104 Books to read before you turn 20 Recommended by readers, librarians, teachers, and some other book-loving people. Including some teenagers.

A

1. Alice the Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 2. Alice, I Think and series, Susan Juby 3. Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Slogging and series, Louise

Rennison 4. Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret, Judy Blume

B

5. Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud 6. Beauty by Robin McKinley 7. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 8. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 9. Bone by Jeff Smith 10. The Boy in the Burning House, Tim Wynne-Jones 11. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 12. Brown Girl in the Ring, Nalo Hopkinson

C

13. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger 14. Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut 15. A Child Called "It", Dave Pelzer 16. The Chrysalids, John Wyndham 17. City of Beasts, Isabel Allende 18. City of Bones, Cassandra Clare 19. The Collector, John Fowles 20. The Color Purple, Alice Walker 21. Coraline, Neil Gaiman 22. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 23. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon

D 24. The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown 25. The Devil's Arithmetic, Jane Yolen 26. Dune, Frank Herbert

E

27. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card 28. Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer

F 29. Fables, Bill Willingham 30. The Favourite Game, Leonard Cohen 31. Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

G

32. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland 33. The Giver, Lois Lowry 34. The Gum Thief, Douglas Coupland

H

35. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood 36. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers 37. Hey Nostradamus, Douglas Coupland 38. His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman 39. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 40. The Hobbit, J R R Tolkien 41. How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff 42. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

I

43. I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith 44. Into The Wild, John Krakauer 45. I, Robot, Isaac Asimov 46. Ishmael, Daniel Quinn 47. Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O Dell

J 48. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

K 49. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

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104 Books to read before you turn 20 Recommended by readers, librarians, teachers, and other book-loving people. Including some teenagers.

L 50. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K LeGuin 51. The Life of Pi, Yann Martel 52. The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis 53. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 54. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 55. Lord of the Flies, William Golding 56. Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien 57. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold 58. Lullabies for Little Criminals, Heather O'Neill

M 59. Maus: A Survivor's Tale, Art Spiegelman 60. The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers 61. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides 62. My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult

N 63. Naked Lunch, William Burroughs 64. Neuromancer, William Gibson 65. No Logo, Naomi Klein 66. A northern light, Jennifer Donnelly 67. Not Wanted on the Voyage, Timothy Findley

O 68. On Beauty, Zadie Smith 69. One Flew Over the Cukcoo's Nest, Ken Kesey 70. On the Road, Jack Kerouac 71. The Once and Future King, T.H. White 72. Oryx & Crake, Margaret Atwood 73. The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton

P 74. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky 75. The Power of One, Bryce Courtney 76. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving 77. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

S 78. Sabriel, Garth Nix 79. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ , Sue Townsend 80. Shattered, Eric Walters 81. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut 82. Someday this Pain will be Useful to You, Peter Cameron 83. Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson 84. The Space Between, Dan Aker 85. Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli 86. The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence 87. Strange Heaven, Lynn Coady 88. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A Heinlein

T 89. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini 90. The Third Magic, Welwyn Wilton Katz 91. Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher 92. Three Songs for Courage, Maxine Trottier. 93. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 94. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh 95. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith 96. The Truth About Forever, Sarah Dessen 97. Twilight, and series Stephenie Meyer

W 98. Walkabout, James Vance Marshall 99. Watchmen, Alan Moore

100. Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block 101. Who has seen the wind, W.O. Mitchell. 102. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 103. Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne

Y 104. Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay

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