With your help I was able to put together a list of books that every young person should read for my book, Hundred Book Summer. They are in no particular order. Not all of these books will make it into the book. I have to keep a few secrets up my sleeve. Take a look at the list. Are there any books that I am missing, or that I should leave off?
- Bunnicula-Deborah and James Howe
- Hunger Games-Suzanne Collins
- Harry Potter-JK Rowling
- Sherlock Holmes:A Study in Scarlet-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Frankenstein-Mary Shelley
- Time Machine-Jules Verne
- Little House in the Big Woods-Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Dracula-Bram Stoker
- To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
- A Wrinkle in Time-Madeleine L'Engle
- The Edge Chronicles:Beyond the Deep Woods-Chris Riddell and Paul Stewart
- Carrie-Stephen King
- Little Women-Louisa May Alcott
- Catcher in the Rye-JD Salinger
- Alice in Wonderland-Lewis Carroll
- Anthem-Ayn Rand
- Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury
- Twelve Years a Slave-Solomon Northrup
- Eragon-Christopher Paolini
- Red Badge of Courage-Stephen Crane
- Call of the Wild-Jack London
- Miracle’s Boys-Jacqueline Woodson
- Boxcar Children-Gertrude Chandler Warner
- Are you there God? It’s Me Margaret.-Judy Blume
- Twilight-Stephenie Meyer
- Percy Jackson & the Olympians:The Lightning Thief-Rick Riordan
- Goddess of the Night (Daughters of the Moon)-Lynn Ewing
- Black Elk Speaks-Christopher Sergel
- The Diary of a Young Girl-Anne Frank
- Flowers in the Attack-VC Andrews
- Looking for Alaska-John Green
- I Am Number Four-Pittacus Lore
- Alas Babylon-Pat Frank
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Mark Twain
- Indian in the Cupboard-Lynne Reid Banks
- Beloved-Toni Morrison
- Sign of the Beaver-Elizabeth George Spear
- Because of Winn Dixie-Kate DiCamillo
- Eve: The Awakening-Jenna Moreci
- Sarah Plain and Tall-Patricia MacLachlan
- The Coldest Winter Ever-Sister Souljah
- Ready Player One-Ernest Cline
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams
- Fallen-Lauren Kate
- American Born Chinese-Gene Luen Yang
- Mortal Instruments:City of Bones-Cassandra Clare
- Divergent-Veronica Roth
- The Maze Runner-James Dashner
- The Hobbit-JRR Tolkien
- Crank-Ellen Hopkins
- Night-Elie Wiesel
- Where the Red Fern Grows-Wilson Rawls
- A Series of Unfortunate Events:The Bad Beginning-Lemony Snicket
- Charlotte’s Web-EB White
- Beautiful Creatures-Kami Garcia
- Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck
- Things Fall Apart-Chinua Achebe
- Ariel-Sylvia Plath
- Romeo and Juliet-William Shakespeare
- The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 100 Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte
- A Rose for Emily-William Faulkner
- Slaughterhouse Five-Kurt Vonnegut
- The Secret of Nimh-Robert C. O’ Brien
- Shiloh-Phyllis Reynolds
- Lion Witch and the Wardrobe-CS Lewis
- Golden Compass-Philip Pullman
- The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
- A Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess
- Elsewhere-Gabrielle Zevin
- The Book Thief-Markus Zusak
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children-Ransom Riggs
- Fifteen-Beverly Cleary
- The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
- The House on Mango Street-Sandra Cisneros
- The Princess Bride-William Goldman
- The Lovely Bones-Alice Sebold
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower-Stephen Chbosky
- Ender's Game-Orson Scott Card
- The Giver-Lois Lowry
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian-Sherman Alexie
- Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
- If I Stay-Gayle Forman
- Howl’s Moving Castle-Diana Wynne Jones
- The Chocolate War-Robert Cormier
- Thirteen Reasons Why-Jay Asher
- Uglies-Scott Westerfield
- Hatchet-Gary Paulsen
- It's Kind of a Funny Story-Ned Vizzini
- The Princess Diaries-Meg Cabot
- A Separate Peace-John Knowles
- Tuck Everlasting-Natalie Babbitt
- Go, Ask Alice-Beatrice Sparks
- The Kite Runner-Khaled Hosseini
- The Help-Kathryn Stockett
- The Secret Life of Bees -SUE MONK KIDD
- Eat, Pray, Love-Elizabeth Gilbert
- Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)-Laini Taylor
- Wonder-RJ Palacio
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle-Hugh Lofting
- Dune-Frank Herbert
- Brave New World-Aldous Huxley
- A Very Private Life-Michael Frayn
- 1984-George Orwell
- A Stranger in a Strange Land-Robert A Heinlein
- Interview with a Vampire-Anne Rice
- The Scarlet Letter-Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Crucible-Arthur Miller