Time’s 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time

Hello bookworms!!

I’ve been trying to figure out what I wanted to post today and I remembered that I recently saw Thrice Read do this post and I thought it would be fun to go through and see how many of these books I have already read. She came across an article from TIME which you can see here where they had compiled this list. Lets jump in shall we.

Rank and Title	Read?
1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian	No
2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone	Yes
3. The Book Thief	No
4. A Wrinkle in Time	Yes
5. Charlotte’s Web	No
6. Holes	No
7. Matilda	No
8. The Outsiders	Yes
9. The Phantom Tollbooth	No
10. The Giver	No
11. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.	No
12. To Kill A Mockingbird	No
13. Roll of Thunder, Hear Me Cry	No
14. Anne of Green Gables	No
15. The Chronicles of Narnia	No
16. Monster	No
17. The Golden Compass	No
18. The Diary of a Young Girl	No
19. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	No
20. Looking for Alaska	Yes
21. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	No
22. Little House on the Prairie	No
23. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane	No
24. Wonder	Yes
25. The Sword in the Stone	No
26. The Catcher in the Rye	No
27. Little Women	No
28. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	No
29. The Hobbit	No
30. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	No
31. Lord of the Flies	No
32. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	No
33. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland	Yes
34. Bridge to Terabithia	No
35. The Call of the Wild	No
36. A Separate Place	No
37. Harriet the Spy	No
38. The Chocolate War	No
39. Jacob Here I Loved	No
40. A Series of Unfortunate Events	No
41. Hatchet	No
42. The Lord of the Rings	No
43. Feed	No
44. The Alchemyst	No
45. The Princess Bride	No
46. Beezus & Ramona	No
47. Tarzan of the Apes	No
48. Johnny Tremain	No
49. The Westing Game	No
50. The Wind in the Willows	No
51. Speak	No
52. Mary Poppins	No
53. The Faults in Our Stars	Yes
54. A Northern Light	No
55. The Yearling	No
56. The Hunger Games	Yes
57. For Freedom	No
58. The Wall	No
59. A Monster Calls	Yes
60. Percy Jackson & the Olympians	No
61. The Illustrated Man	No
62. A Wreath for Emmett Till	No
63. Every Day	No
64. Where Things Come Back	No
65. Number the Stars	No
66. Blankets	No
67. Private Peaceful	No
68. The Witch of Blackbird Pond	No
69. Dangerous Angels	No
70. Frindle	No
71. Boxers and Saints	No
72. The Graveyard Book	No
73. City of the Beasts	No
74. American Born Chinese	No
75. The Lost Conspiracy	No
76. Dogsbody	No
77. The Pigman	No
78. Alabama Moon	No
79. Esperanza Rising	No
80. The Knife of Never Letting Go	No
81. Boy Proof	No
82. Fallen Angels	No
83. A High Wind in Jamaica	No
84. The Tiger Rising	No
85. When You Reach Me	No
86. Saffy’s Angel	No
87. The Grey King	No
88. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH	No
89. The Thief Lord	No
90. The Mysterious Benedict Society	No
91. The Invention of Hugo Cabret	No
92. Sabriel	No
93. Tiger Lily	No
94. Secret	No
95. A Wizard of Earthsea	No
96. Tales of Mystery and Imagination	No
97. Whale Talk	No
98. The Chronicles of Prydain	No
99. Danny the Champion of the World	No
100. Twilight	Yes

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 10/100 is a pretty good start. I will say several of these books I’ve never heard of before and there are several on here that I do plan on reading one day. Feel free to use the chart just please link back to me so I can read your post and also link back to Thrice Read because they created the chart that I used. What do you think of the books I have read and which ones do you think I should have already read?