Favorite Books

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

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
• Hitler’s Canary: A Daring Tale of Wartime Adventure, by Sandi Toksvig
• 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