“Crossover” is what the publishing industry calls books that appeal to both adults and teenagers. Books can cross over in both directions: they’re especially popular if they win awards, or reviewers rave about them. Here are fifty great reads that both adults and young adults might enjoy.
Classics
Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
George Orwell, 1984
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
Elizabeth Knox (NZ), Dreamhunter
Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials series
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Atwood, Margaret, The Year of the Flood
Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
Turner, Megan Whalen, The Queen’s Thief series
Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines quartet
Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking trilogy
General
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Kate De Goldi (NZ), The 10 pm Question
Jenny Downham, Before I Die
Michelle Embree, Manstealing for Fat Girls
Jeffrey Eungenides, The Virgin Suicides
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Witi Ihimaera (NZ), The Whale Rider
John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Justine Larbalestier, Liar
Melina Marchetta, The Piper’s Son
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Emily Perkins (NZ), The New Girl
DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Natalie Standiford, How to Say Goodbye in Robot
Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere
Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
Graphic Novels
Neil Gaiman, Sandman series
Art Spiegelman, Maus
Bryan Talbot, The Tale of One Bad Rat
Shaun Tan, The Arrival
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis
Historical & War
M T Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation
Julie Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied
Aidan Chambers, Postcards from No Man’s Land
Tracy Chevallier, Girl with a Pearl Earring
Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Supernatural Romance
Kristin Cashore, Graceling
Charlaine Harris, Sookie Stackhouse series
Robin McKinley, Sunshine
Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely
Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
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