The Next Five YA Books You Should Read
In no particular order…but I’ll get to them in a minute.
This morning I attended a group reading (imho the best kind of reading) where my chum E.C. Myers was reading from his slick YA debut, FAIR COIN. I was just fortunate to live near the library where the reading was happening, part of the NYC Teen Author Festival.
Disaster struck when the esteemed group of authors slated to read was locked out of the library. A scheduling snafu had resulted in the reading not happening at all. So there we were, five hot YA authors and me, wandering Inwood, trying to figure out what to do with ourselves.We ended up at a nearby coffee shop, talking about the business, the writer’s life, and the process of promoting a novel (a herculean task)!
This series of unfortunate events (see what I did there?) turned out to be a pretty great morning for me — I met some fantastic writers, saw my friend, and added four cool new books to my to-read list. I couldn’t help but think that my luck to have coffee with five hot YA authors could easily have been an auctioned event — people would pay a pretty penny for such an opportunity.
So here’s what you should do. Go out, buy these five books by the authors who spent their morning with me, and read them now now now.
FAIR COIN by E.C. Myers — A boy finds a coin that with a single flip can make all his dreams come true, or his nightmares.
THE CATASTROPHIC HISTORY OF YOU AND ME by Jessica Rothenberg — Sixteen-year-old Brie dies of a broken heart, but that’s just the beginning.
EDGES by Léna Roy — Interwoven narratives of lost souls converging in the badlands of Utah; what happens next changes their lives forever.
SCRAWL by Mark Shulman — The at times painful and funny story of a bully and the teacher who tries to reform him.
AND THEN THINGS FALL APART by Arlaina Tibensky — When everything goes wrong in Keek’s life at once, she finds solace in an old typewriter and Sylvia Plath’s THE BELL JAR.
Check these books out!
