Titles highlighted in red are often standard on Good Books Lists, but parents will want to pre-read before giving to your children. Feel free to reject any objectionable titles, no matter how wonderful people assure you they are. We are taking the Good Books Lists back.
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Admiral of the Ocean Sea: Life of Christopher Columbus and others by Samuel E. Morison
Adventures of Richard Hannay and others by John Buchan
All Men Are Brothers and others by Pearl S. Buck
Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon
Anne of Green Gables and others by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant
Boy Alone and others in the trilogy by Reginald Ottley
Boy on the Rooftop by Tomas Szabo
Boy’s War by David J. Michell
Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Broken Strings by Eric Walters
Bruchko by Bruce Olson
Bulfinch’s Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch
Bulfinch’s Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
Bulfinch’s Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch
Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare
Call of the Canyon and others by Zane Gray
Chase Me, Catch Nobody by Erik Christian Haugaard
Chosen by Chaim Potok
Christy by Catherine Marshall
Chronicles of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters
Cider Days by Mary Stolz
Circuit Rider and others by Edward Eggleston
Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
Day of Pleasure by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Devil in Print by Mary Drewery
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Flames of Rome by Paul Maier
For Love of Jody by Robbie Branscum
Giants in the Earth and others by O. E. Rolvaag
Good Morning, Miss Dove by Frances Gray Patton
Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacClean
Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by Scott O’Dell
Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Hoosier School-Boy by Edward Eggleston
Hoosier Schoolmaster by Edward Eggleston
Hound of the Baskervilles and others by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
If You Love Me Nothing Else Matters by Patricia St. John
In His Steps by Charles Sheldon
In the Hall of the Dragon King and others in the trilogy by Stephen R. Lawhead
Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Julius Caesar and other biographies by John Buchan
King’s Fifth by Scott O’Dell
Leader by Destiny by Jeanette Eaton
Life of David Crockett by Davey Crockett
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
Likely Lad by Gillian Avery
Lion’s Paw by D. R. Sherman
Little White Horse and others by Elizabeth Goudge
Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkein
Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mama’s Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Max’s Dream by William Mayne
Miracle Worker by William Gibson
Moonstone and others by Wilkie Collins
Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nikolenka’s Childhood by Leo Tolstoy
O! Pioneers by Willa Cather
Odyssey of Homer by Barbara Leonie Picard
Of Courage Undaunted by James Daugherty
One of Ours by Willa Cather
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
Pictures of Travel in Sweden by Hans Christian Anderson
Pond by Robert Murphy
Portable Chaucer by Theodore Morrison
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
Promises in the Wind by Irene Hunt
Prospering by Elizabeth George Speare
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggen
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
Sarah Bishop by Scott O’Dell
Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
Second Mrs. Giaconda by E. L. Konigsburg
Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
Silver Chalice and other historical fiction by Thomas B. Costain
Slake’s Limbo by Felice Holman
Small Woman by Alan Burgess
Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
Stories of Charlemagne by Jennifer Westwood
Story of a Bad Boy and others by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O’Dell
String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
Ten Fingers for God by Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Tevye the Dairyman by Sholom Aleichem
Time Enough for Drums by Anne Rinaldi
Time Machine and others by H. G. Wells
To the Tune of a Hickory Stick by Robbie Branscum
Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
Tom Brown’s School Days by Thomas Hughes
Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
Valley of the Shadow by Janet Hickman
Virginian and others by Owen Wister
Voyage Round the World by William Dampier
War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Well at the World’s End and others by William Morris
Whale Song by Robert Siegel
White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
White Fang by Jack London
Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings
Young Brontes by Mary Louise Jarden
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