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刘忠:从公安中心到分工、配合、制约——历史与社会叙事内的刑事诉讼结构

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作为现代性的标识之一,诉讼在刑事领域中功能分化、分立。区别于古典时期的功能合一,现代国家的刑事诉讼分化为侦查、羁押和强制调查手段批准、预审、起诉、审判、执行等各个诉讼职能,这些职能以不同方式配置,结成不同的刑事诉讼结构。结构是事物的要素、成分之间在人的意向中的一种稳定的关系形式。对诉讼进行结构分析,成为理解刑事程序法的一种辅助认知方式。[1]

美国学者帕克(Herbert L. Packer)以隐喻方式,用“障碍赛”和“流水线”来分别指称刑事诉讼的社会控制和正当程序两种模式。[2] 中国的法学研究者多因袭此说,将当代中国的刑事诉讼结构理解为“流水线”,或将“障碍赛”偏转,称之为“接力赛”,认为这一结构有两个基点:其一,公检法各机关依诉讼阶段顺序先后进入;其二,流水线、接力赛的起始由公安机关担当,这对其后的形态具有决定性,检、法在这一结构中只是处于被动承受位置,整个结构表现为公安中心。[3]这种理路在知识论上来自于自然世界与人类社会同构的假设,以为可以用自然物理世界的机械构造和景象同样来解释社会。对当代中国刑事诉讼结构最准确的表述,是彭真确定的“分工负责、互相配合、互相制约”。但一些西方研究者亦将此结构套入帕克的上述隐喻进行读解,[4] 造成更大的认知误导。

彭真所确定的这十二字原则,是对建国初期“公安中心”结构的改变。对此,本文将探讨如下几个相互关联的问题:(1)在思想政策上,从公安中心到公检法分工、配合、制约结构的演化;(2)在体制设计上,1983年的司法体制改革如何对此思想政策进行实现;(3)在规则意义上,刑事诉讼法对此体制设计的展开;(4)规则落入实践中,实际生发出的侦、诉、审关系。在此基础上,本文力图揭示,由于社会变迁,实践中发生较多非1983年时的刑事诉讼结构设计时所能预期的现象,新近的政策设计并非是构建法院中心、监督中心等新的一元中心,而是“回到彭真”。本文旨在对这一历程和该结构在社会中的实现进行一个白描的叙事,对再造中国刑事诉讼结构的革新话语,提供一个尽可能扎根的/在地的经验意义上的“写事实”的报告。

《经济学家》2018年最佳图书

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The big read: The Economist’s books of the year

Politics and current affairs

Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World. By Oliver Bullough. Profile Books; 298 pages; £20. To be published in America by St Martin’s Press in May; $28.99

Moneyland is the author’s term for the virtual country into which the world’s mega-rich smuggle their (sometimes ill-gotten) wealth, so insulating it from the attention of tax and other officials. Focused in part on the kleptocrats of the former Soviet Union, the book ranges across the world and a wide cast of lawyers, accountants and mountebanks who see to it that money stolen in poor, ill-run countries can be invested in rich, safe ones. An urgent exposé of a vital subject.

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress. By Steven Pinker. Viking; 576 pages; $35. Allen Lane; £25

His critics regard him as Panglossian, and suspect he cherry-picks statistics, but the author’s case for global optimism is entertaining and well-argued. The Enlightenment virtues of reason and education, allied to trade and technology, have made the world richer, safer and even happier, he contends, and the improvements are likely to continue. Populists and demagogues are merely a blip in this consoling counterpoint to the misery of the news.

