Hey romance nerds, bear with us for the audio on this one. Three voices + two mics does not add up to good math. But please join us in welcoming Madi this month! Madi leads us in a discussion about young adult (YA) romance books. We’ll touch upon the history of Young Adult (YA) fiction and YA romance, as well as the YA “craze” of the 2010’s and why adults continue to read YA fiction!

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Books mentioned:

• Bloody Jack series by L.A. Meyer
• Daughters of the Moon series by Lynne Ewing
• The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
• The Mediator series by Meg Cabot
• Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
• Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Heinlein juveniles series by Robert A. Heinlein 
• The Catcher and the Rye by J.D. Salinger 
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle 
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• The Friends by Rosa Guy
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Bless the Beasts and Children by Glendon Swarthout
• Deathwatch by Robb White
• Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
• The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
• Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld
• Divergent trilogy by ‎Veronica Roth
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green 
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews 
• Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
• Midnight Sun by Trish Cook
• Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
• A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy by Jenny Han
• Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo 
• Grishaverse is also expanded into Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom duology
• The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare
• The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid

Books being adapted: 

• The Selection by Kiera Cass
• Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
• The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw
• Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha series) by Tomi Adeyemi

Articles/websites

• Definition and History of Young Adult fiction
• History of YA Romance
• Why Do Adults Read Young Adult Books? (Hay, 2019)
• All the Young Adult Book-to-Screen Adaptations in the Works Right Now (Epicreads.com, 2019)
• Why the YA dystopia craze finally burned out (Oladele, 2021)
• We Need Diverse Books (diversebooks.org)
• Is YA Leading Diversity in Publishing? (Nuttall, 2021)
• #Publishing Paid Me information

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