Hard Hitting


The Hate U Give
A Little Life
My Dark Vanessa
A List of Cages
We Are the Ants
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
Long Way Down
We Are Okay
A Monster Calls
The Book Thief
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
The Fault in Our Stars
Thirteen Reasons Why
1984 by George OrwellOne Deadly Souk by Oscar  OrtizLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Giver by Lois Lowry
Powerful/influential books
210 books — 147 voters
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyWintergirls by Laurie Halse AndersonIt Ends with Us by Colleen HooverSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Hard-Hitting Contemporary
94 books — 15 voters

David Malouf
This new lot...they too would go down. They were 'troops' who were about to be 'thrown in,' 'men' in some general's larger plan, 're-enforcements ' and would soon be 'casualties'. They were also Spud, Snow, Skeeter, Blue, Tommo. ...more
David Malouf

Vicki M. Taylor
Vicki M. Taylor's "Not Without Anna," is a gripping, hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at the escalating crisis of teen alcohol and drug abuse. Charlene Austin ...more
Vicki M. Taylor, Not Without Anna

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