Would you consider these books inappropriate for someone of my age?

Wow I thought that when you were seventeen you could really read anything I mean you are like almost an adult. I am fourteen and I was going to read The Color Purple because I heard it was interesting. I think that your teacher might be wrong, because who does reports for English on magazines?!?! Maybe you should ask a different english teacher in the school who had read the books that you plan to read. I don't know though.