Looking for Young Adult novels and short story collections and anthologies with more than 100,000 ratings. mjf

Books with less than 100,000 ratings will be removed from this list.

So what makes a book a Young Adult book? That's a good question. For me it generally requires a young adult protagonist. But even that brings up the question of how old is a young adult? For books in the US it would seem to mean a teenager - whereby for the term, it should mean say 18 to 25. Which apparently now has its own category "New Adult". And another category for the slightly younger set "Middle Grade".

For purpose of this list, a book is considered young adult if it has been tagged as young adult or ya at least 1000 times.

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Best Young Adult Fiction
Best Young Adult Realistic Novels
YA Dystopia Novels
The Most Deserving Newbery
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drowningmermaid "For books in the US it would seem to mean a teenager - whereby for the term, it should mean say 18 to 25."

Hang on... it seems to me there are two separate categories we're talking about here. "Young Adult" generally refers to "teenager" whereas 18-25 usually is listed under a category that didn't exist when I was growing up, called "New Adult."


message 2: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman drowningmermaid wrote: ""For books in the US it would seem to mean a teenager - whereby for the term, it should mean say 18 to 25."

Hang on... it seems to me there are two separate categories we're talking about here. "Y..."


I'm just saying that the term young adult has the wrong meaning. Which is why we'd end up having to add "new adult", which isn't a category that I tend to think of.


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads The whole thing confuses me. Neither category existed when I was those ages! (We read whatever we felt like, and it worked surprisingly well.)


message 4: by Jim (last edited May 11, 2017 02:40PM) (new)

Jim "Young adult" has been around since the 70s, for years there wasn't a bad title w/the Fawcett Juniper imprint.
What surprises me about this list is there are only a half-dozen i've not read that i want to.
And i would add Romeo and Juliet.


lucky little cat YA and NA are both labels that came from marketing terms. "Young Adult" gradually replaced the old name, the more clinical but more descriptive term "Adolescent Literature." (Again, marketing at work: as a teen, would you have rather browsed a bookstore section labeled "Young Adult" or one labeled "Adolescent Lit"?)

New Adult as a name seems to me to be a shameless marketing attempt to create buzz where no additional buzz is needed. In our culture, new=good for most folks. And "new" is also meant to appeal to readers who perceive the "young" in "young adult" as judgmental or pejorative. (Who you callin' young?!)


drowningmermaid lucky little cat wrote: "YA and NA are both labels that came from marketing terms. "Young Adult" gradually replaced the old name, the more clinical but more descriptive term "Adolescent Literature." (Again, marketing at wo..."

I thought that "new adult" meant it was supposed to (possibly) have sex in it. Between consenting 18-year-olds, that is.


message 7: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman Very amused to see a call out to this list at https://bookriot.com/highest-rated-books-on-goodreads/


drowningmermaid I have a theory that as the demographic that purchases books has changed-- from primarily "adults" to school-age youths-- you see more books that appeal both to adults and to YA. And more publishers seeking to market books as YA. I notice the trend since "Harry Potter" which started clearly YA but got grittier... Now YA seems to be "the" market, whereas books like Huckleberry Finn were all marketed as as adult books.


message 9: by Mitchell (new)

Mitchell Friedman I tightened up the list criteria to just require 100,000 ratings and to be shelved as young adult or ya at least 1000 times.

I also removed a bunch of books with considerably less than 100,000 ratings as well as adding a bunch of books to this list.


message 10: by Sara (new)

Sara B Don't read Matched, the author plagiarized the world from The Giver


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