Animal Farm by George Orwell
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Candide by Voltaire
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Books (historical trivia) by Charles Panati
Medieval history books by Joseph and Frances Gies
Griffin and Sabine series by Nick Bantock
Knight Fall by Mary Monica Pulver
The Cat Who mysteries by Lilian Jackson Braun
The Emperors of Chocolate by Joel Glenn Brenner
The Diary of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
Any of the Vorkosigan saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
Chicks in Chain Mail – Edited by Esther Freisner
The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen Donaldson
Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony
The Practice Effect by David Brin
The Sherwood Game by Esther Freisner
Cat’s Paw by Joan Vinge
Sorcery and Cecelia by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevemer
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley
“’Repent Harlequin,’ cried the Tick-Tock Man” by Harlan Ellison (a short story)
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood
The Cinder-Eyed Cats by Eric Rohmann
The Mitten by Jan Brett
The Chronicles of Prydain series by Lloyd Alexander
The Fortune Teller by Lloyd Alexander
Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder (this has now been expanded by several other authors to include other generations of Laura’s family – look under Roger MacBride, Melissa Wiley, and Maria Wilkes)
The Velvet Room by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Farthest-Away Mountain by Lynn Reid Banks
The Black Stallion books by Walter Farley
Gail Carson Levine’s new takes on old folktales – Ella Enchanted, etc.
The Narnia books by C.S. Lewis
The Borrowers series by Mary Norton
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Frindle by Andrew Clements
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
Bambi by Felix Salten (the original, not the Disney version)
The Star Ka’at books by Andre Norton
The Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling
Tuesday by David Wiesner
Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Horrible History books by Terry Deary
Animalia by Graeme Base
The Quiltmaker’s Gift by Jeff Brumbeau
The Cat who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Circus Sequins by Elisabeth Hamilton Friermood
The Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace
The Colored Fairy Books edited by Andrew Lang