • Jack and Jill
  • An Old-Fashioned Girl (about a girl who plays piano!)
• Austen, Jane
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Mansfield Park
  • Emma
  • Northanger Abbey
  • Persuasion
  • (She also wrote some endearing shorter works)
• Barrie, J.M.
  • Peter Pan
• Baum, L. Frank
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • (and a million sequels)
• Brontë, Anne
  • Agnes Grey
  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• Brontë, Charlotte
  • Jane Eyre
  • Villette
• Brontë, Emily
  • Wuthering Heights
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson
  • A Little Princess
  • The Secret Garden
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy
• Carroll, Lewis
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
  • (etc.)
• Crane, Stephen
  • The Red Badge of Courage
• Defoe, Daniel
  • Moll Flanders
  • Robinson Crusoe
• Dickens, Charles
  • A Christmas Carol
  • Oliver Twist
  • Great Expectations
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Bleak House
  • David Copperfield
  • (etc.)
• Dostoevsky, Fyodor
  • The Brothers Karamazov
  • Crime and Punishment
  • The Idiot
• Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
  • Every Sherlock Holmes novel and story you can find
• Dumas, Alexandre
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • The Three Musketeers
• Eliot, George
  • Middlemarch
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott
  • The Great Gatsby
  • (Check out his other works!)
• Grahame, Kenneth
  • The Reluctant Dragon
  • The Wind in the Willows
  • (There are some sequels by William Horwood)
• Grimm, Jakob & Wilhelm
  • Complete Fairy Tales
• Hardy, Thomas
  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • Jude the Obscure
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel
  • The Scarlet Letter
  • The House of Seven Gables
• Hugo, Victor
  • Les Miserables
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Irving, Washington
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Kafka, Franz
  • The Trial
• Kipling, Rudyard
  • Just So Stories
  • Kim
• Kingsley, Charles
  • The Water Babies
• Lear, Edward
  • The Book of Nonsense
  • The Pobble Who Has No Toes
  • The Owl and the Pussycat
• Milne, A.A.
  • Winnie-the-Pooh
  • The House at Pooh Corner
  • Now We Are Six
  • When We Were Very Young
• Montgomery, L.M.
  • Anne of Green Gables series (I've only read the first two or three but the rest are on my list)
  • Emily of New Moon Series
  • The Blue Castle
  • Kilmeny of the Orchard
  • Jane of Lantern Hill
• More, Thomas
  • Utopia
• Poe, Edgar Allan
  • Check out his awesome short stories
• Potter, Beatrix
  • (all her work)
• Sewell, Anna
  • Black Beauty
• Shakespeare, William
  • Macbeth
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Hamlet
  • The Tempest
  • As You Like It
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • (etc.)
• Shelley, Mary
  • Frankenstein
• Spyri, Johanna
  • Heidi
• Stevenson, Robert Louis
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Kidnapped
  • Treasure Island
• Stoker, Bram
  • Dracula
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Stratton-Porter, Gene
  • A Girl of the Limberlost
  • Freckles
  • Laddie
  • The Keeper of the Bees
  • The Harvester
• Swift, Jonathan
  • Gulliver's Travels
• Thackeray, William Makepeace
  • Vanity Fair
• Tolstoy, Leo
  • Anna Karenina
• Twain, Mark
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Tom Sawyer Abroad
  • Tom Sawyer, Detective
  • Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
  • A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage
  • The Prince and the Pauper
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  • (All of his short stories)
• Verne, Jules
  • Around the World in Eighty Days
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Earth
• Wilde, Oscar
  • (Oh my goodness, everything he wrote)
• Woolf, Virginia
  • Orlando
  • Mrs. Dalloway
  • To the Lighthouse
• Wyss, Johann
  • Swiss Family Robinson

