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150 Best-selling Children's Books of All Time in Paperback
1. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White; illustrated by Garth Williams (1974)
2. The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton (1968)
3. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Judy Blume (1976)
4. Love You Forever, Robert Munsch; illustrated by Sheila McGraw (1986)
5. Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls (1973)
6. Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell (1971) I HATE IT SO MUCH
7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J. K. Rowling (1999)
8. Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume (1972)
9. Shane, Jack Schaeffer (1972)
10. The Indian in the Cupboard, Lynne Reid Banks (1982)
11. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle (1974)
12. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
13. Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
14. The Incredible Journey, Sheila Burnford (1984)
15. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1968)
16. Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes (1969)
17. Just Me and My Dad, Mercer Mayer (1977)
18. Go Ask Alice, Anonymous (1976)
19. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. J. K. Rowling (2000)
20. Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, Judy Blume (1976)
21. Blubber, Judy Blume (1976)
22. The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare (1972)
23. Superfudge, Judy Blume (1981)
24. Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson (1987)
25. Freckle Juice, Judy Blume (1978)
26. On the Banks of Plum Creek, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
27. That Was Then, This Is Now, S. E. Hinton (1972)
28. Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar (1985)
29. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger (1951)
30. Farmer Boy, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
31. Just Go to Bed, Mercer Mayer (1993)
32. Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak (1984)
33. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown; illustrated by Clement Hurd (1977)
34. The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
35. The Berenstain Bears' New Baby, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1974)
36. By the Shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
37. Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
38. The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1983)
39. The Pigman, Paul Zindel (1978)
40. The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1961)
41. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E. L. Konigsburg (1973)
42. Merry Christmas, Mom and Dad, Mercer Mayer (1982)
43. Just Grandma and Me, Mercer Mayer (1975)
44. Just for You, Mercer Mayer (1975)
45. Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan (1987)
46. When the Legends Die, Hal Borland (1984)
47. Bunnicula, James Howe (1980)
48. James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl; illustrated by Nancy Burkert (1988)
49. The Berenstain Bears Go to School, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1978)
50. The Night Before Christmas, Clement Hurd; illustrated by Douglas Gorsline (1975)
51. These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
52. All By Myself, Mercer Mayer (1983)
53. Stuart Little, E. B. White; illustrated by Garth Williams (1974)
54. The First Four Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
55. Hatchet, Gary Paulsen (1988)
56. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Barbara Robinson (1979)
57. The Cay, Theodore Taylor (1970)
58. Kristy's Great Idea (Babysitters Club #1), Ann M. Martin (1986)
59. The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1985)
60. Then Again, Maybe I Won't, Judy Blume (1973)
61. I Was So Mad, Mercer Mayer (1983)
62. The Berenstain Bears Meet Santa Bear, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1984)
63. The Giver, Lois Lowry (1994)
64. The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1984)
65. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl (1988)
66. The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1985)
67. The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1985)
68. Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George (1974)
69. The Berenstain Bears Visit the Dentist, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1981)
70. The Berenstain Bears and the Truth, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1983)
71. Gremlins, George Jipe (1984) OP
72. Stone Fox, John Gardner; illustrated by Marcia Sewall (1983)
73. I Just Forgot, Mercer Mayer (1988)
74. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Judith Viorst, illustrated by Ray Cruz (1976)
75. How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell (1975)
76. The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Beverly Cleary (1980)
77. When I Get Bigger, Mercer Mayer (1983)
78. The Berenstain Bears in the Dark, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1982)
79. 500 Words to Grow On, Harry McNaught (1973)
80. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor (1984)
81. Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish; illustrated by Lynn Sweat (1987)
82. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry (1990)
83. The Trumpet of the Swan, E. B. White; illustrated by Edward Frascino (1973)
84. The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden; illustrated by Garth Williams (1970) I love this book so very very much.
85. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry (1956)
86. It's Not What You Expect, Norma Klein (1976) OP
87. Matilda, Roald Dahl; illustrated by Quentin Blake (1990)
88. The New Baby, Mercer Mayer (1983)
89. The Chocolate Touch, Patrick Catling (1984)
90. Corduroy, Don Freeman (1976)
91. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis (1970)
92. The Berenstain Bears Go to the Doctor, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1981)
93. The Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1982)
94. Sounder, William H. Armstrong (1972)
95. The Return of the Indian, Lynne Reid Banks (1987)
96. The Kitten Book, Jan Pfloog (1968)
97. Dinosaurs, Peter Zallinger (1977)
98. Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays (1977)
99. The Truck Book, Harry McNaught (1978)
100. Barney's Hats (1993)
101. The Sign of the Beaver, Elizabeth George Speare (1984)
102. Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself, Judy Blume (1978)
103. The Berenstain Bears: No Girls Allowed, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1986)
104. Farm Animals, Phoebe Dunn (1984)
105. Richard Scarry's Please and Thank You, Richard Scarry (1973)
106. Rascal, Sterling North (1964)
107. Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls (Babysitters Club #2), Ann M. Martin (1986)
108. Just Me and My Mom, Mercer Mayer (1990)
109. Me Too! Mercer Mayer (1983)
110. A Wind in the Door, Madeleine L'Engle (1974)
111. Iggie's House, Judy Blume (1976)
112. Meet Samantha, Susan Adler; illustrated by Dan Andreasen (1986)
113. Poems & Prayers for the Very Young, Martha Alexander (1973)
114. The Farm Book, Jan Pfloog (1964)
115. The Berenstain Bears and the Sitter, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1981)
116. Just Me and My Puppy, Mercer Mayer (1985)
117. Welcome to Dead House (Goosebumps #1), R. L. Stine (1992)
118. The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier (1986)
119. Chocolate Fever, Robert K. Smith (1978)
120. Say Cheese and Die (Goosebumps #4), R. L. Stine (1992)
121. Meet Addy, Connie Porter; illustrated by Dahl Taylor and Melodye Rosales (1993)
122. Frog and Toad Are Friends, Arnold Lobel (1979)
123. The Alphabet Book, P. D. Eastman (1974)
124. The Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmies, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1988)
125. Rumble Fish, S. E. Hinton (1976)
126. The Little Duck, Judy Dunn; photos by Phoebe Dunn (1976)
127. A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Madeleine L'Engle (1979)
128. The Secret of the Indian, Lynne Reid Banks (1990)
129. Curious George, H. A. and Margret Rey (1973)
130. The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams (1979)
131. Good Work, Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish (1996)
132. The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Birthday, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1986)
133. The Zoo Book, Jan Pfloog (1967)
134. 101 Dalmatians, Dodie Smith (1976) OP
135. The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Friends, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1987)
136. The Berenstain Bears and the Week at Grandma's, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1986)
137. In & Out, Up & Down, Michael Smollin (1982)
138. Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish; illustrated by Fritz Siebel (1983)
139. The Berenstain Bears Go Out for the Team, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1987)
140. The Berenstain Bears Go to Camp, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1982)
141. Amelia Bedelia and the Baby, Peggy Parish; illustrated by Lynn Sweat (1982)
142. Just Shopping with Mom, Mercer Mayer (1989)
143. Richard Scarry's Find Your ABC's, Richard Scarry (1973)
144. Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum, (1974) OP
145. The Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown; illustrated by Clement Hurd (1977)
146. Sunshine, Norma Klein (1976) OP
147. Deenie, Judy Blume (1974)
148. The Berenstain Bears and Moving Day, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1981)
149. Meet Kirsten, Janet Shaw; illustrated by Renee Graef (1986)
150. Clifford the Big Red Dog, Norman Bridwell (1985)
100 Most Challenged Books
1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
8. Forever by Judy Blume
9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
10. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
11. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14. The Giver by Lois Lowry
15. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
17. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
19. Sex by Madonna
20. Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
21. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
23. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
26. The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
27. The Witches by Roald Dahl
28. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
29. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
30. The Goats by Brock Cole
31. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
32. Blubber by Judy Blume
33. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
34. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
35. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
36. Final Exit by Derek Humphry
37. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
38. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
39. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
40. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
45. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
46. Deenie by Judy Blume
47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
48. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
49. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
54. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
55. Cujo by Stephen King
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
57. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
58. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
59. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
60. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
61. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
62. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
63. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
64. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
65. Fade by Robert Cormier
66. Guess What? by Mem Fox
67. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
68. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
71. Native Son by Richard Wright
72. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
73. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
74. Jack by A.M. Homes
75. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
76. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
77. Carrie by Stephen King
78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
79. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
80. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
81. Family Secrets by Norma Klein
82. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
85. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison HAAAATE
86. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
87. Private Parts by Howard Stern
88. Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis
94. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
95. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
97. View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
98. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
99. The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
100 Best English-language Novels of the 20th Century
1. Ulysses, James Joyce (1922)
2. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce (1916)
4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1958)
5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (1932)
6. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner (1929)
7. Catch-22, Joseph Heller (1961)
8. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler (1941)
9. Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence (1913)
10. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939)
11. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry (1947)
12. The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler (1903)
13. 1984, George Orwell (1949)
14. I, Claudius, Robert Graves (1934)
15. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (1927)
16. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser (1925)
17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (1940) Finally, I agree with one.
18. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
19. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (1952)
20. Native Son, Richard Wright (1940)
21. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow (1959)
22. Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara (1934)
23. U.S.A. (trilogy), John Dos Passos (1937-trilogy completed)
24. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson (1919)
25. A Passage to India, E. M. Forster (1924)
26. The Wings of the Dove, Henry James (1902)
27. The Ambassadors, Henry James (1903)
28. Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)
29. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell (1935)
30. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford (1915)
31. Animal Farm, George Orwell (1946)
32. The Golden Bowl, Henry James (1904)
33. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser (1900)
34. A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh (1934)
35. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner (1930)
36. All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren (1946)
37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder (1927)
38. Howards End, E. M. Forster (1910)
39. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin (1953)
40. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene (1948)
41. Lord of the Flies, William Golding (1954)
42. Deliverance, James Dickey (1969)
43. A Dance to the Music of Time (series), Anthony Powell (1975-series completed)
44. Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley (1928)
45. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (1926)
46. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad (1907)
47. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad(1904)
48. The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence (1915)
49. Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence (1921)
50. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller (1934)
51. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer (1948)
52. Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth (1969)
53. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
54. Light in August, William Faulkner (1932)
55. On the Road, Jack Kerouac (1957)
56. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett (1930)
57. Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford (1950)
58. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton (1920)
59. Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm (1911)
60. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy (1961)
61. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather (1927)
62. From Here to Eternity, James Jones (1951)
63. The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever (1957)
64. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger (1951)
65. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (1962)
66. Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham (1915)
67. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (1902)
68. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis (1920)
69. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton (1905)
70. The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell (1960-series completed)
71. A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes (1929)
72. A House for Mr. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul (1961)
73. The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West (1939)
74. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (1929)
75. Scoop, Evelyn Waugh (1938)
76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (1961)
77. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce (1939)
78. Kim, Rudyard Kipling (1901)
79. A Room with a View, E. M. Forster (1908)
80. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (1945)
81. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow (1953)
82. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner (1971)
83. A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul (1979)
84. The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen (1938)
85. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad (1900)
86. Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow (1975)
87. The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett (1908)
88. The Call of the Wild, Jack London (1903)
89. Loving, Henry Green (1945)
90. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie (1981)
91. Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell (1933)
92. Ironweed, William Kennedy (1983)
93. The Magus, John Fowles (1966)
94. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1966)
95. Under the Net, Iris Murdoch (1954)
96. Sophie's Choice, William Styron (1979)
97. The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles (1949)
98. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain (1934)
99. The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy (1955)
100. The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington (1918)
100 Best Characters in Fiction in the 20th Century
Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger, 1951
Humbert Humbert, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
Leopold Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
Rabbit Angstrom, Rabbit, Run, John Updike, 1960
Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
Molly Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
Stephen Dedalus, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, 1916
Lily Bart, The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, 1905
Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote, 1958
Gregor Samsa, The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, 1915 YES YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES.
The Invisible Man, Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1952
Lolita, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
Aureliano Buendia, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967
Clarissa Dalloway, Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, 1925
Ignatius Reilly, A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980
George Smiley, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John LeCarre, 1974
Mrs. Ramsay, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, 1927
Bigger Thomas, Native Son, Richard Wright, 1940
Nick Adams, In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway, 1925
Yossarian, Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1961
Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell, 1936
Scout Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler, 1939
Kurtz, Heart of Darkness, , Joseph Conrad, 1902
Stevens, The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989
Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo, The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino,1957
Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne, 1926
Oskar Matzerath, The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass, 1959
Hazel Motes, Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor, 1952
Alex Portnoy, Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth, 1969
Binx Bolling, The Moviegoer, Walker Percy, 1961
Sebastian Flyte, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945
Jeeves, My Man Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse, 1919 HEEEEEE
Eugene Henderson, Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow, 1959
Marcel, Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust, 1913-1927
Toad, The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, 1908
The Cat in the Hat, The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss, 1955
Peter Pan, Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie, 1902
Augustus McCrae, Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry, 1985
Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, , Dashiell Hammett, 1930
Judge Holden, Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy, 1985
Willie Stark, All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren, 1946
Stephen Maturin, Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian, 1969
The Little Prince, The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943
Santiago, The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, 1952
Jean Brodie, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1961
The Whiskey Priest, The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene, 1940
Neddy Merrill, The Swimmer, John Cheever, 1964
Sula Peace, Sula, Toni Morrison, 1973
Meursault, The Stranger, Albert Camus, 1942
Jake Barnes, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, 1926
Phoebe Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger, 1951
Janie Crawford, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston,1937
Antonia Shimerda, My Antonia, Willa Cather, 1918
Grendel, Grendel, John Gardner, 1971
Gulley Jimson, The Horse's Mouth, Joyce Cary, 1944
Big Brother, 1984, George Orwell, 1949
Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith, 1955
Seymour Glass, Nine Stories, J. D. Salinger, 1953
Dean Moriarty, On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957
Charlotte, Charlotte's Web, E. B. White, 1952
T. S. Garp, The World According to Garp, John Irving, 1978 HELL YES
Nick and Nora Charles, The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett, 1934
James Bond, Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953
Mr. Bridge, Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, 1959
Geoffrey Firmin, Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry, 1947
Benjy, The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929
Charles Kinbote, Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, 1962
Mary Katherine Blackwood, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson, 1962
Charles Ryder, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945
Claudine, Claudine at School, Colette, 1900
Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985
George Follansbee Babbitt, Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis, 1922
Christopher Tietjens, Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford, 1924-28
Frankie Addams, The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers, 1946
The Dog of Tears, Blindness, Jose Saramago, 1995
Tarzan, Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914
Nathan Zuckerman, My Life As a Man, Philip Roth, 1979
Arthur “Boo” Radley,To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
Henry Chinaski, Post Office, Charles Bukowski, 1971
Joseph K., The Trial, Franz Kafka, 1925
Yuri Zhivago, Dr. Zhivago, EBoris Pasternak, 1957
Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J. K. Rowling, 1998
Hana, The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, 1992
Margaret Schlegel, Howards End, E. M. Forster, 1910
Jim Dixon, Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis, 1954
Maurice Bendrix, The End of the Affair, Graham Greene, 1951
Lennie Small, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, 1937
Mr. Biswas, A House for Mr. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul, 1961
Alden Pyle, The Quiet American, Graham Greene, 1955
Kimball “Kim” O'Hara, Kim, Rudyard Kipling, 1901
Newland Archer, The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, 1920
Clyde Griffiths, An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser, 1925
Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne, 1926 No Piglet????
