Top 100 Books Lists
After being amused by Timber's BBC top 100 book list I decided to browse for some others. The children's ones I just sort of find amusing because a lot of the books are older books that I read as a child, some newer ones that I've since read to my daughter.
Children’s Top 100 Book List
1 Harry Potter (series) by J. K. Rowling
2 Goosebumps (series) by R. L. Stine
3 Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
4 The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
5 Arthur (series) by Marc Brown
6 Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
7 Shiloh (trilogy) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
8 Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
9 Holes by Louis Sachar
10 The Giver by Lois Lowry
11 The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
12 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (series) by Judy Blume
13 Sideways Stories from Wayside School (series) by Louis Sachar
14 The BFG by Roald Dahl
15 The Boxcar Children (series) by Gertrude Chandler Warner
16 One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
17 Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (series) by Beverly Cleary
18 Pokemon (series) by Tracey West, Maria S. Barbo
19 The Babysitters Club (series) by Ann M. Martin
20 Ralph S. Mouse (series) by Beverly Cleary
21 Little House on the Prairie (series) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
22 Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
23 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
24 The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
25 Clifford the Big Red Dog (series) by Norman Bridwell
26 Stuart Little by E. B. White
27 Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
28 The Adventures of Captain Underpants (series) by Dav Pilkey
29 The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
30 The Berenstain Bears (series) by Jan and Stan Berenstain
31 Animorphs (series) by K. A. Applegate
32 The Witches by Roald Dahl
33 Nancy Drew Mystery Stories by Carolyn Keene
34 The Hobbit (series) by J. R. R. Tolkien
35 American Girls (series) by Susan Adler, Valerie Tripp, Connie Porter, Janet Shaw, et al
36 Matilda by Roald Dahl
37 The Call of the Wild by Jack London
38 The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
39 How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
40 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
41 Junie B. Jones (series) by Barbara Park
42 Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
43 Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
44 A Wrinkle in Time (series) by Madeleine L'Engle
45 Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen
46 Amber Brown (series) by Paula Danziger
47 The North Star by Peter H. Reynolds
48 Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks by Mick Foley (Mankind)
49 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
50 The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
51 A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
52 Chicken Soup for the Soul (series) by various authors
53 Curious George (series) by Margret and Hans Augusto Rey
54 The Teacher from the Black Lagoon (series) by Mike Thaler
55 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
56 The Bailey School Kids (series) by Debbie Dadey, et al
57 The Hardy Boys (series) by Franklin W. Dixon
58 The Mitten by Jan Brett
59 Amelia Bedelia (series) by Peggy Parish
60 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
61 Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
62 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
63 Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
64 The River by Gary Paulsen
65 Magic Tree House (series) by Mary Pope Osborne
66 The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by John Scieszka
67 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
68 Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss
69 The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
70 Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
71 Redwall by Brian Jacques
72 The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
73 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
74 Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
75 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
76 Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
77 Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
78 Sweet Valley High (series) by Francine Pascal
79 The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley (series) by Judy Katschke, Cathy Dobowski, Lisa Eisenberg, Nancy E. Krulik, Nina Alexander, Frances Lin Lantz, et al
80 Garfield (series) by Jim Davis
81 Magic School Bus (series) by Joanna Cole
82 Math Curse by John Scieszka
83 White Fang by Jack London
84 I Spy (series) by Walter Wick, Jean Marzollo, Diana Noonan, et al
85 Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch
86 My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
87 The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
88 Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
89 Draw 50 Airplanes, Aircraft and Spacecraft (series) by Lee J. Ames
90 Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
91 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
92 The Rock Says by Dwayne Johnson (The Rock)
93 Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
94 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
95 All About Sam by Lois Lowry
96 Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
97 Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
98 Hank the Cow Dog (series) by John R. Erickson
99 Piggie Pie by Margie Palatini
100 Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Teachers Top 100 Book List For Children
1 Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (9-12 years)
2 The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (4-8 years)
3 Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss (4-8 years)
4 The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss (4-8 years)
5 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (4-8 years)
6 Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch (4-8 years)
7 The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (All ages)
8 The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (Baby-Preschool)
9 Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (Young Adult)
10 The Mitten by Jan Brett (4-8 years)
11 Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (Baby-Preschool)
12 Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (9-12 years)
13 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (9-12 years)
14 Where the Sidewalk Ends: the Poems and Drawing of Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein (All ages)
15 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (9-12 years)
16 Stellaluna by Janell Cannon (4-8 years)
17 Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss (4-8 years)
18 Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola (4-8 years)
19 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst (4-8 years)
20 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? by Bill Martin, Jr. (Baby-Preschool)
21 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (9-12 years)
