A curated collection of books that a teenager might find engaging. The purpose of this list is to encourage them to find out what they actually enjoy reading.
Literacy for Teenagers Public
Created and curated by Suzanne Aldrich
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Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (Southern Vampire (1))
3 stars
Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana, until the vampire of her dreams walks into her …
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Holes (Holes, #1) by Louis Sachar
3 stars
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats …
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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
3 stars
Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys. The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist …
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Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton
4 stars
There has long been a need for the stories of ancient mythology written to appeal to the twentieth-century mind. Edith …
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Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
3 stars
A book about Edward Abbey's life as a park ranger in the American Southwest in the 1950's.
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The Sound and the Fury (Everyman's Library Classics) by William Faulkner
3 stars
In many ways this was an experimental novel, using several differing narrative styles. Divided into four parts, the author relates …
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
3 stars
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into …
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Podkayne of Mars by Robert A. Heinlein
3 stars
While accompanying their uncle, a wily politician, on a trip from Mars to Earth, Podkayne and her brilliant but pesky …
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Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
3 stars
Bridget Jones's Diary is a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding. Written in the form of a personal diary, the novel …
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His Dark Materials (His Dark Materials #1-3) by Philip Pullman
4 stars
Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip …
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The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia -- bk. 1)
4 stars
When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up …
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The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
4 stars
Mockingjay is a 2010 science fiction novel by American author Suzanne Collins. It is chronologically the last installment of The …