Quentin Compson, The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929
Charlie Marlow, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, 1902
Celie, The Color Purple, Alice Walker, 1982
Augie March, The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow 1953
Newberry Medal award winners, 1922-2002
1922
The Story of Mankind, Hendrick Willem Van Loon
1923
The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle, Hugh A. Lofting
1924
The Dark Frigate, Charles Boardman Hawes
1925
Tales from Silver Lands, Charles Joseph Finger
1926
Shen of the Sea, Arthur Bowie Chrisman
1927
Smoky, the Cow Horse, Will James
1928
Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, Dhan Gopal Mukerji
1929
The Trumpeter of Krakow, Eric P. Kelly
1930
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field
1931
The Cat Who Went to Heaven, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
1932
Waterless Mountain, Laura Adams Armer
1933
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
1934
Invincible Louisa, Cornelia Meigs
1935
Dobry, Monica Shannon
1936
Caddie Woodlawn, Carol Ryrie Brink
1937
Roller Skates, Ruth Sawyer
1938
The White Stag, Kate Seredy
1939
Thimble Summer, Elizabeth Enright
1940
Daniel Boone, James Henry Daugherty
1941
Call it Courage, Armstrong Sperry
1942
The Matchlock Gun, Walter Dumax Edmonds
1943
Adam of the Road, Elizabeth Janet Gray
1944
Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes
1945
Rabbit Hill, Robert Lawson
1946
Strawberry Girl, Lois Lenski
1947
Miss Hickory, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
1948
The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pène du Bois
1949
King of the Wind, Marguerite Henry
1950
The Door in the Wall, Marguerite de Angeli
1951
Amos Fortune, Free Man, Elizabeth Yates
1952
Ginger Pye, Eleanor Estes
1953
Secret of the Andes, Ann Nolan Clark
1954
. . . And Now Miguel, Joseph Krumgold
1955
The Wheel on the School, Meindert DeJong
1956
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham
1957
Miracles on Maple Hill, Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen
1958
Rifles for Watie, Harold Keith
1959
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
1960
Onion John, Joseph Krumgold
1961
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell
1962
The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare
1963
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
1964
It's Like This, Cat, Emily Cheney Neville
1965
Shadow of a Bull, Maia Wojciechowska
1966
I, Juan de Pareja, Elizabeth Borton de Treviño
1967
Up a Road Slowly, Irene Hunt
1968
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E. L. Konigsburg
1969
The High King, Lloyd Alexander
1970
Sounder, William H. Armstrong
1971
Summer of the Swans, Betsy Cromer Byars
1972
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien I loooove it.
1973
Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George
1974
The Slave Dancer, Paula Fox
1975
M. C. Higgins, the Great, Virginia Hamilton
1976
The Grey King, Susan Cooper
1977
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor
1978
Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
1979
The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
1980
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32, Joan W. Blos
1981
Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson
1982
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, Nancy Willard
1983
Dicey's Song, Cynthia Voigt
1984
Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary
1985
The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley I'm always SO excited when I see this one.