臧棣:一首伟大的诗可以有多短

九十年代初,关于戴望舒的诗歌语言,余光中曾经有过一番发难。大意是说,戴望舒的诗歌语言有许多缺陷,远远没有达到成熟;而这样的有着致命语言缺陷的诗人,居然占据着新诗史上一个显赫的位置,是很奇怪的。由于诗歌是一个特殊的语言竞技场,所以,后来的诗人意识到前驱者的语言局限,不仅意味着他自身的成长,而且也是诗歌自身发展的一个必然过程。但是,在余光中对戴望舒的责难中,令我感到吃惊的是,后来者对先驱者所依傍的语言资源和所处的语言环境缺少必要的同情心;不仅如此,余光中对戴望舒的语言才能的判断也极有问题。而最大的疑问在于,当我们用今天的关于诗歌语言的标准去衡量戴望舒那一代诗人时,我们所运用的尺度本身是否具有充足的客观性。

问题不在于戴望舒的语言是否成熟,或者是否完美,因为这太像是一种趣味之争。在余光中对戴望舒的责难中,让我感到不够公允的是,他的批评更多的是出于他自己的语言趣味;并且,他把自己的趣味当成一种客观的审美标准来运用。这样,他得出的结论——戴望舒的诗歌语言不成熟,便令人疑窦丛生了。因为在新诗史上,就绝对的语言才能而言,大概只有两三个诗人能和他匹敌。当然,由于戴望舒所处的时代,新诗语言的整体水准比较低,这或多或少影响了他充分施展自己的才能。在个别的文本中,他的语言确实有不少毛病,但必须意识到,无论这些毛病有多少,它们和戴望舒对诗歌语言的自觉意识相比,和他所拥有的语言才能相比,甚至和他自己的另一些更优异的文本相比,都是非常次要的。在我看来,戴望舒目前在新诗史上享有的显赫的位置,不是由于其他的原因,比如,不是由于他在主题上的开拓精神,不是由于他在风格上的创新意识,恰恰是因为他在诗歌语言上显示了一种令人难忘的造诣。如果人们要在新诗的发展史上,为诗歌语言的进展和成熟树几块纪念碑的话,很多名声显赫的人都可以被忽略,但戴望舒的这一块碑是一定要树的。

也许,更需要我们自己不断省思的一个问题是,什么是新诗语言的成熟?为什么很少有人指责小说的语言不成熟,或是抱怨散文的语言不成熟?新诗的语言,在本质上和小说、现代散文的语言是一致的。尽管有过一些短暂的偏离,如新格律诗运动,但在总体上,它根植于“五四”知识分子启蒙主义的语言观及其实践:即用来创作新诗的语言,不再是一种特殊的文学语言,而是一种和用来创作小说的语言没有什么本质差别的语言。不要小瞧这其中界限的消弭,它预示了一种新的诗歌理想,也揭示了一种新的语言态度:诗歌的语言应该趋同于日常语言。它更极端的主张是,新诗的语言应该口语化。

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New Book: The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America, by Beth Lew-Williams

The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America, by Beth Lew-Williams. Harvard University Press 2018. ISBN 9780674976016

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The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration policies incited this violence and how the violence, in turn, provoked new exclusionary policies. Ultimately, Lew-Williams argues, Chinese expulsion and exclusion produced the concept of the “alien” in modern America.

The Chinese Must Go begins in the 1850s, before federal border control established strict divisions between citizens and aliens. Across decades of felling trees and laying tracks in the American West, Chinese workers faced escalating racial conflict and unrest. In response, Congress passed the Chinese Restriction Act of 1882 and made its first attempt to bar immigrants based on race and class. When this unprecedented experiment in federal border control failed to slow Chinese migration, vigilantes attempted to take the matter into their own hands. Fearing the spread of mob violence, U.S. policymakers redoubled their efforts to keep the Chinese out, overhauling U.S. immigration law and transforming diplomatic relations with China.

By locating the origins of the modern American alien in this violent era, Lew-Williams recasts the significance of Chinese exclusion in U.S. history. As The Chinese Must Go makes clear, anti-Chinese law and violence continues to have consequences for today’s immigrants. The present resurgence of xenophobia builds mightily upon past fears of the “heathen Chinaman.”

