| 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up |
| 13 Clocks by James Thurber |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain |
| The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
| All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot |
| All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren |
| Amazing Grace by Kathleen Norris |
| American Wolf by Nate Blakesley |
| And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman |
| Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt |
| Animal Farm by George Orwell |
| Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by Barbara Kingsolver |
| Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery |
| Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch |
| Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori |
| The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher |
| Atlas Obscura by Joshua Foer |
| Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie |
| Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo |
| The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath |
| BFG by Roald Dahl |
| Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas by Stephen Harrigan |
| Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott |
| Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain |
| Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya |
| Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon |
| Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz |
| The Book of Luminous Things edited by Czeslaw Milosz |
| Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam |
| The Box Garden by Carol Shields |
| Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon |
| The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown |
| Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Penelope Bagieu |
| Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler |
| Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh |
| Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis |
| Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown |
| By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman |
| Candide by Voltaire |
| Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina |
| The Case of the One-Eyed Killer Stud Horse by John R. Erickson |
| Charlotte's Web by E. B. White |
| Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreath |
| The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
| The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis |
| Civility by Stephen L. Carter |
| The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett |
| The Color Purple by Alice Walker |
| The Common Good by Robert Reich |
| Corduroy by Don Freeman |
| The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen |
| Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner |
| Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux |
| Dear Paris by Janice MacLeod |
| A Death in the Family by James Agee |
| The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller |
| The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri |
| Devotions: Selected Poems of Mary Oliver |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep? by Philip K. Dick |
| Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes |
| Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems |
| Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer |
| Dubliners by James Joyce |
| Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynn Truss |
| Eiffel's Tower by Jill Jonnes |
| Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell |
| Emma by Jane Austen |
| Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal |
| Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card |
| Everyday Sacred by Sue Bender |
| Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman |
| Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer |
| Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury |
| Favorite Folk Tales from Around the World by Jane Yolen |
| A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry |
| Firegirl by Tony Abbott |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway |
| Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis |
| Frankenstein by Mary Shelley |
| Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel |
| Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin |
| Ghost by Jason Reynolds |
| Gilead by Marilynne Robinson |
| A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Porter-Stratton |
| The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare |
| The Giver by Lois Lowry |
| The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse |
| The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls |
| Go, Dog, Go by P. D. Eastman |
| The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers |
| Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell |
| The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck |
| Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett |
| Good Poems edited by Garrison Keillor |
| The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck |
| The Grass Harp by Truman Capote |
| Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Great Short Books by Kenneth E. Davis |
| Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss |
| Half Magic by Edgar Eager |
| Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood |
| Hank the Cowdog #8: The Case of the One-Eyed Killer Stud Horse by John R. Erickson |
| Happenstance by Carol Shields |
| Hard Times by Studs Terkel |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Apprentice by J. K. Rowling |
| Hatchet by Gary Paulsen |
| Hawaii by James Michener |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers |
| Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary |
| The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams |
| The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Holes by Louis Sachar |
| Homer Price by Robert McCloskey |
| The Hours by Michael Cunningham |
| A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul |
| The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros |
| How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss |
| How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith |
| How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett |
| How to Live: What the Rule of St. Benedict Teaches Us About Happiness, Meaning, and Community by Judith Valente |
| How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O’Connor |
| Howards End by E. M. Forster |
| The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes |
| I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening) by Sarah Stewart Holland |
| I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen |
| I, Claudius by Robert Graves |
| If You Come to Earth by Sophie Blackall |
| The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
| In Cold Blood by Truman Capote |
| In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick |
| Independent People by Halldor Laxness |
| Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai |
| Into that Good Night by Ron Rozelle |
| Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott |
| It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis |
| Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino |
| John Adams by David McCullough |
| Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg |
| Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael Sandel |
| King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood |
| Kiss for Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik |
| Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| L'Assommoir by Emile Zola |
| The Last Shot by Darcy Frey |
| Le Road Trip by Vivian Swift |
| Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher |
| Life-Sized Zoo by Teruyuki Komiya |
| The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan |
| Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel |
| The Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton |
| The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| The Lives of the Writers by Kathleen Krull |
| Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry |
| Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck |
| Lord of the Flies by William Golding |
| Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Love is a Wild Assault by Elithe Hamilton Kirkland |
| Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt by Arthur C. Brooks |
| Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout |
| Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert |
| Madeleine by Ludwig Bemelmans |
| Magister Ludi by Hermann Hesse |
| Main Street by Sinclair Lewis |
| Make a World by Ed Emberly |
| Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey |
| Material World by Peter Menzel |
| Maus by Art Spiegelman |
| Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb |
| Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden |
| Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
| Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee |
| Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson |
| Moby Dick by Herman Melville |
| A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr |
| The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban |
| Mr. Putter and Tabby Walk the Dog by Cynthia Rylant |
| Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico |
| Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell |
| Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolfe |
| Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor |
| My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead edited by Jeffrey Eugenides |
| My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok |
| The Napping House by Audrey Wood |
| Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan |
| Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat |
| The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin |
| No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith |
| The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry |
| The Odyssey by Homer |
| Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck |
| Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout |
| One Man’s Meat by E. B. White |
| The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett Graff |
| The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson |
| Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse |
| Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik |
| Persuasion by Jane Austin |
| The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster |
| Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard |
| Poem a Day edited by Karen McKosker |
| Possession by A. S. Byatt |
| Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman |
| Regarding the Fountain by Kate Klise |
| The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates |
| Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| Roads to Sata: A 2000 Mile Walk Through Japan by Alan Booth |
| Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor |
| Rotten Island by William Steig |
| Sailing Alone Around the World by Billy Collins |
| Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodge |
| Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand |
| The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| The Secret History by Donna Tarte |
| The Separate Peace by John Knowles |
| The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles |
| Shooting the Boh by Tracy Johnston |
| The Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson |
| Siddhartha by Herman Hesse |
| A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park |
| Small Island by Andrea Levy |
| Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan |
| Some Writer: The Story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet |
| Sounder by William Armstrong |
| The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman |
| The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson |
| Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli |
| Strong Measures edited by Philip Dacey and David Jauss |
| Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky |
| The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway |
| Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig |
| Tadpole's Promise by Jeanne Willis |
| The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo |
| The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien |
| Three Men in a Boat by Jerome Jerome |
| To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee |
| The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas |
| The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction |
| Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith |
| Tribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferriss |
| True Grit by Charles Portis |
| Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Resistance by Laura Hillenbrand |
| Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams |
| Waiting by Ha Jin |
| A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson |
| War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson |
| Watership Down by Richard Adams |
| We Are in a Book by Mo Willems |
| We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver |
| We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevtich |
| Weather by Jenny Offill |
| The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin |
| What It's Like to Be a Bird by David Sibley |
| Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver |
| Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox |
| Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein |
| Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak |
| The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame |
| The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami |
| Window by Jeannie Baker |
| Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson |
| Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne |
| Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier |
| Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis |
| Working by Studs Terkel |
| The World is Not Enough by Zoe Oldenbourg |
| A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle |
| Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg |
| Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion |
| Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day by Clemency Burton-Hill |
| The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| Yes, And: Daily Meditations by Richard Rohr |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig |
| Zen and Zen Classics by R. H. Blyth |