22 The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (4-8 years)
23 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (9-12 years)
24 Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (9-12 years)
25 How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss (4-8 years)
26 The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka (4-8 years)
27 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by John Archambault (4-8 years)
28 Little House on the Prarie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (9-12 years)
29 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (9-12 years)
30 The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne (4-8 years)
31 The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner (9-12 years)
32 Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (9-12 years)
33 Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks (9-12 years)
34 Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (9-12 years)
35 Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (9-12 years)
36 The BFG by Roald Dahl (9-12 years)
37 The Giver by Lois Lowry (9-12 years)
38 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff (4-8 years)
39 James and the Giant Peach: A Children's Story by Roald Dahl (9-12 years)
40 Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (9-12 years)
41 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (9-12 years)
42 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (Young Adult)
43 The Lorax by Dr. Seuss (4-8 years)
44 Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner (9-12 years)
45 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (9-12 years)
46 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien (9-12 years)
47 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (All ages)
48 The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister (Baby-Preschool)
49 Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman (4-8 years)
50 The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson (9-12 years)
51 Corduroy by Don Freeman (Baby-Preschool)
52 Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg (4-8 years)
53 Math Curse by Jon Scieszka (4-8 years)
54 Matilda by Roald Dahl (9-12 years)
55 Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls (Young Adult)
56 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume (9-12 years)
57 Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (9-12 years)
58 The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White (9-12 years)
59 Are You My Mother? by Philip D. Eastman (4-8 years)
60 The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis (9-12 years)
61 Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (4-8 years)
62 One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss (4-8 years)
63 The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (9-12 years)
64 The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (Baby-Preschool)
65 The Napping House by Audrey Wood (4-8 years)
66 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (4-8 years)
67 The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (4-8 years)
68 Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (9-12 years)
69 The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (All ages)
70 Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (9-12 years)
71 Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss (4-8 years)
72 Basil of Baker Street, by Eve Titus (4-8 years)
73 The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper (4-8 years)
74 The Cay by Theodore Taylor (Young Adult)
75 Curious George by Hans Augusto Rey (4-8 years)
76 Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox (4-8 years)
77 Arthur series by Marc Tolon Brown (4-8 years)
78 The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (9-12 years)
79 Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes (4-8 years)
80 Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (9-12 years)
81 The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (4-8 years)
82 The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown (Baby-Preschool)
83 Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar (9-12 years)
84 Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish (4-8 years)
85 Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh (9-12 years)
86 A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein (9-12 years)
87 Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater (9-12 years)
88 My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett (9-12 years)
89 Stuart Little by E. B. White (9-12 years)
90 Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (9-12 years)
91 The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (9-12 years)
92 The Art Lesson by Tomie De Paola (4-8 years)
93 Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina (4-8 years)
94 Clifford, the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell (4-8 years)
95 Heidi by Johanna Spyri (All ages)
96 Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss (4-8 years)
97 The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Young Adult)
98 The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (9-12 years)
99 Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney (Baby-Preschool)
100 The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch (4-8 years)
World's 100 Greatest Books of All-Time
The books are presented in chronological order (the
date they were written) under each topical category
NOVELS, EPIC POEMS & LEGENDS:
(1). The Iliad by Homer
(2). The Odyssey by Homer
(3). The Aeneid by Virgil
(4). Beowulf by Unknown
(5). The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
(6). The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
(7). Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
(8). Don Quixote by Cervantes
(9). Paradise Lost by John Milton
(10). The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
(11). Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
(12). Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
(13). Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
(14). Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
(15). Candide by Voltaire
(16). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(17). The Tragedy of Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
(18). The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
(19). Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
(20). Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
(21). Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
(22). The Red and the Black by Stendahl
(23). The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
(24). The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
(25). Carmen by Prosper Merimee
(26). Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
(27). Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
(28). Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
(29). David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
(30). A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
(31). Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
(32). The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
(33). Camille by Alexandre Dumas Fils
(34). Moby Dick by Herman Melville
(35). Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
