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

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.

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!

Emily of New Moon. A more realistic and less romanticized series than Anne of Green Gables.

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)

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.

I love these sorts of lists! I've read 36... not bad!

1. Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling
2. The Hunger Games (series), by Suzanne Collins
3. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
4. The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green
5. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
6. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
7. The Lord of the Rings (series), by J.R.R. Tolkien
10. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
11. The Giver (series), by Lois Lowry
12. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (series), by Douglas Adams
15. His Dark Materials (series), by Philip Pullman
16. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
17. The Princess Bride, by William Golding
18. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
23. Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
25. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
26. Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
30. Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt
32. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (series), by Anne Brashares
33. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
35. Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous
37. Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli
40. Abhorsen Trilogy / Old Kingdom Trilogy (series), by Garth Nix
43. My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult
46. Forever..., by Judy Blume
49. The Princess Diaries (series), by Meg Cabot
51. Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
58. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs
59. The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
60. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
64. The Truth About Forever, by Sarah Dessen
73. The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
85. Chaos Walking (series), by Patrick Ness
89. Weetzie Bat (series), by Francesca Lia Block
91. Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (series), by Louise Rennison
99. Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson

Most of the list looks to have come out more recently but I've read these

1. Harry Potter series (the first 6)
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Flowers For Algernon
4. Tuck Everlasting (several times in grade school)
5. The Call of the Wild
6. Go Ask Alice (as an adult)
7. A Separate Peace
8. Crank series (but I only read smack)
9. The House of the Scorpion (THIS WAS AN AMAZING READ!!!)

This is an awesome one too:
http://www.amazon.com/Year-Great-Seventh-Teen-Romance-ebook/dp/B00BAHB3G2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384292429&sr=8-1&keywords=teens+good+books+teresa+orts