Librarians in Seattle (where The Boyfriend List is set, and where I went to high school) have made a list of the top twenty teen books of the 20th century.

It's a pretty great list, I think -- and if you consider yourself a reader, you should certainly have a go at all of these and you'll be more literate when you're done. But you won't have much of a laugh. They are all pretty deadly serious. I've read them all except The Chosen, which is sitting on my bookshelf.

I was very glad to see Weetzie Bat on there. I love that book madly and you should certainly start with that one. Some of them are for rather a younger audience -- like A Wrinkle in Time and Hatchet. Don't miss The Chocolate War and The Outsiders.

Happy reading!
--E