The end of the year and beginning of the next bring numerous “best of” lists. School Library Journal has several Best of 2012 lists [2], but I thought I might share with you what we have on our shelves that reviewers found to be the best adult books for teen readers [3]. Whether you already read mostly adult fiction or non-fiction, you read back and forth between teen and adult reads, or you’ve been thinking about branching out into the adult collection, you might consider checking out one of these. What would be on your “best of” list?
Best Adult Books 4 Teens 2012
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- Dare Me [9] by Megan Abbott (Fiction)
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity [10] by Katherine Boo (Nonfiction)
- Tell the Wolves I’m Home [11] by Carol Rifka Brunt (Fiction)
- The Book of Jonas [12] by Stephen Dau (Fiction)
- The Bartender’s Tale [13] by Ivan Doig (Fiction)
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- Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk [19] by Ben Fountain (Fiction)
- Goliath [20] by Tom Gauld (Graphic Novel)
- The Distance Between Us: A Memoir [21] by Reyna Grande (Nonfiction)
- Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West [22] by Blaine Harden (Nonfiction)
- Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats [23] by Kristen Iversen (Nonfiction)
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- Little Century [28] by Anna Keesey (Fiction)
- Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told you about Being Creative [29] by Austin Kleon (Nonfiction)
- The Land of Decoration [30] by Grace McCleen (Fiction)
- The Song of Achilles [31] by Madeline Miller (Fiction)
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- The Rook [36] by Daniel O’Malley (Fiction)
- Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Street, One Helping Hand at a Time [37] by Carissa Phelps (Nonfiction)
- The Yellow Birds [38] by Kevin Powers (Fiction)
- The Cove [39] by Ron Rash (Fiction)
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- Sailor Twain: Or the Mermaid in the Hudson [44] by Mark Siegel (Graphic Novel)
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail [45] by Cheryl Strayed (Nonfiction)
- The Age of Miracles [46] by Karen Thompson Walker (Fiction)
- Alif the Unseen [47] by G. Willow Wilson (Fiction)
Flickr CC [48]: Genetics Exhibit, San Jose Tech [49] Photo by: Thomas Hawk [50]
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- Teens [54]
