100 Great Books for Teens
This list of 'great books/authors for teens to read' was compiled with the help of teachers and readers on Twitter.
1984 - George Orwell (5 mentions)
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke (2 mentions)
A Clockwork Orange (2 mentions)
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness (4 mentions)
A Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
A Raisin in the Sun - Hansberry
A Swift Pure Cry
Across the Barricades
Against the Storm
Alan Garner
Alice in Wonderland
All Quiet on the Western Front
Animal Farm (3 mentions)
Anne Frank's Diary
Bad Influence - William Sutcliffe
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Birdsong
Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
Bonjour Tristesse
Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (6 mentions)
Bring me the Head of Oliver Plunkett - Colin Bateman
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (2 mentions)
Catcher in the Rye (6 mentions)
Cats Eyes – Margaret Atwood (2 mentions)
Chaos Walking Trilogy
Chris Riddell
Christy Brown poems
Cormac McCarthy
Count of Monte Cristo
Daphne du Maurier
Diana Wynne Jones
Diaries of Adrian Mole
Dreamhunter – Elizabeth Knox
Earthsea books - Ursula le Guin
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Elizabeth Laird
Face - B. Zephaniah
Farenheit 451
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Garry Nix
Girl with all the Gifts
Giver quartet - Lois Lowry
Gone
Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
Harry Potter
Heart of Darkness
Helen Keller
Here Lies Arthur - Philip Reeve
Heinlein, Asimov
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman (3 mentions)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (4 mentions)
Hobbit
Holes - Louis Sacher
House of Leaves
How Green was my Valley
Hunger Games (2 mentions)
I am David - Ann Holme
I am the Cheese
I Capture the Castle (3 mentions)
I Know why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou (2 mentions)
I, Robot
Inkheart
Ipcress File
James Bond series
James Herriott
Jane Eyre
Jeeves and Wooster (2 mentions)
John Green
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
Judy Blume (2 mentions)
Julia Golding
Junk – Melvin Burgess (2 mentions)
Kidnapped
Little Women
Lolita
Long Walk to Freedom
Lord of the Flies (4 mentions)
Lord of the Rings
Love on the Dole
Maggot Moon - Sally Gardner
Mahatma Gandhi
Mal Peet
Mark Haddon
Mark Twain
Maus (2 mentions)
Maya Angleou
Mere Christianity - CS Lewis
Michael Morpurgo
Millions
Misery, Delores Clayborne - Stephen King
Mister Pip Lloyd Jones
Moonfleet
Mortal Engines
My Neighbour Turturo
Neuromancer - Gibson
Never Let Me Go
Nevil Shute
No Country for Old Men
Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman (4 mentions)
Of Mice and Men
On the Beach - Nevil Shute
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (3 mentions)
Outsider
Pablo Neruda
Patrick Ness (2 mentions)
Paul Stewart
Pellinor series - Alison Croggon
Persepolis
PG Wodehouse
Pigeon English
Prelude – Katherine Mansfield
Pride and Prejudice
Rebecca (2 mentions)
Reservoir Pups - Colin Bateman
Road
Roald Dahl short stories
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Salamander - Thomas Wharton
Sally Lockhart
Scarlet
Secret Life of Bees
Shadow - Michael Morpurgo
Shadow of the Wind (2 mentions)
Sherlock Holmes
Slam
Snow Crash
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Sons and Lovers
Sophie McKenzie
Sophie's World
Strange Meeting
Submarine
Talking in Whispers
Tess of the D’Urbevilles (2 mentions)
The Arrival – Shaun Tan
The Beach
The Bell Jar (4 mentions)
The Big Over Easy for Nursery
The Book Thief (6 mentions)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Buddha of Suburbia
The Bunker Diary
The Changeover - Margaret Mahy
The Chocolate War
The Chrysalids - John Wyndham (2 mentions)
The Color Purple – Alice Walker (4 mentions)
The Colour of Magic, Mort, The Wyrd Sisters, Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
The Crow Road
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon (2 mentions)
The Dispossessed - Ursula le Guin
The Divergent Trilogy
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Eyre Affair
The Fault in our Stars (2 mentions)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle - George V Higgins
The Frozen Waterfall - Gaye Hicyilmaz
The Gates Trilogy – John Connolly
The Girl from Ithaca – Cherry Gregory
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Graveyard Book
The Great Gatsby
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (5 mentions)
The Hobbit (2 mentions)
The Illustrated Man – Ray Bradbury
The Kite Runner (2 mentions)
The Knife that Killed Me – Anthony McGowan
The L Shaped Room - Lynne Reid Banks
The Last Family in England
The Long Walk
The Machine Gunners
The Man who Planted Trees
The Master and Margarita
The Netherworld - George Gissing
The Old Man and the Sea
The Periodic Table
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Pursuit of God - A.W.Tozer
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist (3 mentions)
The Seagulls have Landed - Colin Bateman
The Secret History
The Sound of Waves
The Stravaganza series - Mary Hoffman
The Subtle Knife
The Time Locket - Deborah Quinn
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (2 mentions)
The Woman in White
Things Fall Apart - China Achebe
Thousand Splendid Suns
Three Cups of Tea
Thurber Carnival
To Kill a Mockingbird (5 mentions)
Treasure Island
Twilight
Uglies series
Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas
Warhorse - Michael Morpurgo
Watership Down
We Need to Talk about Kevin
We Were Liars
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr
Wilfred Owen
Wonder - R.J. Palacio
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (5 mentions)
Z for Zachariah
This list of 'great books/authors for teens to read' was compiled with the help of teachers and readers on Twitter.
