Technically, YA is for ages 12-18, but I’m 22 and that’s all I seem to enjoy. For instance, my favorite series I’ve ever read is Harry Potter, but it actually belongs in the children’s category (even though it goes much deeper than I understood it as a child, especially after GoF).
I try to read books beyond the YA genre but they’re often too serious for me. I enjoy the light-heartedness of YA novels, and they often intertwine fantastic action and/or complicated politics (i.e. The Hunger Games, Dune), though I always feel a bit immature for reading books meant for people years younger while my friends are reading Jane Austen and David Goggins… Help!
Edit: Already filled my reading list for the next month thanks to all of you! Keep ‘em coming!
by Lilsquish00
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Have you read the Bartimeous trilogy?
No shame just like anything else it’s entertainment and an escape from the real world! There’s nothing wrong with enjoying ya books
I have read a lot of YA, sometimes i still do.
But mostly i have notice the writers grew with me into new adult/adult books.
Lookup, Sarah J Maas( i started reading her books in 2017), start with the throne of glass series, Sabaa Tahir, Sara Raasch, Jennifer L Armentrout (i one have read the newest series), S.A. Chakraborty and maybe Holly Black.
Maybe they are not your kind of books, but maybe worth to look them up.
And by the way there is nothing wrong with reading YA even when your like 80.
I say keep reading. And check out the Cradle series by Will Wight.
You’ll get there! I was still mostly reading YA at that age, with some adult fantasy mixed in.
Check out books by Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver and Uprooted especially!
The Murderbot Diaries are also very fun, novella length sci-fi with lots of great action scenes.
I found it easier to tradition to adult/new adult fantasy and sci fi books instead of stuff like Jane Austen
Have you tried the books from M.J. Arlidge? His books got me out of a reading slump. Reads so easily and with a lot of suspense. He writes thrillers.