Saturday, December 12, 2015

Best Teen Novels



What do teens read and enjoy? You probably have your own ideas. But here is what www.npr.org said are the favorite 100 best-ever teen novels.

How many of these have you read? What have they left off the list that you would add?

I tried posting the actual article with book covers, but the formatting was very hard to read, so I'll post the titles only and also the link to the article so you can read the descriptions and see the book covers. READ HERE



100 Best Teen Novels according to npr.org

  1. Harry Potter series 
  2. Hunger Games series 
  3. To Kill a Mockingbird
  4. The Fault in Our Stars
  5. The Hobbit
  6. The Catcher in the Rye
  7. Lord of the Rings
  8. Fahrenheit 451
  9. Looking for Alaska
  10. The Book Thief
  11. The Giver Series
  12. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
  13. The Outsiders
  14. Anne of Green Gables
  15. His Dark Materials Series
  16. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  17. The Princess Bride
  18. Lord of the Flies
  19. Divergent series
  20. Paper Town
  21. The Mortal Instrument series
  22. An Abundance of Katherines
  23. Flowers for Algernon
  24. Thirteen Reasons Why
  25. The Curious Incident of the Dogs in the Night-Time
  26. Speak
  27. Twilight series
  28. Uglies series
  29. The Infernal Devices series
  30. Tuck Everlasting
  31. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
  32. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
  33. The Call of the Wild
  34. Will Grayson, Will Grayson
  35. Go Ask Alice
  36. Howl’s Moving Castle
  37. Star Girl
  38. A Separate Peace
  39. Vampire Academy series
  40. Abhorsen Trilogy
  41. Doon
  42. Discworld/Tiffany Aching series
  43. My Sister’s Keeper
  44. The Dark is Rising sequence
  45. Graceling series
  46. Forever
  47. Earthsea series
  48. The Inheritance Cycle
  49. The Princess Diaries series
  50. Song of the Lioness series
  51. Treasure Island
  52. Delirium series
  53. Anna and the French Kiss
  54. Hush, Hush, Saga
  55. 13 Little Blue Envelopes
  56. It’s Kind of a Funny Story
  57. The Gemma Doyle trilogy
  58. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
  59. The House on Mango Street
  60. Something Wicked This Way Comes
  61. The Chocolate War
  62. Just Listen
  63. A Ring of Endless Light
  64. The Truth About Forever
  65. The Bartimaeus trilogy
  66. Bloodline series
  67. Fallen series
  68. House of Night series
  69. I Captured the Castle
  70. Nick and Norma’s Infinite Playlist
  71. Before I Fall
  72. Unwind
  73. The Last Unicorn
  74. The Maze Runner series
  75. If I Stay
  76. The Blue Sword
  77. Crank series
  78. Matched series
  79. Gallagher Girls series
  80. The Goose Girl
  81. Daughter of the Lioness/Trickster series
  82. I Am the Messenger
  83. The Immortals series
  84. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
  85. Chaos Walking series
  86. Circle of Magic series
  87. Daughter of Smoke and Bone
  88. Feed
  89. Weetzie Bat series
  90. Along for the Ride
  91. Confession of Georgia Nicolson series
  92. Leviathan series
  93. The House of Scorpion
  94. The Chronicles of Chrestomanci
  95. This Lullaby
  96. Gone series
  97. Shiver trilogy
  98. The Hero and the Crown
  99. Wintergirls
  100. Betsy-Tacy books

Now that you've read their list, leave a list of your top ten favorite YA or teen novels. 
This giveaway has ended. Look for a new one soon. Also put only your first name and age if you are between 10 and 18 years old. (Also get a parents' permission please) 

I will be putting the names into a drawing. I will draw on December 24. First place will get a $15 Books a Million Gift card, second and third places will get $10 gift cards. 

I will post the winners late the 24th and ask you to send your address to my e-mail address in order to get the card. (That's why you need an okay from your parents)

6 comments:

  1. Wow, this is a fabulous list. Didn't expect it to be so good. Anne of Green Gables, Farenheit 451, Alanna the Lioness, The Goose Girl, Uglies, Shiver, Harry Potter, The Princess Bride, Treasure Island, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, I'd Tell You That I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You...fabulous books for teens represented here.

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    1. There were some I've read, some I've only seen as movies, some I've heard of but not read and a lot I've never heard of. I guess I need to make a library list!

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  2. There are a lot of my favorite on here and some I've only seen as movies: 1. The Giver series 2. Hunger Games 3. Divergent 4. The Fault in Our Stars 5. If I Stay 6. A walk to Remember 7. Twilight 8. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and some of my favorites aren't on the list 1. Deadline 2. Shattered 3. Double Take 4.Breathless 5 North to Freedom 6. Chronicles of Narnia

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    1. Those are some of my favorites too. Especially The Giver series.

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  3. I'm not 10-18, but this is a fabulous list! Great mix of classics and new titles! I've read a lot of these books. A few that aren't on the list: Chronicles of Narnia, Emily of New Moon (by L.M. Montgomery) A Wrinkle in Time, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, and The Chosen

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