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Tiarlynn ([info]tiarlynn) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2007-09-05 12:36:00
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YA authors
I'm interested in the Young Adult field, but I don't know a ton about it save that She Who Must Not Be Named writes in it and that um...it has Eragon. I'm sure there must be more to it than this! Can anyone recommend some cool, interesting authors I could check out?

Thanks!

ETA: Thanks so much for the huge response, guys! There are enough suggestions here for me to singlehandedly revitalize the industry.
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[info]atalantapendrag
2007-09-05 08:43 pm UTC (link)
I think Diana Wynne Jones is considered YA, and Diane Duane's Young Wizards series.

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sockpuppet_rat
2007-09-05 08:45 pm UTC (link)
Oh, check out Diane Duane! Not only are her books awesome but she has been known to post at fandom_wank. I can not rec her stuff strongly enough.

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[info]threegoldfish
2007-09-05 08:58 pm UTC (link)
Thirding DD. Discovered her books a few years and I have madmadmad love for them.

Stephanie Meyer writes an interesting vampire series starting with Twilight.

Charles DeLint has a few YA titles, the latest being Lost Grrl. Same with Terry Pratchett, his latest there is The Wintersmith (which is part of a series).

Hm. I'm going to have to check my shelves. I know that I have a bunch more good YA but I just cant' think of it at the moment.

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(no subject) - [info]threegoldfish, 2007-09-05 09:43 pm UTC

[info]b_jellybean
2007-09-05 08:59 pm UTC (link)
Sherwood Smith's Court Duel (or is to Crown Duel? I totally read them when they were two books) is good, and if you like her she had some more older adult novels. Robin McKinley is pretty good too, though sometimes, imo, she lets her world take over her characters, which I don't enjoy.

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(Anonymous)
2007-09-05 09:03 pm UTC (link)
I was always partial to Meredith Ann Pierce's work.

--cygnia @ LJ

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[info]youngcurmudgeon
2007-09-05 09:10 pm UTC (link)
Tamora Pierce is on the older edge of YA, but is fantastic. You might also like Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy (starts with Sabriel) and Patricia C. Wrede. For your non-fantasy needs, I really recommend the Alice books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.

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[info]saralina25
2007-09-05 09:11 pm UTC (link)
Anything by Lois Lowry, "Abarat" By Clive Barker "Speak" by Anderson "Feed" by MT Anderson, His Dark Materials is considered YA, I think..."The Princess Diaries," anything by Cornelia Funke, Madeline L'engle is also very good. "Stargirl" "Monster" "Go Ask Alice" are also worth checking out, too. And I think I just gave you enough reading for a couple of months...Hope you find something you like, there's a bit of everything in there.

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[info]rotten_fish
2007-09-05 09:22 pm UTC (link)
I don't read nearly enough YA, but I liked Garth Nix's Sabriel trilogy, like youngcurmudgeon said. It's about, basically, the Grim Reaper being an actual "job" - though set in a co-existing fantasty world past the Wall separating it and the Modern World - and I thought it was great.

I also read a book years ago that stuck in my mind called "The Woven Path," though I didn't keep reading the series (which is called "Wyrd Museum." I should pick that up again). Time travel, talking teddy bears, Hitler, and demons. Very surreal, and pretty dark.

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(no subject) - [info]soy_latte, 2007-09-06 04:13 am UTC

[info]white_serpent
2007-09-05 09:30 pm UTC (link)
What age group? What type of books? I'm giving you a list of things I remember liking in around fifth grade through eighth grade. Some of these haven't been reread since then, so keep that in mind.

  • Lloyd Alexander, particularly the Westmark Trilogy.

  • Patricia Wrede is well-liked; I liked Caught in Crystal, The Seven Towers, and Sorcery and Cecelia (the recent S&C sequels less so).

  • I was a big fan of Pamela Dean's Secret Country trilogy, obviously, but that depends on recognizing a decent number of the literary references.

  • Elizabeth Marie Pope's Perilous Gard is excellent.

  • I was age-appropriately terrified by John Bellairs.

  • I'm pretty sure that Patricia McKillip's Riddle-Master trilogy is considered YA.

  • I loved Andre Norton's Magic series when I was younger, and the Witch World novels when I was a bit older.

  • Mary Stolz, Cat in the Mirror, responsible for my childhood obsession with Egypt.

  • Margaret Greaves, Cat's Magic, ...and I also had this thing about cats.

  • Zilpha Keatley Snyder, especially Below the Root/And All Between/Until the Celebration.

  • Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

  • Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown

  • The "Shoes" books by Noel Streatfeild (particularly Ballet Shoes, Skating Shoes, and Dancing Shoes, if I'm remembering correctly. I also liked Thursday's Child)

  • Edward Eager, Half-Magic

  • George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, The Light Princess


Um, yes. I'm going to shut up now.

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iwanttobeasleep
2007-09-05 09:32 pm UTC (link)
I really liked Garth Nix's Seven Towers series, although that walks a lot closer to the children's lit line than his other books. The Bartimaeus Trilogy is also a good answer to the Harry Potter books (although I myself am only partial to the first, Kitty, for all her kickass feminine goodness, strikes me as way too much of a stereotypical oppressed minority turned freedom fighter).

Also, Jane Yolen writes some really good fantasy stuff.

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[info]puipui
2007-09-05 09:34 pm UTC (link)
I would get all tl;dr about how much I love Lemony Snicket, but I've done that elsewhere and it basically all boils down to OMG READ LEMONY SNICKET! He is my wordy pseudonym-o-riffic love god.

