New Study Says Most YA Books Are Purchased By Adults: Do You Read Young Adult Novels?

Well I like Kathy Reichs' adult work so I'll give this a try. Thanks!

I actually didnt realize she had adult work. I will look for that!! Good thing my other half is a carpenter...lol....I need many bookshelves. :-)

Oh yes! She wrote the 14(?) books that the TV series Bones was based on.

Oh... she's also a practising forensic anthropologist and has written a number of academic text books.

Now I saw that across the book, but I paid no attention and thought she wrote the screenplays. Or is it scripts for tv?

If you like that kind have you read any Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child? Their books are frequently based on anthropology and the like. A few are a bit cheesey, but several are good.

I read em! :)

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. - 1 Corinthians 13:11

I don't think that verse has anything to do with whether you read children's books!
I could misquote a few gospel verses for the other side of this debate!

Oh relax twinky. It was just a joke.

Did I say anything to make you think I wasn't relaxed?
If it was a joke oh relax, it wasn't very funny

When someone puts and exclamation point at the end of a sentence, I interpret it to include aggression, or at least intended with raised volume. You could have used a period, but you didn't. And sorry, that you lack a sense of humor.

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

-C.S. Lewis

Thank You for that perfect quote!

Always been one of my favorites. I remember once using the last sentence on my college roommate when he got on my case for watching cartoons.

Looks like I raised a few brows, LOL. Truth is, I embrace the child in me and I hope I never lose it, as it is a great refuge and source of creativity. But I find children's books are rather dull. They are not a challenge to read and the story lines are usually callow and coy to me, and that's all I meant to convey in my first post. But that's okay, they are not written for me, they are written for children.

I think I'd make a distinction between a children's book and a young adult book. For instance, "Goodnight Moon" is a children's book. The Hunger Games is not.

So make a distinction then. Looks like you are expert in both.

Puhlease!

*sucks in cheeks* OF COURSE adults bought them... Most parents buy books for their kids!!!!!!!

Hogan's Heroes :D

I only read non-fiction.

sure, there are some good ones out there

no interest

Oh I love shiver, twilight, and THG. Ps I'm a YA so it probably doesn't count.

Sometimes. I don't go out of my way to avoid them. I can appreciate a well-written, good story no matter who the target audience is. While young adult novels are usually much less complex and don't deal with as mature issues as a rule, there are the exceptions. There are many very creative stories marketed to young adults. While I usually come out of a young adult novel with less love of the story itself and more critique of it because I have different expectations than the audience to whom the books was targeted, I can still enjoy a story that isn't perfect.

Personally, I stuck with kids novels up to the age of eleven (even though I had a reading level to read young adult novels at that age), and then was reading adult novels by the age of twelve. This mostly occurred because it was that year that I started to take writing very seriously, and while I wrote like you would expect a twelve-year-old to write, I did catch onto the "to write well you need to read and read and read well-written books as well as practice, practice, practice" very quickly. Thus, I spent even more time reading and my expectations for what I read skyrocketed between eleven and fourteen.

Shonen Jump.

I read Hunger Games. I might read The City of Ember series. Only because my kid thinks I would like it.

Listen to your kid he knows what he is talking about.

actually "she". She hounded me till a read hunger games, I really liked it up until the last half of the 3rd book. Kinda dropped off for me after that.

I like post apocalyptic stories, so the city of ember series will be right up my ally, but I've got lots of other stuff to read before I even get close to that.

well i'm 23 so i still see myself as a young adult so i'm reading appropriately :D

I'm a child at heart. I prefer children's and young adults books.

i read the catcher in the rye as an
adult.it seemed like a young adult
novel to me.

I'll read books for any age group, as long as they are interesting and well written. =)

So that's YA stands for, Young Adult!

They're not my first choice of reading material, but the best are worth a read.

Targeting young adults just means that they target a certain aspect of full adults. Just because they are understandable to YA doesn't mean that that choice of being understandable does not serve the overall narrative equally well for an adult. Something can be YA by simply being written as the best story it can be, and it just happens to be less overtly complex. A simpler structure can still cover something remarkably deep and complex. Anyone who disagrees can try to explain to me how simple a game Chess is.

I always like them. They seem more imaginative from what I've seen. Seems most Adult novels tend to be court or crime related like most of James Patterson and the like. Or just pure romances like Danielle Steele.

I need more dang it!

When they're good.

I think I'm pretty young although I don't fall into the category of young adult, so yeah I read those kinda books