Best books of all time, which is worth reading every teenager

Selections of the best books for teens by Time magazine, newspaper The Guardian, the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, as well as a bonus - in the opinion of the editorial board Layfhakera. Teenagers at the same time we assume that boys and girls aged from 10 to 19 years, according to the terminology of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA).

10 best books for young people and adolescents by Time

In 2015, the weekly magazine Time has published a selection of the hundred best books for young people. The list was drawn up on the recommendations of authoritative critics, publishers and readers' clubs from around the world. A complete list can be found here, But the top ten.

1. "Absolutely true diary half-Indian," Sherman Alexie. The original name - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Partly autobiographical book about a boy growing up on an Indian reservation, for which the author received the National Book Award America. The protagonist - the "nerd" who dreams of becoming an artist, defying the system and prejudices of society.
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2. series "Harry Potter", Joanne Rowling. The first of seven books about a young wizard and his friends, students at the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Hogwarts, saw the light in 1997. The story of Harry Potter has become incredibly popular around the world. Books have been translated into 67 languages ​​and filmed a movie company Warner Bros. Pictures. Series starting with the first novel, won many awards.
3. «The Book thief"Marcus Zusak. The original name - The Book Thief. The novel, written in 2006, describes the events of the Second World War, Nazi Germany and the girl Liesel. The book is included in the list of best-sellers The New York Times and the apt remark Bookmarks literary magazine, is able to break the heart of both teenagers and adults. After all, the story it is conducted on behalf of Death.
4. «A crack in time"Madeleine L'Engle. Original title - A Wrinkle in Time. Science fiction novel about a thirteen Meg that classmates and teachers feel too skittish. Perhaps the girl would have remained a thorn and would continue to suffer due to a sudden traceless the disappearance of his father, if not for one night event... The book was published in 1963 and received a number of awards.
5. "Charlotte's Web", E. B. White. The original name - Charlotte's Web. This is a beautiful story about friendship girl named Fern and pig named Uilburg was first published in 1952. The piece was filmed in a double cartoons, and became the basis for the musical.
6. "Pit" Louis Sachar. Original title - Holes. This is a novel by Danish writer who has received several awards and occupies 83 place in the list of 200 best books on the BBC version. Main character name is Stanley and he was totally out of luck in life. So much so that in the end it turns out to be in a prison camp, where it is necessary to dig a hole every day... Unfortunately, the book is not translated into Russian, but filmed called "GOLD".
7. "Matilda" by Roald Dahl. Original title - Matilda. This novel came out from under the pen of the English writer, whose children's books are famous for lack of sentimentality and often dark humor. The heroine of this work - a girl named Matilda, who loves to read and has some of my supernatural powers.
8. «outcasts"Susan Eloise Hinton. The original name - The Outsiders. The novel was first published in 1967 and is a classic American teenage literature. It tells of the conflict between two youth gangs and fourteen guy Poniboe Curtis. It is noteworthy that the author began work on the book, when she herself was 15 and graduated at 18. In 1983, Francis Ford Coppola was filmed eponymous feature film.
9. "Milo and a magic box," Norton Juster. The original name - The Phantom Tollbooth. The work, published in 1961, about the exciting adventures of a boy named Milo. Readers are waiting mischievous puns and wordplay, and thanks to the illustrations of Jules Phifer book is perceived as a cartoon.
10. «Giving"Loris Lowry. The original name - The Giver. This novel, written in a rare for children's literature dystopian genre, received the Medal of Newbury in 1994. The author paints a perfect world, where there is no disease, wars and conflicts, and no one in no way in need. However, it appears that such a world devoid of color, and there is no place not only suffering, but also of love. In 2014, the film was shot on the novel "Initiate".

10 best books for teens according to The Guardian

In 2014, the daily British newspaper The Guardian published a list of 50 books that are worth reading boys and girls. The list was compiled by the results of 7000 people voting. The works were divided into categories: "book to help you understand yourself", "books that change the world" "Books that teach to love", "books that you rassmeshat", "a book that will make you cry" and etc. This list.

The top ten includes books, contributing to the formation of the young reader's personality and inspirational to overcome difficulties.

