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Slate's 100 Great Books for an Ambitious Teenage Reader

On last week's episode of Mom and Dad Are Fighting, Slate's parenting podcast, I mentioned that this summer I've given my daughter Lyra a 100-book reading list...So I made up this list and told her the only thing I require of her this summer is that she needs to read 25 of them. (So far she's read about 15.)
The list is made up of a mix of classics and contemporary books, short stories and novels, plays and comics, literature and trash. Some of them are books I loved dearly when I was 14. (That's one reason there are so many dudes on the list.) Some of them are books that I'm pretty sure are way over Lyra's head. Above all, these are 100 books that I hope my particular 14-year-old girl will love, and that I hope will serve as a good grounding in the world of modern letters as she goes forward in her life.
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Was (Geoff Ryman)
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (Patricia...
The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Antholog...
Zero Fade (Chris Terry)
The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology...
Sweat (Lynn Nottage)
Coyote Vs.Acme (Ian Frazier)
All in the Timing (David Ives)
On a Sunbeam (Tillie Walden)
Paul Has a Summer Job
Pluto
The Middleman and Other Stories (Baharati Mukhe...
Jim the Boy (Tony Earley)
The Dream of a Common Language (Adrienne Rich)
Dave Barry's Bad Habits: A 100% Fact-Free Book
The Greatest of Marlys (Lynda Barry)
Torch Song Trilogy
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and M...
Underground Airlines (Ben H. Winters)
Self-Help, Lorrie Moore
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the...
Swimming to Cambodia (Spaulding Gray)
Get in Trouble (Kelly Link)
Archy and Mehitabel (Don Marquis)
The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat (Harr...
Homeland and Other Stories
Life Among the Savages (Shirley Jackson)
Bluebeard's Egg (Margaret Atwood)
Arcadia
Tenth of December
March (#1-3) (John Lewis)
Y: The Last Man
Parable of the Sower
Skin Tight (Carl Hiaasen)
Ghost World (Daniel Clowes)
The Fifth Season (N. K. Jemisin)
Fables
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
The Doonesbury Chronicles (G.B. Trudeau)
Jitterbug Perfume
Never Cry Wolf (Farley Mowat)
Death Note (Takeshi Obata, Tsugumi Ohba)
Kitchen
A Spell for Chameleon
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Blankets
Galápagos (Kurt Vonnegut)
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
100 Selected Poems
Over Sea, Under Stone
The Bloody Chamber
Alive (Piers Paul Read)
Dragonsong (Anne McCaffrey)
The Chronicles of Prydain (Lloyd Alexander)
The Magicians (Lev Grossman)
Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Fun Home
Small Gods
The Chosen
World War Z (Max Brooks)
Song of Solomon
Redwall
Nine Stories (J.D. Salinger)
The Alienist
The Bean Trees
Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Station Eleven (Emily St John Mandel)
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
A Walk in the Woods
Marley & Me
Watchmen
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
Wild
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Sword in the Stone
The Martian Chronicles
The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
Waiting for Godot
Into the Wild
Maus
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Stand
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, by Alexande...
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
The Joy Luck Club
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
Night
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Sense and Sensibility
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Twilight (Stephenie Meyer)
Anne of Green Gables
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