| TITLE | AUTHOR | READING LEVEL | POINT VALUE |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Verne | 8.1 | 23 |
| Adam Bede | Eliot | 12 | 57 |
| Adam Of the Road | Gray | 5.9 | 12 |
| Adventures Of Robin Hood | Vivian | 7.3 | 10 |
| Aesop's Fables | McGovern | 5.1 | 4 |
| Age Of Innocence | Wharton | 10.0 | 26 |
| All Quiet On the Western Front | Remarque | 9.0 | 12 |
| American Tragedy | Dreiser | 11.0 | 69 |
| Anna Karenina | Tolstoy | 11.0 | 77 |
| Anne Frank-Diary Of a Young Girl | Frank | 5.9 | 21 |
| Around the World In 80 Days | Verne | 8.5 | 15 |
| Arrowsmith | Lewis | 10.0 | 40 |
| As I Lay Dying | Faulkner | 8.5 | 12 |
| Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman | Gaines | 7.1 | 19 |
| Babbitt | Lewis | 9.0 | 26 |
| Bell For Adano | Hersey | 8.1 | 18 |
| Ben Hur | Wallace | 10.0 | 34 |
| Billy Budd | Melville | 12.0 | 11 |
| Black Arrow | Stevenson | 7.6 | 18 |
| Black Boy | Wright | 8.5 | 27 |
| Black Like Me | Griffin | 9.0 | 14 |
| Brave New World | Huxley | 9.0 | 13 |
| Bridge Of San Luis Rey | Wilder | 9.0 | 9 |
| Bronze Bow | Speare | 6.5 | 16 |
| Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee | Brown | 8.9 | 38 |
| Caine Mutiny | Wouk | 9.0 | 40 |
| Call Of the Wild | London | 7.3 | 9 |
| Canticle For Leibowitz | Miller | 7.8 | 23 |
| Captains Courageous | Kipling | 5.9 | 13 |
| Cheaper By the Dozen | Gilberth | 6.6 | 13 |
| Childhood's End | Clarke | 9.0 | 16 |
| Citizen Tom Paine | Fast | 7.9 | 22 |
| Confessions Of Nat Turner | Styron | 11.0 | 31 |
| Count Of Monte Cristo | Dumas | 6.3 | 35 |
| Crime and Punishment | Dostoyevsky | 11.0 | 39 |
| Crucible | Miller | 9.0 | 8 |
| Cry, the Beloved Country | Paton | 8.9 | 16 |
| Cyrano De Bergerac | Rostand | 9.0 | 10 |
| Dandelion Wine | Bradbury | 6.2 | 14 |
| Dark Frigate | Hawes | 5.5 | 15 |
| David Copperfield | Dickens | 10.0 | 67 |
| Death Be Not Proud | Gunther | 8.2 | 12 |
| Death Comes For the Archbishop | Cather | 10.0 | 17 |
| Death Of Ivan Ilych | Tolstoy | 10.0 | 22 |
| Deerslayer | Cooper | 10.0 | 42 |
| Doctor Zhivago | Pasternak | 9.0 | 41 |
| Dracula | Stoker | 5.5 | 34 |
| Emma | Austen | 9.0 | 37 |
| Ethan Frome | Wharton | 9.0 | 10 |
| Exodus | Uris | 10.0 | 47 |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Bradbury | 10.0 | 13 |
| Far From the Madding Crowd | Hardy | 9.0 | 29 |
| Farewell To Arms | Hemingway | 10.0 | 15 |
| Farewell To Manzanar | Houston | 7.8 | 11 |
| Flowers For Algernon | Keyes | 5.9 | 17 |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Hemingway | 8.9 | 31 |
| Fountainhead | Rand | 9.0 | 115 |
| Frankenstein | Shelley | 8.9 | 19 |
| Gods, Demigods, Demons: an Encyclopedia Of Greek Mythology | Evslin | 7.5 | 16 |
| Gone With the Wind | Mitchell | 9.0 | 94 |
| Grapes Of Wrath | Steinbeck | 7.8 | 36 |
| Great Expectations | Dickens | 9.0 | 38 |
| Greek Gods | Evslin | 6.5 | 7 |
| Gulliver's Travels | Swift | 8.8 | 32 |
| Hamlet | Shakespeare | 10.0 | 20 |
| Heart Of Darkness | Conrad | 9.0 | 10 |
| Hiroshima | Hersey | 7.5 | 14 |
| Hobbit (***not on list every year) | Tolkien | 8.1 | 21 |
| Hound Of Baskervilles | Doyle | 7.5 | 15 |
| House Of Seven Gables | Hawthorne | 9.0 | 30 |
