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Short Stories

• “The Day Boy and the Night Girl” by George MacDonald (short story)
• “The Student” by Anton Chekhov (short story)

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• 100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask by Ilyce Glink
• 44 Scotland Street Alexander McCall-Smith

A

• A Caldecott Celebration: Six Artists and Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal by Leonard Marcus
• A Child’s Goodnight Book by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Jean Charlot
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle
• A is for Annabelle by Tasha Tudor
• A Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift
• A Stranger at Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
• A to Z and In Between by Sandra Boynton
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith by Betty Smith
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• Adventures of Pinocchio, The by Carlo Collodi
• Aesop’s Fables (1912 translation with introduction by G.K. Chesterton)
• Age of Innocence, The by Edith Wharton
• All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
• Alligators All Around by Maurice Sendak
• Alphabet Adventure by Audrey Wood and Bruce Wood
• An Enemy at Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Anthem by Ayn Rand
• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
• Arrival, The by Shaun Tan

B

• Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martine Jr. and Eric Carle
• Babylon in a Jar by Andrew Hudgins
• Battle of Life, The by Charles Dickens
• Big Book of Words by Simms Taback
• Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Felicia Bond
• Big Snow, The by Berta and Elmer Hader
• Book that Changed My Life, The by Roxanne J. Coady and Joy Johannesson
• Book Thief, The (Audiobook Review) by Markus Zusak
• Book Thief, The by Markus Zusak
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
• But Not the Hippopotamus by Sandra Boynton

C

• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault
• Children of Green Knowe, The by L.M. Boston
• Chimes, The by Charles Dickens
• Christ and the New Covenant by Jeffrey R. Holland
• Christmas Poems, Everyman’s Library Edition
• Christmas Story, The from the Bible, illustrated by Gennady Spirin
• Color Kittens, The by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen
• Complete Maus, The: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
• Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter, The
• Cricket on the Hearth, The by Charles Dickens
• Curious George Learns the Alphabet by H.A. Rey

D

• Dangerous Alphabet, The by Neil Gaiman
• Daughter of Destiny by Benazir Bhutto
• Discoverers, The by Daniel Boorstin
• Divine Songs by Isaac Watts
• Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, The by A.S. Byatt (short story collection and novella)
• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
• Dr. Seuss’s ABC
• Dubliners by James Joyce (stories)
• Dune by Frank Herbert

E

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss (illustrated version)
• Edwina, The Dinosaur That Didn’t Know She Was Extinct by Mo Willems
• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
• Elements of Cooking, The by Michael Ruhlman
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
• Eric Carle’s ABC
• Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau

F

• Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
• Fairy Tales and Fables by Eric Carle
• Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
• Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
• Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
• Flotsam by David Wiesner
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Free Fall by David Wiesner
• Friendly Beasts, The by Tomie dePaola
• From Conception to Birth: A Life Unfolds by Alexander Tsiaras
• Frosty the Snowman by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins and illustrated by Richard Cowdrey
• Fundamentals of Photography by Tom Ang

G

• Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
• George and Martha by James Marshall
• Gift of the Magi, The by O. Henry, illustrated by Carol Heyer
• Glass Castle, The by Jeannette Walls
• Going to Bed Book, The by Sandra Boynton
• Golden Egg Book, The by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard
• Golden Legacy by Leonard S. Marcus
• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz
• Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales

H

• Hand Hand Fingers Thumb by Al Perkins
• Handmaid’s Tale, The by Margaret Atwood
• Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
• Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain, The by Charles Dickens
• Here Comes Santa Claus by Gene Autry and Oakley Haldeman, illustrated by Bruce Whatley
• Hey, Al by Arthur Yorinks
• Hippolytus by Euripides
• Hippos Go Berserk by Sandra Boynton
• Hobbit, The by J.R.R. Tolkein
• Home Buying for Dummies by Eric Tyson and Ray Brown
• Horns to Toes and In Between by Sandra Boynton
• Horns to Toes and In Between by Sandra Boynton
• House in the Night, The by Susan Marie Swanson, illustrated by Beth Krommes
• House of Mirth, The by Edith Wharton
• How Do Dinosaurs Clean Up Their Rooms? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague
• How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague
• How Do Dinosaurs Play With Their Friends? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague
• How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
• Hunger: An Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell

I

• I Miss You Every Day by Simms Taback
• I Spy: An Alphabet in Art by Lucy Micklethwait
• Iliad, The by Homer, trans. Robert Fagles
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Invention of Hugo Cabret, The by Brian Selznick
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

J

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
• Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback
• Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman
• Jungle Book(s), The by Rudyard Kipling
• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

K

• Kissinger by Walter Isaacson
• Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems
• Knuffle Bunny Too by Mo Willems

