Is it just me, or are there any other adults that enjoy YA books more than “adult” books??
Is it just me, or are there any other adults that enjoy YA books more than “adult” books??
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At 36 years old, I was a total Ready Player One fangirl. YA dystopian is everything. ?
Me too! And Harry Potter is my favorite of all! ?
I like everything!
I was just trying to figure out what classifies something as YA. No graphic sex and violence? I’m okay with that. There are many YA books that are well written with great characters and stories, and there are plenty of adult books I have read that are real stinkers.
Exactly
I always think of YA as a story that revolves around first person that’s a teen or young adult. I am probably wrong.
Maybe, but I’m sure there are adult books (like IT by Stephen King) that are centered around kids/teens that I wouldn’t classify as YA
This is the formal definition I found for YA
Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction published for readers in their youth. YA books are catered towards readers from 12 to 18 years of age.[1] While the genre is targeted to teenagers, approximately half of YA readers are adults.[2]
Subject matters and the genres of YA correlate with the “age and experience” of the protagonist and subsequent supporting characters, typically facing “real world” problems as the story progresses. The genres available in YA are expansive and similar to those found in adult fiction genres. Common themes related to YA include: friendship, first love, relationships, and identity.[3] Stories that focus on the specific challenges of youth are sometimes referred to as problem novels or coming-of-age novels.[4]
YA was developed to soften the transition between children’s novels and adult literature.[5] In recent years, diversity has become a defining feature of young adult novels.
Actually they don’t agree on what age group YA is for some say 12 to 18, and some say 15 to 25. The truth is they really don’t know and some of the books I read even the teen section of Library have plenty of sexual material it may not be graphic but it was more information than I needed, and more than you find in a typical adult section.
I love YA, often have a binge after a particularly heavy book.
Me! ????
I LOVE YA books
I like only read YA books!
I’m reading red queen right now, so far so good!
Red Queen is such a good book
I’m 74 and love quite a few. My favourite writer is Louise Rennison. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35690685
I read her books as a teenager, wonderful author
Me!
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Love YA. Currently reading the Starbound Trilogy and it is fantastic.
Honestly I don’t consider YA a real genre I think a lot of stuff just being thrown into it. I read books I don’t care who they were written for, I’m just getting really tired of books being taken from sections in the library so they can be thrown into the new ya section. I found books are previously considered adult fiction, juvenile fiction, removed and put there. I am starting to think that half of these books are just called that for marketing purposes.
for the most part I agree, but for books such as Fifty Shades Of Grey and stuff, I think those should be meant for people mature enough to read them
I don’t consider 50 Shades of Grey a YA. All I am saying is the young adult section is new for the libraries I have seen over the last five years, and all they’ve done is steal books from the juvenile fiction section, the adult section, and even the teen section, and put them in the new YA section. I’m not saying there shouldn’t be sections I’m just saying this section isn’t needed.
Yup! I go through phases but I love YA at 32.
Me!!!
I love YA books. I work at an elementary school and I gave read so many wonderful books from the classroom and school libraries. Wonder, Hidden, As Brave as You, One For the Murphy’s, and Harbor Me are just a few of the great books I have read.
Really!! I gotta say you look so much like my husband who makes fun of me for it! Don’t judge a book by its cover ?
Totally me!!!!
Heck no! I love YA! People always think it’s weird.
Just started reading YA this year – like to mix it up with classics & new fiction. Really like Becky Abertelli.
I do can anyone recommend me some good ya
I think we appreciate them more as adults. Sometimes, the simplest lessons are the ones we need to get lost in, to feel their magic & adventure. After a long day of adulting, who wants to open themselves up to more bs lol.
I get it! I’m a woman and I don’t admit it! Dude with a beard like that.. good on you for admitting it ??
Love Ya . Morgan Matson, April Henry, Sarah Dessen are just to name a few
Me!!
Oh I almost forgot Simone Elkeles. You read these authors with a smile and a laugh out loud. I’m 64!!!!?
Me, me!
I have a tendency to read a few too.
Richard Peck has written some good YA. I particularly liked A LONG WAY FROM CHICAGO and A YEAR DOWN YONDER.
Wouldn’t say I prefer them but there’s some amazing ones and can be so underrated xx
Me! Stories move quickly, they keep you gripped and often there is a surprise ending!
I used to be that way
I read them.
