Next week, we’ll officially reveal our list of the best young adult books of the century so far. It’s a really wonderful, well-rounded, and inclusive list. But like any list of the “best of,” it will not include everyone’s favorite book. Many beloved authors and titles will not be on the list, and it’s not because they don’t hold up. It’s because a list is a list and has certain confines and constraints to it. We’ve taken “best” to mean both best in the sense that it’s quite enduring literature, as well as influential to the development of the category or genre. The list will officially roll out on Wednesday to our website and it will land here in the newsletter on Friday.
The great news is that because YA is a category and not a genre, there have been YA books aplenty on the entries in our “Best Books of the Century So Far” lists. Each of those lists has had at least one YA title and in most cases, more than one YA title. As a lead-in to the official YA list, let’s take a peek at the titles which have already graced a list. After the official list is released next week, the following week you’ll get to see some of the titles that almos...
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