It’s hard to pick just a few favorites. Here are some that I love to read again and I’ve read many of these to my children.
Fiction
- Lord of the Rings
- The Ranger’s Apprentice series (and companion series)
- Scarlet Pimpernel
- Les Misérables
- A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
- A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
- Wonder by JR Palacio
- Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
- Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
- Beauty by Robin McKinley
- The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner
Non-Fiction
- The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
- Little Britches series by Ralph Moody
- Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story by National Geographic Learning
- Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen by Luba Tryszynska-Frederick
- The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
- Shipwrecked at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong
- Thunder Below by Eugene B. Fluckey
- Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth
- Carry On Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
- Kon-Tiki expedition by Thor Heyerdahl
Authors
- John Flanagan
- CS Lewis
- JRR Tolkien
- Lloyd Alexander
- Jane Austen
- James Herriot
Picture Books (finding these gems is one of the blessings of being a mom)
- The Serpent Slayer, by Katrin Tchana
- The Ravenous Gown, by Steffani Raff
- A Caravan from Hindustan (Birbal Tales), by James Moseley
- Mightier Than the Sword: World Folktales for Strong Boys, by Jane Yolen
- The Gardener, by Sarah Stewart
- Black and White, by David Macaulay
- Free Fall, by David Wiesner
- Monster at the End of This Book, by Jon Stone
ML Farb 