So lately I’ve had several book recommendations here and in other subreddits for novels or audiobooks that sounded great, but when I pursued them, I found these were young adult novels. Despite long discussion threads, no one mentioned this.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the occasional YA book. But it seems like something people should mention it is YA, like you might mention if something was softcore. It makes me wonder: Is this is not a big deal to people? Or do people not even realize these are YA?

The most recent was Red Rising, which was suggested as an audio book recommendation. One comment mentioned that they found this after looking for something like Game of Thrones . This is a fun book, and the audio narrator is great, but it is definitely YA and nothing like Game of Thrones, lol.

Anyway, just a thought…

  • snark_attak@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I think the problem is that people that will recc young adult novels see them as just as good as adult novels

    I wouldn’t say that is problem as much as a more or less objective truth, based on the following facts that I hope we all can agree on:

    • YA is an extremely broad and loose classification, to the point that there can be significant disagreement on what constitutes YA or whether a specific title should be considered YA.
    • There is large variation in the quality, complexity, and maturity of novels that may fall within the YA spectrum.
    • There is large variation in the quality, complexity, and maturity of novels that are considered adult fiction.
    • “Good” is very highly subjective, so there is no objective way to measure whether one book is better than another, let alone whether one vast, broad category of books is better than a different (though potentially overlapping) vast broad category.