The Experts' Suggested Titles

This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.

About this list

Children's author Jon Scieszka, with the help of librarians, compiled a list of books to get children (boys and girls) reading. Some of the books named on this list were entire book series, and so the first book in each series was chosen instead.

This list was originally published in 2006 and was added to this site about 1 year ago.

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Rank	Book	Authors	Year	Country	Language
13941	Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus!	Mo Willems	2003	American	English
17152	The Stupids Step Out	Harry Allard	1974	American	English
14232	Jumanji	Chris Van Allsburg	1981	American	English
17152	Food Fight!	Carol Diggory Shields	2002	Unknown	English
3151	A Series of Unfortunate Events #1	Lemony Snicket	1999	American	English
17152	The Day My Bum Went Psycho	Andy Griffiths	2001	Australian	English
9067	Stormbreaker	Anthony Horowitz	2000	British	English
17152	Honus & Me	Dan Gutman	1997	American	English
17152	The Beast	Walter Dean Myers	2003	American	English
2606	Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card	1985	American	English
779	The Outsiders	S. E. Hinton	1967	American	English
146	The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien	1937	British	English
17	The Lord Of The Rings	J. R. R. Tolkien	1959	English	English
17152	Judy Moody	Megan McDonald	2000	American	English
17152	Junie B. Jones And The Stupid Smelly Bus A.K.A. Junie B. Jones Is On Her Way!	Barbara Park	1992	American	English
14985	The Paper Bag Princess	Robert Munsch	1980	Canadian	English
14985	The Fairy Tale Detectives	Michael Buckley	2005	American	English
17152	Sammy Keyes And The Hotel Thief	Wendelin Van Draanen	1998	American	English
17152	Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining	Anne Mazer	2000	American	English
6568	The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants	Ann Brashares	2001	American	English
4066	The Princess Diaries	Meg Cabot	2000	American	English
5751	Angus, Thongs And Full Frontal Snogging	Louise Rennison	1999	British	English