What’s the the greatest teen novel of all time? It’s a matter of no shortage of controversy and passionate opinion. People are very tied to the books they grew up on, as we saw in the reactions to our list of the greatest Y.A. girl characters of young adult literature. Adult Y.A. readers have had quite a long time to cement their predilections, while the teens for whom the books were ostensibly intended are just reading their favorites for the first or maybe second time and experiencing those initial feelings of infatuation and devotion. And then there are the new books (The Hunger Games, for instance) that are released and change everything. When we look at the history of books written for or co-opted by teens, we’re talking about not only many years of books, but also many generations of people who have read them. So it’s not surprising that nearly 20,000 people had already weighed in by the afternoon of the first day that NPR’s annual Summer Books Poll went live. This year, the question is, “What Are Your Favorite Young Adult Novels?”

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