Beth Lew-Williams is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University.


“With scrupulous research and conceptual boldness, Lew-Williams applies the nuances of a ‘scalar’ lens to contrast anti-Chinese campaigns at local, regional, and national levels, producing a social history that significantly remakes the well-established chronology of Chinese exclusion by highlighting the role of anti-Chinese violence and vigilantism in advancing immigration controls on the Chinese from goals of restriction to exclusion.”—Madeline Y. Hsu, author of Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction

“The Chinese Must Go presents a powerful argument about racial violence that could not be more timely. It shows why nineteenth-century pogroms against the Chinese in the American West resonate today. White nationalists targeted Chinese immigrants as threats to their homes and jobs and blamed the American government for failing to seal the borders.”—Richard White, author of The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896

“Moving seamlessly from the local to the international, The Chinese Must Go offers a riveting, beautifully written new account of Chinese exclusion, one that foregrounds Chinese voices and experiences. A timely and important contribution to our understanding of immigration and the border.”—Karl Jacoby, Columbia University


Table of Contents

Introduction: The Violence of Exclusion
Part 1: Restriction
1. The Chinese Question
2. Experiments in Restriction
Part 2: Violence
3. The Banished
4. The People
5. The Loyal
Part 3: Exclusion
6. The Exclusion Consensus
7. Afterlives under Exclusion
Epilogue: The Modern American Alien
Appendix A: Sites of Anti-Chinese Expulsions and Attempted Expulsions, 1885–1887
Appendix B: Chinese Immigration to the United States, 1850–1904
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

詹姆斯·法罗斯:中国的大跃退

詹姆斯·法罗斯(James Fallows),《大西洋》杂志著名记者,也算是中国问题专家。其长文《中国的大跃退》(China’s Great Leap Backward),作为封面文章,发表于《大西洋》2017年12月号。尽管是一年多以前的文章了,今天仍然值得推荐给尚未读过的朋友:

英文全文:China’s Great Leap Backward @ The Atlantic

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中央宣传部原副部长、中央网信办原主任鲁炜 严重违纪被开除党籍和公职

来源:中央纪委监察部网站 发布时间:2018-02-13 18:25

日前,经中共中央批准,中共中央纪委对中央宣传部原副部长、中央网信办原主任鲁炜严重违纪问题立案审查。

经查,鲁炜
严重违反政治纪律和政治规矩,
阳奉阴违、
欺骗中央,
目无规矩、
肆意妄为,
妄议中央,
干扰中央巡视,
野心膨胀,
公器私用,
不择手段为个人造势,
品行恶劣、
匿名诬告他人,
拉帮结派、
搞“小圈子”;
严重违反中央八项规定精神和群众纪律,
频繁出入私人会所,
大搞特权,
作风粗暴、
专横跋扈;
违反组织纪律,
组织谈话函询时不如实说明问题;
违反廉洁纪律,
以权谋私,
收钱敛财;
违反工作纪律,
对中央关于网信工作的战略部署搞选择性执行;
以权谋色、
毫无廉耻。
利用职务上的便利为他人谋取利益
并收受巨额财物涉嫌受贿犯罪。

鲁炜身为党的高级干部,
理想信念缺失,
毫无党性原则,
对党中央极端不忠诚,
“四个意识”个个皆无,
“六大纪律”项项违反,
是典型的“两面人”,
是党的十八大后不收敛、
不知止,
问题严重集中,
群众反映强烈,
政治问题与经济问题相互交织的典型,
性质十分恶劣、
情节特别严重。
依据《中国共产党纪律处分条例》等有关规定,经中央纪委常委会会议研究并报中共中央批准,决定给予鲁炜开除党籍、开除公职处分;收缴其违纪所得;将其涉嫌犯罪问题、线索及所涉款物移送有关国家机关依法处理。

