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The 100 "Greatest Books for Kids," ranked by Scholastic Parent & Child magazine:


http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/ne...

Oh, this list is a stroll down Memory Lane, my children in hand. Ya know what i don't see, though? Any of the Oz books by L. Frank Baum, whose books my daughter loved. I think we read 4 together, then she read many others by herself. And i only noticed one fairy tale book & it was specific to Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault. Pity, that, imo.

Regardless, thank you for sharing the list. It's a keeper! And all the gift possibilities!

deb

Madrano wrote: Regardless, thank you for sharing the list. It's a keeper! And all the gift possibilities!

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You're welcome !

Posting this in this thread so we can find it at a later date.

http://www.listsofbests.com/lists/hom...

All sorts of goodies there. Thanks!

A comprehensive list of various book lists. Thank you, Lesley !

http://www.1morechapter.com/lists/

So many lists! It's like Memory Lane for some of them & "who? what?" for others. Thanks to all for sharing.

deb

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/88-bo...

While this is Roger Ebert's website, it has the Library of Congress list of 88 Books that Shaped America. It includes some plays, some poetry, children's books as well as fiction & nf. I am not linking to the titles but feel free to do so if you comment here.

"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain (1884)
"Alcoholics Anonymous" by anonymous (1939)
"American Cookery" by Amelia Simmons (1796)
"The American Woman's Home" by Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869)
"And the Band Played On" by Randy Shilts (1987)
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand (1957)
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley (1965)
"Beloved" by Toni Morrison (1987)
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown (1970)
"The Call of the Wild" by Jack London (1903)
"The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss (1957)
"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller (1961)
"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger (1951)
"Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White (1952)
"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine (1776)
"The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" by Benjamin Spock (1946)
"Cosmos" by Carl Sagan (1980)
"A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible" by anonymous (1788)
"The Double Helix" by James D. Watson (1968)
"The Education of Henry Adams" by Henry Adams (1907)
"Experiments and Observations on Electricity" by Benjamin Franklin (1751)
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury (1953)
"Family Limitation" by Margaret Sanger (1914)
"The Federalist" by anonymous/ thought to be Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay (1787)
"The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan (1963)
"The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin (1963)
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway (1940)
"Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
"Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown (1947)
"A Grammatical Institute of the English Language" by Noah Webster (1783)
"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck (1939)
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
"Harriet, the Moses of Her People" by Sarah H. Bradford (1901)
"The History of Standard Oil" by Ida Tarbell (1904)
"History of the Expedition Under the Command of the Captains Lewis and Clark" by Meriwether Lewis (1814)
"How the Other Half Lives" by Jacob Riis (1890)
"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie (1936)
"Howl" by Allen Ginsberg (1956)
"The Iceman Cometh" by Eugene O'Neill (1946)
"Idaho: A Guide in Word and Pictures" by Federal Writers' Project (1937)
"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote (1966)
"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison (1952)
"Joy of Cooking" by Irma Rombauer (1931)
"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair (1906)
"Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman (1855)
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving (1820)
"Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy" by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
"Mark, the Match Boy" by Horatio Alger Jr. (1869)
"McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Primer" by William Holmes McGuffey (1836)
"Moby-Dick; or The Whale" by Herman Melville (1851)
"The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass (1845)
"Native Son" by Richard Wright (1940)
"New England Primer" by anonymous (1803)
"New Hampshire" by Robert Frost (1923)
"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac (1957)
"Our Bodies, Ourselves" by Boston Women's Health Book Collective (1971)
"Our Town: A Play" by Thornton Wilder (1938)
"Peter Parley's Universal History" by Samuel Goodrich (1837)
"Poems" by Emily Dickinson (1890)
"Poor Richard Improved and The Way to Wealth" by Benjamin Franklin (1758)
"Pragmatism" by William James (1907)
"The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D." by Benjamin Franklin (1793)
"The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane (1895)
"Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammett (1929)
"Riders of the Purple Sage" by Zane Grey (1912)
"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
"Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" by Alfred C. Kinsey (1948)
"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson (1962)
"The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats (1962)
"The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)
"The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner (1929)
"Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams (1923)
"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert E. Heinlein (1961)
"A Street in Bronzeville" by Gwendolyn Brooks (1945)
"A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams (1947)
"A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America" by Christopher Colles (1789)
"Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1914)
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee (1960)
"A Treasury of American Folklore" by Benjamin A. Botkin (1944)
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith (1943)
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
"Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader (1965)
"Walden; or Life in the Woods" by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
"The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes (1925)
"Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak (1963)
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum (1900)
"The Words of Cesar Chavez" by Cesar Chavez (2002)

