100 Children's Books to Read in a Lifetime

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Amazon (USA), 100 Books

A list of 100 Children's Books to Read in a Lifetime, as chosen by Amazon Book Editors.

Also here: https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=9660210011

This list was originally published in 2014 and was added to this site about 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
293 A Wrinkle In Time Madeleine L'Engle 1962 American English
562 Aesop's Fables Aesop -560 Greek Ancient greek
14985 Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Judith Viorst 1972 American English
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
547 Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll 1871 British English
14788 Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish 1963 American English
17152 And Tango Makes Three Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell 2005 American English
250 Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery 1908 Canadian English
15910 Are You My Mother? P. D. Eastman 1960 American English
573 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume 1970 American English
17152 The Complete Tales Beatrix Potter 1986 British English
14788 Betsy Tacy Maud Hart Lovelace 1940 British English
508 Black Beauty Anna Sewell 1877 British English
14103 Bread And Jam For Frances Russell Hoban 1964 American English
13067 Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson 1977 American English
14101 Caps For Sale Esphyr Slobodkina 1940 American English
1377 Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 1964 British English
102 Charlotte's Web E. B. White 1952 American English
13941 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Bill Martin Jr. 1989 American English
17152 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Judi Barrett 1978 American English
4655 Coraline Neil Gaiman 2002 British English
10722 Corduroy Don Freeman 1968 American English
14163 D'aulaires' Book Of Greek Myths Ingri d'Aulaire 1962 American English
5619 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney 2007 American English
13941 Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus! Mo Willems 2003 American English
17152 Dr Seuss's Beginner Book Collection Dr. Seuss 2009 American English
14169 Encyclopedia Brown Donald J. Sobol 1963 American English
14232 Esperanza Rising Pam Muñoz Ryan 2000 American English
1941 From The Mixed Up Files Of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler EL Konigsburg 1967 American English
636 Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown 1947 American English
17152 Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site Sherri Duskey Rinker 2011 American English
322 Household Tales Brothers Grimm 1812 German German
17152 Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratney 2007 British English
1680 Harold and the Purple Crayon Crockett Johnson 1955 American English
987 Harriet the Spy Louise Fitzhugh 1964 American English
236 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
5231 Holes Louis Sachar 1998 American English
4547 Island Of The Blue Dolphins Scott O'Dell 1960 American English
14232 Jumanji Chris Van Allsburg 1981 American English
693 Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder 1935 American English
93 Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1868 American English
17152 Llama Llama Red Pajama Anna Dewdney 2005 American English
2088 Madeline Ludwig Bemelmans 1939 Austrian English
13790 Make Way For Ducklings Robert McCloskey 1941 American English
14985 Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli 1990 American English
14788 Mr. Popper's Penguins Florence and Richard Atwater 1938 American English
14228 Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of Nimh Robert C. O'Brien 1971 American English
15910 Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Betty MacDonald 1947 American English
14158 My Side Of The Mountain Jean Craighead George 1959 American English
14985 Olivia Ian Falconer 2000 American English
17152 Owen Kevin Henkes 1993 American English
15910 Paddle To The Sea Holling C. Holling 1941 American English
15910 Pat The Bunny Dorothy Kunhardt 1940 American English
303 Peter And Wendy J. M. Barrie 1911 Scottish English
267 Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 1945 Swedish Swedish
14985 Press Here Herve Tullet 2010 French French
5926 Sylvester And The Magic Pebble William Steig 1969 American English
17152 The Bad Beginning Lemony Snicket 1999 American English
10359 The Borrowers Mary Norton 1952 British English
14102 The Boxcar Children Gertrude Chandler Warner 1942 American English
230 The Call of the Wild Jack London 1903 American English
14832 The Complete Adventures Of Curious George H. A. Rey 1969 American English
14894 The Cricket In Times Square George Selden 1960 American English
17152 The Day The Crayons Quit Drew Daywalt 2013 American English
14985 The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore William Joyce 2011 American English
1799 The Giver Lois Lowry 1993 American English
1707 The House at Pooh Corner A. A. Milne 1928 British English
14232 The Invention Of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick 2007 American English
1247 The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1894 British English
2882 Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One Rick Riordan 2005 American English
381 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis 1950 British English
15910 The Little Engine That Could Watty Piper 1930 American English
44 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 French French
10376 The Mouse And The Motorcycle Beverly Cleary 1965 American English
17152 The New Way Things Work From Levers To Lasers, Windmills To Web Sites A Visual Guide To The World Of Machines David and Ardley Macaulay 1998 British English
14985 The Paper Bag Princess Robert Munsch 1980 Canadian English
522 The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster 1961 American English
14876 The Real Mother Goose Blanche Fisher Wright 1916 American English
814 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 1911 British English
14167 The Secret Of The Old Clock Carolyn Keene 1930 American English
823 The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats 1962 American English
12554 Histoire de Babar Jean de Brunhoff 1931 French French
1055 Story of Ferdinand Munro Leaf 1936 American English
13941 The Tale Of Despereaux Kate DiCamillo 2003 American English
15910 The Tower Treasure Franklin W. Dixon 1927 American English
1821 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle 1969 American English
14232 The Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963 Christopher Paul Curtis 1995 American English
14985 The Wednesday Wars Gary D. Schmidt 2007 American English
5617 The Westing Game Ellen Raskin 1978 American English
136 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1908 British English
340 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum 1900 American English
115 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1883 British English
1879 Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt 1975 American English
14985 Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech 1994 American English
224 Watership Down Richard Adams 1972 British English
6917 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Grace Lin, Janet Song 2009 Chinese English
4306 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls 1961 American English
13359 Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein 1974 American English
320 Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak 1963 American English
3922 Wonder R. J. Palacio 2012 American English