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happythermia
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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!)
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  • Jess207
    Jess207 Posts: 90
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    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
    lshaunessy Posts: 64
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    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
    MaddiJoseph Posts: 117 Member
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    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
    happythermia Posts: 374
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    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
    happythermia Posts: 374
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    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
    Jess207 Posts: 90
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    Haha! When Christopher and Cathy had sex...now, that was hotter than Fifty Shades of Gray! :D
  • Jess207
    Jess207 Posts: 90
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    And I absolutely agree...a good book is a good book!! No age limits!
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
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    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
    Jess207 Posts: 90
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    A recommendation...the Percy Jackson series
  • eriemer
    eriemer Posts: 197
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    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
    christine24t Posts: 6,063 Member
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    I've read 16 of them, which is weird because I am one of the biggest readers I know!
  • happythermia
    happythermia Posts: 374
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    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
    Zylahe Posts: 772 Member
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    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
    magj0y Posts: 1,911 Member
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    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
    Kooraloo Posts: 362 Member
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    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
    INFJ Posts: 86 Member
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    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
    happythermia Posts: 374
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    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
    SherryTeach Posts: 2,836 Member
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    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
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    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
    INFJ Posts: 86 Member
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    Bump!

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