FICTION, (AT LEAST RELATIVELY) MODERN

• Alexander, Lloyd
  • The Rope Trick
  • The Fortune-Tellers
  • The Arkadians
  • The Iron Ring
  • Gypsy Rizka
  • The Gawgon and the Boy
• Anderson, Laurie Halse
  • Fever 1793
• Anderson, M.T.
  • Whales on Stilts!
  • The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen
  • Thirsty
  • Feed
  • The Game of Sunken Places
• Atwater, Richard & Florence
  • Mr. Popper's Penguins
• Auch, Mary Jane
  • Ashes of Roses
• Avi
  • Book Without Words: A Fable of Medieval Magic
  • Bright Shadow
  • Midnight Magic
  • No More Magic
  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
  • The Man Who Was Poe
  • Who Stole the Wizard of Oz?
  • Romeo*Juliet, Together at Last
• Babbitt, Natalie
  • Tuck Everlasting
  • The Search for Delicious
  • (etc.)
• Bagnold, Enid
  • National Velvet
• Banks, Lynne Reid
  • The Indian in the Cupboard
  • (Then there are four sequels)
• Bemelmans, Ludwig
  • Madeline series :]
• Bond, Michael
  • A Bear Called Paddington
  • (and a billion sequels)
• Bradbury, Ray
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes
  • Let's All Kill Constance
• Bray, Libba
  • A Great and Terrible Beauty
  • Rebel Angels
  • The Sweet Far Thing (read these in order)
• Burgess, Melvin
  • Junk
• Cabot, Meg
  • The Princess Diaries series
  • Victoria and the Rogue
• Christie, Agatha
  • Everything (Personal favorites include: Crooked House, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, And Then There Were None, Cat Among the Pigeons, The Body in the Library, Evil Under the Sun...)
• Clark, Ann Nolan
  • Secret of the Andes
• Cleary, Beverly
  • All her books. No really
• Cooper, James Fenimore
  • Last of the Mohicans
• Cormier, Robert
  • The Chocolate War
  • The Rag and Bone Shop
• Dahl, Roald
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • The Great Glass Elevator
  • Matilda
  • The Twits
  • The BFG
  • Esio Trot
  • The Enormous Crocodile
  • (etc.)
• De Angeli, Marguerite
  • The Door in the Wall
• de Brunhoff, Jean
  • Babar books
• De Jong, Meindert
  • The Wheel on the School
• de Saint-Exupery, Antoine
  • The Little Prince
• "Dixon, Frank"
  • Hardy Boys books
    • See explanation under "Keene, Carolyn"
• du Maurier, Daphne
  • Rebecca
  • (Check out her amazing short stories!)
• DuPrau, Jeanne
  • The City of Ember
  • The People of Sparks
  • The Prophet of Yonwood
  • The Diamond of Darkhold (read ^ in order)
• Estes, Eleanor
  • The Hundred Dresses
  • The Moffats
  • (etc.)
• Fleming, Ian
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• Forbes, Esther
  • Johnny Tremain
• Gaiman, Neil
  • Coraline
  • M is for Magic
  • Now We Are Sick
  • Stardust
  • The Dangerous Alphabet
  • Wolves in the Walls
• Gray, Margaret
  • The Ugly Princess and the Wise Fool
• Haddix, Margaret Peterson
  • Uprising
  • Running Out of Time
  • Among the Hidden
• Hale, Shannon
  • The Goose Girl
  • Enna Burning
  • The Book of a Thousand Days
  • Austenland
  • Rapunzel's Revenge
• Haywood, Carolyn
  • Robert Rows the River
• Heilbroner, Joan
  • Robert the Rose Horse
• Heller, Joseph
  • Catch-22
• Henkes, Kevin
  • Olive's Ocean
• Howe, James & Deborah
  • Bunnicula
  • (There are a number of sequels as well)
• Juster, Norton
  • The Phantom Tollbooth
• "Keene, Carolyn" (it's complicated)
  • Nancy Drew books
    • Not to worry you or anything, but there are about a million different series. The originals were published beginning in the 30s...in the 60s, they completely rewrote them all...and since then they've just kept adding new ones.
• Keith, Harold
  • Rifles for Watie
• Kesey, Ken
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Kjelgaard, Jim
  • Big Red
• Knight, Eric
  • Lassie Come-Home
  • (There are of course a billion sequels and take-offs after this)
• Konigsburg, E.L.
  • From the Mixed-Up Files of Basil E. Frankweiler
  • A Proud Taste of Scarlet and Miniver
  • The Second Mrs. Giaconda
  • Throwing Shadows
  • The Outcasts at 19 Schuyler Place
• Krumgold, Joseph
  • ...And Now Miguel
• L'Engle, Madeleine
  • A Wrinkle in Time
  • (with three sequels)
  • (and check out her other works as well)
• Latham, Jean Lee
  • Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
• Lawrence, Iain
  • B for Buster
• Lee, Harper
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
• Lenski, Lois
  • Strawberry Girl
  • Ocean-Born Mary
  • Blueberry Corners
  • Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison
  • Puritan Adventure
  • Bayou Suzette
  • Shoo-Fly Girl
  • To Be a Logger
• Lindgren, Astrid
  • Pippi Longstocking series
• Lowry, Lois
  • The Giver
  • Gathering Blue
  • Messenger (these three ^ in order)
  • Number the Stars
  • (Everything she writes is brilliant)
• Martin, Ann M.
  • The Doll People
  • Ten Kids, No Pets
  • Eleven Kids, One Summer
  • Ma and Pa Dracula
  • Yours Turly, Shirley
  • A Corner of the Universe
• McCloskey, Robert
  • Blueberries for Sal
  • Make Way for Ducklings
• McKinley, Robin
  • The Door in the Hedge
  • Beauty
  • Rose Daughter
  • Spindle's End
  • (etc.)
• McSwigan, Marie
  • Snow Treasure
• Meyer, L.A.
  • Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy
• Mitchell, Margaret
  • Gone With the Wind
• Mosher, Richard
  • Zazoo
• Munsch, Robert
  • The Paper Bag Princess
  • (etc.)
• Napoli, Donna Jo
  • Bound
  • Crazy Jack
  • The Great God Pan
  • (etc.)
• Norton, Mary
  • The Borrowers
  • (and several sequels)
  • The Magic Bed Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Steps
  • Bonfires and Broomsticks
  • Bedknob and Broomstick
• Orwell, George
  • 1984
  • Animal Farm
• Paterson, Katherine
  • Bridge to Terabithia
  • Jacob Have I Loved
  • Bread and Roses, Too
  • (And everything else, she's absolutely a gorgeous writer)
• Rawls, Wilson
  • Where the Red Fern Grows
• Rees, Celia
  • Pirates! The True and Remarkable Adventures of Minerva Sharpe
• Rinaldi, Ann
  • Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons
  • A Break with Charity
  • Cast Two Shadows
  • The Coffin Quilt
  • The Staircase
  • An Unlikely Friendship
  • Wolf by the Ears
  • Time Enough for Drums
  • Amelia's War
  • The Redheaded Princess
  • (and so on and so on. I love her books)
• Rey, H.A.
  • Curious George series
• Ryan, Pam Munoz
  • Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride: Based on a