I loved Looking for Alaska.
Best book by far.
It was fantastic.
I love all of John Green’s books,my husband has bought me 2 signed books from John (looking for Alaska and turtles all the way down) i love watching his vlogbrothers on YouTube lol I am definitely a John fan. But looking for Alaska is his best in my opinion lol
You lucky dog!!
So me
Me!
I like reading YA too!
It’s just you.
Apparently not… 😉
@Kim …and you.
And me? Do you see the responses here? lol
@Kim I read YA once. Once.
You’re missing out on some good escape reading. But to each his own…
Yes!
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Hell yeah!
Some of my fave books are YA.
I love to mix it up, I just finished the 4th and final book of Victoria Aveyards Red Queen Series.Fantastic series!
I love Y/A. So no, it’s not just you. And I’m old… lol
I am Arthur, King of the Britons.
Ha ha. Arthur does get a brief mention!
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I enjoy alot of ya
I do ✋
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I love YA books. 13 Reasons Why, Unwind, Ender’s Game, Heft, Ready Player One, Divergent, The Junkie Quatrain, Code Name Verity, The Book Thief…
Despite featuring children, “Ender’s Game” is absolutely not a YA book.
@Nirvan I disagree.
Tbh I often do I find the stories more interesting and so much more appealing !
Legend series, Divergent series, fangirl, any of John Green’s books, shatter me series, everything everything..just to name a few lol
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In love them they are quick reads .
Yes, enjoy them ….I read The Book Thief, which is on my top 10 of best books I have read and was surprised to realize it was YA
I do
I’m 39 & read a lot of YA as I really enjoy YA fantasies.
one of the best YA for me this year https://amzn.to/2Ag6fes
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Me less sex in them
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not more, but do enjoy them, recommend Beth Garrod
I do like good juvenile fiction, but I have no interest in what the YA market offers.
Not at all.
I’ve had enough great orgasmic sex to last a lifetime, don’t need to read fictional efforts. I like the storytelling of YA books xxx
I enjoyed and in not ashamed to admit. Sometimes we need a story that takes it back the when we were young wild and free ???
Still wild and free, but would rather a cup of tea lol xxx
@Jay Coffe for me ?
@Evelyn coffee for me as well! I always feel that tea tastes like I’m sucking on a weed!
Whatever floats ones boat xxxxxxxxx
I prefer YA way more. I feel they are usually more creative in the storylines.
Meeee!!!! Garth Nix, Darren Shan, Eoan Colfer and Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell are my favourites and I highly recommend them!!!
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What is ya?
Young adult
Young Adult
Thanks guys. Shouldve figured that out. Lol
Glad I wasn’t the only one wondering.
Lol. No your not alone
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Me!!
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I am currently reading Frog by Joffre White. Also read Cloak by James Gough
Me right here ??
Not more than. Along with.
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Absolutely!!
I like them.
Definatly and middle grade. They are so well written now. The stories are just great. We have some incredible authors in the uk and the YALC. Which is on right now in uk. Love them ??????
Me.
Oh my heavens no! I read all the Harry Potter, Ciera Cass books, and the whole series of The Rosewoods books. They are all excellent reading and nothing is vulgar.
I prefer them to be honest. They are simplistic, have great morals and are just so easy on the brain
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I do
Not more, but I do enjoy them.
Oh meeee!! Sometimes adult books can be quite hard to read cause the plot, dialogue, r kinda heavy and mature ? so i prefer ya.
100%
I wouldn’t say more than but I definitely love them
Well I’m technically an adult. Don’t feel it haha. 21 btw.
So I can say yes.
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I absolutely loved The Tomorrow Series by John Marsden. They were recommended to me by my doctor who thought I’d like them and he was right!
Love this series!
I read one after the other in quick succession. Couldn’t put them down.
@Kerstin I still haven’t got through them all. Got 3 to go but that is because I’m trying to find matching editions and can’t find them anywhere for the last 3 books. ?
I do. ?
I do
I do heehee
Easier read sometimes.
not more, but there are some that i do like a lot.
Once upon a time I did.. but some of the books how are all texting type books and I’m over it. If I wanted to read that, I would read my text messages ?
Ahhh you’re reading the wrong books then lol I can recommend quite a few YA series that will leave you wanting more and no text speech
I also came to like graphic novels that I used to turn my nose up to ?
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