Top 100 Children's Novels - How Many Have You Read?

Do you have a New Year’s Resolution to read more books? I do! To help me complete this, I have challenged myself to read every book on the School Library Journal’s List of Top 100 Children’s Novels! I’m excited about enriching my knowledge of our library’s children’s collection by reading these fantastic stories. I have already starting reading Holes by Louis Sachar,  and I'm working my way down the list. If you need any reading ideas, this is a wonderful list to go by! You can check the list out below or look in our catalog!


#1 Charlotte’s Web  E.B. White
#2 A Wrinkle in Time  Madeleine L’Engle
#3 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone  J.K. Rowling
#4 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe  C.S. Lewis
#5 From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler  E. L. Konigsburg
#6 Holes  Louis Sachar
#7 The Giver  Lois Lowry
#8 The Secret Garden  Frances Hodgson Burnett
#9 Anne of Green Gables  L.M. Montgomery
#10 The Phantom Tollbooth  Norton Juster
#11 The Westing Game  Ellen Raskin
#12 The Hobbit  J.R.R. Tolkien
#13 Bridge to Terabithia  Katherine Paterson
#14 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban  J.K. Rowling
#15 Because of Winn-Dixie  Kate DiCamillo
#16 Harriet the Spy  Louise Fitzhugh
#17 Maniac Magee  Jerry Spinelli
#18 Matilda  Roald Dahl
#19 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory  Roald Dahl
#20 Tuck Everlasting  Natalie Babbitt
#21 Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief  Rick Riodan
#22 The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread  Kate DiCamillo
#23 Little House in the Big Woods  Laura Ingalls Wilder
#24 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows  J.K. Rowling
#25 Little Women  Louisa May Alcott
#26 Hatchet  Gary Paulsen
#27 A Little Princess  Francis Hodgson Burnett
#28 Winnie-the Pooh  A.A. Milne
#29 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland /Alice Through the Looking Glass  Lewis Carroll
#30 The Dark is Rising  Susan Cooper
#31 Half Magic  Edward Eager
#32 Mrs. Fris and the Rats of NIMH  Robert C. O’Brien
#33 James and the Giant Peach  Roald Dahl
#34 Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963  Christopher Paul Curtis
#35 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire JK Rowling
#36 Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret  Judy Blume
#37 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry  Mildred Taylor
#38 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix  J.K. Rowling
#39 When You Reach Me  Rebecca Stead
#40 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz  L. Frank Baum
#41 The Witch of Blackbird Pond  Elizabeth George Speare
#42 Little House on the Prairie  Laura Ingalls Wilder
#43 Ramona the Pest  Beverly Cleary
#44 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing  Judy Blume
#45 The Golden Compass  Philip Pullman
#46 Where the Red Fern Grows  Wilson Rawls
#47 Bud, Not Buddy  Christopher Paul Curtis
#48 The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits and a Very Interesting Boy  Jeanne Birdsall
#49 Frindle  Andrew Clements
#50 Island of the Blue Dolphins  Scott O’Dell
#51 The Saturdays  Elizabeth Enright
#52 The Invention of Hugo Cabret  Brian Selznick
#53 Wind in the Willows  Kenneth Grahame
#54 The BFG  Roald Dahl
#55 The Great Gilly Hopkins  Katherine Paterson
#56 Number the Stars  Lois Lowry
#57 Ramona Quim, Age 8  Beverly Cleary
#58 The Wolves of Willough Chase  Joan Aiken
#59 Inkheart  Cornelia Funke
#60 The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle  Avi
#61 Stargirl  Jerry Spinelli
#62 The Secret of the Old Clock (The Nancy Drew mysteries)  Caroline Keene
#63 Gone-Away Lake  Elizabeth Enright
#64 A Long Way from Chicago  Richard Peck
#65 Ballet Shoes  Noah Streatfeild
#66 Henry Huggins  Beverly Cleary
#67 Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher  Bruce Coville
#68 Walk Two Moons  Sharon Creech
#69 The Mysterious Benedict Society  Trenton Lee Stewart
#70 Betsy Tacy  Maud Hart Lovelace
#71 A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning  Lemony Snicket
#72 My Father’s Dragon  Ruth Stiles Gannett
#73 My Side of the Mountain  Jean Craighead George
#74 The Borrowers  Mary Norton
#75 Love That Dog  Sharon Creech
#76 Out of the Dust  Karen Hesse
#77 City of Ember  Jeanne DuPrau
#78 Johnny Tremain  Esther Forbes
#79 All-of-a-Kind Family  Sydney Taylor
#80 The Graveyard Book  Neil Gaiman
#81 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon  Grace Lin
#82 The Book of Three  Lloyd Alexander
#83 The Thief  Megan Whalen Turner
#84 Little White Horse  Elizabeth Goudge
#85 On the Banks of Plum Creek  Laura Ingalls Wilder
#86 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets  J.K. Rowling
#87 The View from Saturday  E. L. Konigsburg
#88 The High King  Lloyd Alexander
#89 Ramona and her Father  Beverly Cleary
#90 Sarah, Plain and Tall  Patricia MacLachlan
#91 Sideways Stories from Wayside School  Louis Sachar
#92 Ella Enchanted  Gail Carson Levine
#93 Caddie Woodlawn  C. R. Brink
#94 Swallows and Amazons  Arthur Ransome
#95 Pippi Longstocking  Astrid Lindgren
#96 The Witches  Roald Dahl
#97: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane  Kate DiCamillo
#98 Children of Green Knowe  L.M. Boston
#99 The Indian in the Cupboard  Lynne Reid Banks
#100 The Egypt Game  Zilpha Keatley Snyder