1. trilogy "The Hunger Games"Susan Collins. The original name - The Hunger Games. The first book in this series was published in 2008 and six months later became a bestseller. Circulation of the first two novels, more than two million copies. The action of the story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, and, according to Collins, its creation was inspired by ancient Greek mythology of her and her father's military career. All parts of the trilogy filmed.
2. «The Fault in Our stars"John Green. The original name - The Fault in Our Stars. A touching love story between the Hazel sixteen, a cancer patient, and the Augustus seventeen with the same disease was published in 2012. In the same year the novel entered the list of best-selling The New York Times.
3. «To Kill a Mockingbird"Harper Lee. Original title - To Kill a Mockingbird. For the first time this work was published in 1960, and a year later the author received the Pulitzer Prize for it. In the US study it in the school curriculum. This is not surprising, because in the light of children's sight Harper Lee is looking at a very adult issues such as racism and inequality.
4. series "Harry Potter", Joanne Rowling. The Guardian here coincided with the Time.
5. «1984"George Orwell. Dystopia novel about totalitarianism, published in 1949. Along with Zamyatin "We" is considered one of the best in its genre. Artwork Orwell ranked eighth in the list of 200 best books on the version of the BBC, and Newsweek magazine put the novel into second place in the hundred best books of all time. Until 1988, the novel was banned in the Soviet Union.
6. «The Diary of Anne Frank». The original name - The Diary of a Young Girl. The only thing in the nonfiction list. This record, which led the Jewish girl Anne Frank from 1942 to 1944. Anna made the first record on June 12, the day of his birth when she was 13 years old. The last entry is dated August 1st. Three days later the Gestapo arrested all those who hid in the shelter, including Anna. Her blog is an object registry "Memory of the World" by UNESCO.
7. «Street cat named Bob"James Bowen. Original title - A Streetcat Named Bob. James Bowen was a street musician and had a drug problem, until one day she picked up a stray cat. The meeting proved fateful. "He came and asked me for help, and he asked for my help more than my body asked for self-destruction," - says Bowen. The story of two tramps, a man and a cat, she heard a literary agent Mary Paknos and invited James to write an autobiography. The book, co-written with Gary Jenkins, saw the light in 2010.
8. «Lord of the Rings"J. R. R. Tolkien. The original name - The Lord of the Rings. This is one of the most popular books of the twentieth century as a whole and in the fantasy genre in particular. The novel was written as a single book, but because of the large volume in the publication of its divided into three parts. Works have been translated into 38 languages ​​and has had an enormous influence on world culture. In his explanation of filmed and created computer games.
9. «The perks of Being a Wallflower"Stephen Chbosky. The original name - The Perks of Being a Wallflower. This is a story about a guy named Charlie, who, like all teenagers, is keenly aware of the loneliness and misunderstanding. He pours his feelings in letters. The book was published one million copies, critics have dubbed it "" The Catcher in the Rye "new era." The novel made into a movie by the author himself, starring Logan Lerman and his girl - Emma Watson.
10. «Jane Eyre", Charlotte Bronte. The original name - Jane Eyre. The novel was first published in 1847 and immediately won the love of readers and critics. In the center of attention - early orphaned girl Jane with a strong character and a lively imagination. Book filmed many times, it takes tenth place in the list of 200 best books on the BBC version.

10 best books for students according to the Russian Ministry

In January 2013 the Russian Federation Ministry of Education and Science published a list of one hundred books for middle school students to extracurricular reading. The list included works outside the school curriculum.

Create a list and its contents caused a lively debate in the press and on the Internet. The address of the Ministry of Education expressed a lot of criticism, and some literary figures suggested alternative lists.

Nevertheless, here are the first ten of "100 books on the history, culture and literature of the peoples of the Russian Federation, recommended students for independent reading."

Note: the list drawn up in alphabetical order, so our ten consists of the first ten names. Two works by the same author will be assumed by one point. This is by no means a rating.

