From timeless love stories to political satire to vital non-fiction, here’s a reading list we recommend for anyone in their teens. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (1967 Long before Twilight or The Hunger Games, a schoolgirl named Susan was quietly inventing the YA genre by writing gripping novels of high school’s fearsome…

From candid memoir and unsettling dystopia to the Booker-shortlisted novels, Lindsay Baker rounds up BBC Culture’s reading recommendations. The New Wilderness by Diane Cook Living in an overpopulated, polluted metropolis, Bea realises she and her daughter cannot stay in the city, and so join a group of volunteers to take…

The greatest books are defined as classics for a reason. Written by the greatest literary minds of their time, they have universal themes, characters, experiences, emotions and perspectives that are still relevant today. Some of them are the very inspiration from which entire modern genres of literary fiction have…