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