A Man is a List of Books to Read

Megan Whalen Turner, author of the excellent Queen’s Thief series, included a list of recommended books at the end of one of her novels. It’s easy, she says, to find lists of new books for young readers, harder to find lists of old. Her recommendations address that imbalance. I’m a sucker for recommendations and for lists of books, so I’ve reproduced MWT’s work here:

1. The Eagle of the Ninth, Rosemary Sutcliff
2. Warrior Scarlet, Rosemary Sutcliff
3. Blood Feud, Rosemary Sutcliff
4. Knight’s Fee, Rosemary Sutcliff
5. Puck of Pook’s Hill, Rudyard Kipling
6. The Enchanted Castle, E. Nesbit
7. The Story of the Treasure Seekers, E. Nesbit
8. The Railway Children, E. Nesbit
9. Half Magic, Edward Eager (a favorite)
10. Magic By the Lake, Edward Eager
11. Seven Day Magic, Edward Eager
12. Knight’s Castle, Edward Eager
13. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken (another favorite)
14. Black Hearts in Battersea, Joan Aiken
15. Midnight is a Place, Joan Aiken
16. Go Saddle the Sea, Joan Aiken
17. The Green Knowe series, L. M. Boston
18. The Return of the Twelves, Pauline Clarke
19. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Time, Jane Louise Curry
20. The Perilous Guard, Elizabeth Marie Pope
21. The Sherwood Ring, Elizabeth Marie Pope
22. The Changes trilogy, Peter Dickinson
23. The Princess and Curdie, George MacDonald
24. The Princess and the Goblin, George MacDonald
25. Moccasin Trail, Eloise Jarvis McGraw
26. Little Britches, Ralph Moody
27. Minnow on the Say, Philippa Pearce
28. Tom’s Midnight Garden, Philippa Pearce
29. The Ides of April, Mary Ray
30. The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
31. Three on the Run, Nina Bawden
32. Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
33. Playing Beatrice Bow, Ruth Park
34. The Crime of Martin Coverly, Leonard Wibberly
35. A Chance Child, Jill Patton Walsh