Do You like YA Books?

3 months after starting a job at my public library, I went to the midnight release party for Breaking Dawn. It was there that I decided I needed to be a part of this phenomenon and I'm now working on my master's in library science so I can be a teen librarian. The majority of the books I read are YA unless an adult book has extremely good reviews and all the patrons at the library are clamoring for it (recent example, Room, by Emma Donoghue). The YA books tend to read much better than adults novels. Adults are just too pretentious! lol

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I read YA books too (and pretty much anything else).
I got sucked into the House of Night series (kins of like a Twilight meets Harry Potter type thing).

I absolutely love them! I have advanced elementary/middles school students and I try to keep up with what they're reading! In fact, it was one of my 5th grader students that bought me Twilight for a Christmas present one year and told me to read it. I absolutely loved the Hunger Game series, anything by Tamora Pierce and Amanda Hocking.
Oh and I am totally Team Jacob! :)

Love them! I highly recommend 'The Hunger Games' trilogy if you haven't read them yet!

Added: Team Edward in the books / Team Jacob in the movies (hawt!! ;)

TEAM EDWARD here :-) LOL
Love those books, I dont get chance to read as often as I used too... bummer, BUT I'm looking to start reading Kelley Armstrong books for my summer indulgence ;-)

A great trilogy of YA books are: The Giver, Gathering Blue and The Messenger by Lois Lowry. There are many great series in YA :o) so it's not just you!

In the book/literary "world" YA is where most of the exciting authors have been. Sometimes that happens. You'll get a bunch of exciting "new" talent in fiction, or mystery, or sci/fi, or ___pick a genre____. Other times (more usually) new talent spreads itself out.

About 5 or 6 years ago critics were going nuts saying "OMG... LOOK at what is happening in YA!!!"

Durn Straight.

ESPECIALLY as a writer myself, I've been dazzled by the talent in YA lately.

Stephanie Meyer & Rick Riordan are my two personal favs that have come out of the "Whoa!" ... tidal wave to date, but I've barely scratched the surface in what's available (I was having to buy textbooks, so I didn't have a lot of money left over).

I am in my 50's and a grandmother...I loved the Twilight series and have enjoyed the movies also. ( I am also team Jacob)! I don't think there's any need to justify why you like to read books geared towards teens.....

I liked the Redwall series. My daughter and I read them together.
I also like Lois Lowry and Jane Yolen.

my guilty pleasure is Erin Hunter's "Warrior Cats" books which one of my 3rd grade daughters has been enamored with - she also devours Percy Jackson and Charlie Bone books and read through the first 3 Eragon books but found them a bit more challenging.

I read and LOVED the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. I read Twilight series the summer I was nursing my second daughter. And though I haven't read the books, Vampire Diaries is one of my fav TV shows.

I love the Percy Jackson series, too.
I just can't get into the Twilight series. I'm not enough of a necrophiliac to appreciate it.
I don't know where the line for young adult is but if it's sci/fi or fantasy I usually like it. My son and I read the same things although he's really into dragons right now.
Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit
All the Narnia books
All the 20+ Disc World books by Terry Pratchett
Erragon / Brisinger
Harry Potter
Charlie Bone / Children of the Red King series
The Ranger's Apprentice series
39 clues series
MYTH Inc Link series by Robert Aspirin
There are just too many to list.
My library is out of control.

LOL I read a lot of YA books. I love the Fallen Series (I think that' what you meant with the Torment Series), The Wolves of Mercy Falls, House of Night Series, The Morganville Vampire Series, The Lorien Legacies, books by Rick Riordan. There are so many other good YA books out there. I would love to discuss books through e-mail or FB. Just send me a private message. I always look in the YA section at Half-Priced Books. ;)

VERY LATE but Heck yes! I like the House of Night series a lot too.