安德烈·莫罗亚:《追忆似水年华》序

施康强 译

对于一九〇〇年到一九五〇年这一历史时期而言,没有比《追忆似水年华》更值得纪念的长篇小说杰作了。这不仅仅因为普鲁斯特的作品象巴尔扎克的著作一样规模宏大。别的人写过十五部或二十部小说,有时还颇具才气,但是总不能给人以得到一种启示,读到一个总结的印象。这些作者满足于开发众所周知的“矿脉”;马塞尔·普鲁斯特却发现新的“矿藏”。《人间喜剧》把外部世界作为自己的领地;它囊括金融界、编辑部、法官、公证人、医生、商人、农民;巴尔扎克旨在描绘,他也确实描绘了整整一个社会。相反,普鲁斯特的一个独到之处是他对材料的选择并不在意。他更感兴趣的不是观察行动本身,而是某种观察任何行动的方式。从而他象同时代的几位哲学家一样,实现了一场“逆向的哥白尼式革命”。人的精神重又被安置在天地的中心;小说的目标变成描写为精神反映和歪曲的世界。

Marcel Proust用普鲁斯特书里的事件和人物来说明这位作家的特点,其荒谬程度将不亚于把雷诺阿说成是一个画过妇女、儿童、花卉的人。雷诺阿之所以成为雷诺阿,并非因为他画了这些模特儿,而是因为他把任何模特儿都摆在某种虹彩一般绚丽的光线之中。普鲁斯特本人在写到贝戈特的时候曾经指出,作品的取材与天才的形成无关。天才能使任何材料增辉生色。贝戈特成长的家庭环境从表面上看是索然寡味的,但是贝戈特却用这个素材写出一部杰作。这是因为,借助他的大脑这部小机器,他能高翥远翔,从而象飞越沙漠的飞行员隐约看到在地面上看不出来的、埋在沙子底下的城廓一样,看到事物蕴藏的秘密。因此在谈论《追忆似水年华》之前,先要说明普鲁斯特为什么比任何人更善于“飞离”这个他似乎十分眷恋的世界。

《经济学家》2017年最佳图书

参考:《经济学家》年度最佳图书:20112012201320142015201620172018

Wise words: Books of the Year 2017

Politics and current affairs


The Retreat of Western Liberalism. By Edward Luce. Grove Atlantic; 234 pages; $24. Little Brown; £16.99
Few doubt that something big has happened in Western politics over the past two years, but nobody is sure what. Turmoil in Washington and London contrasts with centrist stability in Paris and (mostly) in Berlin. In this grim diagnosis Edward Luce, a Washington-based commentator, argues that the liberal order cannot be fixed without a clear view of what has gone wrong.

The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version. 5th Edition

For over 50 years students, professors, clergy, and general readers have relied on The New Oxford Annotated Bible as an unparalleled authority in Study Bibles. This fifth edition of the Annotated remains the best way to study and understand the Bible at home or in the classroom. This thoroughly revised and substantially updated edition contains the best scholarship informed by recent discoveries and anchored in the solid Study Bible tradition.

· Introductions and extensive annotations for each book by acknowledged experts in the field provide context and guidance.
· Introductory essays on major groups of biblical writings – Pentateuch, Prophets, Gospels, and other sections – give readers an overview that guides more intensive study.
· General essays on history, translation matters, different canons in use today, and issues of daily life in biblical times inform the reader of important aspects of biblical study.
· Maps and diagrams within the text contextualize where events took place and how to understand them.
· Color maps give readers the geographical orientation they need for understanding historical accounts throughout the Bible.
· Timelines, parallel texts, weights and measures, calendars, and other helpful tables help navigate the biblical world.
· An extensive glossary of technical terms demystifies the language of biblical scholarship.
· An index to the study materials eases the way to the quick location of information.

