Young adult novels put you inside the head of a teenager working out who they are. Here you have 23 of them in PDF, complete and free to download.
These are the books that built the genre before anyone called it young adult. Jim Hawkins ships out in Treasure Island, Jo March decides she will be a writer in Little Women, and Huck Finn rafts down the Mississippi.
Most of the collection is coming-of-age fiction, novels that follow one person from childhood into adult life. Pick one and start reading tonight, no account and no email needed.
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Teen Classics
Young Adult Novels
Classics with a teenage narrator at the center, the ones assigned in class and read anyway for pleasure. Every one is the full novel, not a shortened school reader.
Jim Hawkins finds a map in a dead sailor's chest and ships out with a crew hiding a mutiny. The complete text in a clean modern edition with cover art.
Tom skips school, hunts for buried treasure and witnesses a crime in a Mississippi river town. This is the full novel, not the shortened school reader.
Novels that follow one person from childhood into adult life, the tradition young adult fiction grew out of. Dickens, Joyce, Cather and Montgomery each wrote their own version of it.
David tells his own life from a cruel stepfather and a bottling factory to the desk where he becomes a writer. Dickens called it his favourite of his own books.
Philip Carey moves from an unhappy childhood through art school and medicine while an obsessive love keeps derailing him. A long, honest account of learning to live.
Four generations of a family bear down on one son who slowly works out that he does not have to become his father. A landmark attack on Victorian upbringing.
Stephen Dedalus moves from schoolboy to art student, and the prose grows up with him sentence by sentence. The starting point for readers new to Joyce.
Anne is sixteen and teaching at the school she used to attend, learning that being in charge is nothing like she imagined. The sequel to Anne of Green Gables.
An orphan is sent to college by an anonymous benefactor on one condition, that she write to him monthly. The whole novel is her letters, and they are very funny.
