• 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 Roman Mysteries Series (skip Sirens of Surrentum)

I Survived series

• 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

Bravely

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

Sabriel

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

Circe

• 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