李斯特:隐私与隐私权的限度

隐私在现代社会之所以越来越被重视,择其大绪言之,是因为物质生产条件导致的现代社会空间的变化,以及由此带来的人的观念的变化;可“道高一尺魔高一丈”,隐私保护的争论不休,还因为迅猛发展的各种现代资讯工具,已使名义上得到严密保护的隐私权岌岌可危。时光流转,我们一路跋涉来到互联网时代,却似乎又回到人类社会早期的“零隐私”年代。[1]传统社区在变化,虚拟社区在形成,两者不断竞争、渗透和融合,书写着隐私的新的界限与功能。这是互联网时代催生了大量关于隐私的学术研究的原因。

对于中国,隐私问题还有着不一般的意味。现代的隐私话语,主要是西方的舶来品,在作为传统东方国家的中国,人们接受起来不免要多一番波折;更何况中国在现代化的过程中,还发生过一段“一大二公”的插曲。这意味着,六十年间中国人经历了剧烈而复杂的法律、道德和伦理观念的变迁。在这一大变迁中,如何理解“公”、“私”的关系是焦点所在。隐私正好体现着公、私的对弈,因为隐私的问题,本在于把信息的支配权分配给谁,个人、组织、社区,还是国家?因此,隐私问题是理解中国当代社会变迁的一扇窗;同时,在中国研究隐私问题,必须带入历史的眼光,非此不能深入。

但隐私问题千头万绪枝蔓丛生,理应有所限定。我把目光放在近年来兴起的一种网络搜索行为——人肉搜索[2]上,并将集中地分析2008年审结的人肉搜索第一案。该案与普通个体的隐私有关,无涉公众人物或政府官员;该案与社会道德争议有关,反映着中国人的伦理观念的变化;该案连接了传统社区与网络社区,实现了线上线下的融合,这些都与本文关注的问题密切相关。

The Federal Judiciary: Strengths and Weaknesses. By Richard A. Posner

The Federal Judiciary: Strengths and Weaknesses. By Richard A. Posner.
Harvard University Press 2017.
ISBN: 0674975774, 9780674975774.

No sitting federal judge has ever written so trenchant a critique of the federal judiciary as Richard A. Posner does in this, his most confrontational book. Skewering the politicization of the Supreme Court, the mismanagement of judicial staff, the overly complex system of appeals, the threat of originalism, outdated procedures, and the backward-looking traditions of law schools and the American judicial system, Posner has written a cri de coeur and a battle cry. With the prospect that the Supreme Court will soon be remade in substantial, potentially revanchist, ways, The Federal Judiciary exposes the American legal system’s most troubling failures in order to instigate much-needed reforms.

Posner presents excerpts from legal texts and arguments to expose their flaws, incorporating his own explanation and judgment to educate readers in the mechanics of judicial thinking. This rigorous intellectual work separates sound logic from artful rhetoric designed to subvert precedent and open the door to oblique interpretations of American constitutional law. In a rebuke of Justice Antonin Scalia’s legacy, Posner shows how originalists have used these rhetorical strategies to advance a self-serving political agenda. Judicial culture adheres to an antiquated traditionalism, Posner argues, that inhibits progressive responses to threats from new technologies and other unforeseen challenges to society.

With practical prescriptions for overhauling judicial practices and precedents, The Federal Judiciary offers an unequaled resource for understanding the institution designed by the founders to check congressional and presidential power and resist its abuse.

Time Magazine: The 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time [Full List]

Time Magazine’s 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time [Click book’s cover image or title to go to its Amazon web-page. Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate this website would earn from qualifying purchases through links to Amazon.]

