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Fay's 100 Favorite Books

To celebrate the 100th birthday of the Fay School Library, the entire Fay community voted for their favorite books. These 100 books offer something for everyone, and we hope you will discover some new favorites among them.

  1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows / J.K. Rowling
  2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone / J.K. Rowling
  3. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / J.K. Rowling
  4. The Giver / Lois Lowry
  5. To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee
  6. Eragon / Christopher Paolini
  7. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / J.K. Rowling
  8. Green Eggs and Ham / Dr. Seuss
  9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince / J.K. Rowling
  10. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / J.K. Rowling
  11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire / J.K. Rowling
  12. Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House series, #1) / Mary Pope Osborne
  13. Histories / Herodotus
  14. The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1) / Lemony Snicket
  15. The Secret Life of Bees / Sue Monk Kidd
  16. The Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger
  17. The Bible
  18. Because of Winn-Dixie / Kate DiCamillo
  19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time / Mark Haddon
  20. Charlotte's Web / E.B. White
  21. Hatchet / Gary Paulsen
  22. The Incredible Book Eating Boy / Oliver Jeffers
  23. The BFG / Roald Dahl
  24. The Westing Game / Ellen Raskin
  25. The Chronicles of Narnia / C.S. Lewis
  26. The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, #3) / Rick Riordan
  27. The Cay / Theodore Taylor
  28. Olivia / Ian Falconer
  29. My Brother, My Sister, and I / Yoko Kawashima Watkins
  30. Where the Wild Things Are / Maurice Sendak
  31. James and the Giant Peach / Roald Dahl
  32. Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus (Junie B. Jones series, #1) / Barbara Park
  33. The Hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien
  34. The Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet (The Secrets of Droon series, #1) / Tony Abbott
  1. Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë
  2. Angels and Demons / Dan Brown
  3. The Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye / Geronimo Stilton
  4. The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings series, #1) / J.R.R. Tolkien
  5. The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings series, #2) / J.R.R. Tolkien
  6. The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings series, #3) / J.R.R. Tolkien
  7. A Painted House / John Grisham
  8. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane / Kate DiCamillo
  9. Black Boy / Richard Wright
  10. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympian series, #1) / Rick Riordan
  11. Twilight / Stephenie Meyer
  12. Where the Red Fern Grows / Wilson Rawls
  13. Diary of a Wimpy Kid / Jeff Kinney
  14. Eldest / Christopher Paolini
  15. The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
  16. The Mystery of Eatum Hall / John Kelly and Cathy Tincknell
  17. The Red Pony / John Steinbeck
  18. The Tale of Despereaux / Kate DiCamillo
  19. The Tail of Emily Windsnap / Liz Kessler
  20. Holes / Louis Sachar
  21. Little Women / Louisa May Alcott
  22. The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, #2) / Rick Riordan
  23. The Thief Lord / Cornelia Funke
  24. The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children series, #1) / Gertrude Chandler Warner
  25. Flat Stanley / Jeff Brown
  26. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
  27. Matilda / Roald Dahl
  28. The Giving Tree / Shel Silverstein
  29. Oh, the Places You'll Go! / Dr. Seuss
  30. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain
  31. Shiloh / Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  32. 1984 / George Orwell
  33. The Count of Monte Cristo / Alexander Dumas
  1. Black Beauty / Anna Sewell
  2. The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew Mysteries series, #1) / Carolyn Keene
  3. Animal Farm / George Orwell
  4. Number the Stars / Lois Lowry
  5. Gone With the Wind / Margaret Mitchell
  6. The Hero Revealed (The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy series, #1) / William Boniface
  7. The Qur'an
  8. Scorpia (An Alex Rider Adventure, #5) / Anthony Horowitz
  9. The Da Vinci Code / Dan Brown
  10. Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code / Eoin Colfer
  11. Into the Wild (The Warriors series, #1) / Erin Hunter
  12. The Old Man and the Sea / Ernest Hemingway
  13. Miss Nelson is Missing! / Harry Allard
  14. The Odyssey / Homer
  15. Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen
  16. Knights of the Kitchen Table (The Time Warp Trio series, #1) / Jon Scieszka
  17. Airborn / Kenneth Oppel
  18. Seven Silly Eaters / Mary Ann Hoberman
  19. Make Lemonade / Virginia Euwer Wolff
  20. The Cat in the Hat / Dr. Seuss
  21. Ginger Pye / Eleanor Estes
  22. The Ruins of Gorlan (The Ranger’s Apprentice series, #1) / John Flanagan
  23. The Wind in the Willows / Kenneth Grahame
  24. The Clique / Lisi Harrison
  25. Watership Down / Richard Adams
  26. Peach and Blue / Sarah Kilborne
  27. Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë
  28. Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson
  29. Tuesdays with Morrie / Mitch Albom
  30. One Hundred Years of Solitude / Gabriel Garcia Márquez
  31. The Very Hungry Caterpillar / Eric Carle
  32. The Trumpet of the Swan / E.B. White
  33. Anne of Green Gables / L.M. Montgomery


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