Rebecca's Reading Recommendations

Favorite Authors

100 of My Favorite Books In No Particular Order

Key:
Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Winner
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
World War II Fiction
Folklore
Science Fiction
Picture Book

If You Want To Write by Brenda Ueland. Excellent encouragement for the aspiring author.

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom.

Instead of Three Wishes,
The Thief by Megan Whelan Turner. Note: read The Thief twice. It is a good book the first time, a brilliant work of genius the second time.

Ella Enchanted,
Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine.

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Perilous Guard by Elizabeth Marie Pope

Over Sea, Under Stone,
The Dark is Rising,
Greenwitch,
The Grey King by Susan Cooper

The Narnia books by C.S. Lewis

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle. A childhood favorite

Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl. This book had a greater influence on my imagination than any other I read as a child.

The Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

Number the Stars,
The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Lost Prince,
The Secret Garden,
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
George's Marvelous Medicine,
Matilda,
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

A Single Shard,
Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park

Master Cornhill,
The Moorchild,
The Golden Goblet by Eloise McGraw

The Search for Delicious,
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

A Long Way From Chicago,
A Year Down Yonder,
The River Between Us,
Fair Weather by Richard Peck

Holes,
Dogs Don't Tell Jokes by Louis Sachar

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

Always Room for One More,
Thistle and Thyme,
Heather and Broom,
Gaelic Ghosts by Sorche Nic Leodhas

Bonds that Make Us Free by C. Terry Warner

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Madame Curie: a Biography by Eve Curie

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Witch of Blackbird Pond,
The Bronze Bow Elizabeth George Speare

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell. Another childhood favorite.

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

The Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin

Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson, Illustrated by Jane Chapman

Summer Reading is Killing Me by Jon Scieszka, Illustrated by Lane Smith

Lilly's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff

Kit's Wilderness by David Almond

Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Crystal Drop by Monica Hughes

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

Tom's Midnight Garden by Phillippa Pearce

The Pinhoe Egg,
Homeward Bounders,
Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones

Pudd'nhead Wilson,
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Black and Blue Magic by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

The Good Master by Kate Seredy

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

Understanding Quantum Mechanics by Michael A. Morrison

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

The Hunchback of Notre Dame,
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Fablehaven 2: Rise of the Evening Star by Brandon Mull

The Widow's Broom,
The Stranger,
The Polar Express,
Bad Day at River Bend,
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg

Dealings with Dragons,
Searching for Dragons by Patricia Wrede

Frindle,
The Landry News,
The School Story by Andrew Clemens

The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary