Adam McCauley

• Tintin: The Castafiore Emerald
• Tiktok of Oz
• The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My
• Asterix the Gaul
• The Hobbit
• A Book of Nonsense
• Codex Seriphinianus

Patrick Jones

• Coyote Steals the Blanket, A Ute Tale

• A trickster tale about a coyote, a blanket, and a rock. Hot times in the desert.

• Dangerous Girls

• Or anything by Stine. The man's a genius. Don't believe me: this is about twin teen girls vampires one hot summer. Do the math.

• Hidden Talents

• This has it all: humor, adventure, smart mouth teen boys, stupid rules to rebel against, and fire.

• Scholastic Book Of Lists

• When you don’t have time for chapters or even paragraphs, choose bullets. Bullet points that is.

• Scary Stories 3

• Nothing wrong with the first two volumes, but this is "just delicious!" Don't read this during lunch or before or after.

• Strong to the Hoop

• A 10-year-old gets a chance to play with the big boys. Read this and you'll feel the sweat fly off the pages.

• The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, The Definitive History of the Most Important Artists and Their Music

• By the Rolling Stone editors. An earlier edition of this book was my Bible at age 17. Everything you need to know.

Micol Ostow

• The Haunting of Hill House
• Shirley Jackson

• "The ne plus ultimate haunted house story, I like to think of Amity's Gwen as sort of a modern spin on Eleanor, a young woman seeing and experiencing ghostly things, whose mind and perceptions can't be trusted."

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle
• Shirley Jackson

• "A slow-burner filled with atmosphere. Merricat is the platonic ideal of an unreliable narrator."

• The Shining
• Stephen King

• "A suggestible man, prone to violence, isolated in a hotel that exerts evil force over his will... Jack Torrance is to Amity's Connor as Hill House's Eleanor is to Gwen."

• Tighter
• Adele Griffin

• "A modern take on The Turn of the Screw, Griffin draws from chilling source material and makes it her own for today's teen readers."

• To Die For
• Joyce Maynard

• "A dark and twisty thriller (the movie's great, too) that serves up multiple POV's on a platter. I spent a lot of time poring over the many distinct voices of that book."

• The Maddaddam trilogy
• Margaret Atwood

• "Epic and sprawling, boldly visionary, and still she manages to tie all of her narrative threads together by the series' conclusion. To spend ten minutes in that woman's head!"

• Dangerous Girls
• Abigail Haas

• "Pacing, pacing, pacing. Totally un-put-downable."

• The Amityville Horror
• Jay Anson

• "(That one probably goes without saying.)"

• We Were Liars
• E.Lockhart

• "The pages turn and the ending twists!"

Peter Brown

• George and Martha, George and Martha

• I can't overemphasize how perfectly James Marshall balances sweetness and absurdity in these stories.

• Everyone Poops

• Everyone Poops is a continuous source of 'inspiration.

• James and the Giant Peach

• Witty dialogue, fantastical adventure and a wonderfully dark sense of humor seem to effortlessly flow from Roald Dahl's pen.

• His Dark Materials

• This series is perhaps the most unique, thoughtful, and provocative fantasy I’ve ever read.

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

• I was mesmerized by the way Verne describes the science and logic of the world in which this story takes place.

David Yoo

• The Last Picture Show
• Although it takes place in a tiny, dusty Texas town that's nothing like the New England town I grew up in, this is easily my favorite coming-of-age story, ever, period.
• Then Again, Maybe I Won’t
• Given the fact that I asked for a pair of binoculars for Christmas (for "bird watching"), too, this was the teen novel that spoke to me when I was 13.
• The Postman Always Rings Twice
• My favorite noir writer, this is one of the best plotted stories, ever, in my opinion, with one of the most satisfying endings to a story to boot.
• Rats Saw God

• This was the first recent(ish) YA novel that got me excited to write about teens, because it made me think I was reading about, well . . . me.

• Rosemary’s Baby
• This horror story is just about perfect in every way, and I've read it maybe 50 times in my lifetime. The movie's one of my favorites, too.
• Franny and Zooey
• A decidedly strange little novel that for the life of me I can't quite describe why it's one of my favorites, but it just is.