Here are sixty books that changed my life, roughly in the order in which I discovered them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown<\/li>
2. One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey<\/li>
3. The Little Farm (Little\/Small series) by Lois Lenski<\/li>
4. Green Eggs & Ham by Dr. Seuss<\/li>
5. Little Bear by Elsie Minarik<\/li>
6. Little House in the Big Woods\/The Long Winter (tie) by Laura Ingalls Wilder<\/li>
7. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum<\/li>
8. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame<\/li>
9. Miss Osborne-the-Mop by Wilson Gage (Mary Q. Steele)<\/li>
10. Half Magic by Edgar Eager<\/li>
11. The Three Investigators series by Robert Arthur, Jr.<\/li>
12. The Prydain series by Lloyd Alexander<\/li>
13. The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley<\/li>
14. The Narnia series by C.S. Lewis<\/li>
15. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White<\/li>
16. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling<\/li>
17. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/li>
18. The Borrowers by Mary Notron<\/li>
19. The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes<\/li>
20. Below the Root by Zilpha Keatley Snyder<\/li>
21. Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw<\/li>
22. The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key<\/li>
23. The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper<\/li>
24. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury<\/li>
25. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle<\/li>
26. The Beastmaster by Andre Norton<\/li>
27. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein<\/li>
28. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle<\/li>
29. Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones<\/li>
30. Watership Down by Richard Adams<\/li>
31. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin<\/li>
32. A Gift of Magic by Lois Duncan<\/li>
33. The People series by Zenna Henderson<\/li>
34. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller<\/li>
35. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare<\/li>
36. Johnathan Livingston Seagull\/Illusions (tie) by Richard Bach<\/li>
37. The Grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck<\/li>
38. The Odyssey by Homer<\/li>
39. Dune by Frank Herbert<\/li>
40. Dracula by Bram Stoker<\/li>
41. Murder on the Orient Express\/Murder at the Vicarage (tie) by Agatha Christie<\/li>
42. The Shining by Stephen King<\/li>
43. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card<\/li>
44. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens<\/li>
45. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress\/Time Enough for Love (tie) by Robert Heinlein<\/li>
46. The Daybreakers by Louis L’Amour<\/li>
47. Thieves World edited by Robert Asprin<\/li>
48. Dragonsinger\/Dragonsong by Anne MacCaffrey<\/li>
49. Red Moon and Black Mountain by Joy Chant<\/li>
50. Beauty by Robert McKinley<\/li>
51. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll<\/li>
52. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams<\/li>
53. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett<\/li>
54. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice\/O Jerusalem (tie) by Laurie R. King<\/li>
55. The Color Purple by Alice Walker<\/li>
56. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson<\/li>
57. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen<\/li>
58. Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz<\/li>
59. American Gods by Neil Gaiman<\/li>
60. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow<\/li><\/ol>\n
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