| Title Author Year published References |
| The Swiss Family Robinson Johann Rudolf Wyss 1812-3 [1] |
| The Nutcracker and the Mouse King E. T. A. Hoffmann 1816 [19] |
| Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1819 [20] |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1819 [1][21] |
| Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving 1820 [1][22] |
| Grimm's Fairy Tales Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 1823 (English) [3][23] |
| A Visit From St. Nicholas Clement Clarke Moore 1823 [3] |
| Tales of Peter Parley About America Peter Parley (pseudonym) 1827 [3] |
| Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1838 [1] |
| Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1839 |
| A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1843 [1][2] |
| The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas, père 1844 |
| Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen 1846 (English) [3] |
| The Children of the New Forest Frederick Marryat 1847 |
| Slovenly Peter Heinrich Hoffmann 1848 (English) |
| David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1850 [1] |
| The Wide, Wide World Elizabeth Wetherell (pseudonym) 1850 [3] |
| The King of the Golden River John Ruskin 1851 [3] |
| A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1853 [1] |
| The Coral Island R. M. Ballantyne 1857 |
| Tom Brown's Schooldays Thomas Hughes 1857 [3] |
| Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1861 [1][24] |
| The Water Babies Charles Kingsley 1863 [3] |
| A Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne 1864 [1] |
| Little Prudy Rebecca Sophia Clarke 1864 [25] |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 [1][2] |
| Max and Moritz Wilhelm Busch 1865 |
| Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates Mary Mapes Dodge 1865 [1] |
| Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1868 [1][3][2] |
| Ragged Dick Horatio Alger, Jr. 1868 [3] |
| Lorna Doone R. D. Blackmore 1869 |
| Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances Juliana Horatia Ewing 1869 [26] |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1870 [1] |
| At the Back of the North Wind George MacDonald 1871 [1] |
| The Brownies and other Tales Juliana Horatia Ewing 1871 |
| The Princess and the Goblin George MacDonald 1871 [3] |
| Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll 1871 [1][3] |
| Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne 1872 [1] |
| A Dog of Flanders Ouida 1872 |
| What Katy Did Susan Coolidge 1873 [3] |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 1876 [1][3][2][27] |
| Black Beauty Anna Sewell 1877 [1][3] |
| The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain 1881 |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi 1883 [1][3][2][27] |
| The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 1883 [2][27] |
| Nights with Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1883 |
| Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1883 [1][3][2][27] |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 [1][27] |
| Heidi Johanna Spyri 1884 (English) [3] |
| King Solomon's Mines H. Rider Haggard 1885 |
| Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 [1][2] |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886 [1][3] |
| The Happy Prince and Other Tales Oscar Wilde 1888 |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1889 |
| The Blue Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1889 |
| The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1894 [1][3][2][27] |
| Seven Little Australians Ethel Turner 1894 [3] |
| The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1895 [1] |
| Moonfleet J. Meade Falkner 1898 |
| The Black Corsair Emilio Salgari 1898 |
| The Reluctant Dragon Kenneth Grahame 1898 |
| The Story of the Treasure Seekers E. Nesbit 1899 |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum 1900 [1][3][2][27] |
| The Tigers of Mompracem Emilio Salgari 1900 |
| Title Author Year published References |
| Five Children and It E. Nesbit 1902 [3] |
| Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1902 [1][3][2] |
| The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter 1902 [3][2] |
| King Arthur and His Knights Howard Pyle 1902-3 |
| The Call of the Wild Jack London 1903 [1] |
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Kate Douglas Wiggin 1903 [1] |
| A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett 1905 [1][3] |
| The Railway Children E. Nesbit 1906 |
| White Fang Jack London 1906 |
| Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery 1908 [1][3] |
| The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1908 [1][3][27] |
| The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 1909/1911 [1][3][2] |
| Peter and Wendy J. M. Barrie 1911 [2] Based on the author's play Peter Pan (1904) |
| Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912 |
| The Lost World Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1912 |
| Pollyanna Eleanor H. Porter 1913 [3] |
| The Magic Pudding Norman Lindsay 1918 [28] |
| Raggedy Ann Johnny Gruelle 1918 |
| A Dog Albert Payson Terhune 1919 [1] |
| The Story of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1920 [1][3][2] |
| Juan Bobo Puerto Rican school children 1921 [29] |
| The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams 1922 [1] |
