Recommended reading

My favorites, elementary through high school and shortly thereafter:
Italo Calvino. Invisible Cities, Cosmicomics
Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre
James Joyce. Dubliners
Jorge Luis Borges short stories
C. S. Lewis. The Chronicles of Narnia
Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes
J.R.R. Tolkein. Lord of the Rings
B. Traven. The Death Ship
Salman Rushdie. Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland
Valdimir Nabokov. Pnin, Lolita, short stories
Julio Cortazar. We All Love Glenda So Much
Don Marquis. Archy and Mehitabel
Edward Gorey. Amphigorey
George Herriman. Krazy Kat
Aristophanes. The Birds
Homer. The Iliad
Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn, short stories
Wm. Shakespeare. Midsummer Night’s Dream
Ernest Bramah. Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
P.G. Wodehouse. Jeeves and Wooster
Lautremont. Maldoror
Poetry by Wallace Stevens and Billy Collins

When much younger:
Clement Hurd. Goodnight, Moon
Ludwig Bemelmens. Parsley
John Symonds. The Magic Currant Bun
A.A. Milne. Winnie the Pooh
Saint-Exupery. The Little Prince
Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows