MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
I’ve been gorging on young adult novels this summer, researching a pet project. I never read YA as a kid, and had no idea how fantastic and thriving a genre it is. Many of the books listed below are darker than mainstream adult fiction, and they’re all a heckofa lot smarter.
Hunger Games (Suzanne Collings)
Harry Potter (J. K. Rowling– except for those fifty million people, who knew?)
Feed (M. T. Anderson)
Scott Westerfield’s Uglies, Pretties, and Specials series
The Chocolate War (Robert Cormier)
A Great and Terrible Beauty (Libba Bray)
House of the Scorpion (Nancy Farmer)
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