The Greatest Books of All Time on Juvenile

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
60 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 1958 Nigerian English
86 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 1928 German German
102 Charlotte's Web E. B. White 1952 American English
136 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1908 British English
165 Winnie the Pooh A. A. Milne 1926 British English
236 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
247 Kim Rudyard Kipling 1901 British English
250 Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery 1908 Canadian English
267 Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 1945 Swedish Swedish
293 A Wrinkle In Time Madeleine L'Engle 1962 American English
309 Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912 American English
320 Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak 1963 American English
339 The Adventures of Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1837 British English
340 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum 1900 American English
381 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis 1950 British English
393 The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1868 British English
419 The Daughter of Time Josephine Tey 1951 British English
423 Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie 1934 British English
507 The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper 1826 American English
522 The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster 1961 American English
547 Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll 1871 British English
601 The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1851 American English
636 Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown 1947 American English
676 The Princess Bride William Goldman 1973 American English
693 Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder 1935 American English
711 Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes 1959 American English
762 Ballet Shoes Noel Streatfeild 1936 British English
773 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Edgar Allan Poe 1838 American English
778 The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss 1957 American English
779 The Outsiders S. E. Hinton 1967 American English
814 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 1911 British English
823 The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats 1962 American English
914 The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1938 American English
950 Richard III William Shakespeare 1592 British English
987 Harriet the Spy Louise Fitzhugh 1964 American English
1014 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter 1902 British English
1043 Danny The Champion Of The World Roald Dahl 1975 British English
1055 Story of Ferdinand Munro Leaf 1936 American English
1109 Othello William Shakespeare 1603 British English
1134 The Neverending Story Michael Ende 1979 German German
1243 Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 British English
1247 The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1894 British English
1255 Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach 1970 American English
1288 The 13 Clocks James Thurber 1950 American English
1340 As You Like it William Shakespeare 1600 British English
1346 Matilda Roald Dahl 1988 British English
1388 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 2008 American English
1397 The BFG Roald Dahl 1982 British English
1405 The Twits Roald Dahl 1980 British English
1444 James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl 1961 British English
1537 The Owl Service Alan Garner 1967 British English
1589 Tarka the Otter Henry Williamson 1927 British English
1606 White Fang Jack London 1906 American English
1634 The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros 1984 American English
1680 Harold and the Purple Crayon Crockett Johnson 1955 American English
1686 The Lorax Dr. Seuss 1971 American English
1707 The House at Pooh Corner A. A. Milne 1928 British English
1730 The Mouse And His Child Russell Hoban 1967 American English
1736 Mary Poppins P. L. Travers 1934 British English
1741 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 Sue Townsend 1982 British English
1744 Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie 1990 British English
1780 Poems of Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda 1970 Chilean Spanish
1812 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon 2003 British English
1821 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle 1969 American English
1838 Just William Richmal Crompton 1922 British English
1853 The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams 1922 British English
1895 Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris 2000 American English
1941 From The Mixed Up Files Of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler EL Konigsburg 1967 American English
1973 The Invisible Man H. G. Wells 1897 British English
2050 Momo Michael Ende 1973 German German
2086 Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones 1986 British English
2088 Madeline Ludwig Bemelmans 1939 Austrian English
2121 Julius Caesar William Shakespeare 1623 British English
2426 The Tiger Who Came to Tea Judith Kerr 1968 British English
2436 The Railway Children Edith Nesbit 1906 British English
2538 A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond 1958 British English
2573 Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1919 American English
2614 The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare 1600 British English
2637 The Adventures of Captain Underpants Dav Pilkey 1997 American English
2644 The Hardy Boys Franklin W. Dixon 1927 American English
2682 Twilight Stephenie Meyer 2005 American English
2686 Prince Caspian C. S. Lewis 1951 British English
2808 Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Paterson 1980 American English
2840 The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis 1955 British English
3082 Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome 1930 British English
3094 We're Going on a Bear Hunt Michael Rosen 1989 British English
3130 Little Nicholas Rene Goscinny 1959 French French
3225 Much Ado about Nothing William Shakespeare 1600 British English
3287 Stories of Washington Irving Washington Irving 1820 American English
3306 Henry IV, Part I William Shakespeare 1597 British English
3478 American Born Chinese Gene Luen Yang 2006 American English
3593 The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson 1999 British English
3904 The Blue Sword Robin McKinley 1982 American English
3908 The Wind on the Moon Eric Linklater 1944 British English
4148 Forever... Judy Blume 1975 American English
4306 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls 1961 American English
4459 The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman 2008 British English
4512 Comet In Moominland Tove Jansson 1946 Finnish Swedish
4539 Rules Of Summer Shaun Tan 2013 Australian English
4553 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr 1971 German English
4569 No Kiss For Mother Tomi Ungerer 1973 French English
4574 The Black Brothers Lisa Tetzner 1941 German German
4630 The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo 2006 American English
4682 Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss 1960 American English
4732 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation M. T. Anderson 2006 American English
4785 Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan 1985 American English
4795 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1922 British English
4861 The Snowman Raymond Briggs 1978 British English
5146 Before We Were Free Julia Alvarez 2002 American English
5229 Holes Louis Sachar 1998 American English
5408 The Prince of Tides Pat Conroy 1986 American English
5419 What The Dead Know Laura Lippman 2007 American English
5617 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney 2007 American English
5627 Hatchet Gary Paulsen 1987 American English
6130 The Story of Tracy Beaker Jacqueline Wilson 1991 British English
6288 Out Of My Mind Sharon M. Draper 2010 American English
6320 Living Up The Street Gary Soto 1985 American English
6467 The Lion and the Mouse Jerry Pinkney 2009 American English
6917 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Grace Lin, Janet Song 2009 Chinese English