Friday, July 17, 2009

Teen Books: A Meme

I got this from I'm Booking It and thought it was a fun list.



The following list of books teens love, books teens should read, and books adults who serve teens should know about was compiled IN ABSOLUTELY NO SCIENTIFIC MANNER and should be taken with a very large grain of salt.
Instructions:
Put an “X” next to the books you’ve read

Put a “+” next to the books you LOVE

Put a “#” next to the books you plan on reading

Tally your “X”s at the bottom

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1. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy / Douglas Adams #

2. Kit’s Wilderness / David Almond

3. Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian / Sherman Alexie #

4. Speak / Laurie Halse Anderson #

5. Feed / M.T. Anderson

6. Flowers in the Attic / V.C. Andrews

7. 13 Reasons Why / Jay Asher #

8. Am I Blue? / Marion Dane Bauer (editor)

9. Audrey Wait! / Robin Benway

10. Weetzie Bat / Francesca Lia Block

11. Tangerine / Edward Bloor

12. Forever / Judy Blume

13. What I Saw and How I Lied / Judy Blundell #

14. Tyrell / Coe Booth

15. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants / Ann Brashares #

16. A Great and Terrible Beauty / Libba Bray

17. The Princess Diaries / Meg Cabot X (sort of... started it but didn't like it. Loved the movie.)

18. The Stranger / Albert Camus

19. Ender’s Game / Orson Scott Card #

20. Postcards from No Man’s Land / Aidan Chambers

21. Perks of Being a Wallflower / Stephen Chbosky X

22. And Then There Were None / Agatha Christie X +

23. Gingerbread / Rachel Cohn

24. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist / Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

25. Artemis Fowl (series) / Eoin Colfer #

26. The Hunger Games / Suzanne Collins #

27. The Midwife’s Apprentice / Karen Cushman X

28. The Truth About Forever / Sarah Dessen

29. Little Brother / Cory Doctorow

30. A Northern Light / Jennifer Donnelly

31. Tears of a Tiger / Sharon Draper

32. The House of the Scorpion / Nancy Farmer #

33. Breathing Underwater / Alex Flinn

34. Stardust / Neil Gaiman #

35. Annie on My Mind / Nancy Garden

36. What Happened to Cass McBride / Gail Giles #

37. Fat Kid Rules the World / K.L. Going

38. Lord of the Flies / William Golding #

39. Looking for Alaska / John Green

40. Bronx Masquerade / Nikki Grimes

41. Out of the Dust / Karen Hesse #

42. Hoot / Carl Hiaasen #

43. The Outsiders / S.E. Hinton X+

44. Crank / Ellen Hopkins

45. The First Part Last / Angela Johnson

46. Blood and Chocolate / Annette Curtis Klause

47. Arrow’s Flight / Mercedes Lackey

48. Hattie Big Sky / Kirby Larson X

49. To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee X+

50. Boy Meets Boy / David Levithan

51. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks / E. Lockhart #

52. The Giver / Lois Lowry X+

53. Number the Stars / Lois Lowry X+

54. Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie / David Lubar

55. Inexcusable / Chris Lynch

56. The Earth, My Butt and Other Big, Round Things / Carolyn Mackler #

57. Dragonsong / Anne McCaffrey X

58. White Darkness / Geraldine McCaughrean

59. Sold / Patricia McCormick

60. Jellicoe Road / Melina Marchetta #

61. Wicked Lovely / Melissa Marr #

62. Twilight / Stephenie Meyer

63. Dairy Queen / Catherine Murdock #

64. Fallen Angels / Walter Dean Myers

65. Monster / Walter Dean Myers

66. Step From Heaven / An Na

67. Mama Day / Gloria Naylor

68. The Keys to the Kingdom (series) / Garth Nix

69. Sabriel / Garth Nix #

70. Airborn / Kenneth Oppel

71. Eragon / Christopher Paolini #

72. Hatchet / Gary Paulsen X

73. Life As We Knew It / Susan Beth Pfeffer

74. The Golden Compass / Phillip Pullman

75. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging / Louise Rennison

76. The Lightning Thief / Rick Riordan X

77. Always Running: La Vida Loca / Luis Rodriguez

78. How I Live Now / Meg Rosoff

79. Harry Potter (series) / J.K. Rowling X +

80. Holes / Louis Sachar X

81. Catcher in the Rye / J. D. Salinger #

82. Push / Sapphire

83. Persepolis / Marjane Satrapi

84. Unwind / Neil Shusterman

85. Coldest Winter Ever / Sister Souljah

86. Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli

87. Chanda’s Secrets / Allan Stratton

88. Tale of One Bad Rat / Brian Talbot

89. Rats Saw God / Rob Thomas

90. Lord of the Rings / J.R.R. Tolkien X

91. Stuck in Neutral / Terry Trueman

92. Gossip Girl / Cecily Von Ziegesar

93. Uglies / Scott Westerfeld #

94. Every Time a Rainbow Dies / Rita Williams-Garcia

95. Pedro and Me / Judd Winick

96. Hard Love / Ellen Wittlinger

97. American Born Chinese / Gene Luen Yang

98. Elsewhere / Gabrielle Zevin #

99. I am the Messenger / Markus Zusak

100. The Book Thief / Markus Zusak #



15... that's really sad.

Though in my defense, I've never heard of a lot of them.

2 comments:

  1. Hehe, I skimmed through the list and it looks like I've only read about 15, myself. Well, it's a nice wholesome number. :D

    I can think of lots of books that should be in this list but aren't.

    Is Sabriel good? I've wanted to read it for a while...

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  2. Yeah, there are a lot that should be there that aren't.

    Sabriel's still on my list... haven't gotten there yet.

    So many books, so little time!

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