Most books on this list are actually adult books of interest to young adults.

• Watership Down, Adams
• I Know Why A Caged Bird Sings, Angelou
• The Education Of Little Tree, Carter
• The House on Mango Street, Cisneros
• Gai-Jin, Clavell
• Jurassic Park, Crichton
• Ellen Foster, Gibbons
• Lord of the Flies, Golding
• Black Like Me, Griffin
• That Was Then, This Is Now, Hinton
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop, Café Flagg
• A Prayer For Owen Meany, Irving
• Flowers For Algernon, Keyes
• The Body (Stand By Me), King
• Animal Dreams, Kingsolver
• Into Thin Air, Krakauer
• Out of the Madness : from the projects to a life of hope, Ladd
• She’s Come Undone, Lamb
• To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee
• Where the Heart Is, Letts
• Tomorrow, When the War Began (5 titles), Marsden
• Out of Nowhere, Ouida
• The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck
• The Color Purple, Walker