(36). Idyls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
(37). Silas Marner by George Eliot
(38). Middlemarch by George Eliot
(39). Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
(40). Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
(41). Crime and Punishment by Fedor Dostoyevsky
(42). The Brothers Karamazov by Fedor Dostoyevsky
(43). Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
(44). Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
(45). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
(46). The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
(47). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
(48). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
(49). Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
(50). War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
(51). The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
(52). Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
(53). The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
(54). The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
(55). Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
(56). The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
(57). The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
(58). Dracula by Bram Stoker
(59).The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
(60). The Call of the Wild by Jack London
(61). Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
(62). An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
(63). The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
(64). A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
(65). For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
(66). The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
(67). The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
(68). Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
(69). The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
(70). To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION:
(71). The Republic by Plato
(72). The Prince by Machiavelli
(73). The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
(74). The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
(75). The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
(76). Das Kapital by Karl Marx
(77). The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
PLAYS:
(78). Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
(79). Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
(80). The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
(81). Hamlet by William Shakespeare
(82). Othello by William Shakespeare
(83). Macbeth by William Shakespeare
(84).The Tempest by William Shakespeare
(85). Tartuffe by Moliere
(86). Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
(87). A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
(88). The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
(89). Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
(90). The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
(91). Our Town by Thornton Wilder
(92). Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
PHILOSOPHY:
(93). The Nicomachaen Ethics by Aristotle
(94). Meditations by Rene Descartes
(95). Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
(96). The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer
(97). Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(98). Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(99). Walden by Henry David Thoreau
(100). How We Think by John Dewey
From the Children's List I read 52 as a child, i.e. before I was 18. I've since read 35 to my child.
From the Teacher's List for Children I read 49 as a child and I've read 46 to my child.
From the World List I've read 77 of the books.
Children’s Top 100 Book List
1 Harry Potter (series) by J. K. Rowling
2 Goosebumps (series) by R. L. Stine
3 Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
4 The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
5 Arthur (series) by Marc Brown
6 Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
7 Shiloh (trilogy) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
8 Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
9 Holes by Louis Sachar
10 The Giver by Lois Lowry
11 The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
12 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (series) by Judy Blume
13 Sideways Stories from Wayside School (series) by Louis Sachar
14 The BFG by Roald Dahl
15 The Boxcar Children (series) by Gertrude Chandler Warner
16 One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
17 Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (series) by Beverly Cleary
18 Pokemon (series) by Tracey West, Maria S. Barbo
19 The Babysitters Club (series) by Ann M. Martin
20 Ralph S. Mouse (series) by Beverly Cleary
21 Little House on the Prairie (series) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
22 Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
23 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
24 The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
25 Clifford the Big Red Dog (series) by Norman Bridwell
26 Stuart Little by E. B. White
27 Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
28 The Adventures of Captain Underpants (series) by Dav Pilkey
29 The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
30 The Berenstain Bears (series) by Jan and Stan Berenstain
31 Animorphs (series) by K. A. Applegate
32 The Witches by Roald Dahl
33 Nancy Drew Mystery Stories by Carolyn Keene
34 The Hobbit (series) by J. R. R. Tolkien
35 American Girls (series) by Susan Adler, Valerie Tripp, Connie Porter, Janet Shaw, et al
36 Matilda by Roald Dahl
37 The Call of the Wild by Jack London
38 The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
39 How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
40 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
41 Junie B. Jones (series) by Barbara Park
42 Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
43 Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
44 A Wrinkle in Time (series) by Madeleine L'Engle
45 Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen
46 Amber Brown (series) by Paula Danziger
47 The North Star by Peter H. Reynolds
48 Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks by Mick Foley (Mankind)
49 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
50 The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
51 A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
52 Chicken Soup for the Soul (series) by various authors
53 Curious George (series) by Margret and Hans Augusto Rey
54 The Teacher from the Black Lagoon (series) by Mike Thaler
55 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
56 The Bailey School Kids (series) by Debbie Dadey, et al
57 The Hardy Boys (series) by Franklin W. Dixon
58 The Mitten by Jan Brett
59 Amelia Bedelia (series) by Peggy Parish
60 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
61 Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
62 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
63 Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
64 The River by Gary Paulsen
65 Magic Tree House (series) by Mary Pope Osborne
