This question wasn't on our initial list of questions, but I decided to go ahead & make a big old list for you. I have it split into different sections - on the "series" section, we didn't necessarily read the whole series as a family - though most we have. Some we're still in the middle of the series (GASP). I've also sorted it into a few different catergories just to simplify it if you're looking for a book to read as a family from some particular genre. This is probably not a complete list, but this is what my wife & I could remember that we've read to the kids in the last 12 or so years (some of them multiple times). We take turns picking which book to read descending from oldest to youngest & then start all over again. Some of them appear on a couple of the lists. SO... Here's the big old list!
Series
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Prydain
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
The Enchanted Forest Series by Patricia Wrede
The Minstrel’s Song
Anne of Green Gables
The Harry Potter Series
Alcatraz Vs. The Evil Librarians
Dragons in our Midst series
The Dark is Rising Series
The Warrior Cats series
The Conqueror’s Series by Timothy Zahn
William Shakespeare’s Star Wars
The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn
13th Child series by Pat Wrede
Goose Girl series by Shannon Hale
Wrinkle In time series by Madeline L’engle
Young Jedi Knights Series
The Soderburg series
Classics
A Christmas Carol
Jane Eyre
Weddings in the Family
Oliver Twist
Eight Cousins
The Lost Prince
Curdie and The Princess
The Little Prince
The Little Lame Prince
The Secrect Garden
A Little Princess
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Robin Hood
Tom Sawyer
Murder on the Orient Express
Journey to the center of the earth
Out of the Silent Planet
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Book of Dragons By Nesbitt
Black Beauty
Arabian Nights
Robinson Crusoe
Treasure Island
Kidnapped
The Land of the Blue Flowers
Laddie
The Chestry Oak
Little Britches
Farmer Boy
Lonesome Gods
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The Iron Ring
The Cricket on the Hearth
The Life and times of Santa Claus
Anne of Green Gables
Pollyanna
Carry on Mr. Bowditch
Fantasy
My Father’s Dragon
Wings of Fire
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Prydain
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
The Enchanted Forest Series by Patricia Wrede
The Harry Potter Series
Alcatraz Vs. The Evil Librarians
Dragons in our Midst series
The Dark is Rising Series
The Warrior Cats series
13th Child series by Pat Wrede
Goose Girl series by Shannon Hale
Wrinkle In time series by Madeline L’engle
Curdie and The Princess
The Little Prince
The Little Lame Prince
The Life and times of Santa Claus
The Iron Ring
Science Fiction
The Green and the Gray
Freedom Factor
The Alliance
The Conqueror’s Series by Timothy Zahn
Wrinkle In time series by Madeline L’engle
The Courtship of Princess Leia
William Shakespeare’s Star Wars
The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn (and a couple others)
Young Jedi Knights Series
Childhood's End
Other Fiction
Bendigo Shafter by Louis Lamour
Daniel and Nephi
Anne of Green Gables
The Soderburg series
Weddings in the Family by Dale Fife
The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew)
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Murder on the Orient Express By Agatha Christie
Anne of Green Gables
Pollyanna
Carry on Mr. Bowditch
Nonfiction
The 5000 year leap
And there was Light by Jacques Lusseyran
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
Do Hard Things
Sacajawea
Got any we should add? We love discovering new books! I'm quite certain we've left off no less than a dozen here, but hey. I'll try to update it as we remember. (I'll also try to go back & put in authors some time or other... when I don't have 4 big narration projects I'm in the middle of).
What's your list? Maybe you should start one! The conversations we've had about the books we've read could be a book in its own right. Never too late to start.
Definitely going to have to check it out. Thanks Brad!
My wife and I recently enjoyed reading/listening to The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill, the Newbery Award winner. I read it first then passed it on to Ann. We both loved...loved...loved both the story and the narration by Christina Moore. Kelly is now on my 'dream list' of authors I'd enjoy having on one of our Guest Author Readups (www.wbradfordswift.com/gar). I highly recommend it for your family's TBR list.