The teens who named their favorite books for this list include athletes, honors students, non-readers, incarcerated girls, a prom queen, loners, computer game players, gay and straight teens, teens from the coasts and in between, teens of many races, artists, and writers.  Their choices made the list (alphabetically) regardless if the books were award-winners, banned, popular, controversial, new, or classic.  The sole criteria: these books are favorites.

1. Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

2. M.T. Anderson, Feed

3. Anonymous, Go Ask Alice

4. Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler, The Future of Us

5. Isaac Asimov, The Foundation

6. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

7. Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

8. Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker

9. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

10. Misty Bernall, She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall

11. Meredith Blevins, Hummingbird Wizard

12. Anthony Bourke and John Rendall, A Lion Called Christian

13. Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

14. Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

15. Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake: A Memoir

16. Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

17. Meg Cabot, Jinx

18. Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

19. Kristin Cashore, Graceling

20. P.C. Cast, Destined (House of Night) 

21. Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

22. Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

23. Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

24. Billy Collins, The Trouble with Poetry

25. Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

26. Caroline B. Cooney, The Face on the Milk Carton

27. Chris Crutcher, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

28. Leah Cypess, Mistwood

29. Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

30. Lauren DeStefano, Wither

31. M. C. Escher, Icons

32. Nancy Farmer, House of the Scorpion

33. Gayle Forman, If I Stay

34. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

35. William Golding, Lord of the Flies

36. William Goldman, The Princess Bride

37. Lori Gottlieb, Stick Figure

38. John Green, The Fault in our Stars

39. John Grisham, Bleachers

40. Teri Hall, The Line

41. Frank Herbert, Dune

42. Georgette Heyer, Devil’s Cub

43. Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

44. Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

45. Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

46. Emily Horner, A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend

47. Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker (Alex Rider)

48. Khaled Hosseini, Kite Runner

49. Jennifer Hubbard, Try Not to Breathe

50. Brian Jacques, Redwall

51. Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason

52. Stephen King, Night Shift

53. Anthony Kiedis and Larry Sloman, Scar Tissue

54. Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

55. Louis L’Amour, The Daybreakers

56. Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

57. C. S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

58. Sarah Darer Littman, Want to Go Private?

59. Lois Lowry, The Giver

60. Gregory Maguire, Wicked 

61. Yann Martel, Life of Pi

62. George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

63. Patricia McCormick, Cut

64. Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

65. Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

66. B.J. Myrick and Hazel Hart, The Dark Side of the Rainbow

67. Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

68. Caragh O’Brien, Birthmarked

69. Lauren Oliver, Delirium

70. George Orwell, 1984 

71. Christopher Paolini, Eragon

72. Gary Paulsen, Hatchet

73. David Pelzer, A Boy Called It

74. Jodi Picault, My Sister’s Keeper

75. Tamora Pierce, Trickster’s Choice

76. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

77. Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

78. Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me

79. Ayn Rand, Anthem

80. Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines (The Hungry City Chronicles) 

81. Veronica Roth, Divergent

82. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

83. R. A. Salvatore, Homeland (Forgotten Realms)

84. Elizabeth Scott, The Living Dead Girl

85. Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

86. Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

87. Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

88. John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

89. Tupac Shakur, The Rose that Grew from Concrete

90. Art Spiegelman, Maus

91. Todd Strasser, Give A Boy A Gun

92. Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand

93. J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

94. Omar Tyree, Flyy Girl

95. Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

96. Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes

97. Elie Wiesel, Night

98. Jacqueline Woodson, Beneath a Meth Moon

99. Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

List compiled by Caragh M. O’Brien, June 18, 2012.  Feel free to distribute.  Comments welcome at caraghobrien.com.