As you know, I love lists. I enjoy going through lists like this one and checking off the ones I’ve completed.
I found a reading challenge you’d perhaps like to take on.
Here are the top 100 Children’s Books to Read in your Lifetime as chosen by Goodreads readers and Amazon editors. These books are for age 12 or younger but are enjoyed by all ages and readers. Books listed in a series have been combined.
Which of these have you read? In green are the ones I’ve read.
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J. K. Rowling
2. Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White
3. The Chronicles of Narnia – C. S. Lewis
4. Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
5. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
6. Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
7. The Giver – Lois Lowry
8. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
9. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Barrett
10. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
11. The Cat in the Hat – Dr. Seuss
12. The House at Pooh Corner – A. A. Milne
13. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
14. Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
15. Madeline – Ludwig Bemelmens
16. Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
17. The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien
18. The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle
19. The Story of Ferdinand – Munro Leaf
20. Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder
21. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel – Virginia Lee Burton
22. Green Eggs and Ham – Dr. Seuss
23. Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
24. Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren
25. Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales – the Brothers Grimm
26. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E. L. Konigsburg
27. Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock – Carolyn Keene
28. Press Here – Hervé Tullet
29. The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
30. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
31. Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
32. Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site – Sherri Duskey Rinker
33. The Wind in the Willows -Kenneth Grahame
34. The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
35. Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie
36. Number the Stars – Lois Lowry
37. Holes – Louis Sachar
38. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan
39. Wonder – R. J. Palacio
40. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
41. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! – Dr. Seuss
42. The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein
43. Flora and the Flamingo – Molly Idle
44. Curious George – Margret & H. A. Rey
45. Amelia Bedelia – Peggy Parish
46. Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson
47. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
48. Matilda – Roald Dahl
49. Heidi – Johanna Spyri
50. The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
51. The Snowy Day – Ezra Jack Keats
52. Ivy and Bean – Annie Barrows
53. The Boxcar Children – Gertrude C. Warner
54. A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
55. Peek-A Who? – Nina Laden
56. The Paper Bag Princess – Robert Munsch
57. Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbitt
58. The Day the Crayons Quit – Drew Daywalt
59. Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
60. Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
61. Bread and Jam for Francis – Russell Hoban
62. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
63. The Velveteen Rabbit – Margery Williams
64. Because of Winn Dixie – Kate DiCamillo
65. The One and Only Ivan – Katherine Applegate
66. The Witch of Blackbird Pond – Elizabeth George Speare
67. The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter
68. The BFG – Roald Dahl
69. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
70. A Bear Called Paddington – Michael Bond
71. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 – Beverly Cleary
72. The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 – Christopher Paul Curtis
73. Oh, the Places You’ll Go – Dr. Seuss
74. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective – Donald J. Sobol
75. Harold and the Purple Crayon – Crockett Johnson
76. Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
77. Fantastic Mr. Fox – Roald Dahl
78. Going Over – Beth Kephart
79. Achren (The Chronicles of Prydain) – Lloyd Alexander
80. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs – Judi Barrett
81. The Twits – Roald Dahl
82. Inkheart – Cornelia Funke
83. White Fang – Jack London
84. Rhyme Schemer – K. A. Holt
85. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Joan Aiken
86. Esperanza Rising – Pam Muñoz Ryan
87. The Dark Is Rising – Susan Cooper
88. The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Brian Selznick
89. Danny, the Champion of the World – Roald Dahl
90. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle – Avi
91. When You Reach Me – Rebecca Stead
92. A Girl of the Limberlost – Gene Stratton-Porter
93. Bud Not Buddy – Christopher Paul Curtis
94. Daddy Long Legs – Jean Webster
95. Bambi – Felix Salten (I’ve only read the Disney version of this one)
96. Low Riders in Space – Cathy Camper
97. The Once and Future King – T. H. White
98. Flora and Ulysses – Kate DiCamillo
99. Pictures of Hollis Woods – Patricia Reilly Giff
100. Anne of Green Gables – L. M. Montgomery
Out of 100 books read, the average score is 33. I was doing pretty well, until two-thirds of the way through the list. My score is 40, and I have 5 more that I’ve not completed.
What is your score? Are there any on the list you want to read?
Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂 ♥
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