 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.90 The one against which all other adolescent fiction will be compared. Brilliant... hilarious, a real modern classic.
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £4.75 / Used from: £0.33 Plath at her very best, a truly great novel.
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 | The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.48 Fantastic, so well written. Moving and haunting, one you will remember for a long time.
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 | Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 Describes the pain of growing up and the awful reality of schoolgirl bullying. One of Atwood's best.
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 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Buy used from: £3.73 The awkwardness of adolescence is caught perfectly in this great little novel. It deals with teenage longing, loss and friendship, very honest and moving.
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 | Old School (Vintage Contemporaries) by Tobias Wolff
Buy used from: £0.30 Set in an elite boys bording school in the 1960's, there are passages reminiscent from Catcher in the Rye. Well written and enjoyable to read.
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 | The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £1.18 Extremely dark, raw and haunting adolescent relationships between four siblings.
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 | Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.43 / Used from: £0.01 Different from The Virgin Suicides but just as good. Growing up becomes all the more difficult when Callie discovers she is a hermaphrodite. A haunting tale, sensitively written.
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 | Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Modern Classics) by Henri Alain-Fournier
Buy used from: £6.98 Beautifully written story, about love and friendship and believing in your dreams. Loved it.
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £6.89 / Used from: £0.01 A great modern classic, really evokes the setting of the prestigous New England college.
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