Baby to 3 years
There Was an Old Lady
Who Swallowed a Fly by Pam Adams
Moo
Baa La La La by
Sandra Boynton
The Grouchy Ladybug
by Eric Carle
The Very Hungry
Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Click, Clack, Splish,
Splash: A Counting Adventure by Doreen Cronin
Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack:
An Alphabetical Adventure by Doreen Cronin
Jamberry by Bruce
Degen
Llama Llama Red Pajama
by Anna Dewdney
The Foot Book by
Dr. Seuss
Are You My Mommy?
by Philip D. Eastman
Olivia’s Opposites
by Ian Falconer
Ten Little Ladybugs
by Melanie Gerth
Where’s Spot? By
Eric Hill
Brown Bear, Brown
Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
Guess How Much I love
You by Sam McBratney
Goodnight, Gorilla
by Peggy Rathmann
We’re Going on a Bear
Hunt by Michael Rosen
Goodnight Moon by
Margaret Wise
3 to 8 Years Read
Aloud
Miss Nelson is Missing
by Harry G. Allard
Cloudy with a Chance
of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
The Hat by Jan
Brett
The Mitten by Jan
Brett
Clifford the Big Red
Dog by Norman Bridwell
Arthur Books by Marc Brown
Mike Mulligan and His
Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Brown
Stellaluna by
Janell Cannon
Verdi by Janell
Cannon
Click Clack Moo: Cows
that Type by Doreen Cronin
Dooby Dooby Moo by Doreen Cronin
Giggle, Giggle, Quack
by Doreen Cronin
Strega Nona by
Tomie dePaola
Corduroy by Don
Freeman
The Snowy Day by
Ezra Jack Keats
Olivia Books by Ian Falconer
Angelina Ballerina by
Katharine Holabird
Harold and the Purple
Crayon by Crockett Johnson
How Much is a Million
by Steven Kellogg
Johnny Appleseed
by Steven Kellogg
Library Lil by
Steven Kellogg
Pecos Bill: A Tall Tale by Steven Kellogg
Pinkerton, Behave!
by Steven Kellogg
The Day Jimmy’s Boa
Ate the Wash by Steven Kellogg
The Mysterious Tadpole
by Steven Kellogg
You Are Special by
Max Lucado
Chicka, Chicka, Boom,
Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
I was so Mad (other
Little Critter Series) by Mercer Mayer
You’re All My
Favorites by Sam McBratney
Blueberries for Sal
by Robert McCloskey
Make Way for Ducklings
by Robert McCloskey
Stone Soup by Jon
J. Muth
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura
Numeroff
The Little Engine that
Could by Watty Piper
The Rainbow Fish
by Marcys Pfister
The Tale of Peter
Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Curious George by
H.A. Rey
The True Story of the
Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
Where the Wild Things
Are by Maurice Sendak
Big Plans by Bob
Shea
The Giving Tree by
Shel Silverstein
Caps for Sale by Esphyr
Slobodkina
Slyvester and the
Magic Pebble by William Steig
Mufaro’s Beautiful
Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe
Baby Tamer by Mark
Teague
How I Spent My Summer
Vacation by Mark Teague
Pigsty by Mark
Teague
The Field Beyond the
Outfield by Mark Teague
The Lost and Found
by Mark Teague
The Secret Shortcut
by Mark Teague
How Do Dinosaurs Say
Goodnight? By Jane Yolen and Mark Teague
Eloise by Kay
Thompson
Alexander and the
Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
The Velveteen Rabbit
by Margery Williams
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the
Bus! by Mo Willems
Bear Snores On by
Karma Wilson
The Little Mouse, the
Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear by Don Wood
5-7 Years Early
Readers
Bears in the Night
by Stan Bernstain
Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
Mercy Watson Thinks
Like a Pig by Kate DiCamillo
Big Dog, Little Dog
by P.D. Eastman
Go, Dog, Go! By
P.D. Eastman
The Hundred Dresses
by Eleanor Estes
Green Eggs and Ham
by Dr. Seuss
Hop on Pop by Dr.
