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Real Simple’s 50 Books that will Make You Want to Read
Recently, Real Simple polled it’s readers to find out which book made them in to a reader…whether it was as a child or as an adult. Over 4,000 Facebook fans answered the poll and these are the 50 titles that came up over and over again. A link to Real Simple’s list has been posted to our Facebook page and this is the breakdown of DB availability if you want a quick look.
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
DB74950
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
DB47868
A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
DB43675
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
DB63706
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keen
DB08739
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
DB50921
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
DB62761
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
DB33082
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
DB32449
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
DB56114
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
DB48972
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
DB22906
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
DB47260
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
DB49497
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
DB24614
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
DB37294
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
DB58830
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
DB22914
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
DB48732
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
DB23638
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
DB22936
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
DB22433
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume
DB37405
Green Eggs and Ham,
The Lorax,
Horton Hears a Who,
and The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
DB34056, DB31231, DB34058, and DB33062
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
DB48978
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
DB44769
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
DB39643
Of Mice and Men,
East of Eden,
and The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
DB48515, DB49676, and DB34258
Harriet the Spy by Louis Fitzhugh
DB44768
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
DB48914
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
DB77672
Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
DB50083
Trixie Belden by Julie Campbell
DB72733
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
DB11077
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
DB44071
Bobbsey Twins by Laura Lee Hope
DB31229
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
DB41291
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
DB25178
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
DB51047
It by Stephen King
DB28045
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
Matilda,
James and the Giant Peach,
and Big Friendly Giant by Roald Dahl
DB33498, DB31793, DB32548 and DB44101
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
DB57022
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
DB62066
