Adult Books Recommended for Teen Readers

As Cool as I Am by Pete Fromm (Picador USA)
Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperTorch)
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg (Anchor)
Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot (Avon)
The Brothers K by David James Duncan (Bantam)
Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian (Shaye Areheart Books)
Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid (Minnesota Historical Society)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Little, Brown)
Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott (Picador USA)
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel (Bantam)
A Cure for Dreams by Kaye Gibbons (Algonquin Books)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage)
Daddy's Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket Books)
The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action by Wendy Northcutt (Plume)
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday)
Diary of an American Au Pair by Marjorie Leet Ford (Anchor)
The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer (Vintage)
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells (HarperTorch)
Educating Esme by Esme Raji Codell (Algonquin Books)
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn (Anchor)
Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Vintage)
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Tor Science Fiction)
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (Penguin)
Exodus and Trinity by Leon Uris (Bantam)
The Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate (Scribner)
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (HarperCollins)
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (Norton)
Flags of our Fathers by James Bradley (Bantam)
Fun with Phone Solicitors by Robert Harris (Warner Books)
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (Vintage)
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King (Pocket Books)
The Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (Plume)
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Warner)
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (Vintage)
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (St. Martin's)
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (Plume)
An Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (Ballantine)
Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer (Anchor)
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (Anchor)
Jim the Boy by Tony Earley (Back Bay Books)
Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown (1stBooks Library)
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie (Perennial)
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey)
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (Penguin)
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman (Plume)
Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist (Bantam)
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Vintage)
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian (Vintage)
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall (Vintage)
Mohawk by Richard Russo (Vintage)
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson (Washington Square Press)
Mr. Darcy's Daughters by Elizabeth Aston (Touchstone Books)
North To The Night by Alvah Simon (Broadway)
Not Without Peril by Nicholas Howe (Appalachian Mountain Club Books)
The Odd Sea by Frederick Reiken (Harcourt)
Old School by Tobias Wolff (Knopf)
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone Books)
Outlander (and the entire series) by Diana Gabaldon (Dell)
Ozzy Knows Best by Chris Nickson (St. Martin's/Griffin)
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Atria Books)
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (Grove)
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger (Perennial)
The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas (St. Martin's)
Plainsong by Kent Haruf (Vintage)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (Perennial)
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving (Ballantine)
Primate's Memoir by Robert M. Sapolsky (Scribner)
The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone Books)
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Random House)
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier (Avon)
The River Why by David James Duncan (Sierra Books)
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (Dover)
Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks (Perennial)
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (Ballantine)
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Penguin)
A Series of Unfortunate Events (the series) by Lemony Snicket (HarperCollins)
Shikar by Jack Warner (Forge)
Shopaholic (series) by Sophie Kinsella (Delta)
Simpson's Comics Unchained by Matt Groening (Perennial)
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (Vintage)
A Stranger in the Kingdom by Howard Frank Mosher (Mariner Books)
The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker (Downtown Press)
10th Grade by Joseph Weisberg (Random House)
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (Broadway)
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (MacAdam/Cage)
Timeline by Michael Crichton (Ballantine)
Touching The Void by Joe Simpson (Perennial)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (HarperCollins)
The True Account by Howard Frank Mosher (Houghton Mifflin)
Until They Bring the Streetcars Back by Stanley Gordon West (Lexington-Marshall)
Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett (Norton)
Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire (Free Press)
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (Broadway)
The War Journal of Major Damon "Rocky" Gause by Damon Major "Rocky" Gause (Hyperion Press)
Watership Down by Richard Adams (Avon)
The Wild Colonial Boy by James Hynes (Picador)
Writing and Being by G. Lynn Nelson (Inner Ocean/Innisfree Press)
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (Penguin)

Recommended Authors Include:

Dan Brown
Tom Clancy
Mary Higgins Clark
Clive Cussler
Ken Follett
Stephen King
Dean Koontz
Jodi Picoult