104 Books to read before you turn 20

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1. Alice the Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
2. Alice, I Think and series, Susan Juby
3. Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Slogging and series, Louise
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4. Are You There God, Its Me Margaret, Judy Blume

29. Fables, Bill Willingham

30. The Favourite Game, Leonard Cohen
31. Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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32. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
33. The Giver, Lois Lowry
34. The Gum Thief, Douglas Coupland

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Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud

Beauty by Robin McKinley
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Bone by Jeff Smith
The Boy in the Burning House, Tim Wynne-Jones
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brown Girl in the Ring, Nalo Hopkinson

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The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
A Child Called "It", Dave Pelzer
The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
City of Beasts, Isabel Allende
City of Bones, Cassandra Clare
The Collector, John Fowles
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Coraline, Neil Gaiman
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon

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The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Hey Nostradamus, Douglas Coupland
His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit, J R R Tolkien
How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

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I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith

Into The Wild, John Krakauer
I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O Dell

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48. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

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24. The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
25. The Devil's Arithmetic, Jane Yolen
26. Dune, Frank Herbert

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49. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

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27. Enders Game, Orson Scott Card

28. Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer

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The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K LeGuin

The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupry
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Lullabies for Little Criminals, Heather O'Neill

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Maus: A Survivor's Tale, Art Spiegelman

The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
My Sisters Keeper, Jodi Picoult

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Naked Lunch, William Burroughs

Neuromancer, William Gibson
No Logo, Naomi Klein
A northern light, Jennifer Donnelly
Not Wanted on the Voyage, Timothy Findley

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On Beauty, Zadie Smith

One Flew Over the Cukcoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The Once and Future King, T.H. White
Oryx & Crake, Margaret Atwood
The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

The Power of One, Bryce Courtney
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Sabriel, Garth Nix

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 , Sue Townsend
Shattered, Eric Walters
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Someday this Pain will be Useful to You, Peter Cameron
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
The Space Between, Dan Aker
Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence
Strange Heaven, Lynn Coady
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A Heinlein

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A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

The Third Magic, Welwyn Wilton Katz
Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher
Three Songs for Courage, Maxine Trottier.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
The Truth About Forever, Sarah Dessen
Twilight, and series Stephenie Meyer

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Walkabout, James Vance Marshall

Watchmen, Alan Moore
Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block
Who has seen the wind, W.O. Mitchell.
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne

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104. Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay
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