1. "Blockade Book" Daniel Granik and Alexei Adamovich. This documentary chronicles the siege, first published with cuts in 1977. In Leningrad, the book was banned until 1984.
2. «The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years"And"The white ship"Chingiz Aitmatov. The title of the novel "The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years" has been moved a string of Boris Pasternak's poem. This is the first major work of Aitmatov, published in 1980. The story "The White Ship" about seven orphan boy who lives on the shores of Lake Issyk-Kul, published a decade earlier.
3. «Star ticket"And"The island of Crimea"Vasily Aksenov. The history of the Denis brothers told in the novel "Star Ticket" in due time "blow up" the public. The most innocuous, what accused Aksenov, - abuse of youth slang. Fiction novel "The Island of Crimea", published in 1990, by contrast, was greeted with enthusiasm and became a major bestseller year-Union.
4. «My brother plays the clarinet"Anatoly Aleksin. Novel written in 1968, in the form of the diary of a girl Jenny who dreams of dedicate his life to his brother-musician. But it turns out that everyone - as a separate planet, and everyone has their own goals and dreams.
5. «Dersu Uzala"Vladimir Arsenyev. One of the best works of Russian adventure literature. The novel describes the life of the small peoples of the Far East and the hunter Dersu Uzala.
6. «Shepherd and Shepherdess"And"King fish"Viktor Astafjevs. Two stories on two main themes in the works Astafieva - the war and the village. The first was written in 1967, and the second - in 1976.
7. «Odessa stories"And"Red Cavalry"Isaac Babel. These are two collections of short stories. The first tells the story of pre-revolutionary Odessa and gang Benya Krik, and the second - about the Civil War.
8. «Ural tales"Paul Bazhov. This is a collection that is based on the mining folklore of the Urals. "Malachite Box", "mistress of the Copper Mountain", "The Stone Flower" - these and many other works Bazhov known and loved since childhood.
9. «Republic SHKID"Gregory White and Alexei Panteleyev. Adventure story about homeless children living in the School of Social and labor education named Dostoevsky (SHKID). Prototypes of the two characters have become authors themselves. Product of filmed in 1966.
10. «The moment of truth"Vladimir Bogomolov. The novel takes place in August 1944 in the territory of Belarus (another name for the product - "In August, forty-fourth"). The book is based on real events.

Best books for teens according to Layfhakera edition

We decided to find out what she read as a teenager Layfhakera team. And called "Harry Potter" and "Lord of the Rings" and other works mentioned above. But there were some books that are not mentioned in the top ten of any of the lists.

I read the "Great Soviet Encyclopedia". There are thousands and thousands of strangers interesting words, and I, as a small, sit on the toilet, just opened to any page and read, read, reading, learning new terms and definitions. Informative.

With a collection of poetry Vysotsky I met when I was quite small: only read texts that anything knew. About evil and especially loved about what happened in Africa. And with 11 years of my life gone somewhere not there (and there are many to blame Professor Tolkien, by the way), and it is in all sorts of tents. And there Vysotsky was repeatedly reread. And it is because of its collection, I began to love men as a form of existence of matter, and has earned the first money. These events are to each other are not connected, if that.

One of the books that most influenced me as a teenager, became the novel "A Hero of Our Time" Lermontov. Love, passion, nature, philosophy of nihilism - what else is needed for a teenager? :) Here it is fertile ground for youth extremism. Artwork made us think about their place in this world, the essence of life, and all this, eternal.

At the age of 12-13 years, I have read the book "The Mysterious Island". At this time, I generally fond of books by Jules Verne, full of adventures and surprises. Mentally, along with the characters to overcome difficulties and traveled. "Mysterious Island" taught that even in the most hopeless situation, do not give up. To dream, to believe, and the main thing - to do.

As a child I did not like to read. Perhaps because it forced me to. But in 10-12 years, I came across the story of Valentina Oseeva "Dink" and I was gone. This adventure story about true friendship forever sunk into my soul, and syllable Valentina Oseeva showed that reading can be fun. After that, I devoured by all the works of the school curriculum.

With the works of Remarque I met 13 years, it seems. It began, as usual, with the "Three comrades". It is clear that when subjects lost generation I do not have to worry much more interesting was the relationship of the protagonist and his lover. A really well hooked "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "The Return" - poignant stories about the fate of tilled useless war. I do not know, it would have made these books the same strong impression, if I met them now, but for a teenager, I think they are strictly required for reading.

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What you read in their 10-19 years? What book are you sure to buy your children when they are at that age? And what, in your opinion, necessarily to the reading of the generation Z?