Top 10 Favorite Books for Boys

Today I am going to give you a list of my boys’ top 10 favorite books that we’ve read over the years. Some of them we’ve read yearly, some have been read a less frequently. But each of them has introduced my boys to “friends” and influences that I can see shape them as they grow into young men.

I have recommended these books to my boys or read them out loud to them over the years in order that they would be shaped into courageous and adventurous men.

My Boys’ Top 10 Favorite Books

Listed In Order of Preference

1. Farmer Boy
Laura Ingalls Wilder

2. The Sign of the Beaver
Elizabeth George Speare

3. Little Britches
Ralph Moody

4. A Horse and His Boy
C.S. Lewis

5. Blackthorn Winter
Douglas Wilson

6. All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot

7. The Bronze Bow
Elizabeth George Speare

8. The Golden Goblet
Eloise Jarvis McGraw

9. Brighty of the Grand Canyon
Marguerite Henry

10. Zeb Pike – Boy Traveler
Augusta Stevenson

This is not an exhaustive list of books that I’d recommend for boys to read, but they are, by far, my boys’ most loved, most requested, most referenced books of all the ones we’ve read over the years. They are the books that are friends to my boys.

Book Series

A few of these books (Little Britches, Blackthorn Winter, and A Horse and His Boy) are parts of series, and we honestly loved the other books in the series’ just as much as the ones I recommended, but it’s hard to make a list include the entire series! So, for ease and aesthetic, I just listed individual books! Obviously, Farmer Boy is part of a series too, but my boys DO NOT recommend the rest of that series! My daughter would, but that’s for another post!

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