For Younger Readers

1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
2. The Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
3. The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
4. Blue Skin of the Sea by Graham Salisbury
5. Famous All Over Town by Danny Santiago
6. Downsiders by Neal Shusterman
7. Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
8. Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
9. Fup by Jim Dodge
10. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
11. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglass Adams
12. Stoked: A History of Surf Culture by Drew Kampion and Bruce Brown
13. Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
14. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
15. The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
16. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
17. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
18. Bless Me by Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
19. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
20. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
21. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
22. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
23. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
24. Hoops by Walter Dean Myers
25. The Contender by Robert Lipsyte
26. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
27. The Chosen by Chaim Potok
28. The House Made of Dawn by M. Scott Momaday
29. Parrot in the Oven by Victor Martinez
30. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
31. The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
32. Sphere by Michael Crichton
33. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
34. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
35. Dune by Frank Herbert
36. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
37. Slake's Limbo by Felice Holman
38. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
39. One Fat Summer by Robert Lipsyte
40. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
41. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
42. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
43. Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
44. Interstellar Pig by William Sleator
45. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
46. Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
47. Deathwatch by Robb White
48. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
49. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
50. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

For Older Readers

1. A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
2. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
3. Ironman by Chris Crutcher
4. Makes Me Want to Holler by Nathan McCall
5. Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks
6. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
7. This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
8. Way Past Cool by Jess Mowry
9. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
10. The Electric Koolaid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
11. Heaven Is a Playground by Rick Telander
12. A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley
13. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
14. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
15. The Brothers K by David James Duncan
16. The River Why by David James Duncan
17. Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge
18. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Farina
19. Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
20. Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
21. Portnoy's Complaint by Phllip Roth
22. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
23. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
24. Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
25. Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
26. Golf in the Kingdom by Michael Murphy
27. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
28. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
29. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegutt
30. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
31. Dispatches by Michael Herr
32. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
33. What Are People For? by Wendell Berry
34. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig
35. Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon
36. The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
37. Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
38. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
39. Purple America by Rick Moody
40. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
41. Howl by Allen Ginsberg
42. Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman
43. The Hearts of Men by Barbara Ehrenreich
44. Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
45. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
46. About a Boy by Nick Hornby
47. Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
48. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
49. The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
50. Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
51. Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
52. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
53. Black Boy by Richard Wright
54. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
55. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
56. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
57. The World According to Garp by John Irving
58. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
59. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
60. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
61. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoesky
62. Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
63. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
64. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
65. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
66. Going after Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
67. 1984 by George Orwell
68. Cry by the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
69. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
70. Candide by Voltaire
71. Ball Four by Jim Bouton
72. Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
73. Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers