Nominate The Best Young Adult Novels

[shelver506.livejournal.com]

NPR is giving readers a chance to nominate what they consider to be the best young adult novels of all time. You're allowed up to five entries and a series counts as one entry (the example they gave is that you'd nominate the Hunger Games SERIES, not each book one at a time).

Sounisians, I see an opportunity. Go!

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/18/154796035/the-best-young-adult-novels-you-tell-us?ft=1&f=1032

Comments

[ehyde.livejournal.com]

Hah! I was just coming here to post this.

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

Finally figured out how to do this....Just cuz' I read about clever people doesn't make me one! Here's hoping Gen gets alot of votes...When will the results come out?

[manderelee.livejournal.com]

Books, is LoEM YA? I'm wondering, because while I'm pretty sure the content is appropriate for most 12 year olds, but for some reason, it's marketed at my bookstore as an "adult" book.

I'm really not sure if I should vote. I don't know enough YA books, I think, and I'm so clearly biased, lol. XD

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

I think you're right, but I put on my list anyway, because the lines are so blurry...I have seen KoA placed with children's, Teens, and Adults. Same with Eagle of the Ninth and Anne McCaffrey's books which I would NOT recommend for kids.
Books like Ella Enchanted are classified as both Children's and YA. Even the Healing Wars is considered childrens though my library has it as YA. THe Truth Series is in YA at my library and Adult in the bookstore.
I put it there any way because I like it and it needs more fans. I don't know if that's against the rules, but I doubt that it'll be winning any popular votes because of my comment, so the best I can hope for is to get some people to read it!

I would go ahead and vote anyway. I know I'm jaded, but in my opinion my favorites are the best, and other people are voting there opinions, too. At least show Gen some love =D

[manderelee.livejournal.com]

Funny you mention Eagle of the Ninth. In my bookstore they have the one with the cover of the golden eagle in the kid's section, and the one with the cover of Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell in the teen's section. I can only shake my head, lol, but I have to admit, it's a pretty good marketing strategy.

I'll still have to gather my fives in any case. Though I do see people voting with just one book. At the very least, I think I'll just put in the vote for QT, and leave the rest open.

[(Anonymous)]

If people listed their picks here, is there somebody who would tot them all up? I'd be really interested to see how the Sounis Top Picks
compare to NPR's.


~mwt

[shelver506.livejournal.com]

Oooh, brilliant.

My suggestions were:

The Queen's Thief series (of course)
The Graceling series by Kristin Cashore
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
The Book Thief by Markus Zadusak
The Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery

I tried very hard to pick books that I not only thoroughly enjoyed but also that I felt had really earned the distinction of "best young adult novel of all time." Others at NPR, I noticed, were picking books that just came out this year. My only exception is Code Name Verity, because it's one of those rare books that just screams instant classic. That and it made me cry.

[shelver506.livejournal.com]

... And though I love the Anne-girl, it only made it on there because I forgot Hunger Games. Drat. Can I change my answer?

[1221bookworm.livejournal.com]

I would be happy to tot the answers. It sounds like a great idea!!! :) I will do up a post tomarrow, so please hold your rec's till then!