Besides YA, I also left room for several of my favorite classic authors, like Katherine Mansfield, Charles Dickens, and Eudora Welty. I also want to read more Annie Dillard because she's amazing and inspiring. I never knew someone could write about dragonfly larvae in such an interesting, beautiful way.
I'm planning to review some of these books on my blog, Bits of Beautiful, so if you have time, check it out!
- Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book
- Laura Amy Schlitz - Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
- Lynn Rae Perkins - Criss Cross
- Cynthia Kadohata - Kira-Kira
- Kate Dicamillo - The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, A Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
- Avi Crispin - The Cross of Lead
- Linda Sue Park - A Single Shard
- Richard Peck - A Year Down Yonder
- Christopher Paul Curtis - Bud, Not Buddy
- Laurie Halse Anderson - Speak
- Jay Asher - Thirteen Reasons Why
- Elizabeth C. Bunce - A Curse as Dark as Gold
- R.D. Blackmore - Lorna Doone
- Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers
- Alexandre Dumas - The Man in the Iron Mask
- Leslie Conner - Waiting For Normal
- Siobhan Dowd - Bog Child
- Christine Fletcher - Ten Cents a Dance
- Matt de la Pena - Mexican White Boy
- Joseph Monninger - Baby
- Terry Pratchett - Nation
- Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki - Skim
- Coert Voorhees - The Brothers Torres
- Suzanne Collins - The HungerGames
- Melina Marchetta - Jellicoe Road
- Margo Lanagan - Tender Morsels
- Stephanie Meyer - Twilight
- Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Whimpy Kid
- Richelle Mead - Vampire Academy
- Libba Bray - The Sweet Far Thing
- Scott Westerfeld - Extras
- Jenny Downham - Before I Die
- Laurie Halse Anderson - Twisted
- Cassandra Cane - City of Bones
- Eudora Welty - The Robber Bridegroom
- Eudora Welty - The Ponder Heart
- Eudora Welty - Losing Battles
- Annie Dillard - The Maytrees
- Annie Dillard - Living By Fiction
- Annie Dillard - For the Time Being
- Katherine Mansfield - The Aloe
- Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
- C.J. Sansom - Dark Fire
- C.J. Sansom - Sovereign
- Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
- Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
- Ayelet Waldman - Daughter’s Keeper
- J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
- S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders
- Robert Lipsyte - The Contender
- Chaim Potok - The Chosen
- Paul Zindel - The Pigman
- Beatrice Sparks - Go Ask Alice
- Robb White - Deathwatch
- Robert Cormier - The Chocolate War
- Jack Shaefer - Shane
- Lois Duncan - Killing Mr. Griffin
- Robert Cormier - I Am the Cheese
- Harry Mazer - The Last Mission
- Cynthia Voigt - Homecoming
- Bruce Brooks - The Moves Make the Man
- Richard Peck - Remembering the Good Times
- Brock Cole - The Goats
- Gary Paulson - Hatchet
- Walter Dean Myers - Fallen Angels
- Francesca Lia Block - Weetzie Bat
- Jerry Spinelli - Maniac Magee
- Michael Cadnum - Calling Home
- Virginia Wolff - Make Lemonade
- Karen Cushman - Catherine Called Birdy
- Cynthia Voigt - When She Hollers
- Rita Williams-Garcia - Like Sisters on the Home Front
- John Marsden - Tomorrow When the War Began
- Christopher Paul Curtis - The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963
- Victor Martinez - Parrot in the Oven, Mi Vida
- Edward Bloor - Tangerine
- Robert Cormier - Tenderness
- Virginia Wolff - Bat 6
- Joan Bauer - Rules of the Road
- Gary Paulsen - Soldier’s Heart
- Paul Fleischman - Whirligig
- Sarah Dessen - Dreamland
- Richard Peck - A Long Way from Chicago
- Chris Lynch - Gold Dust
- Gary Paulson - The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer
- Judith Guest - Ordinary People
- Joseph Bedier - The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
- David Klass - You Don’t Know Me
- Carol Plum-Ucci - What Happened to Lani Garver
- Jerry Spinelli - Star Girl
- Sonya Sones - One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
- Ann Brashares - Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- Karen Hesse - Out of the Dust
- Lois Lowry - The Giver
- Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
- Michael Chabon - Summerland
- Newbery Winner 2010
- Newbery Winner 2011
- Newbery Winner 2012
- Newbery Winner 2013
4 comments:
I love YA! You've got some great ones on here!
Tomorrow When the War Began is amazing. I haven't read Jellicoe Road, but Looking for Allibrandi was one of my favourite books in high schhool
Cynthia Voigt is a name I haven't heard in a long time, I used to read her books when I was a kid. Great list!
I also want to write YA novels in the future, so I have some on my list too!
I just read the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and it was really good. I have to say, I did not expect to be moved so much by a YA novel, but the friends in this book remind me of my friends that I live very far away from right now.
I'm interested in hearing about some more of your YA novels! Thanks for posting your list!
I've read a lot of the books on your list, and you've definitely picked some great ones!!
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