Recommended List of Young Adult titles linked to 21st century global themes

1.
Speak
Speak 4.05 avg rating — 622,672 ratings
2.
The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars 4.12 avg rating — 5,580,406 ratings
3.
Sold
Sold 4.23 avg rating — 63,070 ratings
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Habibi
Habibi 3.64 avg rating — 2,958 ratings
4.
A Long Walk to Water
A Long Walk to Water 4.25 avg rating — 99,538 ratings
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Shooting Kabul
Shooting Kabul 3.94 avg rating — 5,759 ratings
7.
Where the Streets Had a Name
Where the Streets Had a Name 3.83 avg rating — 1,612 ratings
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Dining Out Around the Solar System (Dining Out Around The Solar System, #1)
Dining Out Around the Solar System (Dining Out Around The Solar System, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Mahtab's Story
Mahtab's Story 3.58 avg rating — 423 ratings
10.
Show Jumping Team
Show Jumping Team 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
10.
Words in the Dust
Words in the Dust 4.04 avg rating — 3,091 ratings
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Promising Azra
Promising Azra 4.14 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Free?: Stories About Human Rights
Free?: Stories About Human Rights 3.54 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Rodeo Finn
Rodeo Finn 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 3.65 avg rating — 188 ratings
15.
Chesca and the Spirit of Grace
Chesca and the Spirit of Grace 4.48 avg rating — 21 ratings
15.
The Snow Angel
The Snow Angel 4.18 avg rating — 233 ratings
18.
The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street 3.69 avg rating — 222,929 ratings
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Saline
Saline really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
18.
The Bone Sparrow
The Bone Sparrow really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,530 ratings
21.
Copper Sun
Copper Sun 4.35 avg rating — 16,906 ratings
21.
Debris Dreams
Debris Dreams 3.54 avg rating — 48 ratings
21.
Asking For It
Asking For It really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23,887 ratings
24.
The Skin I'm In
The Skin I'm In 4.16 avg rating — 17,026 ratings
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The Elephant of Surprise (Russel Middlebrook, #4)
The Elephant of Surprise (Russel Middlebrook, #4) 3.84 avg rating — 1,149 ratings
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Hasina
Hasina 3.74 avg rating — 156 ratings
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The Namesake
The Namesake 4.02 avg rating — 280,144 ratings
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I'm With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet
I'm With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet 3.34 avg rating — 544 ratings
29.
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter 4.08 avg rating — 40,817 ratings
30.
Shizuko's Daughter
Shizuko's Daughter 3.78 avg rating — 989 ratings
31.
Shadow
Shadow 4.22 avg rating — 8,955 ratings
32.
Monster
Monster 3.73 avg rating — 74,194 ratings
33.
Fire in the Soul: 100 poems for human rights
Fire in the Soul: 100 poems for human rights 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
34.
One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories
One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories 3.97 avg rating — 678 ratings
35.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Khalifa Brothers, #1)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Khalifa Brothers, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 37,169 ratings
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Persepolis 1
Persepolis 1 4.30 avg rating — 95,580 ratings
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) 4.39 avg rating — 365,563 ratings
38.
Under the Persimmon Tree
Under the Persimmon Tree 3.64 avg rating — 1,429 ratings
39.
When I Was Puerto Rican
When I Was Puerto Rican 4.07 avg rating — 13,510 ratings
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The Arrival
The Arrival
by: Shaun Tan
4.35 avg rating — 59,073 ratings
41.
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea 3.74 avg rating — 3,239 ratings
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A Hand Full of Stars
A Hand Full of Stars really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,732 ratings