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Reading for Pleasure is Fun! Here Are 100 Books!

As a child, my favorite thing to do was to read. As a student, reading can be fun and not just a chore. So, in honor of that, here is a list of 100 classic books for reading for pleasure! How many have you read? You may buy these from Amazon by clicking here you may also see my full list on Good Reads here.

Director Rhone’s Reading For Pleasure Book List

  1. Harry Potter Series
  2. Twilight Series
  3. The Hunger Games
  4. The House on Mango Street
  5. Rebecca
  6. Beijing Doll
  7. Memories of a Geisha
  8. Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
  9. Roots
  10. Milk
  11. Holes
  12. The Pearl
  13. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  14. The Giver
  15. Charlotte’s Webb
  16. Alice in Wonderland
  17. Julie & Julie of the Wolves
  18. Hatchet
  19. The Island of the Blue Dolphins
  20. Call of the Wild
  21. Number the Stars
  22. Roll of Thunder, Here My Cry
  23. Black Rose
  24. God Don’t Like Ugly
  25. A Wrinkle in Time
  26. The Chronicles of Narnia
  27. The Unicorn Chronicles
  28. The Phantom Tollbooth
  29. Anne of Green Gables
  30. The Little Prince
  31. The Hobbit
  32. The Secret Garden
  33. The Wind in the Willows
  34. Bridge to Terabithia
  35. Tuck Everlasting
  36. Treasure Island
  37. The Last of the Mohicans
  38. Flowers for Algernon
  39. Lord of the Flies
  40. The Heart of Darkness
  41. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
  42. Black Beauty
  43. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  44. Harriet the Spy
  45. Oliver Twist
  46. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  47. Gulliver’s Travels
  48. Around the World in 80 Days
  49. The Trumpet of the Swan
  50. Where the Red Fern Grows

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  51. Watership Down
  52. Esperanza Rising
  53. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  54. Huckleberry Finn
  55. The Jungle Book
  56. The Diary of Anne Frank
  57. A Tale of Two Cities
  58. The Outsiders
  59. The Yearlings
  60. Animal Farm
  61. Catcher in the Rye
  62. 1984
  63. A Clockwork Orange
  64. Pride and Prejudice
  65. Gone With the Wind
  66. Of Mice and Men
  67. To Kill a Mockingbird
  68. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  69. Cold Sassy Tree
  70. Fried Green Tomatoes
  71. Because of Winn-Dixie
  72. The Borrowers
  73. The Indian in the Cupboard
  74. Miss Nelson is Missing
  75. Olivia
  76. Manic Magee
  77. Pippi Longstocking
  78. Rickshaw Girl
  79. Stuart Little
  80. The Cricket in Times Square
  81. Monster
  82. Speak
  83. The Chocolate War
  84. Like Water for Chocolate
  85. The Five People You Meet in heaven
  86. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
  87. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
  88. Lovely Bones
  89. Armageddon Summer
  90. Hoot
  91. Homeless Bird
  92. The Wanderer
  93. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
  94. The Boxcar Children
  95. Nancy Drew
  96. Fifteen
  97. Beezus and Ramona
  98. The Mouse and the Motorcycle
  99. Little House on the Prairie
  100. White Fang

If you have children under the age of 8, click here for a list of recommended books for Young Kids. Happy reading!

—Director Rhone

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