True Grit by Charles Portis
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
The Golden Ocean by Patrick O’Brien
Beowulf trans. by Seamus Heaney
Podkayne of Mars by Robert Heinlein
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
some stories by Tolstoy
I appreciate all of your suggestions, but:
“Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls”
Really? For Christmas? I’m still crying 23 years later! LOL
You mentioned Huck Finn but neglected to mention Tom Sawyer. Why?