9-18 Books to Read Before You Turn 18
Welcome to the third installment of our new feature here on the918.org. 9 to 18 Favorite. Different contributors will share with you a list of between 9 to 18 places, events, or things that are their favorite in that category. Have a list of 9 to 18 that you want to share? Email it to our lead contributor Aaron Tiger (aarontiger@fumctulsa.org)
by Aaron Leatherbarrow and Josh Danker-Dake
3 books to read before you are 3
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Farm by James Brown
Creation by Gerald McDermott
6 books to read before you are 6
Frederick by Leo Lionni
Giants of Land, Sea, and Air by David Peters
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Little Smudge by Lionel Le Neouanic
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum by Norman Stiles, Daniel Wilcox, and Joe Mathieu
9 books to read before you are 9
Holes by Louis Sachar
Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Superfudge by Judy Blume
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
18 books to read before you are 18
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Odyssey by Homer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
1984 by George Orwell
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Native Son by Richard Wright
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Do you have any more books you think should be on our list? Leave them in the comments below!
these are not in any particular order 🙂 and many great ones were omitted.