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

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  • Ohmydaze
    Ohmydaze Posts: 403 Member
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    25.

    Number 85 - Chaos walking series was awesome.
  • healthychanges1
    healthychanges1 Posts: 110
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    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
    vestarocks Posts: 449 Member
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    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
    Ashley_Panda Posts: 1,404 Member
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    31.
  • daylily2005
    daylily2005 Posts: 203 Member
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    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
    funkyspunky872 Posts: 866 Member
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    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. :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: She is so brilliant.
  • valeriebpdx
    valeriebpdx Posts: 499 Member
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    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
    KrazyAsianNic Posts: 1,227 Member
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    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
    hottbutch Posts: 46
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    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
    PennyNickel14 Posts: 749 Member
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    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 ;)
  • wild_wild_life
    wild_wild_life Posts: 1,334 Member
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    Only 17! Probably because I am somehow, suddenly, old, and most of them weren't around when I was a young adult. I'll have to check some of them out.

    Don't know if this would qualify as young adult, but Laurie R. King's The Beekeeper's Apprentice and others in that series are really good, easy reading novels with a young protagonist.

    Catcher in the Rye, and actually every other Salinger novel/short story, had a huge influence on me. Just wanted to give a shout out for old J.D. since he was dissed earlier. :tongue:
  • Tropical_Turtle
    Tropical_Turtle Posts: 2,236 Member
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    Harry Potter Series (as an adult)

    As a kid:
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    The Hobbit
    Catcher in the Rye
    Lord of the Rings
    The Outsiders
    Anne of Green Gables Series
    Lord of the Flies
    Flowers for Algernon
    Call of the Wild
    Treasure Island

    Some of those I never heard of , and some where not even books when I was a kid (lol tells ya I am ancient)
  • missoularocks
    missoularocks Posts: 372 Member
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    This is a super great list. Thank you to the OP. I have read 18 of them and hope to read many more ... :)

    Hooray for bookworms!
  • PixelTreason
    PixelTreason Posts: 226 Member
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    I've read 23.

    A lot of these came out well after my teen years, haha.

    I'm very disappointed to see "Twilight" on there and no "Chronicles of Narnia". But happy they included "The Last Unicorn."

    :(
  • Crochetluvr
    Crochetluvr Posts: 3,143 Member
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    Emily of New Moon. A more realistic and less romanticized series than Anne of Green Gables.
  • xarge
    xarge Posts: 484 Member
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    I have no idea about most of the books on that list except for very mainstream stuff like Harry Potter or Twilight which I doubt I will ever have time. Still I think it's a very weird list to cite teen flicks among some of the sci-fi/dystopia masterpieces.

    To Kill A Mockingbird
    The Hobbit
    The Catcher In The Rye
    The Lord Of The Rings
    Fahrenheit 451
    The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Series
    Lord Of The Flies
    Flowers For Algernon
    The Call Of The Wild
    Howl's Moving Castle
    Dune
    Discworld
    Earthsea Series
    Treasure Island
    Something Wicked This Way Comes
  • PunkyRachel
    PunkyRachel Posts: 1,959 Member
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    I have read these out of the list:

    Harry Potter series
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Fahrenheit 451
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series(all 6 books)
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower(one of my favorites I've read it 4 times now, can't wait to see the movie)
    The Princess Bride
    Lord of the Flies
    Twilight series(Big fan!)
    House of Night series(Love it! Can't wait until they do the movie)
  • AShawneeF
    AShawneeF Posts: 123 Member
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    i've read 27 of them, and a few more i saw the movies of instead of reading the book.
  • daylily2005
    daylily2005 Posts: 203 Member
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    Yeah anyone who thinks you're old because you haven't heard of a lot of these....a surprising amount have come out in the past 5 to 7 years....probably 30 of them at least! I read most as an adult. Only the books I had to read for school, the classics, we're read as a teen.
  • INFJ
    INFJ Posts: 86 Member
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    bump!

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