The Best Young Adult Novels of All Time

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The books on this list were voted the best young adult novels of all time in the 2004 Hipple-Claiborne survey of middle and high school English teachers, college professors of young adult literature, librarians, and even some authors of young adult novels.

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Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak. 1999.

Block, Francesca Lia. Weetzie Bat. 1989.

Cormier, Robert. After the First Death. 1979.

Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War. 1974.

Cormier, Robert. I Am the Cheese. 1977.

Crutcher, Chris. Chinese Handcuffs. 1989.

Crutcher, Chris. Ironman. 1995.

Crutcher, Chris. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes. 1993.

Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963. 1995.

Garden, Nancy. Annie on My Mind. 1982.

Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust. 1997.

Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders. 1967.

Lowry, Lois. The Giver. 1993.

Myers, Walter Dean. Fallen Angels. 1988.

Myers, Walter Dean. Monster. 1999.

Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet. 1987.

Sachar, Louis. Holes. 1998.

Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. 1951.

Spinelli, Jerry. Stargirl. 2000.

Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. 1976.

Wolff, Virginia Euwer. Make Lemonade. 1993.

Zindel, Paul. The Pigman. 1968.