{"id":1876,"date":"2012-06-18T07:38:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T11:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2016-06-28T11:37:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T15:37:18","slug":"99-favorite-reads-picked-by-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/99-favorite-reads-picked-by-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"99 Favorite Reads, Picked by Teens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 Their choices made the list (alphabetically) regardless if the books were award-winners, banned, popular, controversial, new, or classic.\u00a0 The sole criteria: these books are favorites. \"\"1. Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak<\/em> 2. M.T. Anderson, Feed<\/em> 3. Anonymous, Go Ask Alice<\/em> 4. Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler, The Future of Us<\/em> 5. Isaac Asimov, The Foundation<\/em> 6. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice<\/em> 7. Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls<\/em> 8. Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker<\/em> 9. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451<\/em> 10. Misty Bernall, She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall<\/em> \u00a0 11. Meredith Blevins, Hummingbird Wizard<\/em> \"\"12. Anthony Bourke and John Rendall, A Lion Called Christian<\/em> 13. Libba Bray, Beauty Queens<\/em> 14. Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War<\/em><\/em> 15. Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake: A Memoir<\/em> 16. Dan Brown,\u00a0The Da Vinci Code<\/em> 17. Meg Cabot, Jinx<\/em> 18. Orson Scott Card, Ender\u2019s Game<\/em> 19. Kristin Cashore, Graceling<\/em> 20. P.C. Cast, Destined (House of Night<\/em>)\u00a0<\/em> \u00a0 \"\"21. Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/em> 22. Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None<\/em> 23. Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl<\/em><\/em> 24. Billy Collins, The Trouble with Poetry<\/em><\/em> 25. Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games <\/em><\/em> 26. Caroline B. Cooney, The Face on the Milk Carton<\/em><\/em> 27. Chris Crutcher, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes<\/em><\/em> 28. Leah Cypess, Mistwood<\/em><\/em> 29. Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon<\/em><\/em> 30. Lauren DeStefano, Wither<\/em><\/em> \u00a0 \"\" 31. M. C. Escher, Icons<\/em> 32. Nancy Farmer, House of the Scorpion<\/em> 33. Gayle Forman, If I Stay<\/em> 34. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch<\/em> 35. William Golding, Lord of the Flies<\/em> 36. William Goldman, The Princess Bride<\/em> 37. Lori Gottlieb, Stick Figure<\/em> 38. John Green, The Fault in our Stars<\/em> 39. John Grisham, Bleachers<\/em> 40. Teri Hall, The Line<\/em> \u00a0 \"\"41. Frank Herbert, Dune<\/em> 42. Georgette Heyer, Devil\u2019s Cub<\/em> 43. Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer<\/em> 44. Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers<\/em> 45. Ellen Hopkins, Impulse<\/em> 46. Emily Horner, A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend<\/em> 47. Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker (Alex Rider)<\/em> 48. Khaled Hosseini, Kite Runner<\/em> 49. Jennifer Hubbard, Try Not to Breathe<\/em> 50. Brian Jacques, Redwall<\/em> \"\" \u00a0 51. Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason<\/em> 52. Stephen King, Night Shift<\/em> 53. Anthony Kiedis and Larry Sloman, Scar Tissue<\/em> 54. Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild<\/em> 55. Louis L\u2019Amour, The Daybreakers<\/em> 56. Madeleine L\u2019Engle, A Wrinkle in Time<\/em> 57. C. S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe<\/em> 58. Sarah Darer Littman, Want to Go Private?<\/em> 59. Lois Lowry, The Giver<\/em> 60. Gregory Maguire, Wicked\u00a0<\/em> \u00a0 \"\"61. Yann Martel, Life of Pi<\/em> 62. George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones<\/em> 63. Patricia McCormick, Cut<\/em> 64. Stephenie Meyer, Twilight<\/em> 65. Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind<\/em> 66. B.J. Myrick and Hazel Hart, The Dark Side of the Rainbow<\/em> 67. Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go<\/em> 68. Caragh O\u2019Brien, Birthmarked<\/em> 69. Lauren Oliver, Delirium<\/em> 70. George Orwell, 1984\u00a0<\/em> \u00a0 \"\"71. Christopher Paolini, Eragon<\/em> 72. Gary Paulsen, Hatchet<\/em> 73. David Pelzer, A Boy Called It<\/em> 74. Jodi Picault, My Sister\u2019s Keeper<\/em> 75. Tamora Pierce, Trickster\u2019s Choice<\/em> 76. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar<\/em> 77. Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass<\/em> 78. Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me<\/em> 79. Ayn Rand, Anthem<\/em> 80. Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines (The Hungry City Chronicles)\u00a0<\/em> \u00a0 81. Veronica Roth, Divergent<\/em> \"\"82. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer\u2019s Stone<\/em> 83. R. A. Salvatore, Homeland (Forgotten Realms)<\/em> 84. Elizabeth Scott, The Living Dead Girl<\/em> 85. Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones<\/em> 86. Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook<\/em> 87. Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl<\/em> 88. John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men<\/em> 89. Tupac Shakur, The Rose that Grew from Concrete<\/em> 90. Art Spiegelman, Maus<\/em> \u00a0 91. Todd Strasser, Give A Boy A Gun<\/em> \"\"92. Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand<\/em> 93. J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings<\/em> 94. Omar Tyree, Flyy Girl<\/em> 95. Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped<\/em> 96. Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes<\/em> 97. Elie Wiesel, Night<\/em> 98. Jacqueline Woodson, Beneath a Meth Moon<\/em> 99. Markus Zusak, The Book Thief<\/em> \u00a0 List compiled by Caragh M. O\u2019Brien, June 18, 2012.\u00a0 Feel free to distribute.\u00a0 Comments welcome at caraghobrien.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 Their choices made the list (alphabetically) regardless if the books were award-winners, banned, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[200,67,160,177,199],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-best-books","tag-libraries","tag-reading","tag-teens","tag-top-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4722,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions\/4722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}