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Ages 14+

Best books for ages 14+

Young-adult fiction chosen with care.

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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

Ages 12–18

The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum

Candace Fleming

Ages 10–14

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

Ages 15–99

The Song of Achilles

Explicit sexStrong violence

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Ages 16–18

Sexual contentStrong violence

Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Ages 14–18

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Ages 16–18

The Arrival

Ages 10–99

Sexual contentStrong violence

Ages 14–18

Essex County

Ages 16–99

Goya: The Terrible Sublime

Ages 16–99

Strong violence

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

Marjane Satrapi

Ages 14–18

Sexual contentStrong violence

Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 1

Ages 18–99

The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia

Ages 12–16

Catherine, Called Birdy

Catherine, Called Birdy

Ages 12–15

On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Ages 10–14

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

Ages 10–14

The Golem and the Jinni

The Golem and the Jinni

Ages 16–99

20th Century Boys, Vol. 1

Ages 16–99

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Ages 12–18

The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act

Ages 16–99

Christy

Catherine Marshall

Ages 14–18

The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman

The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman

Sena Jeter Naslund

Ages 16–18

Strong violence

They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Ages 14–18

We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March

We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March

Cynthia Levinson

Ages 10–14

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