1986
Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
1987
The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman
1988
Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman
1989
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, Paul Fleischman
1990
Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
1991
Maniac Magee: a Novel, Jerry Spinelli
1992
Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1993
Missing May, Cynthia Rylant
1994
The Giver, Lois Lowry
1995
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
1996
The Midwife's Apprentice, Karen Cushman
1997
The View from Saturday, E. L. Konigsburg
1998
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse
1999
Holes, Louis Sachar
2000
Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
2001
A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck
2002
A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park
150 Best-selling Children's Books of All Time in Paperback
1. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White; illustrated by Garth Williams (1974)
2. The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton (1968)
3. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Judy Blume (1976)
4. Love You Forever, Robert Munsch; illustrated by Sheila McGraw (1986)
5. Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls (1973)
6. Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell (1971) I HATE IT SO MUCH
7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J. K. Rowling (1999)
8. Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume (1972)
9. Shane, Jack Schaeffer (1972)
10. The Indian in the Cupboard, Lynne Reid Banks (1982)
11. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle (1974)
12. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
13. Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
14. The Incredible Journey, Sheila Burnford (1984)
15. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1968)
16. Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes (1969)
17. Just Me and My Dad, Mercer Mayer (1977)
18. Go Ask Alice, Anonymous (1976)
19. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. J. K. Rowling (2000)
20. Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, Judy Blume (1976)
21. Blubber, Judy Blume (1976)
22. The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare (1972)
23. Superfudge, Judy Blume (1981)
24. Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson (1987)
25. Freckle Juice, Judy Blume (1978)
26. On the Banks of Plum Creek, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
27. That Was Then, This Is Now, S. E. Hinton (1972)
28. Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar (1985)
29. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger (1951)
30. Farmer Boy, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
31. Just Go to Bed, Mercer Mayer (1993)
32. Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak (1984)
33. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown; illustrated by Clement Hurd (1977)
34. The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
35. The Berenstain Bears' New Baby, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1974)
36. By the Shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
37. Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
38. The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1983)
39. The Pigman, Paul Zindel (1978)
40. The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1961)
41. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E. L. Konigsburg (1973)
42. Merry Christmas, Mom and Dad, Mercer Mayer (1982)
43. Just Grandma and Me, Mercer Mayer (1975)
44. Just for You, Mercer Mayer (1975)
45. Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan (1987)
46. When the Legends Die, Hal Borland (1984)
47. Bunnicula, James Howe (1980)
48. James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl; illustrated by Nancy Burkert (1988)
49. The Berenstain Bears Go to School, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1978)
50. The Night Before Christmas, Clement Hurd; illustrated by Douglas Gorsline (1975)
51. These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
52. All By Myself, Mercer Mayer (1983)
53. Stuart Little, E. B. White; illustrated by Garth Williams (1974)
54. The First Four Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Garth Williams (1971)
55. Hatchet, Gary Paulsen (1988)
56. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Barbara Robinson (1979)
57. The Cay, Theodore Taylor (1970)
58. Kristy's Great Idea (Babysitters Club #1), Ann M. Martin (1986)
59. The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1985)
60. Then Again, Maybe I Won't, Judy Blume (1973)
61. I Was So Mad, Mercer Mayer (1983)
62. The Berenstain Bears Meet Santa Bear, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1984)
63. The Giver, Lois Lowry (1994)
64. The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1984)
65. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl (1988)
66. The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1985)
67. The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1985)
68. Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George (1974)
69. The Berenstain Bears Visit the Dentist, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1981)
70. The Berenstain Bears and the Truth, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1983)
71. Gremlins, George Jipe (1984) OP
72. Stone Fox, John Gardner; illustrated by Marcia Sewall (1983)
73. I Just Forgot, Mercer Mayer (1988)
74. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Judith Viorst, illustrated by Ray Cruz (1976)
75. How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell (1975)
76. The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Beverly Cleary (1980)
77. When I Get Bigger, Mercer Mayer (1983)
78. The Berenstain Bears in the Dark, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1982)
79. 500 Words to Grow On, Harry McNaught (1973)
80. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor (1984)
81. Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish; illustrated by Lynn Sweat (1987)
82. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry (1990)
83. The Trumpet of the Swan, E. B. White; illustrated by Edward Frascino (1973)
84. The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden; illustrated by Garth Williams (1970) I love this book so very very much.
85. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry (1956)
86. It's Not What You Expect, Norma Klein (1976) OP
87. Matilda, Roald Dahl; illustrated by Quentin Blake (1990)
88. The New Baby, Mercer Mayer (1983)
89. The Chocolate Touch, Patrick Catling (1984)
90. Corduroy, Don Freeman (1976)
91. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis (1970)
92. The Berenstain Bears Go to the Doctor, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1981)
93. The Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1982)
94. Sounder, William H. Armstrong (1972)
95. The Return of the Indian, Lynne Reid Banks (1987)
96. The Kitten Book, Jan Pfloog (1968)
97. Dinosaurs, Peter Zallinger (1977)
98. Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays (1977)
99. The Truck Book, Harry McNaught (1978)
100. Barney's Hats (1993)
101. The Sign of the Beaver, Elizabeth George Speare (1984)
102. Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself, Judy Blume (1978)
103. The Berenstain Bears: No Girls Allowed, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1986)
104. Farm Animals, Phoebe Dunn (1984)
105. Richard Scarry's Please and Thank You, Richard Scarry (1973)
106. Rascal, Sterling North (1964)
107. Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls (Babysitters Club #2), Ann M. Martin (1986)
108. Just Me and My Mom, Mercer Mayer (1990)
109. Me Too! Mercer Mayer (1983)
110. A Wind in the Door, Madeleine L'Engle (1974)
111. Iggie's House, Judy Blume (1976)
112. Meet Samantha, Susan Adler; illustrated by Dan Andreasen (1986)
113. Poems & Prayers for the Very Young, Martha Alexander (1973)
114. The Farm Book, Jan Pfloog (1964)
115. The Berenstain Bears and the Sitter, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1981)
116. Just Me and My Puppy, Mercer Mayer (1985)
117. Welcome to Dead House (Goosebumps #1), R. L. Stine (1992)
118. The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier (1986)
119. Chocolate Fever, Robert K. Smith (1978)
120. Say Cheese and Die (Goosebumps #4), R. L. Stine (1992)
121. Meet Addy, Connie Porter; illustrated by Dahl Taylor and Melodye Rosales (1993)
122. Frog and Toad Are Friends, Arnold Lobel (1979)
123. The Alphabet Book, P. D. Eastman (1974)
124. The Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmies, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1988)
125. Rumble Fish, S. E. Hinton (1976)
126. The Little Duck, Judy Dunn; photos by Phoebe Dunn (1976)
127. A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Madeleine L'Engle (1979)
128. The Secret of the Indian, Lynne Reid Banks (1990)
129. Curious George, H. A. and Margret Rey (1973)
130. The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams (1979)
131. Good Work, Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish (1996)
132. The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Birthday, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1986)
133. The Zoo Book, Jan Pfloog (1967)
134. 101 Dalmatians, Dodie Smith (1976) OP
135. The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Friends, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1987)
136. The Berenstain Bears and the Week at Grandma's, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1986)
137. In & Out, Up & Down, Michael Smollin (1982)
138. Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish; illustrated by Fritz Siebel (1983)
139. The Berenstain Bears Go Out for the Team, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1987)
140. The Berenstain Bears Go to Camp, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1982)
141. Amelia Bedelia and the Baby, Peggy Parish; illustrated by Lynn Sweat (1982)
142. Just Shopping with Mom, Mercer Mayer (1989)
143. Richard Scarry's Find Your ABC's, Richard Scarry (1973)
144. Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum, (1974) OP
145. The Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown; illustrated by Clement Hurd (1977)
146. Sunshine, Norma Klein (1976) OP
147. Deenie, Judy Blume (1974)
148. The Berenstain Bears and Moving Day, Stan and Jan Berenstain (1981)
149. Meet Kirsten, Janet Shaw; illustrated by Renee Graef (1986)
150. Clifford the Big Red Dog, Norman Bridwell (1985)
100 Most Challenged Books
1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
8. Forever by Judy Blume
9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
10. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
11. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14. The Giver by Lois Lowry
15. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
17. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
19. Sex by Madonna
20. Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
21. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
23. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
26. The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
27. The Witches by Roald Dahl
28. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
29. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
30. The Goats by Brock Cole
31. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
32. Blubber by Judy Blume
33. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
34. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
35. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
36. Final Exit by Derek Humphry
37. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
38. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
39. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
40. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
45. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
46. Deenie by Judy Blume
47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
48. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
49. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
54. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
55. Cujo by Stephen King
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
57. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
58. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
59. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
60. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
61. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
62. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
63. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
64. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
65. Fade by Robert Cormier
66. Guess What? by Mem Fox
67. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
68. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
71. Native Son by Richard Wright
72. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
73. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
74. Jack by A.M. Homes
75. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
76. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
77. Carrie by Stephen King
78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
79. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
80. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
81. Family Secrets by Norma Klein
82. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
85. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison HAAAATE
86. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
87. Private Parts by Howard Stern
88. Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis
94. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
95. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
97. View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
98. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
99. The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
100 Best English-language Novels of the 20th Century
1. Ulysses, James Joyce (1922)
2. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce (1916)
4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1958)
5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (1932)
6. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner (1929)
7. Catch-22, Joseph Heller (1961)
8. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler (1941)
9. Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence (1913)
10. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939)
11. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry (1947)
12. The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler (1903)
13. 1984, George Orwell (1949)
14. I, Claudius, Robert Graves (1934)
15. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (1927)
16. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser (1925)
17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (1940) Finally, I agree with one.
18. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
19. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (1952)
20. Native Son, Richard Wright (1940)
21. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow (1959)
22. Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara (1934)
23. U.S.A. (trilogy), John Dos Passos (1937-trilogy completed)
24. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson (1919)
25. A Passage to India, E. M. Forster (1924)
26. The Wings of the Dove, Henry James (1902)
27. The Ambassadors, Henry James (1903)
28. Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)
29. The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell (1935)
30. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford (1915)
31. Animal Farm, George Orwell (1946)
32. The Golden Bowl, Henry James (1904)
33. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser (1900)
34. A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh (1934)
35. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner (1930)
36. All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren (1946)
37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder (1927)
38. Howards End, E. M. Forster (1910)
39. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin (1953)
40. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene (1948)
41. Lord of the Flies, William Golding (1954)
42. Deliverance, James Dickey (1969)
43. A Dance to the Music of Time (series), Anthony Powell (1975-series completed)
44. Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley (1928)
45. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (1926)
46. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad (1907)
47. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad(1904)
48. The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence (1915)
49. Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence (1921)
50. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller (1934)
51. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer (1948)
52. Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth (1969)
53. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
54. Light in August, William Faulkner (1932)
55. On the Road, Jack Kerouac (1957)
56. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett (1930)
57. Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford (1950)
58. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton (1920)
59. Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm (1911)
60. The Moviegoer, Walker Percy (1961)
61. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather (1927)
62. From Here to Eternity, James Jones (1951)
63. The Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever (1957)
64. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger (1951)
65. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (1962)
66. Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham (1915)
67. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (1902)
68. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis (1920)
69. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton (1905)
70. The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell (1960-series completed)
71. A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes (1929)
72. A House for Mr. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul (1961)
73. The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West (1939)
74. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (1929)
75. Scoop, Evelyn Waugh (1938)
76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (1961)
77. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce (1939)
78. Kim, Rudyard Kipling (1901)
79. A Room with a View, E. M. Forster (1908)
80. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (1945)
81. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow (1953)
82. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner (1971)
83. A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul (1979)
84. The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen (1938)
85. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad (1900)
86. Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow (1975)
87. The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett (1908)
88. The Call of the Wild, Jack London (1903)
89. Loving, Henry Green (1945)
90. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie (1981)
91. Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell (1933)
92. Ironweed, William Kennedy (1983)
93. The Magus, John Fowles (1966)
94. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1966)
95. Under the Net, Iris Murdoch (1954)
96. Sophie's Choice, William Styron (1979)
97. The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles (1949)
98. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain (1934)
99. The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy (1955)
100. The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington (1918)
100 Best Characters in Fiction in the 20th Century
Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger, 1951
Humbert Humbert, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
Leopold Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
Rabbit Angstrom, Rabbit, Run, John Updike, 1960
Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
Molly Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
Stephen Dedalus, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, 1916
Lily Bart, The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, 1905
Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote, 1958
Gregor Samsa, The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, 1915 YES YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES.
The Invisible Man, Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1952
Lolita, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
Aureliano Buendia, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967
Clarissa Dalloway, Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, 1925
Ignatius Reilly, A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980
George Smiley, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John LeCarre, 1974
Mrs. Ramsay, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, 1927
Bigger Thomas, Native Son, Richard Wright, 1940
Nick Adams, In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway, 1925
Yossarian, Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1961
Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell, 1936
Scout Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler, 1939
Kurtz, Heart of Darkness, , Joseph Conrad, 1902
Stevens, The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989
Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo, The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino,1957
Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne, 1926
Oskar Matzerath, The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass, 1959
Hazel Motes, Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor, 1952
Alex Portnoy, Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth, 1969
Binx Bolling, The Moviegoer, Walker Percy, 1961
Sebastian Flyte, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945
Jeeves, My Man Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse, 1919 HEEEEEE
Eugene Henderson, Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow, 1959
Marcel, Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust, 1913-1927
Toad, The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, 1908
The Cat in the Hat, The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss, 1955
Peter Pan, Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie, 1902
Augustus McCrae, Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry, 1985
Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, , Dashiell Hammett, 1930
Judge Holden, Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy, 1985
Willie Stark, All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren, 1946
Stephen Maturin, Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian, 1969
The Little Prince, The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943
Santiago, The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, 1952
Jean Brodie, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1961
The Whiskey Priest, The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene, 1940
Neddy Merrill, The Swimmer, John Cheever, 1964
Sula Peace, Sula, Toni Morrison, 1973
Meursault, The Stranger, Albert Camus, 1942
Jake Barnes, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, 1926
Phoebe Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger, 1951
Janie Crawford, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston,1937
Antonia Shimerda, My Antonia, Willa Cather, 1918
Grendel, Grendel, John Gardner, 1971
Gulley Jimson, The Horse's Mouth, Joyce Cary, 1944
Big Brother, 1984, George Orwell, 1949
Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith, 1955
Seymour Glass, Nine Stories, J. D. Salinger, 1953
Dean Moriarty, On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957
Charlotte, Charlotte's Web, E. B. White, 1952
T. S. Garp, The World According to Garp, John Irving, 1978 HELL YES
Nick and Nora Charles, The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett, 1934
James Bond, Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953
Mr. Bridge, Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, 1959
Geoffrey Firmin, Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry, 1947
Benjy, The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929
Charles Kinbote, Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, 1962
Mary Katherine Blackwood, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson, 1962
Charles Ryder, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1945
Claudine, Claudine at School, Colette, 1900
Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985
George Follansbee Babbitt, Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis, 1922
Christopher Tietjens, Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford, 1924-28
Frankie Addams, The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers, 1946
The Dog of Tears, Blindness, Jose Saramago, 1995
Tarzan, Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914
Nathan Zuckerman, My Life As a Man, Philip Roth, 1979
Arthur “Boo” Radley,To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
Henry Chinaski, Post Office, Charles Bukowski, 1971
Joseph K., The Trial, Franz Kafka, 1925
Yuri Zhivago, Dr. Zhivago, EBoris Pasternak, 1957
Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J. K. Rowling, 1998
Hana, The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, 1992
Margaret Schlegel, Howards End, E. M. Forster, 1910
Jim Dixon, Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis, 1954
Maurice Bendrix, The End of the Affair, Graham Greene, 1951
Lennie Small, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, 1937
Mr. Biswas, A House for Mr. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul, 1961
Alden Pyle, The Quiet American, Graham Greene, 1955
Kimball “Kim” O'Hara, Kim, Rudyard Kipling, 1901
Newland Archer, The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, 1920
Clyde Griffiths, An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser, 1925
Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne, 1926 No Piglet????
