| Little Women; Little Men | Alcott, Louisa May |
| The High King; The Black Cauldron; The Beggar Queen; The Book of Three; The Gawgon and the Boy; The Rope Trick | Alexander, Lloyd |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Angelou, Maya |
| Pride and Prejudice; Emma | Austen, Jane |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain; Another Country | Baldwin, James |
| Peter Pan | Barrie, Sir James |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Baum, L. Frank |
| Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret; Deenie; Then Again, Maybe I Won’t; Blubber; Superfudge; Blubber; Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing; Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great; Double Fudge | Blume, Judy |
| The Martian Chronicles; Fahrenheit 451 | Bradbury, Ray |
| Jane Eyre | Brontë, Charlotte |
| Wuthering Heights | Brontë, Jane |
| The Good Earth | Buck, Pearl S. |
| The Tarzan books, such as Tarzan of the Apes | Burroughs, Edgar Rice |
| Alice in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass; The Hunting of the Snark | Carroll, Lewis |
| O Pioneers!; My Antonia | Cather, Willa |
| Don Quixote | Cervantes, Miguel de |
| The Canterbury Tales; Chanticleer and the Fox | Chaucer, Geoffrey |
| Leatherstocking Tales, (one of which is) The Last of the Mohicans | Cooper, James Fenimore |
| The Chocolate War; Beyond the Chocolate War; I Am the Cheese | Cormier, Robert |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Crane, Stephen |
| The Andromeda Strain; Jurassic Park | Crichton, Michael |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; James and the Giant Peach | Dahl, Roald |
| Divine Comedy | Dante |
| Robinson Crusoe | Defoe, Danie |
| A Christmas Carol; Oliver Twist; Great Expectations; A Tale of Two Cities; David Copperfield | Dickens, Charles |
| A Study in Scarlet ; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Hound of the Baskervilles | Doyle, Arthur Conan |
| The Three Musketeers; The Count of Monte Cristo | Dumas, Alexandre |
| Autobiography; Poor Richard’s Almanac(k) | Franklin, Benjamin |
| Roots | Haley, Alex |
| The Scarlet Letter; Tanglewood Tales; A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls | Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
| The Old Man and the Sea; The Sun Also Rises; For Whom the Bell Tolls | Hemingway, Ernest |
| The Outsiders; Rumble Fish; Tex; That Was Then, This Is Now;Taming the Star Runner | Hinton, S.E |
| Iliad; Odyssey | Homer |
| Les Misérables; The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Hugo, Victor |
| Redwall and the Redwall series | Jacques, Brain |
| The Story of My Life | Keller, Helen |
| The Jungle Books; Just So Stories; Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories; Captains Courageous; Kim | Kipling, Rudyard |
| Across Five Aprils; Up a Road Slowly; The Lottery Rose; No Promises in the Wind | Hunt, Irene |
| Hondo; The Empty Land; Sackett Family Series | L’Amour, Louis |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Lee, Harper |
| The Time Trilogy: A Wrinkle in Time; A Wind in the Door; A Swiftly Tilting Planet; Many Waters; An Acceptable Time; The Arm of the Starfish; The Journey with Jonah; A Ring of Endless Light | L’Engle, Madeleine |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Chronicles of Narnia | Lewis, C.S. |
| Number the Stars; All About Sam; Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst; The Giver; The One Hundredth Thing About Caroline; Autumn Street | Lowry, Lois |
| Make Way for Ducklings | McCloskey, Robert |
| Moby-Dick; Billy Budd | Melville, Herman |
| Tales of the South Pacific | Michener, James. |
| Winnie-the-Pooh; When We Were Very Young; Now We Are Six; The House at Pooh Corner | Milne, A.A. |
| Gone With the Wind | Mitchell, Margaret |
| The Glory Field; Somewhere in the Darkness; Scorpions; Won’t Know Till I Get There | Myers, Walter Dean |
| Jacob Have I Loved; Lyddie; The Great Gilly Hopkins; Bridge to Terabithia; Angels and Other Strangers; The Sign of the Chrysanthemum; Lyddie | Paterson, Katherine |
| Hatchet; Dogsong; Dancing Carl; Sentries; Tracker; Popcorn Days and Buttermilk Nights; Cousins in the Attic; The Foxman;Twin in the Tavern | Paulsen, Gary |
| Harry Potter series | Rowling, J.K |
| The Catcher in the Rye | Salinger, J.D |