True Story

• Esperanza Rising
• Sachar, Louis
  • Holes
• Salinger, J.D.
  • The Catcher in the Rye
• Selznik, Brian
  • The Invention of Hugo Cabret
• Sendak, Maurice
  • Where the Wild Things Are
  • (etc.)
• Seuss, Dr.
  • The Sneetches and Other Tales
  • Yertle the Turtle
  • The Lorax
  • (everything else)
• Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman
  • Nate the Great series
  • Olivia Sharpe series
• Skurzynski, Gloria
  • What Happened in Hamelin
• Smith, Betty
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Smith, Dodie
  • The Hundred and One Dalmations
  • I Capture the Castle
• Speare, Elizabeth George
  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond
• Steinbeck, John
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • The Pearl
  • East of Eden
• Stewart, Mary
  • The Moonspinners
  • Madam, Will You Talk?
  • Nine Coaches Waiting
• Stratton, Alan
  • Chanda's Wars
  • Chanda's Secrets
• Streatfeild, Noel
  • Ballet Shoes
• Taylor, Mildred D.
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  • Let the Circle Be Unbroken
• Thompson, Kay
  • Eloise
  • Eloise in Paris
  • Eloise in Moscow
  • Eloise at Christmastime
• Tolkien, J.R.R.
  • The Hobbit
  • The Fellowship of the Ring
  • The Two Towers
  • The Return of the King
  • (From here, you can branch out into his other works, but you should read these first...in this order)
• Travers, P.L.
  • Mary Poppins
  • (and seeeeveral sequels)
• Updale, Eleanor
  • Montmorency
  • Montmorency On the Rocks
  • Montmorency and the Assassins
  • Montmorency's Revenge
• Vaupel, Robin
  • My Contract with Henry
• Vonnegut, Kurt
  • Cat's Cradle
  • Slaughterhouse-Five
• Wells, H.G.
  • The Time Machine
  • War of the Worlds
• Whelan, Gloria
  • Homeless Bird
• White, E.B.
  • Charlotte's Web
  • Stuart Little
  • The Trumpet of the Swan
• White, T.H.
  • The Sword in the Stone
• Williams, Marjorie
  • The Velveteen Rabbit
• Yates, Elizabeth
  • Amos Fortune, Free Man

POETRY

• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Allen Ginsberg
• Carl Sandburg
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• e.e. cummings
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Emily Dickinson
• Ezra Pound
• John Keats
• Maya Angelou
• Pablo Neruda
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• T.S. Eliot
• Robert Frost
• Sylvia Plath
• Walt Whitman
• William Blake
• William Butler Yeats
• William Wordsworth

NONFICTION

• Carson, Rachel
  • Silent Spring
• Frank, Anne
  • Diary of a Young Girl
• Thoreau, Henry David
  • Walden
• Washington, Booker T.
  • Up From Slavery
• Woolf, Virginia
  • A Room of One's Own