Hi everyone! It's Phoebe back with another post for you:). This past week, my grandpa, David, turned 81 years old (!) and so I asked him to help me come up with a list of 81 books you should read before turning that age. We ended up having more than enough titles because my grandpa is a big reader, but we narrowed it down to the favorites! For clarification, the list isn't ordered by favorites, but we tried to put some of the books for younger kids at the front (adult books start at #22.) Let's get started! 81 books to read before you turn 811. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
2. Charolett's Web by E. B. White 3. The Cat and the Hat by Dr. Suess 4. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 5. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 6. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 7. Because of Win Dixie by Kate DiCamillo 8. A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park 9. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol 10. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis 11. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 12. Huckleberry Fin by Mark Twain 13. The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo 14. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell 15. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 16. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 17. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 18. Watership Down by Richard Adams 19. The Merry Adventures of Robinhood by Howard Pyle 20. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 21. Heidi by Johannna Spyri 22. One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 23. The Lords of Dicsipline by Pat Conroy 24. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren 25. The Baron and the Bear by David Kingsley Snell (shameless self promo:) 26. The Deeds of War by James Nachtwey 27. 1984 by George Orwell 28. All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstien 29. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury 30. The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstien 31. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller 32. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 33. The Bible 34. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 35. Wait 'Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin 36. Semi Tough by Dan Jenkins 37. Near Christianity by C. S. Lewis 38. Main Street Sinclair Lewis 39. Traveling with Charlie by John Steinbeck 40. My Dog Skip by Willie Morris 41. The Rainmaker by John Grisham 42. The Firm by John Grisham 43. Ball Four by Jim Bouton 44. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 45. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 46. Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 47. The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne 48. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 49. History of the English Speaking People by Winston Churchill 50. The Sugar Creek Gang by Paul Hutchens 51. Candide by Voltaire 52. The Canturbery Tales by Geoffre Chaucer 53. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 54. Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale 55. The Odyssey by Homer 56. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 57. The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw 58. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 59. The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 60. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 61. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 62. The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 63. The Art of War by Sun Tzu 64. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 65. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 66. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham 67. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 68. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 69. The Trial by Franz Kafka 70. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe 71. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne 72. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 73. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 74. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 75. The Sound of Fury by William Faulkner 76. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 77. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 78. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 79. The Call of the Wild by Jack London 80. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding 81. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway I hope you enjoyed the post. Make sure to comment down below any favorite titles that you would want to add to the list! Keep reading, Phoebe (and David)
7 Comments
Boppp
9/9/2017 07:30:13 am
Great idea, and great list. But missing IS GOD A CUBS FAN?
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Phoebe
9/9/2017 08:46:22 am
Oh yes, we missed that one:).
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Zoe
9/9/2017 08:01:24 am
Cool!
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Aunt J
9/9/2017 08:48:20 am
Great list! Jasper and I are working on #11 right now.
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Phoebe
9/9/2017 10:26:38 am
Nice! Is he enjoying it?
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Rose E.
9/10/2017 10:17:23 am
great list! lots of new reads as i had only read a (not so) grand total of 14 :)
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Phoebe
9/10/2017 11:07:13 am
Thanks! I think part of that is the fact that so many of the reads are adult books. My total is only 16 so you're good:).
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