Why I feel Adults read Young Adult Books
Young Adult Novels: Adults read them as well
When I was younger I was a reader, I read children’s books as children do when they’re young and I thought that everyone read when they were my age. When I was really young, my grandmother introduced me to the Madeline books by Ludwig Bemelmans, and these were some of my favorite books when I was younger. The other book that I loved was Really Rosie by Maurice Sendak, I loved this book because it combined two things that I loved books and music. When I was younger I felt a connection to books, because they didn’t judge me for being different the way that I felt like people did.
For a few years, I didn’t read many things because the fact that school told me to read I wasn’t really a fan of. I know that they are required reading and that everyone reads them, but to me I didn’t love all of them as much as I loved some and it kind of turned me off to reading. If I don’t have to read Flowers for Algernon again it will be too soon. I read the books that were on the summer reading list, but I didn’t think that was enough I loved most of those books and I wanted to read books that were like that all year round. The first real young adult book that I read was The Perks of Being a Wallflower when I was in middle school, this was a book that had some mature topics discussed but I loved it because it didn’t sugar coat anything for readers, it was real and it was organic the next summer this book was taken off the summer reading list.
When I was in high school I didn’t read much outside of school, because I didn’t know what style of books that I really wanted to read and I needed to find a genre that I connected with, and that I loved. It was then that I discovered the genre of Young Adult Fiction a genre that I call one of my favorites. I started The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, and the Twilight series when I was a teenager back then these were the best books that I had read. Now I was young, and I hadn’t read a lot of books and I know now that these weren’t the best books in the Young Adult genre, but I was young and a naïve girl that hadn’t read a whole lot of anything that she was given to read, and required to read when she was a student. At the time, I read these books because I liked the characters, and I liked the story more than I liked the style of writing.
From then on and into now my twenties I had loved this genre, and I have read a lot of different books in this genre. I think that people in their twenties and beyond read these books because they enjoy the writing style, and they feel like they are going on a journey with the characters that are flawed. Even though this is a genre meant for teens, adults read the books as well because they genre is a wide variety of different books.
“But you’re in your late twenties why are you reading books that are meant to be read by people, which are about ten years younger than you are read an adult book that is more suited to you.”
Honestly, I start reading the series when I hear about them, and I check them out I really like the first book and then I end up reading the rest of the books. I feel as though the authors that create these books, and the stories know that they are writing for the market and this market is not made up of just teens. If you write an intriguing story with likable, or at times even characters that you love to hate and a plot that keeps moving forward and keeps people interested people will read it. If you’re a good writer with a voice, and you write characters that people want to read then people will read your writing and keep reading it. Books like this are: The Hunger Games Trilogy, The Divergent series, and The Maze Runner series among others.
“But what if I want to read individual stand along books, and not get bogged down by a series but still want to read some of these authors?”
It’s not just series, people also write standalone books in the Young Adult Genre that readers will read because they enjoy the way that the person writes and the plot they write. When people write the stand-alone books, they will have people read all of the books that they write and gain a fan base this way the same way that the ones that write series do. Authors like this write just as much, and they write just as well as the books that are written in the series, but they are the kinds of books that you don’t need to read in any order as all the stories are different. Authors like this are: Rainbow Rowell, and John Green among others.