50 Books Every Modern Teenager Should Read
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There are tons of great books that are utterly relevant to modern teenagers — or at least should be. From old books to brand-new ones, from YA to poetry, from sci-fi to nonfiction, here are 50 books every modern teenager (and many modern adults) should read.
I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai
We the Animals, Justin Torres
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Black Hole, Charles Burns
After Claude, Iris Owens
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm, ed. Philip Pullman
Transformations, Anne Sexton
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Ghost World, Daniel Clowes
Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine
Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
The Lover, Marguerite Duras
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
Every Day, David Levithan
Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
How to Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran
Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link
I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, Danielle Evans
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Step Aside, Pops, Kate Beaton
Ooga-Booga, Frederick Seidel
The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Project X, Jim Shepard
Among Others, Jo Walton
Crush, Richard Siken
If I Was Your Girl, Meredith Russo
Mr. Fox, Helen Oyeyemi
The Rest of Us Just Live Here, Patrick Ness
A Study in Charlotte, Brittany Cavallaro
The Round House, Louise Erdrich
Wolf in White Van, John Darnielle
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz
Ohio Violence, Alison Stine
True Grit, Charles Portis
This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron
