Showing posts with label children's novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children's novels. Show all posts

Monday, June 29, 2020

Top 100 Novels for Children and Teens

First posted 2/19/2019; updated 6/29/2020.

Novels for Children and Teens:

The Top 100 of All Time

This is a consolidation of two previous lists: “The Top 50 Children’s Novels” and “The Top 50 Young Adult Books.” It aggregates a dozen lists specific to young adult books, more than 25 general children’s book lists, and another 50+ general book lists.

  1. J.K. Rowling Harry Potter (series, 1997-2007)
  2. E.B. White Charlotte’s Web (1952)
  3. C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia (series: 1950-1956)
  4. J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit (1937)
  5. Madeleine L’Engle A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
  6. Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
  7. Lois Lowry The Giver (1994)
  8. Katherine Paterson The Bridge to Terabithia (1977)
  9. A.A. Milne Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) / The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
  10. Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games (trilogy: 2008-10)

  11. Louis Sachar Holes (2000)
  12. Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
  13. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) (1943)
  14. S.E. Hinton The Outsiders (1968)
  15. Philip Pullman His Dark Materials (trilogy: 1995-2000)
  16. Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden (1987)
  17. L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables (1908)
  18. Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth (1961)
  19. E.L. Konigsburg From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1967)
  20. Lois Lowry Number the Stars (1990)

  21. Elizabeth George Speare The Witch of Blackbird Pond (1959)
  22. Gary Paulsen Hatchet (1987)
  23. Astrid Lingren Pippi Longstocking (1945)
  24. Shel Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974)
  25. Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
  26. Daniel Handler as Lemony Snicket A Series of Unforunate Events (series: 1999-2006)
  27. Louisa May Alcott Little Women (1869)
  28. Roald Dahl Matilda (1988)
  29. Mildred D. Taylor Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1977)
  30. Louise Fitzhugh Harriet the Spy (1964)

  31. Judy Blume Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (1972)
  32. Natalie Babbit Tuck Everlasting (1975)
  33. Markus Zusak The Book Thief (2005)
  34. Scott O’Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins (1961)
  35. John Green Looking for Alaska (2005)
  36. Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House (series: 1932-1971)
  37. Frank L. Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
  38. Kate DiCamillo Because of Winn-Dixie (2000)
  39. Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003)
  40. Robert C. O’Brien Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1970)

  41. William Grahame The Wind in the Willows (1908)
  42. J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings (trilogy: 1954-55)
  43. William Golding Lord of the Flies (1954)
  44. J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
  45. E.B. White Stuart Little (1945)
  46. Wilson Rawls Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)
  47. Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons (1994)
  48. Ursula K. Le Guin The Earthsea Cycle (series: 1968-2001)
  49. Sherman Alexie The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007)
  50. Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach (1988)

  51. Rick Riordan Percy Jackson & the Olympians (series: 2005-2009)
  52. Ellen Raskin The Westing Game (1978)
  53. Esther Forbes Johnny Tremain (1943)
  54. Beverly Cleary Ramona (series: 1955-1999)
  55. Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book (2010)
  56. Jack London The Call of the Wild (1903)
  57. Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
  58. Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999)
  59. John Green The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
  60. Kate DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux (2003)

  61. Orscon Scott Card Ender’s Game (1968)
  62. Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl (aka The Diary of Anne Frank) (1947)
  63. Patricia MacLachlan Sarah, Plain and Tall (1985)
  64. Richard Adams Watership Down (1972)
  65. Jerry Spinelli Maniac Magee (1990)
  66. Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island (1883)
  67. Michael Bond A Bear Called Paddington (1960)
  68. Anna Sewell Black Beauty (1877)
  69. Mary Norton The Borrowers (1953)
  70. William H. Armstrong Sounder (1970)

  71. Pam Munoz Ryan Esperanza Rising (2000)
  72. J.M. Barrie Peter Pan (aka Peter and Wendy) (1911)
  73. Roald Dahl The BFG (1982)
  74. Meg Rosoff How I Live Now (2004)
  75. Judy Blume Forever… (1975)
  76. R.J. Palacio Wonder (2012)
  77. Judy Blume Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (1972)
  78. Diane Wynne Jones Howl’s Moving Castle (1986)
  79. Laurie Anderson Speak (2011)
  80. Lynne Reid Banks The Indian in the Cupboard (series: 1980-1998)

  81. Christopher Paolini Inheritance (series: 2003-2011)
  82. Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book (1894)
  83. Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
  84. William Goldman The Princess Bride (1973)
  85. Richard Atwater Mr. Popper’s Penguins (1938)
  86. Jean Craighead George Julie of the Wolves (1972)
  87. Gene Luen Yang American Born Chinese (2006)
  88. Brian Selznick The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007)
  89. Johanna Spyri Heidi (aka Heidi’s Years of Wandering and Learning) (Heidis Lehr - und Wnaderjahre) (1880)
  90. T.H. White The Sword in the Stone (1938)

  91. P.L. Travers Mary Poppins (1934)
  92. Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series: 2007-)
  93. Sheila Burnford The Incredible Journey (1984)
  94. Shaun Tan The Arrival (2006)
  95. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (1813)
  96. Parick Ness A Monster Calls (2011)
  97. Veronica Roth Divergent (series: 2011-2013)
  98. Janette Sebring Lowrey The Poky Little Puppy (1942)
  99. Christopher Paul Curtis Bud Not Buddy (2000)
  100. anonymous Go Ask Alice (1976)
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Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Children’s Novels: Top 50

First posted 2/19/2019.

This list has been moved. It has been consolidated with the list of top young adult novels to create a new list, "The Top 100 Novels for Children and Teens."

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