From readers age 14 to 19
From readers age 14 to 19 a dozen of must-read & common cultural reference books:

XX century prose in English

1. 1984 - George Orwell
2. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
3. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
4. Clockwork orange - Anthony Burgess

5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
6. The Human Comedy - William Saroyan
7. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
8. The Hobbit (well, some kids read The Hobbit before 14) - J. R. R. Tolkien
9. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
10. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
11. Catcher in the rye & 9 stories - J. D. Salinger
12. Lord of flies - William Golding
13. The Sea-Wolf (or smth else you love best by this author; I like some of short stories) - Jack London
14. ? - Saul Bellow (for an older reader?)


We can venture in other directions, such as --

XIX century
Wuthering heights - Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
They say, the third sister - Ann Brontë - is also worth reading
Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

or

XX century books written in languages other than English

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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