| Hunchback Of Notre Dame | Hugo | 8.9 | 42 |
| Iliad | Homer | 9.0 | 30 |
| Ivanhoe | Scott | 10.0 | 38 |
| Jane Eyre | Bronte | 9.1 | 35 |
| Jude the Obscure | Hardy | 9.0 | 38 |
| Jungle Book | Kipling | 6.1 | 28 |
| Jungle | Sinclair | 9.0 | 37 |
| Kidnapped | Stevenson | 8.9 | 18 |
| Kim | Kipling | 10.0 | 22 |
| King Lear | Shakespeare | 10.0 | 19 |
| Last Of the Mohicans | Cooper | 9.0 | 16 |
| Laughing Boy | La Farge | 8.5 | 12 |
| Legend Of Sleepy Hollow | Irving | 8.1 | 5 |
| Life On the Mississippi | Twain | 9.0 | 33 |
| Lord Jim | Conrad | 9.0 | 31 |
| Lost Horizon | Hilton | 8.3 | 15 |
| Main Street | Lewis | 9.0 | 35 |
| Mama's Bank Account | Forbes | 8.1 | 7 |
| Mayor Of Casterbridge | Hardy | 9.0 | 28 |
| Men Of Iron | Pyle | 9.0 | 5 |
| Merchant Of Venice | Shakespeare | 9.0 | 14 |
| Moby-Dick | Melville | 10.0 | 42 |
| My Antonia | Cather | 7.1 | 18 |
| O Pioneers | Cather | 8.1 | 14 |
| Odyssey | Homer | 9.0 | 28 |
| Of Human Bondage | Maugham | 9.0 | 48 |
| Old Man and the Sea | Hemingway | 8.1 | 6 |
| Oliver Twist | Dickens | 9.0 | 40 |
| Our Town | Wilder | 7.8 | 4 |
| Ox-Bow Incident | Clark | 7.1 | 16 |
| Passage To India | Forster | 8.2 | 21 |
| Pickwick Club | Dickens | 10.0 | 59 |
| Picture Of Dorian Gray | Wilde | 9.0 | 16 |
| Pilgrim's Progress | Bunyan | 9.0 | 26 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Austen | 9.0 | 28 |
| Prince and the Pauper | Twain | 8.4 | 17 |
| Profiles In Courage | Kennedy | 8.9 | 19 |
| Rabbit Is Rich | Updike | 10.0 | 42 |
| Rebecca | DuMaurier | 7.2 | 29 |
| Red Badge Of Courage | Crane | 7.6 | 10 |
| Rendezous With Rama | Clarke | 9.0 | 16 |
| Return Of the King | Tolkien | 9.0 | 27 |
| Return Of the Native | Hardy | 9.0 | 31 |
| Richard 111 | Shakespeare | 9.0 | 10 |
| Rip Van Winkle | Irving | 4.2 | 3 |
| Robinson Crusoe | Defoe | 9.0 | 34 |
| Scarlet Pimpernel | Orczy | 10.0 | 21 |
| Sea Wolf | London | 8.5 | 23 |
| Sense and Sensibility | Austen | 10.0 | 30 |
| Siddhartha | Hesse | 8.9 | 12 |
| Silas Marner | Eliot | 12.0 | 15 |
| Song Of Solomon | Morrison | 5.6 | 22 |
| Sound and the Fury | Faulkner | 10.0 | 19 |
| Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Stevenson | 6.1 | 7 |
| Stranger | Camus | 8.9 | 6 |
| Study In Scarlet | Doyle | 7.8 | 9 |
| Swiss Family Robinson | Wyss | 8.9 | 28 |
| Tale Of Two Cities | Dickens | 9.0 | 32 |
| Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings | Poe | 9.0 | 32 |
| Tess Of the d'Urbervilles | Hardy | 10.0 | 37 |
| Time Machine | Wells | 7.1 | 9 |
| True Grit | Portis | 8.1 | 11 |
| Ugly American | Lederer | 7.5 | 16 |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Stowe | 7.5 | 40 |
| Vanity Fair | Thackeray | 10.0 | 58 |
| Virginian | Wister | 9.0 | 27 |
| Walden | Thoreau | 10.0 | 31 |
| War and Peace | Tolstoy | 11.0 | 105 |
| War and Remembrance | Wouk | 9.0 | 86 |
| War Of the Worlds | Wells | 8.1 | 15 |
| Watership Down | Adams | 7.4 | 30 |
| White Fang | London | 5.5 | 16 |
| Winds Of War | Wouk | 9.0 | 71 |
| Winesburg, Ohio | Anderson | 8.3 | 17 |
| Wrinkle In Time | L'Engle | 5.8 | 12 |
| You Come Too: Favorite Poems For Young Readers | Frost | 6.9 | 4 |