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1984George Orwell
A Clockwork OrangeAnthony Burgess
A Seat at the Table
A Tree Grows in BrooklynBetty Smith
Around the World in 80 DaysJules Verne
Ender's ShadowOrson Scott Card
Farewell to ManzanarJeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston
Lord of the FliesWilliam Golding
SchismatrixBruce Sterling
SevenevesNeal Stephenson
SolarisStanisław Lem
The OutsidersS.E. Hinton
The book thiefMarkus Zusak
When Hitler Stole Pink RabbitJudith Kerr
Ain’t I a Woman? (speech)Sojourner Truth
Letter from Birmingham JailMartin Luther King Jr.
Mother Tongue (essay)Amy Tan
Notes of a Native SonJames Baldwin
Pilgrim at Tinker CreekAnnie Dillard
Self-Reliance and Other EssaysRalph Waldo Emerson (selections)
The Gettysburg AddressAbraham Lincoln
The Sense of WonderRachel Carson
Aesop’s FablesAesop (various editions)
Favorite Folktales from Around the Worlded. Jane Yolen
Grimm’s Fairy TalesBrothers Grimm (complete or selected)
Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy TalesHans Christian Andersen
Just So StoriesRudyard Kipling
Tales from Silver LandsCharles Finger
The Merry Adventures of Robin HoodHoward Pyle
The People Could FlyVirginia Hamilton
Tongue-Cut Sparrow and Other Japanese Talesvarious (look for Yoshiko Uchida’s collections)
A Wizard of EarthseaUrsula K. Le Guin
A Wrinkle in TimeMadeleine L’Engle
Animal FarmGeorge Orwell
BelovedToni Morrison
Bless Me, UltimaRudolfo Anaya
BlindnessJosé Saramago
Catcher in the RyeJ.D. Salinger
Charlotte’s WebE.B. White
City Spies Book 1James PontiON MY LIST
Don Quixote (adapted)Miguel de Cervantes (retold by Martin Jenkins or similar)
East of EdenJohn Steinbeck
FrankensteinMary Shelley
HatchetGary PaulsenON MY LIST
I, RobotIsaac Asimov
Impossible CreaturesKatherine RundellON MY LIST
Island of the Blue DolphinsScott O’Dell
KindredOctavia Butler
Moby DickHerman Melville
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMHRobert C. O’BrienON MY LIST
My Side of the MountainJean Craighead George
Never Let Me GoKazuo Ishiguro
NevermoorJessica TownsendON MY LIST
Of Mice and MenJohn Steinbeck
One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez
Pedro PáramoJuan Rulfo
Pippi LongstockingAstrid Lindgren
Roll of Thunder, Hear My CryMildred D. Taylor
SiddharthaHermann Hesse
The AlchemistPaulo Coelho
The Beast PlayerNahoko UehashiON MY LIST
The FountainheadAyn Rand
The Girl Who Drank the MoonKelly BarnhillON MY LIST
The GiverLois Lowry
The HobbitJ.R.R. Tolkien
The House on Mango StreetSandra Cisneros
The Jungle BookRudyard Kipling
The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov
The OverstoryRichard Powers
The Phantom TollboothNorton Juster
The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett
The TollNeal Shusterman
The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame
Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale Hurston
Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
Tuck EverlastingNatalie Babbitt
Watership DownRichard Adams
Amulet (series)Kazu KibuishiON MY LIST
El DeafoCece BellON MY LIST
Good TalkMira Jacob
Maus I + IIArt Spiegelman
New KidJerry Craft
The ArrivalShaun Tan
84, Charing Cross RoadHelene Hanff
Dear Mr. HenshawBeverly ClearyON MY LIST
Letters to a Young PoetRainer Maria Rilke
The Griffin and Sabine TrilogyNick Bantock
I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMaya Angelou
My Life and Hard TimesJames Thurber
Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass
PersepolisMarjane Satrapi
The Autobiography of Malcolm XMalcolm X (as told to Alex Haley)
The Diary of a Young GirlAnne Frank
The Story of My LifeHelen Keller
When I Was Puerto RicanEsmeralda Santiago
Beowulfretold by Kevin Crossley-Holland (8+) or trans. Seamus Heaney (11+)
Black Ships Before TroyRosemary Sutcliff
D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse MythsIngri & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
Popol Vuhretold by Victor Montejo
Sundiata: An Epic of Old MaliD.T. Niane
Tales from the Thousand and One Nightstrans. N.J. Dawood (selections)
The Children of OdinPadraic Colum
The Epic of Gilgameshretold by Ludmila Zeman (8+) or Stephen Mitchell (11+)
The OdysseyHomer (trans. Emily Wilson or Robert Fagles)
The Odyssey book 1mary pope osborneON MY LIST
The Odyssey book 2
The Odyssey book 3mary pope osbourne
The Ramayanaretold by Arshia Sattar
A Sand County AlmanacAldo Leopold (selections)
Braiding SweetgrassRobin Wall Kimmerer
Owls and Other FantasiesMary Oliver
The Hidden Life of TreesPeter Wohlleben
The Sea Around UsRachel Carson
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom PlanetEleanor Cameron
WaldenHenry David Thoreau (selections)
A Midsummer Night’s DreamWilliam Shakespeare
A Raisin in the SunLorraine Hansberry
AntigoneSophocles (trans. Anne Carson or Robert Fagles)
HamletWilliam Shakespeare
Our TownThornton Wilder
The Diary of Anne Frank (play)Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
A Child’s Garden of VersesRobert Louis Stevenson
An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Mythical CreaturesTheresa Breslin & Kate Leiper
Brown Girl DreamingJacqueline Woodson
How I Discovered PoetryMarilyn Nelson
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two VoicesPaul Fleischman
Leaves of Grass (selections)Walt Whitman
Poems of Joy Harjo (selections)Joy Harjo
Selected Poems of Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson
Selected Poems of Langston HughesLangston Hughes
Tender ButtonsGertrude Stein
The Basho Collection (haiku)Matsuo Bashō
The Essential RumiRumi (trans. Coleman Barks)
Where the Sidewalk EndsShel Silverstein
FiccionesJorge Luis Borges
Interpreter of MaladiesJhumpa Lahiri
Stories of Your Life and OthersTed Chiang
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway (selections)
The Stories of Anton ChekhovAnton Chekhov (selections)
The Thing Around Your NeckChimamanda Ngozi Adichie