Young adult novels. We all know them. Harry Potter, Twilight, Hunger Games. The fear of being identified as a “young adult” might mean that some of us turn up our noses at novels with the vomit-inducing “teen” label.
But deep down, we all have a young adult book – or two, or three – which we think is pure genius. Although there have been many wonderful YA releases over our lifetimes, this proliferation of titles has not come without a price — as often happens when a medium begins to expand, there is a release of waves of worse and worse titles aiming to capitalize quickly on the medium’s success.
In a market like that, how can one know which books to avoid? Never fear: we bring you the best—and some of the very worst—YA novels released in recent years.
