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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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4 stars
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by the American author Harper Lee. It was published in 1960 and was …
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1984 by George Orwell (duplicate)
4 stars
Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people every second of the day. He fights this world …
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The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
4 stars
Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New …
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
4 stars
The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a …
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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
4 stars
In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, …
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Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
4 stars
The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets …
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
4 stars
Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew …
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Catch-22 (Catch-22, #1) by Joseph Heller, Joseph Heller
4 stars
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth …
