This next bunch of books is some that I think that teenagers will love even though they aren’t specifically directed at them. Classics, series and all around good books that aren’t crass or too hard to keep a hold on while at school.
Carry on then with these:
For Teens Who Need Perspective:
Life’s That Way—Jim Beaver
Terry Fox: His Story—Leslie Scrivener
Unbearable Lightness—Portia de Rossi
For Teens Crazy in to Music:
Neon Angel: The Story of a Runaway—Cherie Currie
Elvis: Still Taking of Business—Sonny West
My Booky Wook—Russell Brand
For Teens Who Like the Supernatural/Fantasy:
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series—Rick Riordan
Odd Thomas series—Dean Koontz
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies—Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith
The Chronicles of Narnia—C.S. Lewis
The Darkest Powers series and Darkness Rising series—Kelley Armstrong
The Lord of the Rings series—J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter series—J.K. Rowling
The Hobbit—J.R.R. Tolkien
The Picture of Dorian Gray—Oscar Wilde
Dawn of the Dreadul—Steve Hockensmith
Teens Who Like a Little Love Story:
P.S. I Love You—Cecelia Ahern
Chasing Harry Winston—Lauren Weisberger
The Devil Wears Prada—Lauren Weisberger
Everyone Worth Knowing—Lauren Weisberger
Wuthering Heights—Emily Bronte
Love in the time of Cholera—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Bridget Jones’s Diary—Helen Fielding
Confessions of a Shopaholic series—Sophie Kinsella
Where the Rainbow Ends—Cecelia Ahern
One Day—David Nicholls
The Road—Cormac McCarthy
Burning Bright—Tracy Chevalier
Water for Elephants—Sara Gruen
The History of Love–Nicole Krauss
Pride and Prejudice—Jane Austen
Great Expectations—Charles Dickens (This one does get a little inappropriate…but if I can appreciate it in the 7th grade, than I think 9th to 12th graders can enjoy it.)
Teens Who like Thrills and Chills:
Sherlock Holmes—Arthur Conan Doyle
Shutter Island—Dennis Lehane
Broken—Karin Slaughter
The Bodies Left Behind—Jeffrey Deaver
Jaws—Peter Benchley
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