 


Little Women 

 

Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Alexie, Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

City of the Beasts

Allende, Isabel. City of the Beasts

The Chronicles of Prydain

Alexander, Lloyd. The Chronicles of Prydain (series)

Tiger Lily

Anderson, Jodi Lynn. Tiger Lily

Speak

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak

Feed

Anderson, M.T. Feed

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Baum, L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz *

Dangerous Angels

Block, Francesca Lia. Dangerous Angels (the Weetzie Bat Books)

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

Blume, Judy. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

Secret

Bosch, Pseudonymous. Secret (series) *

The Illustrated Man

Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man

For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy

Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland *

Boy Proof

Castellucci, Cecil. Boy Proof

Cleary, Beverly. Beezus and Ramona *

Frindle

Clements, Andrew. Frindle *

The Hunger Games

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games

The Grey King

Cooper, Susan. The Grey King *

The Chocolate War

Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War

Whale Talk

Crutcher, Chris. Whale Talk

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory *

Danny the Champion of the World

Dahl, Roald. Danny the Champion of the World *

Matilda

Dahl, Roald. Matilda *

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

DiCamillo, Kate. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane *

DiCamillo, Kate. The Tiger Rising *

A Northern Light

Donnelly, Jennifer. A Northern Light

Fitzhugh, Louise. Harriet the Spy *

Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain: A Story of Boston in Revolt

The Diary of a Young Girl

Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl

The Thief Lord

Funke, Cornelia. The Thief Lord

The Graveyard Book

Gaiman, Neil. The Graveyard Book

The Fault in Our Stars

Green, John. The Fault in Our Stars

Looking for Alaska

Green, John. Looking for Alaska

Lord of the Flies

Golding, William. Lord of the Flies

The Princess Bride

Goldman, William. The Princess Bride

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows *

Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Hardinge, Frances. The Lost Conspiracy

The Outsiders

Hinton, S. E. The Outsiders

Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica

Jones, Diana Wynne. Dogsbody

The Phantom Tollbooth

Juster, Norton. The Phantom Tollbooth *

Alabama Moon

Key, Watt. Alabama Moon

A Separate Peace

Knowles, John. A Separate Peace

Konigsburg, E. L. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler *

LeGuin, Ursula. A Wizard of Earthsea

To Kill a Mockingbird

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird

A Wrinkle in Time

L’Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time

Leviathan, David. Every Day

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe *

London, Jack. The Call of the Wild

The Giver

Lowry, Lois. The Giver

Number the Stars

Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars *

Saffy’s Angel

McKay, Hilary. Saffy’s Angel

Twilight

Meyer, Stephanie. Twilight

Anne of Green Gables

Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Green Gables

Morpurgo, Michael. Private Peaceful

Myers, Walter Dean. Fallen Angels

Myers, Walter Dean. Monster

Nelson, Marilyn. A Wreath for Emmett Till

Ness, Patrick. The Knife of Never Letting Go

Ness, Patrick. A Monster Calls

Nix, Garth. Sabriel

O’Brien, Robert C. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh *

Palacio, R. J. Wonder *

Paterson, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia *

Paterson, Katherine. Jacob Have I Loved

Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet *

Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Pullman, Phillip. The Golden Compass

Pullman, Philip. His Dark Materials

Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game *

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling

Riordan, Rick. Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Harry Potter

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter (series)

Ryan, Pam Munoz. Esperanza Rising *

Holes

Sachar, Louis. Holes

Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye

Scott, Michael. The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

Selznick, Brian. The Invention of Hugo Cabret *

Sís, Peter. The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

Snicket, Lemony. A Series of Unfortunate Events (series) *

Speare, Elizabeth George. The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Stead, Rebecca. When You Reach Me *

Stewart, Trenton Lee. The Mysterious Benedict Society *

Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Thompson, Craig. Blankets

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings

Travers, P. L. Mary Poppins *

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Whaley, John Corey. Where Things Come Back

Charlotte’s Web

White, E.B. Charlotte’s Web *

White, T. H. The Sword in the Stone

Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House on the Prairie *

Yang, Gene Luen. American Born Chinese

Yang, Gene Luen. Boxers and Saints

Zindel, Paul. The Pigman

The Book Thief

Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief

 


Note: Starred titles are not really for “young-adult” readers, but for younger readers, according to some people’s opinion.

See also: Time Magazine: The 100 Best Children’s Books of All Time

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