Book Nerd Suggestions

books from your Childhood

Do you remember any of these childhood favorites? 

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

Bunnicula by James Howe (non-human character)

Charlotte’s Web by EB White (non-human character)

The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by EL Konigsburg

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Holes by Louis Sachar

The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks (non-human character)

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (non-human character)

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis (non-human character)

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Mary Poppins by PL Travers

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Jester

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (originally published in Swedish)

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary

Redwall by Brian Jacques (non-human character)

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (poetry)

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Book Nerd suggestions

Hey Book Nerds! How are you doing with the year-long challenge? Can you believe that there are a few people who have finished the challenge already? We are amazed by that too... but we are all working hard to meet our goal by December 20. And we're here to help you meet your goal with posting some of the books that fit into our challenge categories! Good luck and have fun reading these books set in a different country: 

Fiction Titles 

· Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan

· The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by C. Alan Bradley

· Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

· Little Bee by Chris Cleave

· The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

· This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

· Juliet by Anne Fortier

· In the Woods by Tana French

· The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger

· Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

· Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

· Wunderkind by Nikolai Grozni

· Chocolat by Joanne Harris

· The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson

· The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

· The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

· The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

· The Constant Gardener by John LeCarre

· What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

· Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

· The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

· Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

· The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

· Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

· The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli

· Dracula by Bram Stoker

· The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

· The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani

· Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

· Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

· Briar Rose by Jane Yolen