67 Books Every Geek Should Read to Their Kids Before Age 10

67 Books Every Geek Should Read to Their Kids Before Age 10

Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Barbara Park, Junie B. Jones's First Boxed Set Ever! (Books 1-4)

Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing on It

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

William Goldman, The Princess Bride

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

Neil Gaiman, Coraline

Edward Eager, Half Magic and Magic by the Lake

Joan Aiken, Arabel's Raven

Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers

Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Mary Norton, The Borrowers

Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

Walter Moers, The 13-1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear

Larry Gonick, The Cartoon History of the Universe

Irene Miller, Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine

Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Crockett Johnson, The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon

Bertrand Brinley, The Mad Scientists Club

Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Ingrid Law, Savvy

Wendelin Van Draanen, Shredderman

C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, Far Flung Adventures

Russell Hoban, The Mouse and His Child

Robert C. O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks

Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

Emily Jenkins, Toys Go Out

Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa

Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

John Bellairs, The House With a Clock in Its Walls

Judy Bloom, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

E. B. White, Charlotte's Web

Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

Robert C. O'Brien, The Silver Crown

Louis Sachar, Holes

Daniel Pinkwater, The Big Orange Splot

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House books

E. B. White, Stuart Little

Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children

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

Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Angie Sage, Septimus Heap series

Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Dr. Cuthbert Soup, A Whole Nother Story and Another Whole Nother Story

Virginia Hamilton, The House of Dies Drear

Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

Arlene Mosel, Tikki Tikki Tembo

A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Else Holmelund Minarik, Little Bear

Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham

Peggy Parish, Amelia Bedelia

Maurice Sendak, In the Night Kitchen

H. A. Ray, Curious George

Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad Are Friends

Arnold Lobel, Owl at Home

Cynthia Rylant, Henry and Mudge

Norman Bridwell, Clifford

Marc Brown, Arthur

Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

Books Geeks Should Read to Their Kids: Your Additions to Our List

Linda Sue Park, A Single Shard

Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy
Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
Deborah Ellis, The Breadwinner
Pam Munoz Ryan, The Dreamer
Laurance Yep, The Star Fisher
David Shannon, A Bad Case of Stripes
David Macaulay, Castle and The Way Things Work
Lloyd Alexander, Chronicles of Prydain
Eoin Colfer, The Legend of Spud Murphy, The Legend of the Worst Boy in the World, and The Legend of
Captain Crow's TeethAstrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising
Betty McDonald, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
John Christopher, The Tripods Trilogy
Jack Prelutsky, The Dragons are Singing Tonight
Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain
Nowen N. Particular, Boomtown
Tom Angleberger, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda and Darth Paper Strikes Bac k
Sam Riddleburger, The Qwikpick Adventure Society
Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons
L. Frank Baum, Oz series
Rev. W. Awdry, Thomas the Tank Engine
Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events
Brian Jacques, Redwall
Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials
Robert Heinlein, Have Space Suit Will Travel
Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House and Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Doris Burn, Andrew Henry's Meadow
Bill Peet, Farewell to Shady Glade
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
Richard Adams, Watership Down
Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
L. M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe
Babette Cole, Princess Smartypants
Kathleen V. Kundlinski, Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs
Ruth Stiles Gannett, My Father's Dragon
Roald Dahl, The BFG
Daniel Pinkwater, Once Upon a Blue Moose
Robert Munsch, The Paper Bag Princess
Richard Evan Schwartz, You Can Count on Monsters
Mercer Mayer, One Monster After Another
Jon Stone, The Monster at the End of This Book
Suzanne Collins, The Gregor Serie s
Tomie de Paola, Strega Nona
Sesyle Joslin, What Do You Say, Dear?