Quentin Compson, The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929
Charlie Marlow, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, 1902
Celie, The Color Purple, Alice Walker, 1982
Augie March, The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow 1953
Newberry Medal award winners, 1922-2002
1922
The Story of Mankind, Hendrick Willem Van Loon
1923
The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle, Hugh A. Lofting
1924
The Dark Frigate, Charles Boardman Hawes
1925
Tales from Silver Lands, Charles Joseph Finger
1926
Shen of the Sea, Arthur Bowie Chrisman
1927
Smoky, the Cow Horse, Will James
1928
Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, Dhan Gopal Mukerji
1929
The Trumpeter of Krakow, Eric P. Kelly
1930
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field
1931
The Cat Who Went to Heaven, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
1932
Waterless Mountain, Laura Adams Armer
1933
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
1934
Invincible Louisa, Cornelia Meigs
1935
Dobry, Monica Shannon
1936
Caddie Woodlawn, Carol Ryrie Brink
1937
Roller Skates, Ruth Sawyer
1938
The White Stag, Kate Seredy
1939
Thimble Summer, Elizabeth Enright
1940
Daniel Boone, James Henry Daugherty
1941
Call it Courage, Armstrong Sperry
1942
The Matchlock Gun, Walter Dumax Edmonds
1943
Adam of the Road, Elizabeth Janet Gray
1944
Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes
1945
Rabbit Hill, Robert Lawson
1946
Strawberry Girl, Lois Lenski
1947
Miss Hickory, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
1948
The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pène du Bois
1949
King of the Wind, Marguerite Henry
1950
The Door in the Wall, Marguerite de Angeli
1951
Amos Fortune, Free Man, Elizabeth Yates
1952
Ginger Pye, Eleanor Estes
1953
Secret of the Andes, Ann Nolan Clark
1954
. . . And Now Miguel, Joseph Krumgold
1955
The Wheel on the School, Meindert DeJong
1956
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham
1957
Miracles on Maple Hill, Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen
1958
Rifles for Watie, Harold Keith
1959
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
1960
Onion John, Joseph Krumgold
1961
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell
1962
The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare
1963
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
1964
It's Like This, Cat, Emily Cheney Neville
1965
Shadow of a Bull, Maia Wojciechowska
1966
I, Juan de Pareja, Elizabeth Borton de Treviño
1967
Up a Road Slowly, Irene Hunt
1968
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E. L. Konigsburg
1969
The High King, Lloyd Alexander
1970
Sounder, William H. Armstrong
1971
Summer of the Swans, Betsy Cromer Byars
1972
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien I loooove it.
1973
Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George
1974
The Slave Dancer, Paula Fox
1975
M. C. Higgins, the Great, Virginia Hamilton
1976
The Grey King, Susan Cooper
1977
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor
1978
Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
1979
The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
1980
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32, Joan W. Blos
1981
Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson
1982
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, Nancy Willard
1983
Dicey's Song, Cynthia Voigt
1984
Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary
1985
The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley I'm always SO excited when I see this one.
1986
Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
1987
The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman
1988
Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman
1989
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, Paul Fleischman
1990
Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
1991
Maniac Magee: a Novel, Jerry Spinelli
1992
Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1993
Missing May, Cynthia Rylant
1994
The Giver, Lois Lowry
1995
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
1996
The Midwife's Apprentice, Karen Cushman
1997
The View from Saturday, E. L. Konigsburg
1998
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse
1999
Holes, Louis Sachar
2000
Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
2001
A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck
2002
A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park