What books should 16 year olds read?

16 coming-of-age books every 16-year-old should read

• The Harry Potter series. JK Rowling, 1997-2011.
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Stephen Chbosky, 1999.
• The Outsiders. SE Hinton, 1967.
• To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee, 1960.
• The Lord of The Rings. JRR Tolkien, 1954.
• The Catcher in the Rye. JD Salinger, 1951.
• Great Expectations.

What is the best book for a teenager?

1. I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai.
2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.
3. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.
4. Night by Elie Wiesel.
5. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
6. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
7. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.

Who is the greatest novelist of the 20th century?

20th Century Writers

1. 1 J. R. R. Tolkien. 123 50. Famous As: Writer.
2. 2 J. K. Rowling. 131 107. Famous As: Novelist.
3. 3 Rabindranath Tagore. 155 88. Famous As: Poet.
4. 4 Roald Dahl. 121 59. Famous As: Novelist.
5. 5 Ernest Hemingway. 62 21. Famous As: Novelist.
6. 6 Stan Lee. 35 14.
7. 7 Dr. Seuss.
8. 8 Agatha Christie. 79 20.

What is the most read novel in the world?

25 Best-Selling Books of All-Time

• #1 – Don Quixote (500 million copies sold)
• #2 – A Tale of Two Cities (200 million copies sold)
• #3 – The Lord of the Rings (150 million copies sold)
• #4 – The Little Prince (142 million copies sold)
• #5 – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (107 million copies sold)

Who is the greatest British novelist?

The 10 Greatest Classic British Novelists

• Jane Austen. In 1811, Sense and Sensibility was published anonymously ‘By a Lady’.
• Charles Dickens.
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
• George Orwell.
• Virginia Woolf.
• J.R.R. Tolkien.
• George Eliot.
• Mary Shelley.

What’s the most famous book?

the Bible
The most read book in the world is the Bible. Writer James Chapman created a list of the most read books in the world based on the number of copies each book sold over the last 50 years. He found that the Bible far outsold any other book, with a whopping 3.9 billion copies sold over the last 50 years.

Who are the best selling authors of the 20th century?

Top 40 Bestselling Authors of the 20th Century

• Danielle Steel.
• Stephen King.
• James A. Michener.
• Sidney Sheldon.
• Mary Higgins Clark.
• Robert Ludlum.
• Lloyd C. Douglas.
• Sinclair Lewis.

What is the best novel set in 20th century Britain?

Best Novels Set in 20th-century Britain 1 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 4.23 avg ra 2 Atonement by Ian McEwan 3.91 avg rating 3 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 3.79 avg 4 Howards End by E.M. Forster 3.95 avg rat 5 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh rea

What are the top 10 British novels?

The 100 greatest British novels – BBC Culture. 1. Middlemarch (George Eliot, 1874) 2. To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf, 1927) 3. Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925) 4. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens, 1861) 5. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë, 1847)

How many novels of the 20th century are there?

This list was formulated from cumulative research and is presented in good faith as a guide to 50 novels that defined the 20th Century.

What are some of the best American literature books of the 1920s?

1 Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 1920 2 Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 1922 3 An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 1925 4 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 5 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 1926 6 The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman 1929 7 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 1929