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There's a broad mixture of genre and theme – from JRR Tolkien's high-fantasy elves and orcs to the poignant contemporary realism of Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The top 10 includes another Brontë (Charlotte), Harper Lee and George Orwell, and more young-adult stalwarts such as Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins and John Green.
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On the longer list are plenty of writers who are surely grown-up by anyone's standards, including Emily Brontë, Anthony Burgess, F Scott Fitzgerald and Alice Walker. The complete list of 50 features books to "help you understand you", "change the way you think" and "make you cry", as well as thrill, transport and scare you. The Writes of Passage list of popular books for young adults, voted for by 7,000 people across the UK, features a top 10 of books to help "shape and inspire" teenagers, and give them the empathic tools and words to handle some of the challenges of adolescence. As the sixth What Kids Are Reading report bemoans a tendency among secondary school students to read books that are too easy – suggesting that teachers and librarians aren't pushing challenging titles strongly enough to older kids – the organisers of World Book Day have announced a list that might serve as a corrective, or at least a useful source of ideas.