NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels...

happythermia

Fess up! How many have you read?

http://www.npr.org/2012/08/07/157795366/your-favorites-100-best-ever-teen-novels?ps=view&ec=mostpopular

I've read 12 lol

Harry Potter Series
The Hunger Games Series
To Kill A Mockingbird (totally wasted on me in my youth)
The Catcher In The Rye
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Series
The Outsiders
His Dark Materials Series (absolutely loved the first book)
Lord Of The Flies
Twilight Series (don't judge lol)
Go Ask Alice
The Inheritance Cycle
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

How many have you read? Any recs that aren't on the list? I'm always looking for a new book to read (totally NOT limited to young adult!)

Jess207

From that list, I've read 8! Most of those as an adult! I remember reading "Are You There God, Its Me Margaret?", "There's A Bat In Bunk 5" and the "Flowers In The Attic" series

lshaunessy

5.
1) Harry Potter series for myself.
2) The Hobbit for myself.
3) Lord of the Rings series for myself.
4) The Hunger Games which I read as a screening for my 13 year old. I'm suprised what they will put in books for teens today.
5) Twilight series which I read as a screening for my 17 year old ( when she was 13).

MaddiJoseph

I have to admit I've read 23 of them. I can't list them all because I just counted as I went, but most of the ones I've read I love. I've read the vast majority of them as an adult to. A good book is a good book as far as I'm concerned.

happythermia

From that list, I've read 8! Most of those as an adult! I remember reading "Are You There God, Its Me Margaret?", "There's A Bat In Bunk 5" and the "Flowers In The Attic" series

OMG FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC YES! lol

happythermia

I have to admit I've read 23 of them. I can't list them all because I just counted as I went, but most of the ones I've read I love. I've read the vast majority of them as an adult to. A good book is a good book as far as I'm concerned.

amen to that! any particular ones you recommend?

Jess207

Haha! When Christopher and Cathy had sex...now, that was hotter than Fifty Shades of Gray!

Jess207

And I absolutely agree...a good book is a good book!! No age limits!

pastryari

25 of them.


1. Harry Potter Series
2. The Hunger Games Series
3. The Hobbit
4. To Kill A Mockingbird
5. The Catcher In The Rye
6. The Outsiders
7. His Dark Materials Series
8. Lord Of The Flies
9. Twilight Series
10. The Lord of the Rings
11. The Giver Series - Only the first one
12. Anne of Green Gables Series
13. Speak
14. Uglies Series
15. Tuck Everlasting
16. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series - Only the first one
17. The Call of the Wild
18. My Sister's Keeper
19. Inheritance Series (Eragon books)
20. The House on Mango Street
21. A Ring of Endless Light
22. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
23. The Immortals Series
24. Circle of Magic Series - Not all of them
25. Chronicles of Crestomanci

Jess207

A recommendation...the Percy Jackson series

eriemer

Hunger Games, The Lord of the Rings, The Mortal Instruments, Twilight, Go Ask Alice, House of Night. I think in total about 21 books on that list. All but Go Ask Alice in the last about year.

christine24t

I've read 16 of them, which is weird because I am one of the biggest readers I know!

happythermia

It's weird - I was an avid reader in HS and then I took a 10 year break lol. Now I'm constantly looking for new books to read! Right now I'm reading 'A Discovery of Witches'

Zylahe

5
We just watched hunger games on sunday, movie was really well done.
Wowo read outsiders in high school ( and i can sill remember it)

magj0y

Alot of those weren'r around when I was a teen, but i think some got left out,
more Judy Blume, V.C. Andrews,
if you like Judy blume and go ask alice, you'll love To Take A Dare
The Giver was phenomenal.
I thought Catcher in the Rye was over rated, like many people. To kill a mockingbird rocked, and add in The Scarlet Letter.
The Author was related Judge Hawthorn in the Salme witch trials, also a good read.

There are "princess" diaries, of real princesses and queens, such as the bolyn sisters, the forever princes.. lots of them. Historical fiction that is just really good.
It's a really interesting to see the perspective of a woman's point of view in history when they had no place in society outside of pumping out kids.

Kooraloo

57 of them. (too many to list, duh)
My school's library gets a lot of teen books and since I'm librarian's favourite, I get first pick of the lot.
I didn't like some of the books on there, they were kind of boring to me/cliched.
Some of my favourites were on there// some really good ones that stood out:
Neal Shusterman's Unwind, Harry Potter, Tolkien's the Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings, Terry Pratchett's the Wee Free Men (along with any Pratchett book), Keye's Flowers for Algernon, Golding's Lord of the Flies, Asher's 13 Reasons Why, Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy, and Pierce's books. I had a lot more on there that I really liked, but those ones really stood out to me.

INFJ

Read these:
The Hunger Games Series
The Catcher In The Rye
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Series
The Outsiders
His Dark Materials Series
Lord Of The Flies
Twilight Series (won't judge lol)
Fahrenheit 451
The Hobbit

and I love the campy sci-fi ones like The Day of the Triffids,
1984,
2001 a Space Odyssey,
A clockwork orange is an amazing read (I did not like the movie...!)
The Martian Chronicles, been a while...
and LOVE Truman Capote... anything

You might also enjoy some of the books by Douglas Coupland!

happythermia

Alot of those weren'r around when I was a teen, but i think some got left out,
more Judy Blume, V.C. Andrews,
if you like Judy blume and go ask alice, you'll love To Take A Dare
The Giver was phenomenal.
I thought Catcher in the Rye was over rated, like many people. To kill a mockingbird rocked, and add in The Scarlet Letter.
The Author was related Judge Hawthorn in the Salme witch trials, also a good read.