66 The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by John Scieszka
67 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
68 Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss
69 The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
70 Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
71 Redwall by Brian Jacques
72 The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
73 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
74 Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
75 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
76 Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
77 Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
78 Sweet Valley High (series) by Francine Pascal
79 The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley (series) by Judy Katschke, Cathy Dobowski, Lisa Eisenberg, Nancy E. Krulik, Nina Alexander, Frances Lin Lantz, et al
80 Garfield (series) by Jim Davis
81 Magic School Bus (series) by Joanna Cole
82 Math Curse by John Scieszka
83 White Fang by Jack London
84 I Spy (series) by Walter Wick, Jean Marzollo, Diana Noonan, et al
85 Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch
86 My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
87 The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
88 Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
89 Draw 50 Airplanes, Aircraft and Spacecraft (series) by Lee J. Ames
90 Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
91 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
92 The Rock Says by Dwayne Johnson (The Rock)
93 Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
94 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
95 All About Sam by Lois Lowry
96 Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
97 Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
98 Hank the Cow Dog (series) by John R. Erickson
99 Piggie Pie by Margie Palatini
100 Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Teachers Top 100 Book List For Children
1 Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (9-12 years)
2 The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (4-8 years)
3 Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss (4-8 years)
4 The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss (4-8 years)
5 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (4-8 years)
6 Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch (4-8 years)
7 The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (All ages)
8 The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (Baby-Preschool)
9 Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (Young Adult)
10 The Mitten by Jan Brett (4-8 years)
11 Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (Baby-Preschool)
12 Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (9-12 years)
13 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (9-12 years)
14 Where the Sidewalk Ends: the Poems and Drawing of Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein (All ages)
15 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (9-12 years)
16 Stellaluna by Janell Cannon (4-8 years)
17 Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss (4-8 years)
18 Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola (4-8 years)
19 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst (4-8 years)
20 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? by Bill Martin, Jr. (Baby-Preschool)
21 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (9-12 years)
22 The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (4-8 years)
23 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (9-12 years)
24 Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (9-12 years)
25 How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss (4-8 years)
26 The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka (4-8 years)
27 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by John Archambault (4-8 years)
28 Little House on the Prarie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (9-12 years)
29 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (9-12 years)
30 The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne (4-8 years)
31 The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner (9-12 years)
32 Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (9-12 years)
33 Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks (9-12 years)
34 Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (9-12 years)
35 Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (9-12 years)
36 The BFG by Roald Dahl (9-12 years)
37 The Giver by Lois Lowry (9-12 years)
38 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff (4-8 years)
39 James and the Giant Peach: A Children's Story by Roald Dahl (9-12 years)
40 Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (9-12 years)
41 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (9-12 years)
42 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (Young Adult)
43 The Lorax by Dr. Seuss (4-8 years)
44 Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner (9-12 years)
45 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (9-12 years)
46 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien (9-12 years)
47 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (All ages)
48 The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister (Baby-Preschool)
49 Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman (4-8 years)
50 The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson (9-12 years)
51 Corduroy by Don Freeman (Baby-Preschool)
52 Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg (4-8 years)
53 Math Curse by Jon Scieszka (4-8 years)
54 Matilda by Roald Dahl (9-12 years)
55 Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls (Young Adult)
56 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume (9-12 years)
57 Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (9-12 years)
58 The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White (9-12 years)
59 Are You My Mother? by Philip D. Eastman (4-8 years)
60 The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis (9-12 years)
61 Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (4-8 years)
62 One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss (4-8 years)
63 The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (9-12 years)
64 The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (Baby-Preschool)
65 The Napping House by Audrey Wood (4-8 years)
66 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (4-8 years)
67 The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (4-8 years)
68 Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (9-12 years)
69 The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (All ages)
70 Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (9-12 years)
71 Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss (4-8 years)
72 Basil of Baker Street, by Eve Titus (4-8 years)
73 The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper (4-8 years)
74 The Cay by Theodore Taylor (Young Adult)
75 Curious George by Hans Augusto Rey (4-8 years)
76 Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox (4-8 years)
77 Arthur series by Marc Tolon Brown (4-8 years)
78 The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (9-12 years)
