Young Adult

Feyre Archeron is nineteen years old and barely keeping her family alive. She hunts in the woods outside their decaying village not because she has any great love of it, but because someone has to, and her father is broken and her sisters are helpless and the alternative is watching all of them starve. One…

The Phenomenon and the Book Twilight is one of the best-selling novels of the twenty-first century, a cultural phenomenon that arrived in 2005 and spent years reshaping the YA publishing landscape. It is also a novel that has attracted enormous critical disdain – for its prose, its gender politics, its conception of romantic love. Both…

The World That Changed Everything There is a before and after Harry Potter in the history of children’s literature and popular fiction, and twenty-five years of distance have only clarified how extraordinary the achievement of the first novel really is. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone does not merely introduce a magical world – it…

The Novel That Launched a Major Voice John Green’s debut novel won the Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature when it was published in 2005, and it has never gone out of print. Looking for Alaska is a boarding school novel, a friendship story, and a meditation on mortality, all compressed into 221…

Thomas arrives in the Glade with no memory of who he is or why he was sent there. The Glade is a self-sustaining enclosure whose outer walls open each day onto a shifting stone Maze — a structure that has been running since before any of the current residents arrived, and which no one has…