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[info]theonedespot
2007-09-05 09:52 pm UTC (link)
Three modern YA books I recommend: Flora Segunda by Ysabeau Wilce, the Uglies trilogy by Scott Westerfeld, and Justine Larbalestier's Magic or Madness trilogy (although I was disappointed with the final book).

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[info]cat_mcdougall
2007-09-05 09:53 pm UTC (link)
D.J MacHale's Pendragon series. I'm only on book two, but book one "The Merchant of Death" was pretty good.

Also Hilari Bell's Farsalan Trilogy (starts with "Fall of a Kingdom") is pretty good (again, only on book two).

My seven year old has fallen in love with Secrets of Dripping Fang by Dan Greenburg. She's just finished book three.

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[info]snacky
2007-09-05 09:58 pm UTC (link)
Do you only want fantasy? I like Pamela Dean, Philip Pullman, Madeleine L'Engle, Libba Bray, and Scott Westerfeld. Also, Cate Tiernan's Sweep series, which is currently being re-released, is pretty good.

As a childrens/YA bookseller, some non-fantasy authors I rec are:

Sarah Dessen, Kevin Brooks, Melvin Burgess, Alex Sanchez, Laurie Halse Anderson, Meg Cabot, Sonya Sones, David Levithan, Megan McCafferty (yay, Jessica Darling!), Ellen Wittlinger and Ann Brashares (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants!).

I also liked Hanging On To Max, by Margaret Bechard, Bass Ackwards and Belly Up by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain, Burned by Ellen Hopkins, It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini, Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, Looking For Alaska by John Green, and Hero by Perry Moore, which I just finished and is kinda fantasy, kinda realistic growing up story, and really really good.

OKAY I WILL STOP HERE. :D

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[info]altoidsaddict
2007-09-05 10:01 pm UTC (link)
Lemony Snicket (and there's 13, plus supplemental materials!); Lois Duncan; Judy Blume; Avi; Out of the Dust which is a bit young, but I just read it and loved it to pieces; Robert Cormier; Lois Lowry. None of these are sci-fi/fantasy, but I've read them and enjoyed them.

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[info]kadath
2007-09-05 10:03 pm UTC (link)
What, no one's mentioned Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series?

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[info]hallidae
2007-09-05 10:04 pm UTC (link)
Clare Bell's Ratha series is fabulous, as are her standalone books like Tomorrow's Sphinx. I pimp them every chance I get, especially since they're finally going to be reprinted and she has a new one coming out this year (also because people need to read friggin' copyright dates and quit telling me she ripped off Warriors).

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(Anonymous)
2007-09-05 10:04 pm UTC (link)
I'll always recommend Cathrine Jinks book Evil Genius and kind of by extension Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer) and the Alex Rider series.

~Bride-Of-Lister

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[info]mpoetess
2007-09-05 10:19 pm UTC (link)
Others have already pimped Diana Wynne Jones and Diane Duane, so I'll just add my voice to the chorus of seconds there.

Margaret Mahy writes some great YA/teen fiction, often with a strong female protagonist. Most of it's supernatural/fantasy/SF somehow, though usually in a nominally real-world setting. I've loved The Changeover, the story of a girl who risks her life to becomes a sorcerer to save her brother, since I was actually the target age. Also awesome is The Tricksters, about a family celebrating Midsummer/Christmas at their holiday home in New Zealand who get visited by ghosts - sort of - of the family who built the house, and everybody's secrets come tumbling out.

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[info]cmikhailovic
2007-09-05 10:44 pm UTC (link)
You have some awesome suggestions here, but no one's mentioned Francesca Lia Block yet -- she's *wonderful*, especially if you like queer-positive, sex-positive magical realism. Weetzie Bat, her first and most famous book, is a bit twee (though that series does get better); my favorites are her standalone novels, like The Hanged Man, which is utterly brilliant.

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[info]chaimonkey
2007-09-05 11:08 pm UTC (link)
Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow and Speaker for the Dead are great ones by Orson Scott Card. I wouldn't recommend going any further in the series though.

Also: Bridge to Terabithia is a classic. And A Separate Peace, even though it goes a little slowly at times.

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[info]edgyspice
2007-09-05 11:14 pm UTC (link)
I've been beaten on almost everything except Lawrence Yep's Dragon of the Lost Sea and its sequels.

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[info]esclaramonde
2007-09-05 11:52 pm UTC (link)
Diana Wynne Jones times infinity. Diane Duane. Is Patricia C Wrede YA? Megan Whalen Turner (esp. The Thief and sequels). Catherine Jinks's Pagan Quartet (beginning with Pagan's Crusade - trufax not about pagans versus Christianity, that's a character's name).

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[info]belafarinrod
2007-09-06 12:26 am UTC (link)
Terry Pratchett has some really good YA. From newest to oldest:

Winthersmith (Third Tiffany Aching book)
A hat full of sky (Second Tiffany Aching book)
Wee Free Men (First Tiffany Aching book)
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
Johnny and the bomb
Johnny and the dead
Only you can save mankind
Truckers, Diggers and Wings are also three books that belong together.

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[info]deliciouschaos
2007-09-06 12:43 am UTC (link)
Diane Duane, Diana Wynne Jones, and Patricia C Wrede. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett have some things that, while not strictly YA might interest those who like YA.

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