Hayao Miyazaki’s 50 Recommended Books

1. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
2. Il Romanzo di Cipollino – Gianni Rodari (1956)
3. The Rose and the Ring – William Makepeace Thackeray (1854)
4. The Little Bookroom- Eleanor Farjeon (1955)
5. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas (1844)
6. The Secret Garden -Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1909)
7. The Treasure of the Nibelungs – G.Schalk (1953)
8. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (1865)
9. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1891)
10. A Norwegian Farm » Marie Hamsun (1933)
11. Конёк-горбунок – Пётр Па́влович Ершо́в (1834)
12. Souvenirs entomologiques – Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (1879-1907)
13. Toui Mukashi no Fushigina Hanashi-Nihon Reiiki – Tsutomu Minakami (1995)
14. Иван-дурак – Leo Tolstoy (1885)
15. Eagle of the Ninth -Rosemary Sutcliff (1954)
16. Winnie-the-Pooh – A. A. Milne (1926)
17. Les Princes du Vent – Michel-Aime Baudouy (1956)
18. When Marnie Was There – Joan G Robinson (1967)
19. The Long Winter – Laura Ingalls Wilder (1940)
20. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame (1908)
21. The Ship That Flew -Hilda Lewis (1939)
22. Flambards – Kathleen Wendy Peyton (1967)
23. Tom’s Midnight Garden – Ann Philippa Pearce (1958)
24. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain (1876)
25. Chumon no Ooi Ryouriten – Kenji Miyazawa (1924)
26. Heidi – Johanna Spyri (1888)
27. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne (1870)
28. The Borrowers- Mary Norton (1952)
29. Devatero pohádek – Karel Čapek  (1931)
30. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome (1930)
31. The Flying Classroom – Erich Kästner (1933)
32. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe (1719)
33. Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
34. Двена́дцать ме́сяцев – Samuil Marshak (1943)
35. Tistou les pouces verts – Maurice Druon (1957)
36. The man who planted the welsh onions – Kim Soun (1953)
37. Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio – Pu Songling (1740)
38. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle – Hugh John Lofting (1922)
39. Journey to the West – Wú Chéng’ēn (1500~?)
40. Little Lord Fauntleroy – Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1886)
41. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler -Elaine Lobl Konigsburg (1968)
42. Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn – Astrid Lindgren (1947)
43. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again » J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)
44. A Wizard of Earthsea -Ursula K. Le Guin (1968)
45. The Little White Horse -Elizabeth Goudge (1946)
46. Bylo nas pet- Karel Polacek (1969)
47. City Neighbor: The Story of Jane Addams – Clara Ingram Judson (1951)
48. The Radium Woman – Eleanor Doorly (1939)
49. The Otterbury Incident – Cecil Day-Lewis (1948)
50. Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates -Mary Mapes Dodge (1865)