| Ivanhoe | Scott, Sir Walter |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Sendak, Maurice |
| The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins; The Butter Battle Book;Yertle the Turtle; Horton the Elephant; The Cat in the Hat; And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street; You’re Only Old Once; How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Seuss, Dr. |
| The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men; Tortilla Flat; The Pearl | Steinbeck, John |
| Treasure Island; Kidnapped; David Balfour; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| Goosebumps | Stine, R.L. |
| Dracula | Stoker, Bram |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
| Gulliver’s Travels | Swift, Jonathan |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; Let the Circle Be Unbroken; The Land | Taylor, Mildred D |
| Walden | Thoreau, Henry David |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Thurber, James |
| The Hobbit; or There and Back Again | Tolkien, J.R.R |
| War and Peace | Tolstoy, Leo |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Prince and the Pauper; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | Twain, Mark |
| Around the World in Eighty Days; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; Journey to the Center of the Earth; Five Weeks in a Balloon | Verne, Jules |
| Aeneid | Virgil |
| Candide | Candide |
| The Color Purple | Walker, Alice |
| The Time Machine; The War of the Worlds | Wells, H.G. |
| Charlotte’s Web; Stuart Little; The Trumpet of the Swan | White, E.B. |
| Little House in the Big Woods; Little House on the Prairie; On the Banks of Plum Creek | Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
| The Swiss Family Robinson | Wyss, Johann |
| The Pigman; Pardon Me, You’re Stepping on My Eyeball; My Darling, My Hamburger; The Girl Who Wanted a Boy | Zindel, Paul |
| The Jungle | Sinclair, Upton |
| Fables: “The Ant and the Grasshopper”; “Belling the Cat”; “The Dog in the Manger”; “The Fox and the Crow”; “The Fox and the Grapes”; “The Hare and the Tortoise”; “The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf”; “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse”; “The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing | Aesop |
| The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories: “The Emperor’s New Clothes”; “The Ugly Duckling”; “The Princess and the Pea”; “The Little Mermaid”; “The Red Shoes”; “The Little Match Girl”; “The Steadfast Tin-Soldier” | Andersen, Hans Christian |
| “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” | Browning, Robert |
| “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”; “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass”; “I Heard a Fly Buzz”; “I Never Saw a Moor”; “There is no Frigate like a Book” | Dickinson, Emily |
| “The Road Not Taken”; “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”; “Mending Wall” | Frost, Robert |
| “The Gift of the Magi”; “The Ransom of Red Chief” | Henry, O |
| “Old Ironsides” | Holmes, Oliver Wendell |
| Montage of a Dream Deferred; “The Weary Blues”; “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” | Hughes, Langston |
| “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”; “Rip Van Winkle” | Irving, Washington |
| “The Lottery” | Jackson, Shirley |
| “Trees” | Kilmer, Joyce |
| “Fuzzy Wuzzy”; “Gunga Din” | Kipling, Rudyard |
| Evangeline ; The Courtship of Miles Standish; The Song of Hiawatha; “Paul Revere’s Ride”; “The Wreck of the Hesperus | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
| “The Cask of Amontillado”; “The Fall of the House of Usher”; “The Gold Bug”; “The Masque of the Red Death”; “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”; “The Pit and the Pendulum”; “The Tell-Tale Heart”; “The Raven” | Poe, Edgar Allan |
| A Light in the Attic; Where the Sidewalk Ends; The Giving Tree; “The Land of Happy” | Silverstein, Shel |
| A Child’s Garden of Verses; “My Shadow”; “The Land of Counterpane”; “There Was a Little Girl” | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| “Charge of the Light Brigade” | Tennyson, Alfred, Lord |
| “Casey at the Bat” | Thayer, Ernest Lawrence |
| “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” | Twain, Mark |
| Leaves of Grass; “O Captain, My Captain” | Whitman, Walt |
| “Maud Muller” | Whittier, John Greenleaf |