Thanks for the list, Deb. You know I am a fool for book lists. :)


I've READ the following:

"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain (1884)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley (1965)
Beloved" by Toni Morrison (1987)
The Call of the Wild" by Jack London (1903)
The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss (1957)
The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger (1951)
Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury (1953)
For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway (1940)
"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck (1939)
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote (1966)
"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison (1952)
The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair (1906)
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving (1820)
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass (1845)
"Native Son" by Richard Wright (1940)
The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)
"The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner (1929)
Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams (1947)
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee (1960)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith (1943)
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852
Walden; or Life in the Woods" by Henry David Thoreau (1854)


I own but have not read the following:

"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand (1957)
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown (1970)
"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine (1776)
Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
Cosmos" by Carl Sagan (1980)
The Iceman Cometh" by Eugene O'Neill (1946)
"Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy" by Louisa May Alcott (1868
Our Town: A Play" by Thornton Wilder (1938)
"The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane (1895)

Tried to read and gave up:

"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller (1961)
Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson (1962)

Because they are "Books that Shaped America", in makes sense that we've read more of them than any other list i've ever seen. I was trying to think if i'd add any others, as 88 seemed such an odd number. Yet no fiction i felt really shaped this country came to mind. Anyone else?

I don't see any westerns on there, so i might add Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry for my dad. I haven't read it but he loved it, although i must say that he read little fiction in his life. My inclination would be to put a Zane Gray on but his bias against Mormons was too much. Still, i liked Riders of the Purple Sage very much. I have not liked any Louis L'Amour i've read, so he wouldn't make the cut.

deb

This article gives you a link to

The Best of the Book Lists 2012

http://randomhouse.tumblr.com/post/35...

Oh, goodie! Thanks, Alias. I only had time for one, Publisher's Weekly's nonfiction list. Gosh, i am out of the loop. Only a third or so were even on my radar.

Alias Reader wrote: "This article gives you a link to

The Best of the Book Lists 2012

http://randomhouse.tumblr.com/post/35..."

Thanks so much for posting this! It's so helpful to have the various lists all in one place, rather than seaching all over for each one. :)

Alias Reader wrote: "This article gives you a link to

The Best of the Book Lists 2012

http://randomhouse.tumblr.com/post/35..."

That's a wonderful resource. Thanks for posting it, Alias. I added it to my favorites.

You're welcome. I'm glad you all are enjoying the lists. !

Carolyn (in SC) C234D wrote: "Alias Reader wrote: "I just got an email from Amazon listing the editors top 10 picks for 2010


The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Faithful Place by Tana French

Matterhor..."

I just finished my first Tana French,

In the Woods. I really enjoyed it and plan on reading more. Her second book Broken Harbor has been recommended by a friend. I would say go for it. And yes, the setting is Ireland.

2010 ?? I guess that's a old post.

I loved Henrietta Lacks. That was my kind of book.

Alias Reader wrote: "2010 ?? I guess that's a old post.

I loved Henrietta Lacks. That was my kind of book."

Ha! I obviously did not read the whole thing. It is an old post and most likely Carolyn no longer cares. Anyhow......!

That's okay. I'm glad you took the time to read the old posts. And if the books were good in 2010, I am sure they are still good in 2012. :)

I know Henrietta is still on the NY Times Bestseller list.

Denise wrote: "Ha! I obviously did not read the whole thing. It is an old post and most likely Carolyn no longer cares. Anyhow......! ..."

I'm not Carolyn but random posts such as this remind me of books i've read. If Carolyn is like me, she probably does still care. Like Alias, the Lacks book was a favorite of mine. But i STILL haven't gotten around to reading any Tana French. My sister-in-law enjoys Irish books but her reading skills are hampered at present, i think i'll try a French soon & see if i should recommend them to SIL.

Best book lists of 2013. Thanks for sharing this with us, Amy !

http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/a...

http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womeninthe...

I liked this list and thought others here might, too. I don't remember where i found it, though. I've added a couple to my TBR.

Thanks, Deb !

If I ever finish Bully Pulpit I will check some of them out. LOL

Madrano wrote: "http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womeninthe...

I liked this list and thought others here might, too. I don't remember where i found it, though. I..."

I just this morning started The Witches: Salem, 1692. Only 10 pages in so I can't give any in-depth analysis yet, though. ;)

I'll be interested in reading your thoughts on the book, Amy, as it was one that appealed to me. Hope it works for you.