DON’T FALL OFF THE MOUNTAIN
By Shirley MacLaine
The Actress’s 1970 debut book about her growing up years in Virginia, lucky discovery by Hollywood agent Hal Wallis, and early travels.

THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH
By Saul Bellow
The zigzag adolescence of a boy growing up in Depression Chicago.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS
by Emily Bronte
The still popular love story about Cathy and Heathcliff; written in 1847.

LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR
by Judith Rossner
Terry Dunn’s nocturnal prowl for love turns into murder. Based on a true story.

THE OUTSIDERS
by S.E. Hinton
In 1967 a 17-year-old girl wrote about boy gangs–under her initials.