Thread: books

What is considered a popular genre for young adults?
What age group is considered "young adult?"
I have an idea but I'm not sure.

And then it starts again about 60!

I find it usually means teenagers, big kids really, but it is not pc or something to call them that, so call them "Young adults". Fashions in genre for this group change like the wind. but the successful books often include a subtle discussion of the social norms of behaviour that the age group are coming to grips with. Others often do this unsubtly, they are bought as gifts by unsubtle adults who approve of the sentiments, but rarely appreciated.

I think the term "young adult" refers to people between their sixteens to their early twenties. Young adult novels often have themes that relate to growing up, falling in love, or the search of independence and freedom.

So long as you write the story with teenagers in mind, you can call it "young adult x," x being whatever genre you are writing on. I think any genre works, so long as you make it relatively easy to swallow and easy to relate to.

Originally Posted by elite

I think any genre works, so long as you make it relatively easy to shallow and easy to relate to.

"Easy to shallow?" Freudian slip?

YA as a category is generally targeted towards those ages 12 and up. The upper limit is a bit fuzzy, but it's somewhere around 18.


I'm curious as to why you care what a popular genre for it might be.

Originally Posted by WriterJohnB

"Easy to shallow?" Freudian slip?

Yeah, used the wrong word there