1984 - George Orwell (5 mentions)
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke (2 mentions)
A Clockwork Orange (2 mentions)
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness (4 mentions)
A Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
A Raisin in the Sun - Hansberry
A Swift Pure Cry
Across the Barricades
Against the Storm
Alan Garner
Alice in Wonderland
All Quiet on the Western Front
Animal Farm (3 mentions)
Anne Frank's Diary
Bad Influence - William Sutcliffe
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Birdsong
Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
Bonjour Tristesse
Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (6 mentions)
Bring me the Head of Oliver Plunkett - Colin Bateman
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (2 mentions)
Catcher in the Rye (6 mentions)
Cats Eyes – Margaret Atwood (2 mentions)
Chaos Walking Trilogy
Chris Riddell
Christy Brown poems
Cormac McCarthy
Count of Monte Cristo
Daphne du Maurier
Diana Wynne Jones
Diaries of Adrian Mole
Dreamhunter – Elizabeth Knox
Earthsea books - Ursula le Guin
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Elizabeth Laird
Face - B. Zephaniah
Farenheit 451
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Garry Nix
Girl with all the Gifts
Giver quartet - Lois Lowry
Gone
Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
Harry Potter
Heart of Darkness
Helen Keller
Here Lies Arthur - Philip Reeve
Heinlein, Asimov
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman (3 mentions)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (4 mentions)
Hobbit
Holes - Louis Sacher
House of Leaves
How Green was my Valley
Hunger Games (2 mentions)
I am David - Ann Holme
I am the Cheese
I Capture the Castle (3 mentions)
I Know why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou (2 mentions)
I, Robot
Inkheart
Ipcress File
James Bond series
James Herriott
Jane Eyre
Jeeves and Wooster (2 mentions)
John Green
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
Judy Blume (2 mentions)
Julia Golding
Junk – Melvin Burgess (2 mentions)
Kidnapped
Little Women
Lolita
Long Walk to Freedom
Lord of the Flies (4 mentions)
Lord of the Rings
Love on the Dole
Maggot Moon - Sally Gardner
Mahatma Gandhi
Mal Peet
Mark Haddon
Mark Twain
Maus (2 mentions)
Maya Angleou
Mere Christianity - CS Lewis
Michael Morpurgo
Millions
Misery, Delores Clayborne - Stephen King
Mister Pip Lloyd Jones
Moonfleet
Mortal Engines
My Neighbour Turturo
Neuromancer - Gibson
Never Let Me Go
Nevil Shute
No Country for Old Men
Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman (4 mentions)
Of Mice and Men
On the Beach - Nevil Shute
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (3 mentions)
Outsider
Pablo Neruda
Patrick Ness (2 mentions)
Paul Stewart
Pellinor series - Alison Croggon
Persepolis
PG Wodehouse
Pigeon English
Prelude – Katherine Mansfield
Pride and Prejudice
Rebecca (2 mentions)
Reservoir Pups - Colin Bateman
Road
Roald Dahl short stories
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Salamander - Thomas Wharton
Sally Lockhart
Scarlet
Secret Life of Bees
Shadow - Michael Morpurgo
Shadow of the Wind (2 mentions)
Sherlock Holmes
Slam
Snow Crash
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Sons and Lovers
Sophie McKenzie
Sophie's World
Strange Meeting
Submarine
Talking in Whispers
Tess of the D’Urbevilles (2 mentions)
The Arrival – Shaun Tan
The Beach
The Bell Jar (4 mentions)
The Big Over Easy for Nursery
The Book Thief (6 mentions)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Buddha of Suburbia
The Bunker Diary
The Changeover - Margaret Mahy
The Chocolate War
The Chrysalids - John Wyndham (2 mentions)
The Color Purple – Alice Walker (4 mentions)
The Colour of Magic, Mort, The Wyrd Sisters, Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
The Crow Road
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon (2 mentions)
The Dispossessed - Ursula le Guin
The Divergent Trilogy
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Eyre Affair
The Fault in our Stars (2 mentions)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle - George V Higgins
The Frozen Waterfall - Gaye Hicyilmaz
The Gates Trilogy – John Connolly
The Girl from Ithaca – Cherry Gregory
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Graveyard Book
The Great Gatsby
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (5 mentions)
The Hobbit (2 mentions)
The Illustrated Man – Ray Bradbury
The Kite Runner (2 mentions)
The Knife that Killed Me – Anthony McGowan
The L Shaped Room - Lynne Reid Banks
The Last Family in England
The Long Walk
The Machine Gunners
The Man who Planted Trees
The Master and Margarita
The Netherworld - George Gissing
The Old Man and the Sea
The Periodic Table
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Pursuit of God - A.W.Tozer
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist (3 mentions)
The Seagulls have Landed - Colin Bateman
The Secret History
The Sound of Waves
The Stravaganza series - Mary Hoffman
The Subtle Knife
The Time Locket - Deborah Quinn
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (2 mentions)
The Woman in White
Things Fall Apart - China Achebe
Thousand Splendid Suns
Three Cups of Tea
Thurber Carnival
To Kill a Mockingbird (5 mentions)
Treasure Island
Twilight
Uglies series
Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas
Warhorse - Michael Morpurgo
Watership Down
We Need to Talk about Kevin
We Were Liars
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr
Wilfred Owen
Wonder - R.J. Palacio
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (5 mentions)
Z for Zachariah