100 Childen’s Books To Read In A Lifetime

There is nothing quite like curling up on the couch and reading a good book, especially when you’re reading with your children.

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We love story time and even though my boys are getting older, they still like for me to read them a book every single night before bedtime.

It’s easy to see why the 100 books on our list  are so loved: from classics like Charlotte’s Web to new favorites like the Diary of a Wimpy Kid, this list is packed with best sellers to enjoy. Which book is your child’s favorite?

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100 Must Read Children’s Books

1. A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet)
2. The Classic Treasury of Aesop’s Fables
3. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
4. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Bantam Classics)
5. Amelia Bedelia
6. And Tango Makes Three
7. Anne of Green Gables
8. Are You My Mother? (Beginner Books)
9. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
10. Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales (Peter Rabbit)
11. Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy Books)
12. Black Beauty (Dover Children’s Evergreen Classics)
13. Bread and Jam for Frances (I Can Read Book 2)
14. Bridge to Terabithia
15. Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business
16. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
17. Charlotte’s Web (Trophy Newbery)
18. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Chicka Chicka Book, A)
19. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
20. Coraline
21. Corduroy
22. D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths
23. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1
24. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
25. Dr. Seuss’s Beginner Book Collection (Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish, Green Eggs and Ham, Hop on Pop, Fox in Socks)
26. Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
27. Esperanza Rising
28. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
29. Goodnight Moon
30. Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
31. Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales
32. Guess How Much I Love You
33. Harold and the Purple Crayon 50th Anniversary Edition (Purple Crayon Books)
34. Harriet the Spy
35. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Book 1)
36. Holes (A Yearling Book)
37. Island of the Blue Dolphins
38. Jumanji 30th Anniversary Edition
39. Little House on the Prairie (Little House, No 2)
40. Little Women (Bantam Classics)
41. Llama Llama Red Pajama
42. Madeline 75th Anniversary Edition
43. Make Way for Ducklings
44. Maniac Magee
45. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
46. Mr. Popper’s Penguins
47. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
48. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
49. My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics)
50. Olivia
51. Owen (Caldecott Honor Book)
52. Paddle-to-the-Sea (Sandpiper Books)
53. Pat the Bunny Deluxe Edition (Pat the Bunny) (Touch-and-Feel)
54. Peter Pan
55. Pippi Longstocking (Puffin Modern Classics)
56. Press Here
57. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
58. The Bad Beginning: Or, Orphans! (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1)
59. The Borrowers
60. The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, No. 1) (Boxcar Children Mysteries)
61. The Call Of The Wild
62. The Complete Adventures of Curious George: 70th Anniversary Edition
63. The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends)
64. The Day the Crayons Quit
65. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
66. The Giver
67. The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh)
68. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
69. The Jungle Book (Dover Children’s Evergreen Classics)
70. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
71. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector’s Edition)
72. The Little Engine That Could
73. The Little Prince
74. The Mouse and the Motorcycle
75. The New Way Things Work
76. The Paper Bag Princess (Classic Munsch)
77. The Phantom Tollbooth
78. The Real Mother Goose
79. The Secret Garden
80. The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew, Book 1)
81. The Snowy Day
82. The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant
83. The Story of Ferdinand
84. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread
85. The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys No. 1)
86. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
87. The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963
88. The Wednesday Wars
89. The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
90. The Wind in the Willows (Sterling Illustrated Classics)
91. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
92. Treasure Island (Dover Thrift Editions)
93. Tuck Everlasting
94. Walk Two Moons
95. Watership Down: A Novel
96. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
97. Where the Red Fern Grows
98. Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings
99. Where the Wild Things Are
100. Wonder