Catherine Vs Time’s 100 Best YA Books
Catherine VS: where I look at a group of books and see how well (or not) I’ve been reading my way through them. Whether it’s top 100 YA books or pre-2005 YA vampire fiction or Hades/Persephone retellings, I indulge my curiosity regarding just how many
| Title | Author | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | |
| The Chronicles of Prydain (series) | Lloyd Alexander | |
| Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Sherman Alexie | Read |
| City of Beasts | Isabel Allende | |
| Feed | M.T. Anderson | |
| Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson | Read |
| Tiger Lily | Jodi Lynn Anderson | |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Frank L. Baum | Read |
| Dangerous Angels | Francesca Lia Block | Read |
| Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret | Judy Blume | Read |
| Secrets (series) | Pseudonymous Bosch | |
| The Illustrated Man | Ray Bradbury | |
| For Freedom | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | |
| Tarzan of the Apes | Edgar Rice Burrows | |
| Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | Read |
| Boy Proof | Cecil Castellucci | |
| Beezus and Ramona | Beverly Cleary | Read |
| Frindle | Andrew Clements | |
| The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | Read |
| The Grey King | Susan Cooper | Want to Read |
| The Chocolate War | Robert Cormier | |
| Whale Talk | Chris Crutcher | |
| Matilda | Roald Dahl | Read |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | Read |
| Danny the Champion of the World | Roald Dahl | |
| The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane | Kate DiCamillo | |
| The Tiger Rising | Kate DiCamillo | |
| A Northern Light | Jennifer Donnelly | |
| Harriet the Spy | Louise Fitzhugh | Read |
| Johnny Tremain | Esther Forbes | |
| The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | Want to Read |
| The Thief Lord | Cornelia Funke | Want to Read |
| The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | Read |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | |
| The Princess Bride | William Goldman | Read |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | |
| Looking For Alaska | John Green | Read |
| The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | |
| A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin | Read |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | |
| The Lost Conspiracy | Frances Hardinge | |
| The Outsiders | S.E. Hinton | |
| A High Wind in Jamaica | Richard Hughes | |
| Dogsbody | Diana Wynne Jones | Want to Read |
| The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster | |
| Alabama Moon | Watt Key | |
| A Separate Peace | John Knowles | |
| From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E.L. Konigsburg | |
| To Kill A Mockingbird | Harper Lee | Read |
| A Wrinkle In Time | Madeleine L’Engle | Want to Read |
| Every Day | David Levithan | |
| The Chronicles of Narnia (series) | C.S. Lewis | Partially Read |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London | |
| The Giver | Lois Lowry | Read |
| Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | |
| Saffy’s Angel | Hilary McKay | |
| Twilight (series) | Stephenie Meyer | Read |
| Anne of Green Gables | L.M. Montgomery | |
| Private Peaceful | Michael Morpugo | |
| Monster | Walter Dean Myers | |
| Fallen Angels | Walter Dean Myers | |
| A Wreath for Emmett Till | Marilyn Nelson | |
| A Monster Calls | Patrick Ness | |
| The Knife of Never Letting Go | Patrick Ness | |
| Sabriel | Garth Nix | Read |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O’Brien | Read |
| Wonder | R.J. Palacio | |
| Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | Read |
| Jacob I Have Loved | Katherine Paterson | |
| Hatchet | Gary Paulson | |
| Tales of Mystery and Imagination | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman | Read |
| The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin | |
| The Yearling | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | |
| Percy Jackson and the Olympians (series) | Rick Riordan | Partially Read |
| Harry Potter (series) | J.K. Rowling | Read |
| Esperanza Rising | Pam Muñoz Ryan | |
| Holes | Louis Sachar | Read |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | |
| The Alchemyst | Michael Scott | |
| The Invention of Hugo Cabret | Brian Selznick | |
| The Wall | Peter Sís | |
| A Series of Unfortunate Events (series) | Lemony Snicket | Read |
| The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare | |
| When You Reach Me | Rebecca Stead | |
| The Mysterious Benedict Society | Trenton Lee Stewart | |
| Roll of Thunder, Here My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor | |
| Blankets | Craig Thompson | |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkein | Read |
| The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkein | Partially Read |
| Mary Poppins | P.L. Travers | Want to Read |
| Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | |
| Where Things Come Back | John Corey Whaley | |
| Charlotte’s Web | E.B. White | Read |
| The Sword in the Stone | T. H. White | |
| Little House on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| Boxers and Saints | Gene Luen Yang | |
| American Born Chinese | Gene Luen Yang | |
| The Pigman | Paul Zindel | |
| The Book Thief | Marcus Zusak |