Seuss
Mr. Brown Can Moo Can
You? By Dr. Seuss
The Cat in the Hat
by Dr. Seuss
Danny and the Dinosaur
by Syd Hoff
Frog and Toad are
Friends by Arnold Lobel
Put Me in the Zoo
by Robert Lopshire
Judy Moody Series
by Megan McDonald
Stink Series
(Stink The Incredible Shrinking Kid and Stink Incredible Super-Galatic
Jawbreaker)
by Megan McDonald
The Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osborne
Junie B. Jones Series by Barbara Park (Younger kids like
this series read aloud too)
Amelia Bedilia by
Herman Perish
Nate the Great by
Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
8-10 Years Reading
List
The Penderwicks by
Jeanne Birdsall
Freckle Juice by
Judy Bloom
Fudge by Judy
Bloom
A Bear Called
Paddington by Michael Bond
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Tales of a Fourth
Grade Nothing by Beverly
Clearly
The Mouse and the
Motorcycle by Beverly
Clearly
Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Matilda by Ronald
Dahl
Harriet the Spy by
Louise Fitshugh
Bunnicula Series by James Howe
The Ordinary Princess by
M.M. Kaye
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series by Jeff Kiney
From the Mixed-Up
Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Fairy Dust and the
Quest for the Egg by Gail Carson Levine
Island of the Blue
Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
The Plant that Ate
Dirty Socks by Nancy McArthur
The New Kid on the
Block by Jack Prelutsky (Poems)
Sideways Stories From Wayside School
by Louis Sachar
There’s a Boy in the
Girls Bathroom by Louis Sachar
Encyclopedia Brown Series by Donald J. Sobol
Charlotte’s Web by
E.B. White
Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
11-14 Years Reading
List
Girl
Because of Winn Dixie
by Kate DiCamillo
Once Upon a Marigold by
Jean Ferris
Book of A Thousand
Days by Shannon Hale
Goose Girl by
Shannon Hale
Princess Academy
by Shannon Hale
The Nancy Drew Series by Carolyn Keene
Ella Enchanted by
Gail Carson Levine
Fairest by Gail
Carson Levine
Pippi Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren
Beauty by Robin
McKinley
My Fair Godmother
by Janette Raillison
Esperanza Rising
by Pam Munoz Ryan
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Flipped by
Wendelin VanDraanen
Unisex
Peter Pan by J.M.
Barrie
The Boy in the Striped
Pajamas by John Boyne (about the Holocaust)
Tale of Despereaux
by Kate DiCamillo
Johnny Tremain by
Esther Forbes
Hoot by Carl
Hiaasen
Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
I Am Number Four
by Pittacus Lore
Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
The Giver by Lois
Lowry
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Star Girl by Jerry
Spinelli
Roll of Thunder, Hear
My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Boy
The Indian in the
Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Peter and the
Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Ender’s Game by
Orson Scott Card
Artemis Fowl Series by Eoin Colfer
My Side of the
Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Theodore Boone: Kid
Lawyer by John Grisham
Eragon by
Christopher Paolini
Hatchet by Gary
Paulsen
Holes by Lous
Sachar
The Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas
Rockwell
Treasure
Island by Robert Stevenson
Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
14-18 Years Reading
List
Girl
The Selection by
Kiera Cass
Matched by Ally
Condie
Stork by Wendy Delsol
Before Midnight: A
retelling of Cinderella by Cameron Dokey
Princess of the
Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George
Safekeeping by
Karen Hesse
A Countess Below the
Stairs by Eva Ibbotson
Firelight by
Sophie Jordan
The Treachery of
Beautiful Things by Ruth Frances Long
Throne of Glass by
Sarah J. Maas
The Host by
Stephanie Meyer
Geek Charming by
Robin Palmer
Defiance by
C.J. Redwine
Pizza, Love and Other
Stuff That Made Me Famous by Kathryn Williams
Confessions of a
Serial Kisser by Wendelin Van Draanen
Jackaroo by
Cynthia Voigt
On Fortune’s Wheel
by Cynthia Voigt
Unisex
Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins
Life of Pi by Yann
Martel
Starters by Lissa
Price
Boy
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Series by
Douglas Adams
The Maze Runner Series by James Dashner
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
Atlas Shrugged by
Ayn Rand
The Hobbit by
J.R.R. Tolkien
White Fang by Jack
London
Classics
Beowulf by
Anonymous
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Illiad by
Homer
The Odyssey by
Homer
Moby Dick by
Herman Melville
Animal Farm by
George Orwell
1984 by George
Orwell
Hamlet by William
Shakespeare
Midsummer Night’s
Dream by William Shakespeare
Frankenstein by
Mary Shelley
Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift
Female Adult Reads
Fun Reads
Edenbrook by
Julianne Donaldson
The Other Mr. Darcy by
Monica Fairview
Austenland by
Shannon Hale
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
Classics
Emma by Jane
Austin
Persuasion by Jane
Austin
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austin
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austin
Jane Eyre by
Charlotte Bronte
Evelina by Fanny
Burney (pre-Austin woman writer)
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Far from the Madding
Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Hand of Ethelberta
by Thomas Hardy
House of Mirth by
Edith Wharton
Historical Reads
Chocolate Wars: The
150-Year Rivalry Between the World’s Greatest Chocolate Makers by Deborah
Cadbury
Founding Brothers: The
Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis
Nonfiction
How to Stop Worrying
and How to Start Living by Dale E. Carnegie
