Young Children
- Blackstone, Stella and Clare Beaton, Secret Seahorse
- Cousins, Lucy, Hooray for Fish!
- Curtis, Carolyn and Alison Joy, I Took the Moon for a Walk
- Eliot, T. S., Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
- Joyce, William, Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, The Leaf Men, The Mischievians, Santa Calls
- Newton, Michael (ed.), Victorian Fairy Tales
- Shulevitz, Uri, Snow
- Siméon, Jean-Pierre, This Is a Poem That Heals Fish
- Stoop, Naoko, Red Knit Cap Girl
- Tillman, Nancy, Tumford the Terrible
- Viorts, Judith, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
- Wood, Audrey and Don, The Full Moon at the Napping House
- Zullo, Germano and Albertine, Little Bird
Older Children and Tweens
- Birdsall, Jeanne, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
- Black, Holly, Doll Bones
- Bradley, Alan, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, A Red Herring Without Mustard, Speaking From Among the Bones, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- Brown, Dee, Folktales of the Native American
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson, The Secret Garden
- Cooper, Susan, Over Sea, Under Stone
- Di Camillo, Kate, The Tiger Rising
- Falkner, J. Meade, Moonfleet
- Garfield, Leon, Smith, The Story of a Pickpocket
- Hansi (Jean-Jacques Waltz), My Alsace
- Joyce, William and Laura Geringer, Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King
- Kingston, W. H. G., In the Rocky Mountains
- Montgomery, Lucy Maud, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Green Gables
- Nesbit, E., The Railway Children, The Story of the Treasure Seekers
- Newton, Michael (ed.), Victorian Fairy Tales
- Paterson, Katherine, Bridge to Terabithia
- Pullman, Philip, The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife
- Selznick, Brian, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
- Serraillier, Ian, The Silver Sword
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island
- Streatfeild, Noel, Ballet Shoes
- Sutcliff, Rosemary, The Lantern Bearers
- Watson, Sally, The Hornet’s Nest, Jade, Lark, Linnet, Mistress Malapert, Witch of the Glens
- White, E. B., Charlotte’s Web
- Witliff, Bill, The Devil’s Backbone
Teens and Young Adults
- Bradley, Alan, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, A Red Herring Without Mustard, Speaking From Among the Bones, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- Brashares, Ann, The Here and Now
- Brunt, Carol Rifka, Tell the Wolves I’m Home
- Collins, Suzanne, The Hunger Games
- Fuller, Iola, The Loon Feather
- Green, John, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down
- Kay, Guy Gavriel, The Darkest Road, The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire
- McCaffrey, Anne, The Dragonriders of Pern
- Parssinen, Keija, The Unraveling of Mercy Louis
- Riggs, Ransom, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
- Russell, Karen, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Swamplandia!
- Sepetys, Ruta, Salt to the Sea
- Spiegelman, Art, Maus I
- Stratton-Porter, Gene, Her Father’s Daughter, Michael O’Halloran
- Watson, Sally, The Hornet’s Nest, Jade, Lark, Linnet, Mistress Malapert, Witch of the Glens
- Zusak, Markus, The Book Thief
