Do most of you read YA novels?

[TheGoodSoldierMmhett]

I personally haven't picked up a YA novel in awhile. What other types of books do you read?

[Sugar-Coated Accident]

I read a lot of different things, though I tend to prefer fantasy (particularly of the epic variety) and horror. I try to balance my reading, though. I'll read some YA, but I'll also read some heavier things. I find YA to be pleasant when I have more schoolwork than usual, or after reading a string of heavier works.

[Electronica Babe]

Horror and regular Adult books.

[Blue Eyed Wallflower]

I do read them sometimes. I like all sorts of novels. I like reference books about music.

[Chalcolithic]

I'm reading Paper Towns right now, because I like John Green and his writing. I think YA fiction is a huge genre with huge variation so I would never rule it out.

[xXForever ForneverXx]

I read all kinds of books as long as it sounds interesting mostly fantasy or horror

[Captain Talavar]

I generally don't read YA period. I'm not the target audience, I generally don't often relate to the characters in any way, and I've yet to be really captivated or intrigued enough to really give them a shot. I look at the premises of these novels and always come out feeling "meh" about them. For the most part.

There have been a very small handful that I've been curious about, all that being said. Never enough to grab 'em, though.

I mostly read horror. The occasional thriller slips in of course. Some sci-fi, some fantasy, but I'm picky.

[TheGoodSoldierMmhett]

Captain Talavar

I generally don't read YA period. I'm not the target audience, I generally don't often relate to the characters in any way, and I've yet to be really captivated or intrigued enough to really give them a shot. I look at the premises of these novels and always come out feeling "meh" about them. For the most part.

There have been a very small handful that I've been curious about, all that being said. Never enough to grab 'em, though.

I mostly read horror. The occasional thriller slips in of course. Some sci-fi, some fantasy, but I'm picky.

I agree. I don't want to rule out ya in genral because its a pretty big genre, but I've just never been totally intrested in ya books.
And scifi is great.

[Bailey_bou27]

I will usually give any book a try if it sounds interesting. I enjoy reading YA if I'm looking for an easier and quicker read.

[mercy petite]

I've read most of the big name YA novels because I wanted to watch the movie (Hunger Games, Divergent, etc.) but as I've grown older and became serious about my career as a writer, it's not a genre I care to go into. I might write stories dealing with adolescence or YA-related things, but I wouldn't limit it to that genre alone.

[TheGoodSoldierMmhett]

misty sundays

I've read most of the big name YA novels because I wanted to watch the movie (Hunger Games, Divergent, etc.) but as I've grown older and became serious about my career a writer, it's not a genre I care to go into. I might write stories dealing with adolescence or YA-related things, but I wouldn't limit it to that genre alone.

Yeah the last ya novel I read was the first hunger games because my friend and I were going to see it in the theatres and I usually like to read the inspiration for the movie before I watch it.
I read plenty of books about teenagers, but their never ya. I think the themes in ya books are a little immature for me.

[Salacassera]

This reminds me of one of the items of The Reader’s Bill of Rights from Daniel Pennac's "Better Than Life" (1994):

"It's okay.
You have our permission.
These books are from our Teen section. But you can read them, even if you are not by any stretch of the imagination, a teen.

In fact, you'll find that these books often have the provocative themes, complex characters and great stories you're looking for in adult fiction.

No need to pretend you're browsing for your kids. We read them, and encourage you to do the same."

So yes, I read them along with a mix of everything else wink Some of the books that have hit me the hardest have been YA.

[TheGoodSoldierMmhett]

Salacassera

This reminds me of one of the items of The Reader’s Bill of Rights from Daniel Pennac's "Better Than Life" (1994):

"It's okay.
You have our permission.
These books are from our Teen section. But you can read them, even if you are not by any stretch of the imagination, a teen.

In fact, you'll find that these books often have the provocative themes, complex characters and great stories you're looking for in adult fiction.

No need to pretend you're browsing for your kids. We read them, and encourage you to do the same."

So yes, I read them along with a mix of everything else wink Some of the books that have hit me the hardest have been YA.

I haven't read a lot of ya fiction, but the ones I have had never really intrested me. A lot of times I'm annoyed with the characters and teen romance stuff rather than the story. Do you have any recomendations for a good ya novel that I could try?

[Starlight Necromancer]

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist,

I like to read fantasy and the odd dystopian or post-apocalyptic every now and again. Right now my favorite book series is a YA/Scif novel by Neal Sushterman called Unwind.

I'm probably not looking in the right places for more "adult" novels but I haven't really found any that I cared for other than Discworld

But because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

[Salacassera]

mmhett

I haven't read a lot of ya fiction, but the ones I have had never really intrested me. A lot of times I'm annoyed with the characters and teen romance stuff rather than the story. Do you have any recomendations for a good ya novel that I could try?

Flush by Carl Hiaasen. I haven't read any of his adult books, but this one was very good. The main characters are a boy, his sister and a bartender named Shelly, so no romance there. They have to think outside the box to stop a corrupt casino boat owner from dumping human waste into the surrounding water and contaminating the beaches. (I also read two of the author's other YA books, Hoot and Scat, but wasn't as impressed by them.)

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy. A love triangle does eventually kick in about 5 books into the series (which I when I stopped reading, although not for that reason) but the wild characters more than make up for it. (A snappily dressed skeleton who lost his original skull in a poker game - and it becomes a plot point later! A not-so-fresh zombie trying to hide his stench by draping pine tree-shaped air fresheners around his neck!) And implications about the consequences of the main character pulling her reflection out of the mirror each day so she can live her double life. Very black humor.

The Crowfield Curse by Pat Walsh. The main character is a boy named Will living in a desolate abbey during the 1300s. He, a magical being called a hob and the old infirmarian, Brother Snail, are the main characters (so again, no romance.) The first book deals with an angel and the second with a demon. There's also a novella called The Hob And The Deerman set a few hundred years later, about carvings mysteriously disappearing from the ruins of the abbey, that is quite hauntingly lovely.

Powers by Ursula K. LeGuin. To be honest, I'd forget that the main character was a teenager until somebody would call him "boy" or make some other reference to his age. He starts off as a slave in a well-to-do household in a fantasy kingdom but a brutal course of events sends him across the land trying to both survive and to discover himself and the answers to questions he can no longer ignore. Nobody and nothing is portrayed as strictly good or evil. It's part of a series tied together by locations, but I read it as a standalone.

There are many others, but those are the ones that spring to mind first, and the ones that seemed most accessible to someone not immediately drawn to the genre. If you read any of them, I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!