Top Ten Tuesday is an original
feature/weekly meme created over at
The Broke and the Bookish for bloggers to show off their favourite books, on a particular theme, each week. This week, the theme is 'Top Ten Books I'd Give To Readers Who Have Never Read... YA' I've chosen YA, as firstly, that's what I've been mostly reading over the last couple of months, and secondly, because there has been quite a lot of sniffiness and snobbery about 'grown-ups' reading YA books. The most notable attack on adults reading books written for young people was written by Ruth Graham in
The Slate Book Review. Many authors wrote back against this view, including Malorie Blackman who recently curated the UK's first ever YA Literature Convention (I was one of many adults in attendance).
So with out further ado, here are my picks:
