Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Heidi , by Joanna Spyri
The Secret Garden - by Frances H. Burnett
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - by Mark Twain
Gulliver's Travels - by Jonathan Swift
The Sue Barton Nurse Series - by Helen Dore Boylston
(I'd forgotten about Sue Barton until she was mentioned on a message board I was on. I remember gulping down the entire series of 7 in a span of a couple weeks.)

More recent children's favourites:
The Harry Potter series - by J.K.Rowling
Oh, the Places You'll Go - by Dr. Seuss

Books I liked in high school:
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
Kon-Tiki, by Thor Heyerdahl
Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

Books my own children liked:
Their first favourites were Richard Scarry and Dr. Seuss books which quickly became dog-eared, torn, and held together by tape.

EARLY CHILDHOOD
The Best Word Book Ever, by Richard Scarry
Richard Scarry's Great Big Mystery Book
Cars and Trucks and Things That Go, by Richard Scarry
Winnie the Pooh, by A.A. Milne
The House at Pooh Corner, by A.A. Milne
Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak
Scrambled Eggs Super!  by Dr. Seuss
The Cat In The Hat, by Dr. Seuss
I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sollew, by Dr. Seuss
On Beyond Zebra, by Dr. Seuss
Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr. Seuss
Yertle the Turtle, by Dr. Seuss
Timmy the West Coast Tug
Murmel, Murmel, Murmel by Robert Munsch
The Night Before Christmas (read every Christmas eve for years!)
Any book about dinosaurs
Babar, by de Brunhoff

LATER CHILDHOOD
The Book of Three, by Lloyd Alexander
Taran Wanderer, by Lloyd Alexander
The Kestrell, by Lloyd Alexander
Westmark, by Lloyd Alexander
Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
Anything about Star Wars
The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis
(actually all the Narnia books, by C.S. Lewis)
War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
Willow, by Wayland Drew
Lizard Music, by D. Manus Pinkwater

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