As I'm deep in planning for the upcoming school year, I thought I'd go ahead and share the literature list I've put together for my daughter, though it's not quite complete. She'll be working through much of this list over the next two years.

Books followed by an asterisk (*) indicate that they are the first in an extended series (more than three books), titles in italics denote authors from the UK, and highlighted titles are for my own reference.

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1866) by Lewis Carroll
• Little Women* (1868) by Louisa May Alcott
• At the Back of the North Wind (1871) by George MacDonald
  The Princess and the Goblin (1872) by George MacDonald 
  The Princess and Curdie (1883) by George MacDonald
• What Katy Did(1872) by Susan Coolidge
  What Katy Did at School (1873) by Susan Coolidge
  What Katy Did Next (1886) by Susan Coolidge
• Eight Cousins (1875) by Louisa May Alcott
• Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse (1877) by Anna Sewell
• Castle Blair: Volume 1, Volume 2 (1878) by Flora Shaw (Based on the author's own Anglo-Irish childhood in the 1850s-60s)
• Heidi (1884) by Joanna Spyri
• Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Five Little Peppers and How They Grew* (1892) by Margaret Sidney
• Seven Little Australians (1894) by Ethel Sybil Turner (Set in Australia during the 1880s)
  The Family at Misrule (1895) by Ethel Sybil Turner
  Little Mother Meg (1902) by Ethel Sybil Turner
• Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1901) by Alice Hegan Rice
• Five Children and It (1902) by Edith Nesbit
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903) by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Set in 1870s New England)
• The Fortunes of Philippa (1904) by Angela Brazil (one of the first of the "modern schoolgirls' stories")
• A Little Princess (1905) by Frances Burnett Hodgson (free study guide)
• The Railway Children (1906) by Edith Nesbit
• Anne of Green Gables* (1908) by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• The Secret Garden (1909) by Frances Burnett Hodgson (free study guide)
• The Story Girl (1911) by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Peter Pan (1911) by J.M. Barrie
• Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) by Jean Webster
• Laddie (1913) by Gene Stratton Porter
• Pollyana (1913) by Eleanor H. Porter
  Pollyana Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter
• The Story of Doctor Doolittle* (1920) by Hugh Lofting
• Swallows and Amazons* (1929) by Arthur Ransome
• The Country Child (1931) by Alison Uttley (Set in the late 1800s)
• Little House in the Big Woods* (1932) by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Set in 1860s Wisconsin)
• Caddie Woodlawn (1935) by Carol Ryrie Brink (Set in 1860s Wisconsin) (free study guide)
• Roller Skates (1936) by Ruth Sawyer (Set in 1890s New York)
• Ballet Shoes (1936) by Noel Streatfeild
• The Family from One End Street (1937) by Eve Garnett
• Thimble Summer (1938) by Elizabeth Enright
• A Traveller in Time (1939) by Alison Uttley
• Betsy-Tacy* (1940) by Maud Hart Lovelace
• The Wind on the Moon (1944) by Eric Linklater
• Rabbit Hill (1945) by Robert Lawson
• The Mitchells: Five for Victory (1945) by Hilda Van Stockum
  Canadian Summer (1948) by Hilda Van Stockum
  Friendly Gables (1958) by Hilda Van Stockum
• Party Shoes (1946) by Noel Streatfeild
• Strawberry Girl (1946) by Lois Lenski
• Mistress Masham's Repose (1946) by T.H. White
• The Little White Horse (1946) by Elizabeth Goudge
• Adopted Jane (1947) by Helen Fern Daringer (Set in the late 1800s)
• The Doll's House (1947) by Rumer Godden
• All-of-a-Kind-Family (1951) by Sydney Taylor (Set in the early 1900s)
• The Borrowers* (1953) by Mary Norton
• The Children of Green Knowe* by Lucy M. Boston
• Christmas with the Savages (1955) by Mary Clive (Set in Edwardian England)
• Gone Away Lake (1957) by Elizabeth Enright
  Return to Gone-Away (1961) by Elizabeth Enright
• Tom's Midnight Garden (1958) by Philippa Pearce
• Linnets and Valerians (1964) by Elizabeth Goudge
• Charlotte Sometimes (1969) by Penelope Farmer (Set in 1918 and 1958)
• The Diddakoi (1972) by Rumer Godden
• The House in Norham Gardens (1974) by Penelope Lively
• Going Back (1975) by Penelope Lively (Set during WWII)

Short Stories

• The Golden Age (1895) by Kenneth Grahame
  Dream Days (1898) by Kenneth Grahame
• Just William* (1922) by Richmal Crompton
• Mary Poppins* (1934) by Dr. P.L. Travers
• The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories (1953+) by Joan Aiken
• The Little Bookroom (1955) by Eleanor Farjeon