The time has come for another list! As you will all soon come to realize, Emera and Kakaner have a dire weaknesses for creating and maintaining lists. We are also both fanatic collectors and readers of YA books, even in our post-teenage years
The list is reproduced below, but its permanent home is on our Lists page here:
The Black Letters Top 10 YA Books
In alphabetical order by author:
- Alice in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
- Ella Enchanted (1997) by Gail Carson Levine
- The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) by Justin Norton
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971) by Robert C. O’Brien
- The Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960) by Scott O’Dell
- Bridge to Terabithia (1977) by Katherine Paterson
- The Perilous Gard (1971) by Elizabeth Marie Pope
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond (1958) by Elizabeth George Speare
- Maniac Magee (1990) by Jerry Spinelli
- Dealing with Dragons (1990) by Patricia Wrede
Well, we started with about 20 choices and it was slightly tricky narrowing it down to 10. The genres range from fantasy to urban fiction to historical fiction to animal fiction, which we believe is a pretty healthy smattering of YA genres. If anyone hasn’t read any of these, well, he or she should. All these reads would probably take about an hour, two hours tops, and promise to be most rewarding.