Young Adult Fiction – A Reading List




  1. Almond, David               Skellig
  2. Ashworth, Andrea          Once in a House on Fire
  3. Bardugo, Leigh               Six of Crows
  4. Blackman, Malorie         Noughts and Crosses
  5. Brooks, Kevin                Martyn Pig
  6. Butcher, Tim                  Blood River
  7. Capote, Truman             In Cold Blood
  8. Carroll, Lewis               Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  9. Card, Orson Scott         Ender's Game
  10. Colfer, Eoin                   Artemis Fowl
  11. Collins, Suzanne             The Hunger Games
  12. Daniels, April                 Dreadnought
  13. Diski, Jenny                     Skating toAntarctica
  14. Eggers, David                 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  15. Ende, Michael                 The Neverending Story
  16. Frayn, Michael                 Spies
  17. Gaiman, Neil                 Stardust
  18. Golding, William             Lord of the Flies
  19. Grahame, Kenneth         The Wind in the Willows
  20. Haddon, Mark                 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  21. Hinton, S. E.                 The Outsiders
  22. Hurston, Zora Neale     Their Eyes Were Watching God
  23. Ishiguro, Kazuo             Never Let Me Go
  24. Keatley, Charlotte         My Mother Said I Never Should
  25. Kelly, Dennis                 DNA
  26. Kelman, Stephen         Pigeon English
  27. Khorram, Adib             Darius the Great Is Not Okay
  28. Lee, Harper                 To Kill a Mockingbird
  29. Lee, Laurie                     Cider with Rosie
  30. Le Guin, Ursula K.         A Wizard of Earthsea
  31. Levithan, David                 Every Day
  32. London, Jack                    The Call of the Wild
  33. Lowry, Lois                     The Giver
  34. Lu, Marie                         Legend
  35. McEwan, Ian                     Atonement
  36. McEwan, Ian                     The Daydreamer
  37. Myers, Walter Dean         Monster
  38. Ness, Patrick                 A Monster Calls
  39. Orwell, George             Homage to Catalonia
  40. Orwell, George             Animal Farm
  41. Pullman, Philip             His Dark Materials
  42. Riggs, Ransom             Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
  43. Roth, Veronica             Divergent
  44. Sachar, Louis                 Holes
  45. Salinger, J.D.                 The Catcher in the Rye
  46. Shusterman, Neal         Scythe
  47. Syal, Meera                 Anita and Me
  48. J. R. R. Tolkien             The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings
  49. Walker, Alice                 The Color Purple
  50. Watson, Renée                 Piecing Me Together
  51. Zappia, Francesca         Eliza and Her Monsters
  52. Zusak, Markus                 The Book Thief

Read the complete list here with plot summaries, reviews and further information.

Dr Ian McCormick

https://leeds.academia.edu/DrIanMcCormick

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