• Blackmore, Richard: Lorna Doone

• Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre

• Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights

• Chesterton, G.K.: The Father Brown series

• Collins, Wilkie: The Black Robe, many others

• Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage

• de Wohl, Louis: The Quiet Light, many others

• Dickens, Charles: David Copperfield, Oliver Twist

• Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: Sherlock Holmes series

• Eliot, George: Silas Marner, Adam Bede, others

• Eliot, T.S.: Murder in the Cathedral

• Fabre, Henri: Selections from Souvenirs Entymologiques

• Fast, Howard: April Morning

• Gray, Zane: The Call of the Canyon, Desert Gold, many others

• Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The House of Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter (older teen)

• Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea

• Hughes, Thomas: Tom Brown's School Days, Tom Brown at Oxford

• Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables

• Kjelgaard, James A.: Big Red, many others

• Lewis, C.S.: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength

• London, Jack: The Sea Wolf, The Call of the Wild

• Melville, Herman: Moby Dick

• Mitchell, Catherine: Christy

• Mitchell, Margaret: Gone With the Wind

• Montgomery, L.M.: Anne of Green Gables, many others

• Nordoff, Charles and Hall, James: Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, Pitcairn's Island

• Poe, Edgar Allen: Tales and poems

• Remarque, Erich Maria: All Quiet on the Western Front

• Schaefer, Jack: Shane

• Shakespeare, William: Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet

• Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein

• Speare, Elizabeth: The Bronze Bow, Calico Captive, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

• Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

• Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Lord of the Rings trilogy

• Twain, Mark: St. Joan of Arc

• Wells, H. G.: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, many others

• Wiggin, Kate Douglas: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

• Wilde, Oscar: The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Picture of Dorian Gray

• Wister, Owen: The Virginian, many others

If grandparents or other relatives ask for ideas for holidays, why not suggest a hardbound book?

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