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Top 40 Essential Reads

A list of our Top 40 best-selling, best-loved PG-15 titles.



This is a selection of our current Top 40 Essential Reads titles. To find other titles or authors, or just to browse, please use the search box.

Life of Pi - trade paperback
By Yann Martel - $21.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Life of Pi tells the story of Pi, who lives in Pondicherry, India, where his family -- mother, father and an older brother -- runs a zoo. When the ...

 

The Kite Runner - trade paperback
By Khaled Hosseini - $21.00 - add to cart

Amir and Hassan are childhood friends in the alleys and orchards of Kabul in the sunny days before the invasion of the Soviet army and Afghanistan’s decent into fanaticism. Both motherless, they gr...

 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - trade paperback
By Mark Haddon - $19.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel.Winner of the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year Award.Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, ...

 

The Catcher In The Rye - mass market paperback
By Jd Salinger - $8.50 - add to cart

Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly...

 

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging - young adult softcover
By Louise Rennison - $9.99 - add to cart

Her dad's got the mentality of a Teletubby (only not so developed). Her cat, Angus, is trying to eat the poodle next door. And her best friend thinks she looks like an alien -- just because she acc...

 

She's Come Undone - mass market paperback
By Wally Lamb - $9.99 - add to cart

Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the ...

 

The Secret Life of Bees - trade paperback
By Sue Monk Kidd - $15.50 - add to cart

This debut novel tells the tale of 14-year-old Lily Owen who is raised by the elderly African American Rosaleen after the accidental death of Lily's mother. After a racial brawl, the two find refu...

 

Wicked - trade paperback
By Gregory Maguire - $19.00 - add to cart

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she c...

 

The Outsiders - young adult softcover
By Se Hinton - $11.00 - add to cart

When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world.

 

To Kill A Mockingbird - mass market paperback
By Harper Lee - $9.50 - add to cart

One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than f...

 

Bone Dance - young adult softcover
By Martha Brooks - $8.95 - add to cart

A densely-layered, complicated plot, with the story narrated in third-person, past tense, and told alternately by the two central characters, Lonny and Alexandra, this novel will appeal to the more...

 

The Lovely Bones - trade paperback
By Alice Sebold - $15.50 - add to cart

When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from this strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a fourteen-year-old girl, a tale that is b...

 

My Sister's Keeper : A Novel - trade paperback
By Jodi Picoult - $17.50 - add to cart

New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apa...

 

Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants - young adult softcover
By Ann Brashares - $9.99 - add to cart

Once there was a pair of pants. Just an ordinary pair of jeans. But these pants, the Traveling Pants, went on to do great things. This is the story of the four friends - Lena, Tibby, Bridget, an...

 

Gossip Girl #1 - young adult softcover
By Cecily Von-ziegesar - $11.99 - add to cart

Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep - sometimes with each other.Enter the scandalous world of Gossip Girl - a world inhabited by t...

 

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