Great Reads
Some books listed below are for younger readers and some are for older readers. You can also visit my blog to read more about books I’ve read and liked.
Fantasy
(with some SciFi mixed in)
Alexander, Lloyd. Prydain Chronicles. The Westmark Trilogy.
Almond, David. Skellig.
Anderson, M.T. Feed.
Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting, The Search for Delicious.
Billingsley, Franny. The Folk Keeper.
DiCamillo, Kate. The Tale of Desperaux.
Dickinson, Peter. The Ropemaker.
Black, Holly. The Spiderwick Chronicles. Tithe, Valiant, Ironside.
Calhoun, Dia. Aria of the Sea.
Farmer, Nancy. The Ear, the Eye and the Arm.
Fletcher, Susan. Dragon Chronicles.
Hale, Shannon. Goose Girl.
Kindl, Patrice. Goose Chase, Owl in Love.
Lanagan, Margo. Black Juice.
Link, Kelly. Pretty Monsters.
Le Guin, Ursula. Earthsea series.
L’Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time and all its accompanying books.
Levine, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted.
Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, etc.
Lin, Grace. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.
McGraw, Eloise. The Moorchild.
McKinley, Robin. The Hero and the Crown, The Blue Sword.
Morris, Gerald. Arthurian series.
Murphy, Rita. Night Flying.
Napoli, Donna Jo. Jimmy, the Pickpocket of the Palace. Zel.
Nix, Garth. Sabriel and the other Abhorsen books.
Philbrick, Rodman. The Last Book in the Universe.
Pierce, Tamora. Alanna the Lioness series.
Pope, Elizabeth. The Perilous Gard.
Pullman, Philip. His Dark Materials series.
Rowling, J.K. The Harry Potter series.
Schusterman, Neal. The Schwa Was Here.
Stroud, Jonathan. The Bartimaues Trilogy.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit, etc.
Turner, Megan Whalen. The Thief, The King of Attolia, etc.
Vande Velde, Vivian. Heir Apparent.
Voigt, Cynthia. Jackeroo.
Wrede, Patricia. Dealing with Dragons and all its sequels.
Yolen, Jane. The Dragon’s Boy and many others.
Comics/Graphic Novels
Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home.
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis.
Small, David. Stitches.
Spiegelman, Art. Maus I and Maus II.
Tan, Shaun. The Arrival.
Thompson, Craig. Blankets.
Yang, Gene Luen. American Born Chinese.
Historical Fiction
Anderson, M.T. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing.
Avi. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy.
Cushman, Karen. The Midwife’s Apprentice and Catherine, Called Birdy.
Donnelly, Jennifer. A Northern Light.
Fletcher, Susan. Walk Across the Sea.
Hesse, Karen. Letters from Rifka.
Holm, Jennifer L. Our Only May Amelia.
Oughton, Jerrie. Music from a Place Called Half Moon.
Paterson, Katherine. Lyddie. Jip.
Sutcliff, Rosemary. The Shining Company.
Tingle, Rebecca. The Edge on the Sword.
Yolen, Jane. The Gift of Sarah Barker.
Folk and Fairy Tale Collections
(the people listed are editors or collectors, not authors):
Asbjornsen and Moe. Norwegian Folk Tales.
Briggs, Katherine. British Folktales, also her An Encyclopedia of Fairies.
Dasent, George W. East ‘O the Sun and West ‘O the Moon.
Schwartz, Howard. Elijah’s Violin and other Jewish Fairy Tales.
Sur La Lune Fairy Tales Pages.
Thomas, W. Jenkyn. The Welsh Fairy Book.
Thomson, David. The People of the Sea.
Williamson, Duncan. The Broonie, Silkies, and Fairies.
Yolen, Jane. Not One Damsel in Distress : World Folktales for Strong Girls.
