# What Young Adult literature did you/do you love? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [April 6, 2023, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-young-adult-literature-did-you-do-you-love/982237 "2023-04-06T06:32:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 112
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I told a college student taking my class that I loved YA books of any era “because Things Happen!” She said “Good to know. I’m the YA manager at a bookstore.” The next day she passed my table in the school cafe and plopped a book on it without saying a word. That was _Hunger Games,_ and after three of those, she did the same thing with _The Knife of Never Letting Go._ Great world-building, where the wild west level of tech is combined with the fact that telepathy is widespread. Which leads us to my favorite opening of a book: > The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much to say. About anything. > > “Need a poo, Todd.” > “Shut up, Manchee.” > > “Poo.” > > “Poo, Todd.” > “I said shut it.” > > “Poo,” Manchee barks quietly to himself. “Poo, poo, poo.” > > “Just have yer stupid poo and quit yapping about it.” Don’t worry, a lot more happens. It’s the first of the “Chaos Walking” trilogy, and was made into a movie that was released during Covid and not marketed at all. It had a great cast; Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley, with Mads Mikkelsen as the bad guy, and Nick Jonas as his son. But no one saw it… I just happened to see the name and rented it on Amazon. Highly recommended. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-young-adult-literature-did-you-do-you-love/982237)._