79 Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes (4-8 years)
80 Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (9-12 years)
81 The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (4-8 years)
82 The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown (Baby-Preschool)
83 Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar (9-12 years)
84 Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish (4-8 years)
85 Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh (9-12 years)
86 A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein (9-12 years)
87 Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater (9-12 years)
88 My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett (9-12 years)
89 Stuart Little by E. B. White (9-12 years)
90 Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (9-12 years)
91 The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (9-12 years)
92 The Art Lesson by Tomie De Paola (4-8 years)
93 Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina (4-8 years)
94 Clifford, the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell (4-8 years)
95 Heidi by Johanna Spyri (All ages)
96 Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss (4-8 years)
97 The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Young Adult)
98 The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (9-12 years)
99 Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney (Baby-Preschool)
100 The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch (4-8 years)
World's 100 Greatest Books of All-Time
The books are presented in chronological order (the
date they were written) under each topical category
NOVELS, EPIC POEMS & LEGENDS:
(1). The Iliad by Homer
(2). The Odyssey by Homer
(3). The Aeneid by Virgil
(4). Beowulf by Unknown
(5). The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
(6). The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
(7). Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
(8). Don Quixote by Cervantes
(9). Paradise Lost by John Milton
(10). The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
(11). Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
(12). Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
(13). Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
(14). Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
(15). Candide by Voltaire
(16). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(17). The Tragedy of Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
(18). The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
(19). Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
(20). Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
(21). Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
(22). The Red and the Black by Stendahl
(23). The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
(24). The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
(25). Carmen by Prosper Merimee
(26). Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
(27). Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
(28). Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
(29). David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
(30). A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
(31). Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
(32). The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
(33). Camille by Alexandre Dumas Fils
(34). Moby Dick by Herman Melville
(35). Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
(36). Idyls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
(37). Silas Marner by George Eliot
(38). Middlemarch by George Eliot
(39). Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
(40). Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
(41). Crime and Punishment by Fedor Dostoyevsky
(42). The Brothers Karamazov by Fedor Dostoyevsky
(43). Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
(44). Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
(45). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
(46). The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
(47). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
(48). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
(49). Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
(50). War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
(51). The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
(52). Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
(53). The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
(54). The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
(55). Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
(56). The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
(57). The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
(58). Dracula by Bram Stoker
(59).The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
(60). The Call of the Wild by Jack London
(61). Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
(62). An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
(63). The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
(64). A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
(65). For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
(66). The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
(67). The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
(68). Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
(69). The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
(70). To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION:
(71). The Republic by Plato
(72). The Prince by Machiavelli
(73). The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
(74). The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
(75). The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
(76). Das Kapital by Karl Marx
(77). The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
PLAYS:
(78). Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
(79). Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
(80). The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
(81). Hamlet by William Shakespeare
(82). Othello by William Shakespeare
(83). Macbeth by William Shakespeare
(84).The Tempest by William Shakespeare
(85). Tartuffe by Moliere
(86). Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
(87). A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
(88). The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
(89). Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
(90). The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
(91). Our Town by Thornton Wilder
(92). Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
PHILOSOPHY:
(93). The Nicomachaen Ethics by Aristotle
(94). Meditations by Rene Descartes
(95). Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
(96). The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer
(97). Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(98). Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(99). Walden by Henry David Thoreau
(100). How We Think by John Dewey
From the Children's List I read 52 as a child, i.e. before I was 18. I've since read 35 to my child.
From the Teacher's List for Children I read 49 as a child and I've read 46 to my child.
From the World List I've read 77 of the books.