• Amazing Grace (Metaxas)

• The Passage (Check the content warnings!)

• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

• My Grandfather’s Son

• Cry, the Beloved Country

• Tolkien and the Great War

• Fault Lines (Baucham)

• Watership Down

• Dandelion Wine

• Alive (Piers Paul Read)

• The Falcon Thief

• Ghostopolis

• Nnewts

• Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales

• Amulet

• Bone

• Zeta the Spacegirl

• The Faint of Heart (Wilson)

• The Wild Robot

• The Railway Children

• The Tale of Despereaux

• The Magician’s Elephant

• Fortunately, the Milk

• Dangerous Journey: The Story of Pilgrim’s Progress

• Because of Winn-Dixie

• Baby Island

• My Father’s Dragon

• Holes

• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

• Half Magic

• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

• Little Pilgrim’s Progress (Taylor, illustrations by Sutphin)

• Save the Cat

• Conflict and Suspense (James Scott Bell)

• The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

• Self-Editing for Fiction Writers

• On Writing (King)

• Dialogue (McKee)

• Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey into Story

• The Way to Write for Children (Aiken)

• The Magic Words (Klein)

• Wordsmithy (Wilson)

• The Anatomy of Story (Truby)

• Story Craft (Erickson)

• The First Five Pages (Lukeman)

• Story Genius (Lisa Cron)

• Dear America Series

• The Mysterious Benedict Society

• The Trailblazer Books (Jackson)

• Princess Academy

• Siren Sisters

• Twenty and Ten

• Shadow the Sheepdog

• A Place to Hang the Moon

• The Magician’s Elephant

• Winterhouse

• Strays

• Greenglass House

• Howl’s Moving Castle

• Ender’s Game

• All ND Wilson books

• The Once and Future King

• Watership Down

• The Giver

• The Penderwicks

• The Trials of Morrigan Crow

• Lightkeepers Series (Irene Howat)

• The Last Unicorn

• When You Reach Me

• The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow

• Bravely

• The Sherwood Ring

• The Perilous Gard

• Echo Mountain (Wolk)

• Forbidden Child (Newell)

• The Dreamkeeper Saga (Katherine Butler)

• Eight Days of Luke

• The Queen’s Thief Series

• Wolf Hollow

• Beyond the Bright Sea

• The Graveyard Book

• When You Reach Me

• The Wednesday Wars

• The Scorpio Races

• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

• Ship Breaker

• Wildwood Dancing

• The Girl Who Drank the Moon

• Christian Heroes Then and Now

• The Raconteur’s Commonplace Book

• The Last Unicorn

• A Natural History of Dragons

• 84, Charing Cross Road

• Skyward (Sanderson)

• The Wee Free Men (Tiffany Aching #1)

• His Majesty’s Dragon (Novik)

• True Grit

• Kristin Lavransdatter

• News of the World

• Spinning Silver

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

• Dark of the West

• Till We Have Faces

• I Capture the Castle

• The Chosen

• The Bear and the Nightingale

• Salt to the Sea

• Fire and Hemlock (DWJ)

• Everything Sad is Untrue

• Circe (CW)

• Gabriel

• Eight Days of Luke

• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

• A Man Called Ove

• Joy in the Morning (Wodehouse #8)

• The End of the Affair

• The Death of Ivan Ilych

• My Antonia

• Rebecca

• Cannery Row

• The Great Gatsby

• Frankenstein

• The Book of the Dun Cow

• Joy in the Morning (Betty Smith)

• The Owl Service (Garner)

• English Creek

• My Antonia

• Dune

• Lewis’ Space Trilogy

• Fahrenheit 451

• Animal Farm

• Brave New World

• Ready Player One

• The Children of Men

• Never Let Me Go

• Dark Matter

• Recursion

• The Martian

• Project Hail Mary

• When the English Fall

• The Remains of the Day

• Peace Like a River

• All the Light We Cannot See

• The Whistling Season

• The River Why

• Gilead

• The Kite Runner

• Station Eleven

• The Dry

• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

• The Big Sleep

• The Pastures of Heaven

• 84, Charing Cross Road

• The Lincoln Highway

• A Gentleman in Moscow

• Wolf Hall

• Code Name Verity

• News of the World

• Salt to the Sea

• Piranesi

• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

• Once Upon a River

• To Say Nothing of the Dog

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane

• The Night Circus

• The Goblin Emperor

• Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

• A Natural History of Dragons

• The Boys in the Boat

• Into Thin Air

• The Radium Girls

• The Magnolia Story

• Mrs. Kennedy and Me

• Stiff (Roach)

• Blood Will Out

• At Home (Bryson)

• Garlic and Sapphires (Reichl)

• Complications (Gawande)

• Being Mortal

• The Magnolia Story

• Evidence Not Seen

• The Falcon Thief

• Alive (Piers Paul Read)

• Norse Mythology (Gaiman)

• Deeper Heaven (Hale)

• Death by Living

• The Discarded Image (Lewis)

• Psalms for Trials

• An Everlasting Meal

• You Who? Why You Matter and How to Deal With It

• The Unseen Realm

5-Year-Old Boy:

• The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

• The Great Big Enormous Book of Tashi

• Arabel and Mortimer

• The Littles

• The Napping House

• Elephant and Piggie

• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

• Ghostopolis

• Tintin

8-Year-Old-Girl:

• Soup Series

• Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

• The Hundred Dresses

• Mrs. Piggle Wiggle

• Zita the Spacegirl

• The Island of Adventure (Blyton)

• Pippi Longstocking

• Flight of the Fugitives (Jackson)

• One Dead Spy (Hale)

• The Prairie Thief (Wiley)

10-Year-Old-Girl

• Ten Girls Who Didn’t Give In

• Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman

• In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

• Island of the Blue Dolphins

• Enchanted Glass

• Corrie Ten Boom: Keeper of the Angels’ Den

• Homesick: Jean Fritz

• The Princess Academy

• Tolliver’s Secret

• Beyond the River (Young Underground #2)

• A Single Shard

6 Year-Old Boy:

• We Are in a Book (Elephant and Piggie)

• Go, Dog, Go!

• I Want My Hat Back (Klassen)

• The Fire Cat (Averill)

• Little Bear Series

• Henry and Mudge

• What If Everybody Did That?

• Calvin and Hobbes

9-Year-Old Girl:

• Princess Academy

• Redwall

• Mrs. Piggle Wiggle

• The Imagination Station: Adventures in Odyssey

• The Roman Mysteries

• Tintin

• Ten Girls Who Didn’t Give In

11-Year-Old Girl:

• Christian Heroes Then and Now

• Boys of Blur

• D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths

• City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction

• The Far Side Gallery

• Daniel Boone: Young Hunter and Tracker

• The Giver

• The Hiding Place

From Younger to Older:

• The Magic Tree House

• The Imagination Station

• Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales

• Dear America and Dear Canada books

• Trailblazer Books by Dave and Neta Jackson

• I Survived Series by Lauren Tarshis

• Tales of Magic by Edward Eager

• The Roman Mysteries by Caroline Lawrence

• The Young Underground by Robert Elmer

• The Famous Five by Enid Blyton

• Christian Heroes, Then & Now by Janet and Geoff Being