I read:

the Mother West Wind stories (Thornton Burgess)
Jim Kjellgard's dog books (Big Red etc)
Encyclopedia Brown mysteries
Dr. Doolittle etc
Edward Eager's books
Andre Norton (everything I could find)
Olivia Coolidge
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The Little House books
Narnia
Susan Cooper
Lloyd Alexander

Only a few Nancy Drew books: we didn't seem to have them. I didn't read LM Montgomery until I was an adult, and have never read the Hardy Boys.