young adult lit
Adolescent-targeted novels
Young adult lit is fiction marketed to readers roughly twelve to eighteen years old, though it draws a substantial adult audience.
The genre typically features teenage protagonists navigating identity, relationships, and coming-of-age struggles.
It encompasses everything from dystopian series to contemporary romance: She's been on a young adult lit kick lately.
Often shortened to YA.
- teenYoung person, 13-19
- coming-of-ageYouth becoming adulthood
- dystopianDepicting oppressive imagined societies
- romanceLove and its excitement
- book boyfriendIdealized fictional romantic figure
high school drama · protagonist · paperback · happily ever after · banned books · series · Hunger Games · angst · first love · love triangle · bookshelf · twilight · rebellion · identity · chosen one · cliques · forbidden · trilogy
- modern fictionnovels, novel, contemporary fiction, literary fiction, modern fiction
- literature coursesscience fiction, detective fiction, Shakespeare, classics, Harlem Renaissance
- literature textbookspoetry anthology, fiction anthology, literary theory, literary analysis, anthology
- Literature Studiesliterary analysis, literary theory, close reading, literary canon, literary movements
- literary movementsRomanticism, Realism, Modernism, Surrealism, Symbolism
young adult litboard books
Durable books for infants
baby books · adult fiction · children's literature · picture books · children's books
young adult litliterary fiction
Prose emphasizing craft and depth
classics · experimental fiction · modernist literature · belles-lettres · postmodern fiction
young, adult, younger, youngest, youth, youthful, youthfully, youthfulness, adulthood