Mrs. Oster's Favorite Books

In no particular order.
*I have put stars by the books I recommend for anyone at any time. 
~Books we have read as a family in the last twelve years. (My kids are 17, 16, 13, 13, and 10 in 2021)

1. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
2. Anything by Charles Dickens
3. Anything by Jane Austen
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
5. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
6. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
7. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain*~
9. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain*
10. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
11. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (most books by Louisa May Alcott)*
12. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (anything by L.M. Montgomery)*
13. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
14. Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
15. The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis*~
16. The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien --Believe it or not, I hadn't read this by the time I was engaged to be married. My husband told me we couldn't be wed until I had. :) ~
17. The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson*~
18. The Bark of the Bog Owl (and the rest of that series) by Jonathon Rogers*~
19. The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder*~
20. The Mark of the Lion series by Francine Rivers (anything by her, really)
21. Peter and the Starcatchers series by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson*~
22. Anything by Robert Louis Stevenson*
23. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett*
24. Heidi by Johanna Spyn*~
25. The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
26. Tales of Edgar Allen Poe by E.A. Poe
27. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
28. The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom (We read in MS Lit 2019-2020 year and again in 2022-2023, Lord willing.)
29. The Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer*
30. The Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke*~
31. The Paladin Prophecy series by Mark Frost
32. The Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull*~
33. The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini~ (currently reading July 2020)
34. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler* by E.L. Konigsberg
35. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (series) by Ransom Riggs*
36. Anything by Shakespeare
37. Anything by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
38. The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling*~
39. James Potter series by G. Norman Lippert (these are online only because they are fan fiction, but really very good)*
40. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (read this one this year in high school lit; we'll read it again the 2020-2021 school year)
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
42. Anything by Elizabeth Elliot
43. Faerie Gold by Lindskoog and Hunsicker*
44. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter*
45. The Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage*
46. The Alchemist series by Michael Scott*
47. A Wrinkle in Time and Anything by Madeline Le Engle (*for most)~
48. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick*~
49. Fairest by Gail Carson Levine*
50. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgkin Burnett*
51. The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White*
52. The Rangers Apprentice series by John Flanagan
53. Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Carey*~
54. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi*
55. The Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan*~
56. The Mysterious Benedict Society series by Trenton Lee Stewart*
57. The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
58. Gregor the Overlander series by Suzanne Collins*~
59. Secrets of Droon (much lower level but still entertaining)*~
60. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare*
61. Anything by Roald Dahl*~
62. Cinder series by Merissa Meyer
63. Christy by Catherine Marshall (anything by her)*
64. Anything by Robin McKinley
65. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
67. Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson (just read that July, 2020)*
68. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
69. Anything by E. Nesbit*~


....to be continued
What have I missed? Feel free to comment with your favorites!