Recommended Books for Young Adults

Young adults who comprise of the age group between 14 to 25 must read something from every genre. It may be initially very difficult to switch from a favorite genre to something new, but it can be great to reinvent your reading habit and to explore a new field. The importance of reading can’t be explained in words. Reading not only widens horizon, but it also exposes us to numerous cultures, geography and traditions. The following list contains names of some of the recommended books for young adults from all fields, be it fiction, non – fiction, thrillers, philosophy and self help.

  • The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
  • The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
  • The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
  • Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  • The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
  • The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
  • The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
  • Confessions of a Shopaholic – Sophie Kinsella
  • The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again – J.R.R Tolkien
  • Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Judy Blume
  • Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
  • The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R Tolkien
  • Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
  • Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom
  • Animal Farm – George Orwell
  • Life of Pi – Yann Martel
  • Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
  • Memoirs of Geisha – Arthur Golden
  • Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling
  • Twilight Series – Stephanie Mayer
  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
  • The Odyssey – Homer
  • Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  • The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
  • A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  • Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
  • Emma – Jane Austen
  • A Walk to Remember – Nicholas Sparks
  • The Count of Mount Cristo – Alexander Dumas
  • The Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein
  • The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  • The Pillars of Earth – Ken Follet
  • And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
  • The Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
  • Anne Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
  • Laughable Loves – Milan Kundera
  • Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
  • Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbitt
  • Matilda – Roald Dahl
  • His Dark Materials’ Trilogy – Phillip Pullman
  • Just Listen – Sarah Dessen
  • Vampire Academy – Richelle Mead
  • Dracula – Bram Stoker
  • The Bad Beginning – Lemony Snicket

These are just some of the most recommended books for young adults. Although, I haven’t mentioned some of the most popular fantasy and thriller series novels in this list, it doesn’t mean they’re not recommended. In fact, read what interests you but the above list of best books for young adults are surely a treat to read for any book lover. If you think any book is missing from this list, then do not forget to tell us about your choice, in the comments column below!

100 Greatest Books Ever Written

I find myself in a dilemma. I am torn between writing a short review about each of the book mentioned in this list, or just enlisting the names of the 100 greatest books ever written. Judging by the excitement level in my heart, I think I will go on and on about each of these great books ever written. So, I choose to just enlist the names of these must read books. Hope you have read most of these must read books of all time.

  • Don Quixote ~ Miguel De Cervantes
  • Robinson Crusoe ~ Daniel Defoe
  • Dangerous Liaisons ~ Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
  • To Have and Have Not ~ Ernest Hemingway
  • 1984 ~ George Orwell
  • A Bend in the River ~ VS Naipaul
  • A Dance to the Music of Time ~ Anthony Powell
  • A Passage to India ~ E. M. Forster
  • A Room of One’s Own ~ Virginia Woolf
  • Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland ~ Lewis Carroll
  • All the King’s Men ~ Robert Penn Warren
  • Animal Farm ~ George Orwell
  • Arabian Nights ~ Anthony Galland
  • Austerlitz ~ WG Sebald
  • Birdsong ~ Sebastian Faulks
  • Black Beauty ~ Anna Sewell
  • Brave New World ~ Aldous Huxley
  • Breakfast At Tiffany’s ~ Truman Capote
  • Call of the Wild ~ Jack London
  • Catch-22 ~ Joseph Heller
  • Catcher in the Rye ~ J.D. Salinger
  • Crime and Punishment ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • David Copperfield ~ Charles Dickens
  • Don Quixote ~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Dr Zhivago ~ Boris Pasternak
  • Dracula ~ Bram Stoker
  • Dune ~ Frank Herbert
  • Fahrenheit 451 ~ Ray Bradbury
  • Fountainhead ~ Ayn Rand
  • Frankenstein ~ Mary Shelley
  • Germinal ~ Emile Zola
  • Go Tell It On the Mountain ~ James Baldwin
  • Gone with the Wind ~ Margaret Mitchell
  • Goodnight Mister Tom ~ Michelle Magorian
  • Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets ~ JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ~ JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone ~ JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban ~ JK Rowling
  • I Served the King of England ~ Bohumil Hrabal
  • Idylls of the King ~ Alfred Tennyson
  • Les Misérables ~ Victor Hugo
  • Lolita ~ Vladimir Nabokov
  • Lord of the Flies ~ William Golding
  • Madam Bovary ~ Gustave Flaubert
  • Memoirs Of A Geisha ~ Arthur Golden
  • Midnight’s Children ~ Salman Rushdie
  • Moby Dick ~ Herman Melville
  • Of Mice And Men ~ John Steinbeck
  • Old Goriot ~ Honoré de Balzac
  • Oliver Twist ~Charles Dickens
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Oscar and Lucinda ~ Peter Carey
  • Point Omega: A Novel ~ Don DeLillo
  • Pride and Prejudice ~ Jane Austin
  • Republic ~ Plato
  • Slaughterhouse-Five ~ Kurt Vonnegut
  • Swiss Family Robinson ~ Johann David Wyss
  • The Alchemist ~ Paulo Coelho
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ~ Junot Díaz
  • The Count of Monte Cristo ~ Alexandre Dumas
  • The God Of Small Things ~ Arundhati Roy
  • The Godfather ~ Mario Puzo
  • The Golden Notebook ~ Doris Lessing
  • The Grapes of Wrath ~ John Steinbeck
  • The Great Gatsby ~ F Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ~ Douglas Adams
  • The Home and the World ~ Rabindranath Tagore
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Kite Runner ~ Khaled Hosseini
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ~ Washington Irving
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ~ CS Lewis
  • The Lord Of The Rings ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Master and Margarita ~ Mikhail Bulgakov
  • The Metamorphosis ~ Franz Kafka
  • The Odyssey ~ Homer
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Oscar Wilde
  • The Secret Adversary ~ Agatha Christie
  • The Shining ~ Stephen King
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The Sound and The Fury ~ William Faulkner
  • The Stranger ~ Albert Camus
  • The Tale of Genji ~ Murasaki Shikibu
  • The Three Musketeers ~ Alexandre Dumas
  • The Time Machine ~ H.G. Wells
  • The Trial ~ Franz Kafka
  • The Wealth of Nations ~ Adam Smith
  • The Woman in White ~ Wilkie Collins
  • To Kill A Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee
  • Treasure Island ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Tropic of Cancer ~ Henry Miller
  • Ulysses ~ James Joyce
  • Under The Volcano ~ Malcolm Lowry
  • Underworld ~ Don DeLillo
  • Vanity Fair ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Waiting for the Mahatma ~ RK Narayan
  • Walden ~ Henry David Thoreau
  • War and Peace ~ Leo Tolstoy
  • Winter’s Bone ~ Daniel Woodrell
  • Wuthering Heights ~ Emily Bronte

This was the list of some of the greatest books ever written, in no particular order. I have enlisted some of my favorite books, thus, you may find the list biased. However, if your favorite book is missing, and you feel should be included in one of the greatest books ever written list, then make sure you mention it in the comment box below. Books are the world’s greatest treasures. Make it a point, to go through at least 50% of these classic books to read in our everyday busy lives.