The gift of reading and being well-read is the single most important way to broaden young minds and prepare them for the world. First, you teach them to read, and then you foster their love of reading and learning. As parents, it is often hard to find appropriate books for your child's age and reading level. Many books for younger children will be better read aloud together. As the child grows into the middle grades, he or she will prefer reading on their own. To encourage your child to choose books that will truly enlighten their minds, here are some of the most comprehensive lists you will find anywhere which include classic literary works as well as some newer works that will become classics in the years ahead. I have provided the Amazon links for you to make your search for great books even easier. Many of these books are even free for your kindle reading devices!
1 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- 3 A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- 4 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- 5 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
- 6 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- 7 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- 8 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- 9 Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- 10 Call of the Wild by Jack London
- 11 Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
- 12 Dracula by Bram Stoker
- 13 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- 14 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- 15 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- 16 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- 17 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- 18 Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
- 19 Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
- 20 Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
- 21 King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle
- 22 King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
- 23 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- 24 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- 25 Night by Elie Wiesel
- 26 Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (My Favorite!)
- 27 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- 28 Shakespeare's Entire Collection
- 29 Story of My Life by Helen Keller
- 30 The Bible
- 31 The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- 32 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- 33 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- 34 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- 35 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 36 The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- 37 The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- 38 The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
- 39 The Iliad by Homer
- 40 The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
- 41 The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
- 42 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
- 43 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- 44 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- 45 The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- 46 The Odyssey by Homer
- 47 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- 48 The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- 49 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- 50 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 51 The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
- 52 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- 53 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- 54 White Fang by Jack London
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