| The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1922 [1] |
| The Dark Frigate Charles Boardman Hawes 1923 [1] |
| Smoky the Cowhorse Will James 1926 [1] |
| Winnie-the-Pooh A. A. Milne 1926 [1][3][2] |
| The House at Pooh Corner A. A. Milne 1928 [1][3] |
| Bambi Felix Salten 1928 [1] |
| The Trumpeter of Krakow Eric P. Kelly 1928 [1] |
| Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories Joyce Lankester Brisley 1928 |
| Emil and the Detectives Erich Kästner 1929 [30] |
| Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome 1930–1931 [3] |
| Babar Jean de Brunhoff 1931 |
| Little House in the Big Woods Laura Ingalls Wilder 1932 [1] |
| Mary Poppins P. L. Travers 1934 |
| Ballet Shoes Noel Streatfeild 1936 |
| The Story of Ferdinand Munro Leaf 1936 |
| The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 [1][3][2][27] |
| The Sword in the Stone T. H. White 1938 |
| Madeline Ludwig Bemelmans 1939 |
| My Name Is Aram William Saroyan 1940 Children's immigrant experience in the US |
| Curious George H. A. Rey 1941 |
| Five on a Treasure Island Enid Blyton 1942 |
| Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes 1943 [1][2] |
| The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 [1][31] |
| Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 1945 [1][32] |
| Happy Dan, The Cynical Dog Ward Greene 1945 |
| The Little White Horse Elizabeth Goudge 1946 |
| Thomas the Tank Engine Wilbert Awdry 1946 |
| Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown 1947 [2][33] |
| I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith 1948 |
| Finn Family Moomintroll Tove Jansson 1949 [34] |
| Noddy Goes To Toyland Enid Blyton 1949 |
| The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis 1950 [1][3][2][27] |
| Charlotte's Web E. B. White 1952 [1][35][36] |
| The Borrowers Mary Norton 1952 |
| The Children of Green Knowe Lucy M. Boston 1954 |
| Beezus and Ramona Beverly Cleary 1955 |
| Eloise Kay Thompson 1955 It was first published in 1955, but was aimed at adults. It was re-published in 1969, this time marketed to children. |
| The Hundred and One Dalmatians Dodie Smith 1956 |
| Harry the Dirty Dog Gene Zion 1956 |
| The Silver Sword Ian Serraillier 1956 Known in the US as Escape From Warsaw. |
| The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss 1957 First high quality limited-vocabulary book, written for early readers[citation needed] |
| Little Bear Else Holmelund Minarik 1957 |
| Tom's Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce 1958 |
| A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond 1958 |
| The Rescuers Margery Sharp 1959 |
| The Weirdstone of Brisingamen Alan Garner 1960 |
| James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl 1961 [1] |
| The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster 1961 [1] |
| The Big Honey Hunt Stan and Jan Berenstain 1962 |
| A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle 1962 |
| The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Joan Aiken 1962 |
| Stig of the Dump Clive King 1963 |
| Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak 1963 |
| Clifford the Big Red Dog Norman Bridwell 1963 |
| Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish 1963 |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl 1964 [1] |
| Flat Stanley Jeff Brown 1964 |
| The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein 1964 |
| Harriet the Spy Louise Fitzhugh 1964 |
| The Magical Car Ian Fleming 1964 |
| The Fox and the Hound Daniel P. Mannix and John Schoenherr 1967 |
| The Owl Service Alan Garner 1967 |
| the first book had a non-white hero, the later books explored the role of gender in fantasy and power, and the quest structure is not good vs. evil but balance.[citation needed] |
| The Iron Man Ted Hughes 1968 |
| The Tiger Who Came to Tea Judith Kerr 1968 |
| The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle 1969 |
| Charlotte Sometimes Penelope Farmer 1969 |
| Are You There, God |
| When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr 1971 |
| The Lorax Dr Seuss 1971 |
| Watership Down Richard Adams 1972 |
| A Taste of Blackberries Doris Buchanan Smith 1973 Taboo-breaking children's book (Grades 4–6) concerning a child's first grief experience. HarperCollins. 19th edition published 2005.[37][38] |
| The Worst Witch Jill Murphy 1974 |
| Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson 1977 |
| Each Peach Pear Plum Janet and Allan Ahlberg 1978 |
| The Snowman Raymond Briggs 1978 |
| The Neverending Story Michael Ende 1979 |
| The Indian in the Cupboard Lynne Reid Banks 1980 |
| The Paper Bag Princess Robert Munsch 1980 |
| Jumanji Chris Van Allsburg 1981 |
| Goodnight Mister Tom Michelle Magorian 1981 |
| The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ Sue Townsend 1982 |
| War Horse Michael Morpurgo 1982 |
| The Sheep-Pig Dick King-Smith 1983 Filmed as Babe in 1995. Known as Babe, the Gallant Pig in the US. |
| The Castle in the Attic Elizabeth Winthrop 1985 |
| Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones 1986 Made famous because of the Studio Ghibli movie. |
| Franklin Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark 1986 |
| The Little Polar Bear Hans de Beer 1987 |
| Madame Doubtfire Anne Fine 1987 Published as Alias Madame Doubtfire in the US. Made famous because of the film adaptation (Mrs Doubtfire) starring Robin Williams. |
| Matilda Roald Dahl 1988 |
