Books | Kids and Teens Reading Lists

Listed below are young kids, preteens and teens reading lists of books that we have either enjoyed or are eager to read. Here’s a collection of books that you may want to add to your kids Goodreads lists.

Young Kids and Pre Teens Reading Lists

• Neuromancer, by William Gibson. Gibson coined the term “cyberspace”
• Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World
• Have Spacesuit – Will Travel – Robert A. Heinlein (little dated, but still good)
• The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler. Crime fiction.
• Clarence, The TV Dog by Patricia Lauber. Great bedtime book to read to a child of any age
• A Young’s People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• 101 Things Everyone Should Know About Math by Ze, Segal and Levy
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
• The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
• Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
• I Seem to be A Verb – R. Buckminster
• Paddle-to-the-Sea – Holling C. Holling
• Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
• Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
• His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
• Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
• Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
• Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
• Complete Works of Shakespeare
• Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
• The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
• Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
• Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
• The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
• Middlemarch – George Eliot
• Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
• The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
• War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
• The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
• Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
• The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
• Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
• David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
• Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
• Emma – Jane Austen
• The Borrowers – Mary Norton, Beth Krush, Joe Krush
• Shiloh – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Persuasion – Jane Austen
• The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
• Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
• Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
• Animal Farm – George Orwell
• One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Law – Frederick Bastiat
• The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
• Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
• Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
• Atonement – Ian McEwan
• Life of Pi – Yann Martel
• Dune – Frank Herbert
• Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
• Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
• A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
• The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
• Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
• The Secret History – Donna Tartt
• The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
• Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
• On The Road – Jack Kerouac
• Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
• Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
• Moby Dick – Herman Melville (Liked)
• Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
• Dracula – Bram Stoker
• The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
• Ulysses – James Joyce
• The Inferno – Dante
• wallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
• Germinal – Emile Zola
• Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
• Possession – AS Byatt
• Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
• The Color Purple – Alice Walker
• The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
• Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
• A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
• The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
• Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (Loved)
• Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
• The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
• The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
• Watership Down – Richard Adams
• A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
• A Girl Named Disaster – Nancy Farmer
• A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
• A Dog’s Life – Autobiography of a Stray – Ann M. Martin
• The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
• Hamlet – William Shakespeare
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
• Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
• The Borrowers – Mary Norton, Beth Krush, Joe Krush
• Virginia Wolf – Kyo Maclear
• My Favorite Things – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Renee Graef
• Frost Bites (Edgar & Ellen Nodyssey) – Charles Ogden, Rick Carton
• Moon Over Manifest – Clare Vanderpool
• The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling – Maryrose Wood, Jon Klassen
• Onion John – Joseph Krumgold, Symeon Shimin
• Homeless Bird – Gloria Whelan