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child hero ~ adult novel

Description: novels with a child protagonist or point of view

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

47,910 members

1,395 reviews

3.9

7 Members: dara85, KimarieBee, blackdove07, nessreader, Amsa1959, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

To Kill a Mockingbird

89,994 members

1,559 reviews

½ 4.4

7 Members: KimarieBee, blackdove07, nessreader, Dilara86, ahef1963, StefanieGeeks, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Charles Dickens

28,439 members

273 reviews

3.8

5 Members: aulsmith, nessreader, Dilara86, Amsa1959, ahef1963

4

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

by Jonathan Safran Foer

17,789 members

490 reviews

4

5 Members: blackdove07, nessreader, Amsa1959, ahef1963, StefanieGeeks

5

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

49,413 members

585 reviews

3.9

5 Members: aulsmith, nessreader, Amsa1959, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

57,354 members

817 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: aulsmith, nessreader, Dilara86, Amsa1959, ManWithAnAgenda,ahef1963

7

by Orson Scott Card

45,583 members

1,125 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: blackdove07, nessreader, ahef1963, StefanieGeeks,ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Summer Book

by Tove Jansson

3,757 members

155 reviews

4.1

4 Members: blackdove07, nessreader, Dilara86, Amsa1959

9

47,519 members

1,051 reviews

3.9

4 Members: KimarieBee, nessreader, Amsa1959, ManWithAnAgenda,ahef1963

10

The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet

2,307 members

109 reviews

3.9

3 Members: nessreader, Amsa1959, ahef1963

11

The Butcher Boy

by Patrick McCabe

1,717 members

36 reviews

3.8

3 Members: nessreader, Dilara86, Amsa1959

12

The Little Friend

8,067 members

171 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: dara85, Amsa1959, ManWithAnAgenda

13

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

26,811 members

1,014 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Amsa1959, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

17,340 members

1,037 reviews

4.1

4 Members: nessreader, Dilara86, Amsa1959, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

15

Cold Sassy Tree

by Olive Ann Burns

4,434 members

85 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ManWithAnAgenda

16

by Stephen King

25,908 members

464 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Amsa1959, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

11,970 members

271 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

4,321 members

84 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: KimarieBee, nessreader

19

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

13,225 members

337 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Amsa1959, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

by Alan Bradley

8,503 members

687 reviews

3.8

3 Members: blackdove07, nessreader, Amsa1959,ahef1963

21

The Virgin Suicides

by Jeffrey Eugenides

14,322 members

285 reviews

3.8

2 Members: blackdove07, nessreader

22

Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami

20,673 members

530 reviews

4

2 Members: blackdove07, Amsa1959

23

Bastard Out of Carolina

by Dorothy Allison

5,606 members

124 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, nessreader

24

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

14,393 members

519 reviews

3.8

2 Members: nessreader, ahef1963

25

3,207 members

267 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, nessreader

26

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,145 members

1,197 reviews

3.8

3 Members: blackdove07, nessreader, ManWithAnAgenda,EMS_24 ,ahef1963

27

by Douglas Stuart

3,754 members

158 reviews

4.2

Member: EMS_24

28

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

694 members

23 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: nessreader, Amsa1959

29

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

by Muriel Barbery

13,163 members

693 reviews

3.8

2 Members: nessreader, Amsa1959

30

by John Wyndham

5,354 members

142 reviews

3.9

2 Members: nessreader, ahef1963

31

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

24,245 members

812 reviews

4

2 Members: nessreader, ManWithAnAgenda

32

by Stephen Kelman

997 members

61 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: nessreader

33

Het uurwerk van Floor

by Leon Gommers

1 member

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: EMS_24

34

A Painted House

by John Grisham

10,346 members

123 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

35

1,093 members

57 reviews

4

Member: EMS_24

36

by Markus Zusak

52,351 members

2,240 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: EMS_24

37

by William Kent Krueger

3,561 members

225 reviews

4.2

Member: dara85

38

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

17,669 members

887 reviews

4

Member: EMS_24

39

by Kaye Gibbons

3,660 members

64 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

40

2,493 members

137 reviews

3.9

Member: nessreader

41

What Maisie Knew

2,319 members

47 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: nessreader

42

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

by Deepa Anappara

761 members

38 reviews

3.8

Member: EMS_24

43

4,125 members

172 reviews

3.8

Member: blackdove07

44

18,345 members

868 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

45

Lights All Night Long

by Lydia Fitzpatrick

236 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

46

by Jeffrey Eugenides

29,082 members

660 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

47

History of Wolves

by Emily Fridlund

1,460 members

80 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

Reading in the Dark

by Seamus Deane

1,348 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: nessreader

49

Lonely Castle in the Mirror

by Mizuki Tsujimura

856 members

30 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Impossible Fortress: A Novel

by Jason Rekulak

563 members

56 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

by Michael Morpurgo

308 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: Amsa1959

52

Down the Rabbit Hole

by Juan Pablo Villalobos

419 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: nessreader

53

Life! Death! Prizes!

69 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: nessreader

54

by Claire Cameron

389 members

43 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: nessreader

55

When Mr Dog Bites

by Brian Conaghan

151 members

10 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: nessreader

56

by Marcelo Figueras

203 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: nessreader

57

by Stephen King

1,321 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: nessreader

58

Zazie in the Metro

by Raymond Queneau

1,890 members

34 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: nessreader

59

99 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: nessreader

60

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

19,524 members

247 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith,ahef1963

About This List

Started: nessreader
July 2013
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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