What is the greatest novel written by a teenager?
Every book here was finished before its author could legally rent a car. A few became school reading; others stayed cult objects.
1FrankensteinMary Shelley began it at 18 during the summer of 1816 and finished it at 19; it was published in 1818.1000pts
2In the Forests of the NightAmelia Atwater-Rhodes' vampire novel, written at 13 and published in 1999.1000pts
3EragonChristopher Paolini's dragon-rider fantasy, begun at 15 and self-published before he turned 20.709pts
4The Devil in the FleshRaymond Radiguet's 1923 novel of a wartime affair, written in his teens.600pts
5The Kissing BoothBeth Reekles' teen romance, written at 15 on Wattpad and later a Netflix film.600pts
6This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall!Gordon Korman's boarding-school comedy, written at 12 as a class assignment.600pts
7The Icarus GirlHelen Oyeyemi's debut about a Nigerian-English girl and her double, written at 18.466pts
8The OutsidersS.E. Hinton's 1967 novel of Greasers and Socs in Tulsa, written while she was in high school.0pts
9Bonjour TristesseFrançoise Sagan's 1954 novel of a Riviera summer, written when she was 18.0pts
10TwelveNick McDonell's 2002 novel of Manhattan prep-school excess, written at 17.0pts
11The Young VisitersDaisy Ashford's comic society novel, written at nine and published in 1919.0pts
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Mary Shelley started her novel at 18, in a summer so cold after Tambora that the group at the Villa Diodati stayed indoors: https://youpick.best/articles/frankenstein-ranked-many-ways
