Last night, Nick Buron of the Queens Public Library came to speak to my class. He brought with him a flyer with what he and a couple of colleagues think are the "50 Essential Teen Books." As I love teen fiction, here is the list.
The one author I would add to this list is Julie Ann Peters for her books Defining "Normal" and Keeping You a Secret, as well as Me and Jo.
Alvarez, Julia
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Speak
Anderson, M.T.
Feed
Anonymous
Go Ask Alice
Block, Francesca Lia
Weetzie Bat
Blume, Judy
Forever
Brashares, Ann
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Chbosky, Stephen
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Cisneros, Sandra
The House on Mango Street
Cormier, Robert
The Chocolate War
Crutcher, Chris
Whale Talk
Dessen, Sarah
Keeping the Moon
Duncan, Lois
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Flake, Sharon
Money Hungry
Flinn, Alex
Breathing Underwater
Frank, E.R.
Life if Funny
Garden, Nancy
Annie on My Mind
Hautman, Pete
Godless
Hesser, Terry Spencer
Kissing Doorknobs
Hinton, S.E.
The Outsiders
Holman, Felice
Slake's Limbo
Johnson, Angela
The First Part Last
Klass, David
You Don't Know Me
Korman, Gordon
Son of the Mob
Levithan, David
Boy Meets Boy
Lowry, Lois
The Giver
Lynch, Chris
Freewill
McCormick, Patricia
Cut
Myers, Walter Dean
Monster
Na, An
A Step from Heaven
Nix, Garth
Sabriel
Nye, Naomi Shihab
Habibi
Paulsen, Gary
Hatchet
Peck, Richard
Are You in the House Alone?
Pierce, Tamora
Circle of Magic #1: Sandry's Book
Pullman, Philip
His Dark Materials Trilogy
Rapp, Adam
33 Snowfish
Rennison, Louise
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
Ryan, Sara
Empress of the World
Sachar, Louis
Holes
Spinelli, Jerry
Stargirl
Thomas, Rob
Rats Saw God
Voigt, Cynthia
Homecoming
Whelan, Gloria
Homless Bird
Williams-Garcia, Rita
Like Sisters on the Home Front
Wittlinger, Ellen
Hard Love
Wolff, Virginia Euwer
Make Lemonade
Woodson, Jacqueline
Hush
Yep, Laurence
Dragon's Gate
Zindel, Paul
Pigman
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