There are "princess" diaries, of real princesses and queens, such as the bolyn sisters, the forever princes.. lots of them. Historical fiction that is just really good.
It's a really interesting to see the perspective of a woman's point of view in history when they had no place in society outside of pumping out kids.

ITFA about Catcher in the Rye. LOVE The Scarlet Letter & historical fiction too!

SherryTeach

I've read 54 of them. . . .YA rocks. . . even for adults (but I do teach English)
Harry Potter
The Hunger Games
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Fault in our Stars (fabulous writer and an awesome new book)
The Hobbit
The Catcher in the Rye
Fahrenheit 451
Looking for Alaska (yes, John Green is brilliant)
The Book Thief
The Giver
The Outsiders
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Lord of the Flies
Divergent and Insurgent
Paper Towns (yes, John Green again!)
An Abundance of Katherines (got to hand it to John Green to have this many novels on this list)
Flowers for Algernon
Thirteen Reasons Why (a must read!)
A Curious Incident of a Dog in the Nighttime
Speak (another must read)
Twilight (yucko. . . but I read the whole series because my students read it)
The Uglies
Tuck Everlasting
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (should be read every year during banned books month and celebrated)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The Call of the Wild
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Go Ask Alice
Stargirl
A Separate Peace
My Sister's Keeper (I wouldn't really considers this YA)
Forever
Treasure Island
Delirium/Pandemonium (love, love, love and my class copy has a LONG waiting list)
13 Little Blue Envelopes
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
The House on Mango Street
Just LIsten
Before I Fall (extremely clever plot)
Unwind (scariest scene in a novel I've ever read, Shusterman is brilliant)
The Maze Runner
If I Stay
Crank (I met Ellen Hopkins last year; she has her finger on the pulse of teen issues)
Matched/Crossed
I Am the Messenger
Chaos Walking
Along for the Ride
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging (I laughed so hard, tears were blinding me)
Leviathan (steampunk!)
The House of the Scorpion
Gone
Shiver
Wintergirls (Laurie Halse Andersen. . . wonderful and she has a good blog!)

jonbobfrog

I've only read 24, but several of them are already on my reading list! And as soon as I look over the list more closely ... I'm sure my reading list will get longer!

INFJ

Bump!

Ohmydaze

25.

Number 85 - Chaos walking series was awesome.

healthychanges1

I've read 30 that I can remember, lol

To Kill A Mockingbird
The Catcher In The Rye
Fahrenheit 451
The Book Thief
The Giver Series
Anne Of Green Gables Series
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Thirteen Reasons Why
Speak
The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants Series
Stargirl
My Sister's Keeper
Forever
Earthsea Series
The Princess Diaries Series
13 Little Blue Envelopes
It's Kind Of A Funny Story
Just Listen
The Truth About Forever
If I Stay
Crank Series
Gallagher Girls Series
Along For The Ride
Confessions Of Georgia Nicolson Series
This Lullaby
Wintergirls
The Outsiders
Lord Of The Flies
Twilight Series
&
Go Ask Alice

vestarocks

Some of the teen fiction coming out is some of the best fiction. Not ashamed to read it (well except for the Twilight series).

Ashley_Panda

31.

daylily2005

I've read 27!

1. HP
2. Hunger games
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
4. The Hobbit
5. The Lord of the Rings
6. Fahrenheit 451
7. The Outsiders
8. His Dark Materials series
9. The Princess Bride
10. The Mortal Instruments (I HIGHLY recommend. LOVE it)
11. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
12. Twilight
13. The Infernal Devices (also recommend, highly!)
14. Tuck Everlasting
15. The Call of the Wild
16. A Separate Peace
17. Vampire Academy (just fun)
18. Graceling series (great reads)
19. Forever
20. The Inheritance Cycle (excellent!)
21. Treasure Island
22. Hush, Hush saga (read it!)
23. A Ring of Endless Light
24. Bloodline series
25. Fallen Series (LOVE)
26. House of Night series
27. Shiver trilogy

There's a book out called Obsidian (the Lux series). You can get it on Amazon for like $5. And the sequel comes out next week. I loved it, and highly recommend it! There's tons of self-published of kindle-only YA books on amazon that are just quick, fun reads.

I'd also recommend the Need series. Need, Entice....I forget the name of the third one. They're about faeries. And Norse mythology. If anyone really wants some recommendations, message me, I'll give you tons

funkyspunky872

I'm so happy to see Speak and Wintergirls on there! Wintergirls is my favorite book of all time. I met Laurie Halse Anderson too when it first came out, and she signed my copy of Speak. She is so brilliant.

valeriebpdx

Harry Potter series
Hunger Games series
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Fahrenheit 451
Lord of the Flies
Maybe Flowers for Algernon, it would have been a long time ago ...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
I think I read Go Ask Alice, again long ago
A Separate Peace
Forever
I think I read The Chocolate War

Getting old is tough. You forget things. Thanks for posting this--I sent the link to the list to my 13-y-o, who is always looking for new stuff to read.

KrazyAsianNic

I've read 13 of these, some of them twice. I'm currently on the first book of Hunger Games, and I have seen moives of some books that I haven't read yet.

hottbutch

I've read most of those, my favorite book is The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I'm currently reading the Pretty Little Liars series and The Lying Game series by the same author. They are murder mystery books and are super addicting.

PennyNickel14

A recommendation...the Percy Jackson series

I have read 16 on the list and the Percy Books should have been on there. They are amazing and yes I read them as an adult