52 Books That Hooked Readers on YA

21, so far...

12 - some I'm currently reading and some are on want to read. I read way too much YA for my age but whatever.

Tytti wrote: "Well considering that YA is based on age (just like the new NA), it's not really surprising that people think of them as gendered, as well. Frankly I think that both are equally stupid ways to categorize books. "

Good point!

13. I loved them all.

I’ve read 21 of them, but I noticed that most from the romance and mystery section I haven’t read yet, so I’ll definitely check those out as well! Any must reads from these categories?

Fourteen

A very sad 6, with 3 on the list... might just add a few more to the want to read list...

I've only read 18, but have a few more on the list that I'd like to get to :)

Great Selection

I've read 17 + around 15 on my tbr :)

I’ve read 📚📖📚📖 8/52

I've read 32 of them and about 10 more are on my tbr!!!!

Read 33 of them, 4 more currently in my TBR stack. None of these book "hooked" me on YA (I'm too old for that), but many of them hooked my students on reading. I'm definitely going to keep this list handy as a resource to help students struggling to find a "good" book!

Really??? Twilight is on the list? Teenagers really needs help these days... Comparing to many amazing young adult books like Hunger Games or Divergent, Twilight sucks. Its themes, characters, and writing are all extremely bad. A book should never ever be considered good if it teaches that all a girl needs is a boyfriend and that if her boyfriend abandoned her then she should kill herself.

I have read 5 books on this list, many are on my want to be read list.

Hermine wrote: "Really??? Twilight is on the list? Teenagers really needs help these days... Comparing to many amazing young adult books like Hunger Games or Divergent, Twilight sucks. Its themes, characters, and ..."

It may not be great but the truth is that Twilight hooked many people on YA and reading in general. It also opened the door for many other books.

Eleanor & Park is such a good book! I really enjoyed it!

Neal wrote: "I have only read one of these. John Green is the reason I read YA. Once I found him, courtesy of my daughter I read everything by him. I try to find similar YA authors who have a point and are grea..."

You might try books by David Arnold ("The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hynotik" is AMAZING!) or Jeff Zentner (I loved "Goodbye Days"!) Arnold has the same highly intellectual teen characters while Zentner packs the same emotional punch.

Eliza and her books wrote: "Bob wrote: "Boys books have little to no representation. If you're looking for one, try "Out of Bounds," a national award-winning coming-of-age sports mystery by Bob Moseley. You can find it on ama..."

Eliza and her books wrote: "Bob wrote: "Boys books have little to no representation. If you're looking for one, try "Out of Bounds," a national award-winning coming-of-age sports mystery by Bob Moseley. You can find it on ama..."

Eliza and her books wrote: "Bob wrote: "Boys books have little to no representation. If you're looking for one, try "Out of Bounds," a national award-winning coming-of-age sports mystery by Bob Moseley. You can find it on ama..."

True Eliza, and girls can read whatever books they want to. However, the lack of reading engagement from boys shows that we're not putting out books that really interest them. That's what I want to do.

I've read 27. There are twelve that I'm shocked that I still haven't read, some of which are: Six of Crows, The Raven Boys, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Sabriel, Graceling, and Pretty Little Liars. These are going on my Short List!

Bob wrote: "True Eliza, and girls can read whatever books they want to. However, the lack of reading engagement from boys shows that we're not putting out books that really interest them. That's what I want to do."

I am all for more books for everyone, and want to see more boys engaged in reading, but this whole girls are adaptable and will read books targeted for boys, but boys won't read books targeted for girls thing is a problem in our culture.

The mindset (and I'm going to go old school for the example)_that girls will read Hardy Boys, but boys won't read Nancy Drew, and so the solution is more Hardy Boys lead to a dearth of books with strong female characters) although not good old Nancy of course.

Boys deserve to see themselves represented, and so do girls. But the world would be a better place if the boys were encouraged to read books with female protagonists some of the time, without shame.

Girls grow up knowing tons about what it's like to be a boy, because they ARE apt to consume media with male characters at the forefront, and I would love to see a book culture where boys felt comfortable empathizing with girls.

I had two separate tables with tween girls at my restaurant today who were engrossed in books! And one yesterday! And I would love to say I saw same with boys.

The most popular books I see girls reading are books by Rick Riordan. The girls today were reading Christy, by Catherine Marshall -- she said she was on her 10th reading -- and The Girl Who Could Fly, by Victoria Forester.

I also enjoy Hous of Night and The Unwind series...but thanks for giving me books to add to my list :)

I've read so many of these books; it was like a walk down memory line seeing all the books I've read. If I didn't mark it as read, most of them made it to my TBR list.

Christiane wrote: "23 😁 Some of them I've used as class readers or book club readers and most of my students loved them - except Stalking Jack the Ripper. Neither the students nor I had any love for that book. But mo..."

Can I ask why you (and your students) didn't like Stalking Jack the Ripper?

8/52

Some good books there! Another YA novel deserving of mention is Nancy Farmer's The House of the Scorpion. More than any other book, that one gave me vision to see how magnificent science fiction could be. Nancy Farmer is a brilliant literary mind.

☆♥☆Kotyonok꧁꧂ wrote: "A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES IS NOT YA. It is new adult with explicit sex scenes. remove it from this list."

This is why I find these age categories so funny (and stupid). "No, no, no, YA can't have sex in it, that makes it NA!" Like teenagers want to be called "young *adults*" but they can't be expected to be mature enough to be able to deal with sexual matters... :D

I think I will stick to normal "adult" books without any age limits, meaning books that are for everyone who is mature enough to read them (obviously most children, and by children I mean kids under 13 or so, are not).

I've read 17 and have 3 on my TBR list. Can honestly say I liked all of the ones I've read.

I’ve only read 18, but a ton of others were already on my to-read list.

Katsuro wrote: "Colleen wrote: "It's sad that Twilight is listed instead of Harry Potter. Yes, I have read it before Goodreads was even around. Harry Potter is much better."

Also, honest question--does anyone eve..."

Yes, I have read twilight and loved it I’m not saying that the messages it has are really a good influence, but I like how Bella finds love and gets a happy ending, I really loved Twilight but I know a lot of people hated it. I first read the series when I as 11.

I’ve read so many of these books, and think that a lot of them aware great, I love dystopian fiction. The Lunar Chronicles are my favorite series of all time! I love Marissa Meyer, she is such a great author.

18

The Outsiders was the first “Y.A.” book that I remember reading. Watched the movie first, loved it, then read the book and it became a favorite. My paperback copy had cover art from the movie. It’s a bit worn from being read so much, but I’ll always keep it as a treasure.

The Rainmaker
Read this book in 2011 and i feel inlove with grisham's work,now i own about 20 of his books,who else has read it?The Rainmaker

Cindy wrote: "As an almost 40 year old woman, I am so glad that this genre has come so far since I was a teenager. There just wasn't much that was great when I was the target audience for YA. I am an avid reader..."

I am the same way. Read adult books as a teen/young adult and I now cannot stop reading YA books.

I've read 12, and the rest were already on my TR book list