Twenty books of shattered childhoods

One title on AbeBooks' list of 20 books of shattered childhoods:Lord of the Flies William Golding(1954)Can there really be anyone who hasn’t read this novel? A group of schoolboys are marooned by a plane crash on a desert island and their attempts to remain civilised (and nice toward the fat kid) fail very badly. School teachers love this novel because it poses so many questions about morality,