Tiffany Aching, a frying pan and the Nac Mac Feegle against the Queen of the Fairies.
Tiffany goes to learn witchcraft and something invisible follows her.
A first love and a fundamentalist childhood in a Wisconsin winter; Craig Thompson's 600 pages.
A sexually transmitted plague mutates 1970s Seattle teenagers; Charles Burns in ink black.
Marjane Satrapi grows up through the Iranian revolution, in black and white.
Enid and Rebecca after high school in a suburb of nowhere; Clowes' teenage bible.
Maya Angelou's childhood in Arkansas and the years of silence after the rape; the first of seven memoirs.
Toru, Naoko and Midori in 1960s Tokyo; the Murakami without magic that made him famous.
Ged learns the true names of things and hunts his own shadow; the Earthsea cycle begins.
A 17-year-old on the Riviera destroys her father's engagement; Sagan wrote it at 18.
A girl raised alone in the North Carolina marsh and a murder trial; the bestseller of the 2010s.
Seven children in Derry, Maine against a clown that eats fear, twice, twenty-seven years apart.
A boy walks out of a bombed museum with a Dutch painting; 800 pages and a Pulitzer.
Connell and Marianne from Sligo to Trinity College; Sally Rooney.
Charlie's letters through his first year of high school; the tunnel song.
Elena and Lila in a Naples courtyard in the 1950s; the first Neapolitan novel.
A 15-year-old with Asperger's investigates a dead poodle and finds out about his mother.
David Copperfield retold in opioid Appalachia; Kingsolver's Pulitzer.
A miner's son in Nottinghamshire, his mother and the women he cannot love; Lawrence's autobiography.
A red-haired orphan sent by mistake to a Prince Edward Island farm; Canada's best-loved book.
Esther Greenwood's summer in New York and the breakdown after; Plath's only novel.
Huck and Jim down the Mississippi on a raft; "all modern American literature comes from" it, said Hemingway.
Pip, Magwitch on the marshes and Miss Havisham's rotting cake.
The four March sisters through the Civil War years; Jo the writer.
Dickens' favourite child, from a blacking factory to a writer's desk; Micawber and Uriah Heep.
Salinger's restless coming-of-age classic (1951).
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