What’s up in YA? A Quick Rundown of What’s Good

This past week on our Bibliocircus podcast, we spoke with Jennifer M. Barry about her favorite Young Adult titles from the recent past, present and future. Jennifer is a published author in the YA field as well as a pretty active reader so it was great to get some suggestions from her on what’s good out there right now. As promised on the show, here are the links to the authors and books she told us about.

First up is Brigid Kemmerer. Brigid is the author of the popular Elemental Series. This is a series of 5 books and 3 novellas that can be found here. Click on her highlighted name above for her Twitter page or alternatively, for all you Goodreaders out there, you can find Brigid here.

Next, Jennifer told us about the Irin Chronicles, by Elizabeth Hunter. Elizabeth has quite a following and is pretty prolific. You can catch up with her Goodreads profile here.

Kate SeRine has written a series called Transplanted Tales that Jennifer really enjoyed. Kate vowed to make sure her characters always have a happily ever after, and you can also find her on Goodreads.

Katherine Howe has written quite a bit since storming on the scene with The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, which was proclaimed by USA Today to be one of the best novels of 2009. Our co-host Jen really enjoyed Katherine’s latest book Conversion. Here is Katherine on Goodreads.

Emma Trevayne seems like a lot of fun. She’s another prolific author and the work Jennifer particularly enjoys from her is the Coda Series. In fact, if you have Kindle Unlimited, right now you can start reading the first in the series for free right here. And of course here is the linky-link to her Goodreads profile.

Finally, Jennifer told us about the Atlantis Series by Carol Oates. Carol grew up across the street from the childhood home of Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula. If that doesn’t make one destined to grow up and write supernatural stories, I don’t know what would. She lives in Dublin, Ireland, however if that’s too far for you to travel to get to know her, you can always pay her a Goodreads visit.

So there you have it ladies and gentlemen. I am finding that people of all ages enjoy titles in the robust YA genre. The problem is that sometimes it’s hard singling out the really good ones. Thanks so much to Jennifer for all of the recommendations as well as the links for this post.

To hear Jennifer discuss these books and authors in more detail, come on over and take a listen to the episode.

–Don Theo III

P.S. I didn’t read too much YA myself this past year but I did read Jennifer’s own novel Going Under: The Oracles of St. Ambrose book 1 and found it immensely enjoyable.

 

 

—Don Theo III