Number of stars = number of people who included this book (or set of books) on their list. Note: many of us read these as adults and would add stars, but we were qualifying this list as ONLY books we read 'as kids'.
******* Little House Books by Laura Ingles Wilder
****** Little Women (plus others) by Louisa May Alcott
**** Narnia books by C.S. Lewis
**** A Wrinkle in Time (and sequels) by Madeleine L'Engle
**** The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
*** Wolves of Willoughby Chase (and sequels) by Joan Aiken
*** Great Brain books by John D. Fitzgerald
*** Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
*** Trixie Belden mysteries by Julie Campbell and Katherine Kenny
*** Chronicles of Prydian series by Lloyd Alexander
*** Nancy Drew Mysteries by Carolyn Keene
** From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. FrankWeiler by E.L. Konigsburg
** The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
** Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
** Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Books by Betty MacDonald
** The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
** Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
** The White Mountains (and rest of Tripod trilogy) by John Christopher
** Hardy Boy mysteries by Franklin Dixon
** The Three Investigators mysteries endorsed by Alfred Hitchcock
** Freddy the Pig series by Walter Brooks
** Watership Down by Richard Adams
** Oz books by Frank L. Baum
** The Five Children and It; The Treasure Seekers; etc. etc. by Nesbit
** The Dark is Rising series (Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; Silver on the Tree) by Susan Cooper
** Penrod by Booth Tarkington
** Indian Captive by Lois Lenski
** The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
** All of a Kind Family series by Sidney Taylor
** Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
** Bless the Beasts and Children by by Glendon Swarthout
** The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
** Early "Peanuts" cartoons by Schultz, Charles
---in no particular order....books listed by only one person---
To Nowhere and Back by Margaret J. Anderson
Jenny and the Cat Club series by Esther Averill
Children of Green Knowe series by L.M.Boston
The Mummy Market by Nancy Brelis
Georgie the Ghost books by Robert Bright
Wayland's Keep by Bull
Bagthorpe series by Helen Cresswell
Half Magic by Edward Eager
The Saturdays; etc. etc. by Elizabeth Enright
April Morning by Howard Fast
The Great and Terrible Quest by Lovett
Taash and the Jesters by McKenzie
Journey for a Princess by Leighton
The Half Brothers by Lawrence
The House on Parchment Street by Patricia McKillip
Seventeen by Booth Tarkington
The Good Master; The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
The Golden Name Day by Lindquist
The Princess and the Goblin, etc. by George MacDonald
Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery
Ellen Tebbits; Henry and Ribsy; Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace
Homecoming; Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voight
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
Season of Ponies; The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatly Snyder
Lucky Ladybugs & her other insect books by Gladys Plemon Conklin
The Magic Riddle Book by Paul Taylor
Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion & Margaret Bloy Graham
Tales by Andersen, Hans C.
Fables by Aesop
Amphigorey by Gorey, Edward
Horror stories, poems by Edgar A. Poe
Greek Mythology by D'Aulaire
Anthology--esp. "The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall" ed. by Hitchcock (authors he endorsed, anyway)
World Book Encyclopedia, 1965 edition.
1891 Guide to Daily Living (Dr. Scott or something
Owls in the Family by Farley Mowatt
The Perilous Gard; The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope
The Eagle of the Ninth; Sun Horse, Moon Horse; The Shining Company; etc. etc. by Rosemary Sutcliffe
Flambards; The Edge of the Cloud, Flambards in Summer; Pennington's Last Term;
The Beethoven Medal; Pennington's Heir; etc. by K.M. Peyton
The Crystal Cave series by Mary Stewart
Tom Corbett Space Cadet series by Rockwell
The Rolling Stones; Podkayne of Mars; Tunnel in the Sky; Space Cadet; etc. etc. by Robert Heinlein
The Three Musketeers; The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The novels of Alistair MacLean, esp. Golden Rendezvous
God Save the Mark (and others) by Donald E. Westlake
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
The Twenty-One Baloons, William Pene du Bois
Henry Reed, Inc by Keith Robertson
The Mouse that Roared, by Leonard Wibberly.
Green River High by Duncan Kyle
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Incredible Victory by Walter Lord
Battle: The Story of the Bulge, John Toland
The Butterfly Kid, Chester Anderson
Rifles for Watie, Harold Keith
Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley, Crockett Johnson
Isaac Asimov short stories
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Grimm's Fairy Tales (faithful to the originals, not Disney-fied)
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Alistair Cooke's America
Stuart Little by E.B. White
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Trumpeter of Krakow
Out of the Silent Planet (and rest of Spece Trilogy) by CS Lewis
Sinbad and Me, by Kin Platt
The Pirate Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans by Robert Tallant
Summer of my German soldier by Bette Greene
Where the Wild things Are BY Maurice Sendak
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Sue Barton by Helen Dore Boylston
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Various Tom Swift books by Victor Appleton
Baked Beans for Breakfast by Ruth Chew
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
A Gift of Magic by Lois Duncan
Guadalcanal Diary by Richard Tregaskis
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by Ted Lawson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Monitor and the Merrimac by probably by JL Worden
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
The Borrowers (and sequels) by Mary Norton
To Kill a Mockingbird -- Lee
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Cheaper by the Dozen by Gilbreth and Carey
The Other Side of the Mountain by Evans G. Valens
Greek Myths by RObert Graves
Rabbit and Skunk and Spooks (picture book) by Carla Stevens
Seven Alone by Honore Morrow
The 100 Dresses by Eleanor Estes
White Fang by Jack London
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Shining by Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King
Ripley Believe It Or Not (cartoon) fact books
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein (and BORED OF THE RINGS by Harvard Lampoon)
Wizard of Earthsea books by Ursula K. LeGuin
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by RObert C. O'Brien
The Ghosts by Antonia Barber
The Shades by Betty Brock
The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key
The Silver Crown by Robert C. O'Brien
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
The Velvet Room by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Truth About Stone Hollow by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Changeling by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Under the Root series by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Golden Treasury of Natural History edited by Bertha Morris Parker
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Amber series by Roger Zelazny
OTHER BOOK QUESTIONS -- for some future survey What title turned you off to a book? What book did a teacher read to you that you liked? What book are you glad you had to read in school? What book do you detest BECAUSE you had to read it in school?