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This is a "best of the best" list compiled by members of the Davidson Institute for Talent Development’s Young Scholars program.  Young Scholars range in age from 4 - 18.  As such, not all books may be appropriate for all audiences.


Abbot, Edwin A.
Flatland

Asimov, Isaac
The Complete Robot

I, Robot 

Bach, Richard
Illusions

Bakker, Robert T.
Raptor Red

Beagle, Peter S.
Tamsin 
The Unicorn Sonata

Bujold, Lois McMaster 
Falling Free
Shards of Honor
Barrayar
The Warrior’s Apprentice
The Vor Game
Cetaganda
Ethan of Athos
Brothers in Arms
The Borders of Infinity
Mirror Dance
Memory
Komarr
A Civil Campaign

 

Card, Orson Scott   
Ender’s Game 
Speaker for the Dead  
Xenocide 
Children of the Mind
Ender’s Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon
Shadow Puppets

 

Christopher, John  
The White Mountains series

 

Colfer, Eoin    
Artemis Fowl series

 

Collodi, Carlo   
Pinocchio

 

Cooper, Susan 
The Dark is Rising series
   
D’Aulaire, Ingrid & D’Aulaire
Edgar Parin D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths

 

Dickens, Charles 
A Christmas Carol
Oliver Twist

 

Duane, Diane  
Young Wizards series

 

Eager, Edward Half Magic
Magic by the Lake

 

Fletcher, Susan  
Shadow Spinner

 

Gardner, James Finn
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

 

Golden, Arthur  
Memoirs of a Geisha

 

Grandin, Temple
Emergence: Labeled Autistic
 
Heinlein, Robert A.  
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Stranger in a Strange Land

 

Henderson, Zenna  
The Anything Box

 

Hesse, Herman  
Siddartha

 

Ibbotson, Eva  
Which Witch
Secret of Platform 13
Island of the Aunts

 

Juster, Norton  
The Phantom Tollbooth

 

Keyes, Daniel   
Flowers for Algernon

 

L’Engle, Madeleine   
The Wrinkle in Time series

Levi, Primo  
The Periodic Table

 

Levine, Gail Carson 
Ella Enchanted

 

Lewis, C.S.   
Chronicles of Narnia

 

Lightman, Alan  
Einstein’s Dreams

 

Lofting, Hugh  
Doctor Dolittle series

 

Milne, A.A. & Shepard. E.  
The House at Pooh Corner
Winnie the Pooh
The Complete Poems of Winnie the Pooh

 

Morgenstern, S. (really William Goldman)
The Princess Bride "Good Parts Version
Nix, Garth  Sabriel
Lirael

 

Orwell, George  
1984

 

Pullman, Philip  
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife 
The Amber Spyglass
Clockwork

 

Pratchett, Terry 
Discworld series

Rand, Ayn  
Anthem

 

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan  
The Yearling

 

Rowling, J.K.  
The Harry Potter series
   
Sachar, Louis  
Holes

 

Sagan, Carl  
Contact

 

Shelley, Mary   
Frankenstein

 

Shinn, Sharon  
Archangel

 

Smith, Dodie  
101 Dalmations

 

Snicket, Lemony  
A Series of Unfortunate Events books

 

Spyri, Johanna   
Heidi

 

Steinbeck, John  
Of Mice and Men

 

Stroud, Jonathan 
Bartimaeus Trilogy, book one

 

Tolkien, J.R.R. 
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

The Hobbit

 

Twain, Mark  
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court’

 

Wrede, Patricia 
Dealing with Dragons series

 

Zahn, Timothy   
Manta’s Gift