What's On Your Bookshelf?

I'm known among my family, friends and acquaintances to be a book hoarder. I collect and keep books on multiple shelves in multiple rooms around the house. Baby books, children's books, middle grade books, YA books, "grown-up" books, fiction books, nonfiction books, homemade books - you name it, I add it to my collection. With that in mind, they often turn to me to recommend a good book for their child, their relative, their friend, or themselves.

So I'm sharing a list (heavily condensed to the must-haves, can't-live-without 'em ones) here for you all.

Alcott, Louisa May.

            Little Women

            Good Wives 

            Little Men

            Jo’s Boys

Allsburg, Chris van. The Polar Express

Andersen, Hans Christian. The Little Mermaid and other assorted fairy tales

Austen, Jane.

            Pride and Prejudice

            Sense and Sensibility

            Emma

            Mansfield Park

            Persuasion

            Northanger Abbey

Balliet, Blue.

Chasing Vermeer

The Wright Three

The Calder Game

Hold Fast

The Danger Box

Pieces and Players

Barrie, James M. Peter Pan

Baum, L. Frank. The Wizard of Oz

Bemelmans, Ludwig.  Madeline

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451

Brown, Margaret Wise. Good Night Moon

Burnett, Frances Hodgson.

            The Secret Garden

            A Little Princess

Burroughs, Edgar. Tarzan

Carle, Eric.

            Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

            The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Carroll, Lewis.

            Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

            Through the Looking Glass

Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl  series.

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games trilogy.

Creech, Sharon.

            Bloomability

            Ruby Holler

            Walk Two Moons

Dahl, Roald.

            Boy

            Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

            Going Solo

            James and the Giant Peach

            Matilda

            The Witches

De Saint Exupery, Antione. The Little Prince

DiCamillio, Kate. Tales of Desperaux

Dickens, Charles.

            A Christmas Carol

            Great Expectations

            Oliver Twist

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Eastman, P.D. Go Dog Go

Edwards, Julie Andrews. The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

Fitzgerald, John D. The Great Brain series

Fitzhugh, Louise. Harriet the Spy

Freeman, Don. Corduroy

Frost, Robert. “Nothing Gold Can Stay”

Grabenstein, Chris. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library

Green, Roger Lancellwyn. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Assorted fairy tales

Haddix, Margaret Peterson.

            Among the Hidden series

            Running Out of Time

Haley, Alex. Roots

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms

Hugo, Victor.

            The Hunchback of Notre Dame

            Les Miserables

Irving, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Johnson, Crockett. Harold and the Purple Crayon

Kipling, Rudyard.

            Just So Stories

            The Jungle Book

Konigsburg, E.L.

            From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

            The View From Saturday

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird

Leroux, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera

Levine, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted

Lewis, C.S. The Chronicles of Narnia

Lobel, Arnold. Frog and Toad series

Lowry, Lois. The Giver

MacDonald, Betty. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series

Maguire, Gregory. Wicked

Melville, Herman.

            “Bartleby the Scrivener”

Moby Dick

Milne, A. A. Winnie the Pooh

Orwell, George.

            Animal Farm

            Nineteen Eighty-Four

Parish, Peggy. Amelia Bedelia series

Peterson, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia

Perrault, Charles. Beauty and the Beast and other assorted fairy tales

Piper, Watty. The Little Engine that Could

Poe, Edgar Allan.

             “The Fall of the House of Usher”

            “The Masque of the Red Death”

            “The Raven”

            “The Tell-Tale Heart”

Rey, H. A., and Margaret.   Curious George

Rowling, J.K.

            Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (US: Sorcerer’s Stone)

            Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

            Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

            Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

            Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

            Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

            Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

            Tales of Beedle the Bard

            Quidditch Through the Ages

            Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye

Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are

Seuss, Dr.

            The Cat in the Hat

            Green Eggs and Ham

            How the Grinch Stole Christmas

            Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

            One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

Shakespeare, William.

           (the works of)

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein

Silverstein, Shel. The Giving Tree

Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Snicket, Lemony. A Series of Unfortunate Events series

Spinelli, Jerry.

            The Library Card

            Maniac Magee

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island

Stewart, Trenton Lee. The Mysterious Benedict Society series

Thompson, Kay.

            Eloise

            Eloise at Christmastime

Tolkien, J.R.R..

            The Hobbit

            The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Travers, P.L. Mary Poppins series

Twain, Mark.

            The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

            The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The Boxcar Children series

White, E.B.

            Charlotte’s Web

            Stuart Little

Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House on the Prairie series

Williams, Margery. The Velveteen Rabbit

What's on your list?