L

• L is for Lincoln by Kathy-jo Wargin
• Last Lecture, The by Randy Pausch
• Legend of Sleepy Hallow and Other Stories, The by Washington Irving
• Leonardo the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems
• Let’s Dance, Little Pookie by Sandra Boynton
• Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The by L. Frank Baum
• Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
• Life of Our Lord, The by Charles Dickens
• Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
• Listen to the Wind by Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth
• Little Fur Family, The by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Garth Williams
• Little Island, The by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard
• Little Prince, The by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Littlest Angel, The by Charles Tazewell and illustrated by Paul Micich
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
• Lullabies and Poems for Children
• Lullabies: An Illustrated Songbook by the Metropolitan Museum of Art

M

• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Making of a Chef, The by Michael Ruhlman
• March by Geraldine Brooks
• Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
• Masterclass in Photography by Michael and Julien Busselle
• Material World by Peter Menzel
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• Midwife’s Apprentice, The by Karen Cushman
• Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
• Millionaire Next Door, The (abridged audiobook) by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
• Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs by Hal Buell
• Mommy Loves by Anne Gutman
• Monster at the End of the Book, The (starring Grover) by Jon Stone
• Moo, Baa, La La La by Sandra Boynton
• Mortgage Confidential by David Reed
• Mortgages 101 by David Reed
• My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
• My First Story of Christmas by Tim Dowley
• My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss
• My Very First Book of Numbers by Eric Carle
• My World by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd

N

• Night Before Christmas, The by Clement Clark Moore, illustrated by Mary Engelbreit
• Night Before Christmas, The by Clement Clark Moore, illustrated by Ruth Sanderson
• Nine Days to Christmas by Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida
• No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, The by Alexander McCall-Smith
• Norton Introduction to Poetry
• Nutcracker, The by Michael Hague

O

• Odyssey, The by Homer, trans. by Robert Fagles
• Old Man and the Sea, The by Ernest Hemingway
• On Writing by Stephen King
• Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, illustrated by John Schoenherr

P

• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
• Palestine by Joe Sacco
• Panda Bear, Panda Bear What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
• Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt
• Perrault’s Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault
• Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
• Persepolis:The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
• Personal History by Katharine Graham
• Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
• Planets, The by Dava Sobel
• Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
• Poetry for Little People: Lewis Carroll
• Poetry for Young People: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Poetry for Young People: William Shakespeare
• Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Here? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
• Polar Express, The by Chris Van Allsburg
• Portuguese Irregular Verbs Alexander McCall-Smith
• Possession by A.S. Byatt
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Professor and the Madman, The by Simon Winchester

Q

• Q is for Duck by Mary Elting and Michael Folsom
• Quiet Noisy Book, The by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard

R

• Richard Scarry’s ABCs
• River at Green Knowe, The by L.M. Boston
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Room for a Little One: A Christmas Tale by Martin Waddell
• Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? by Kenneth Koch
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer by Robert Lewis May, illustrated by David Wenzel
• Runaway Bunny, The by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd

S

• Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
• Sector 7 by David Wiesner
• Stones at Green Knowe, The by L.M. Boston
• Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC by June Sobel
• Silmarillion, The by J.R.R. Tolkein
• Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dogs by Kitty Burns Florey
• Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
• Snowy Day, The by Ezra Jack Keats
• Speeches of Winston Churchill
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
• Stories by Anton Chekhov
• Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
• Stories by Ernest Hemingway
• Stories by Flannery O’Connor
• Stories by Guy de Maupassant (Favorites)
• Stories by Guy de Maupassant (Introductory Thoughts)
• Stories by Ivan Turgenev
• Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Stories by O. Henry
• Stories by Tommaso Landolfi
• Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
• Stranger, The by Albert Camus
• Sunday Philosophy Club, The by Alexander McCall-Smith

T

• Tales of Beedle the Bard, The by J.K. Rowling
• There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback
• Treasure of Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
• Tuesday by David Wiesner
• This is the House that Jack Built by Simms Taback
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• Three Pigs, The by David Wiesner
• Three Trees, The: A Traditional Folktale by Angela Elwell Hunt, illustrated by Tim Jonke
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• To Kill a Mockingbird, the movie
• Twelve Days of Christmas, The illustrated by John O’Brien
• Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg

U

• Uncommon Reader, The by Alan Bennett
• Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
• Utopia by Thomas More

V

• Very Hungry Caterpillar, The by Eric Carle

W

• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
• What the World Eats by Peter Menzel
• What’s Wrong, Little Pookie by Sandra Boynton
• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
• While You Were Sleeping by John Butler
• White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin
• Why Women Should Rule the World by Dee Dee Myers
• Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt
• Wind in the Willows, The by Kenneth Grahame
• Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
• Winnie-the-Pooh’s ABCs, inspired by A.A. Milne
• Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene W. Field, illustrated by Giselle Potter

X
Y
Z

• Z Was Zapped, The by Chris Van Allsburg

updated 16 June 2009