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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Favorite YA books list

I bumped into this list of 100 favorite YA books today.
It was created by NPR two years ago after over 75,000 people voted for their favorites.

Check out the whole list here:

Here are the top 50---
  1. Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
  2. Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
  3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  4. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  5. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
  6. The Catcher and the Rye by JD Salinger
  7. The Lord of the Rings series by JRR Tolkien
  8. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  9. Looking for Alaska by John Green
  10. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  11. The Giver series by Lois Lowry
  12. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
  13. The Outsiders by SE Hinton
  14. Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery
  15. His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman
  16. The Perks of Being Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
  17. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  18. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  19. Divergent series by Veronica Roth
  20. Paper Towns by John Green
  21. The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare
  22. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
  23. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  24. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
  25. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
  26. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
  27. Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
  28. Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld
  29. The Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare
  30. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
  31. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
  32. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
  33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  34. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
  35. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
  36. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
  37. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
  38. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  39. Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead
  40. Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix
  41. Dune by Frank Herbert
  42. Discworld/Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett
  43. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
  44. The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
  45. Graceling series by Kristin Cashore
  46. Forever by Judy Blume
  47. Earthsea series by Ursula LeGuin
  48. The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
  49. The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot
  50. Song of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce
See the whole list here at NPR of the 100 most popular books and brief descriptions of each.

What do you think? Do you agree with 75,000 people that voted for this list? Do you think all the books will last the test of time? If they created the list today, what books would you add?

(I'm going to answer my own questions on the comment section. So think through your answers first before you read my comments.)

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