Young Adult Reading List

Title	Author
Broken Glass	Alain Mabanckou
The Line of Beauty	Alan Hollinghurst
The Three Musketeer	Alexandre Dumas
Autumn	Ali Smith
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories	Alice Munro
Dart	Alice Oswald
The Lovely Bones	Alice Sebold
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic	Alison Bechdel
Small Island	Andrea Levy
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression	Andrew Solomon
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos	Anne Carson
The Green Road	Anne Enright
Maus	Art Spiegelman
How It All Blew Up	Arvin Ahmadi
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea	Barbara Demick
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America	Barbara Ehrenreich
A Short History of Nearly Everything	Bill Bryson
Chronicles: Volume One	Bob Dylan
Cosmos	Carl Sagan
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics	Carlo Rovelli
The Shadow of the Wind	Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rapture	Carol Ann Duffy
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens
Half of a Yellow Sun	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth	Chris Ware
Citizen: An American Lyric	Claudia Rankine
Brooklyn	Colm Tóibín
The Underground Railroad	Colson Whitehead
Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe
Thinking, Fast and Slow	Daniel Kahneman
Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes
Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography	Deborah Levy
Savage Her Reply	Deirdre Sullivan
The Story of Art	E.H. Gombrich
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss	Edmund de Waal
Mother's Milk	Edward St. Aubyn
My Brilliant Friend	Elena Ferrante
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History	Elizabeth Kolbert
The Westing Game	Ellen Raskin
Dune	Frank Herbert
The Trial	Franz Kafka
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel García Márquez
A Game of Thrones	George R. R. Martin
Tenth of December	George Saunders
Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn
#MurderTrending	Gretchen McNeil
The Time Machine	H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds	H. G. Wells
A Little Life	Hanya Yanagihara
Harvest	Harvest Jim Crace
The Siege	Helen Dunmore
Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel
On the Road	Jack Kerouac
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
Out of Shadows	Jason Wallace
The Infatuations	Javier Marías
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?	Jeanette Winterson
The Last Lecture	Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch
A Visit from the Goon Squad	Jennifer Egan
Visitation	Jenny Erpenbeck
The Year of Magical Thinking	Joan Didion
Looking for Alaska	John Greene
East of Eden	John Steinbeck
The Constant Gardener	John le Carré
The Corrections	Jonathan Franzen
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad
Sophie's World	Jostein Gaarder
Levels of Life	Julian Barnes
A Death in the Family	Karl Ove Knausgård
Life After Life	Kate Atkinson
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini
Speak	Laurie Halse Anderson
Bad Blood	Lorna Sage
Light	M. John Harrison
The Argonauts	Maggie Nelson
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference	Malcolm Gladwell
Noughts & Crosses	Malorie Blackman
Oryx and Crake	Margaret Atwood
Gilead	Marilynne Robinson
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood	Marjane Satrapi
Experience: A Memoir	Martin Amis
Women & Power: A Manifesto	Mary Beard
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay	Michael Chabon
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game	Michael Lewis
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals	Michael Pollan
Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes
The Master and Margarita	Mikhail Bulgakov
The Fifth Season	N.K. Jemisin
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism	Naomi Klein
Coraline	Neil Gaiman
Darkmans	Nicola Barker
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman	Nora Ephron
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead	Olga Tokarczuk
The Silence of the Girls	Pat Barker
Priestdaddy	Patricia Lockwood
True History of the Kelly Gang	Peter Carey
The Plot Against America	Philip Roth
Outline	Rachel Cusk
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot
Hope in the Dark	Rebecca Solnit
The God Delusion	Richard Dawkins
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better	Richard G. Wilkinson
Underland: A Deep Time Journey	Robert Macfarlane
Normal People	Sally Rooney
Fingersmith	Sarah Waters
Human Chain	Seamus Heaney
Days Without End	Sebastian Barry
Birdsong	Sebastian Faulks
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power	Shoshana Zuboff
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer	Siddhartha Mukherjee
Carrie	Stephen King
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft	Stephen King
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Stieg Larsson
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets	Svetlana Alexievich
Between the World and Me	Ta-Nehisi Coates
Stories of Your Life and Others	Ted Chiang
Night Watch	Terry Pratchett
Capital in the Twenty-First Century	Thomas Piketty
The Bonfire of the Vanities	Tom Wolfe
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945	Tony Judt
The Name of the Rose	Umberto Eco
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions	Valeria Luiselli
Austerlitz	W.G. Sebald
The Moonstone	Wilkie Collins
Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment	Yanis Varoufakis
Signs Preceding the End of the World	Yuri Herrera
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind	Yuval Noah Harari
White Teeth	Zadie Smith
What Was She Thinking?	Zoë Heller
This House of Grief	by Helen Garner