To Do Lists and Other Assignments in Teen Fiction

Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson

• Pub Date: 2014
• Middle and high school interest
• See also: BFF Trouble 
• Emily's BFF Sloane disappears one day with only a list of tasks for Emily to accomplish over the summer.

Eleven Things I Promised by Catherine Clark

• Pub Date: 2016
• Middle and high school interest
• Frances has a list of ten things her BFF Stella wanted to do on a bike trip. Stella can't go, so Frances is going to complete the list.

The F--- It List by Julie Halpern

• Pub Date: 2013
• High school interest
• See also: BFF Trouble 
• Becca has cancer, and her BFF Alex is helping her with her bucket list. 

Lucky Few by Kathryn Ormsbee

• Pub Date: 2016
• High school interest 
• See also: Disabilities 
•  Three teens spend the summer faking near-death experiences based on a list of common ways to die until one of them has a real brush with death. Stevie has diabetes, and Max is missing fingers.

Let Me List the Ways by Sarah White

• Pub Date: 2018
• High school interest
• See also: Senior Year 
• BFFs make a list of the things they want to do before they graduate.