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What We’ve Been Reading: Sara: A Silent Voice Vol 2 Girl From the Other Side Vol 2 The Half God of Rainfall
Kristin: Hello Universe Clockwork Angel Becoming The Gilded Wolves The Library of Lost and Found Socery of Thorns Educated Southern Lady Code
2019 Debut Authors A Field Guide to the North American Teenager The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali Just for Clicks We Set the Dark on Fire Four Dead Queens Opposite of Always All the Walls of Belfast Wicked Saints You’d Be Mine Decendents of the Crane Don’t Date Rosa Santos We Hunt the Flame The Candel and the Flame I Wish You All the Best I Love You So Mochi I Want To Be Where You Are The Grief Keeper All of Us with Wings Wicked Fox Wilder Girls Color Me In Slay The Tenth Girl The Library of Lost Things Fireborne I Hope You Get This Message A River of Royal Blood Every Stolen Breath Dangrous Alliance Tell Me Everything
Hello and welcome back! In this episode we are talking about our most anticipated new releases for July, August and September. So sit back and have a listen. We do not apologize for any growth in your TBR pile because of this episode.
Episode 58 Notes
Welcome to another episode of Adventures in YA. In this episode we are joined by author Jeramey Kraatz to discuss graphic novels and comic books.
Jeramey Kraatz: Website Goodreads Page
Kristin: Uninvited Illuminae All American Girl Fariest Mrs Marvel The Wicked + The Divine The Amazing Book is Not On Fire March: Book One
Sara: Her Own Devices Magnificent Devices This One Summer In Real Life Manners and Mutiny
YouTubers Mentioned: Dan Phil Sprinkle of Glitter Fun For Luis Jack’s Gap
2016 ALA Awards Winners 2016 Morris Award YAK Fest
Graphic Novels and Comic Books Mentioned: Lumberjanes Bitch Planet Captain Marvel Thor Runaways Princeless Silk Gotham Academy Bat Girl Umbrella Academy Nimona Watchmen The Sandman Understanding Comics American Born Chinese Boxers & Saints Oz: The Most Wonderful Wizard of Oz I Hate Fairyland Star Wars Star Wars: Princess Leia Blankets The Complet Essex County Locke & Key Southern Bastards Morning Glories Deadly Class Lady Killer Jem and the Holograms The Undertaking of Lily Chen Through the Woods Giant Days Batman: The Killing Joke
Hello and welcome to another episode of Adventures in YA. In this episode we are wrapping up 2015 and talking about some of our favorite reads of the year. We also look ahead to 2016 with a challenge to each other and announce the first book for our Quarterly Bookclub.
Books Read: Sara: Ink and Bone The Rose Society Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares Soundless Behemoth
Kristin: A Tyranny of Petticoats The Trouble With Destiny Ten Thousand Skies Above You The Nest
2015 Wrap Up Best Book in 2015 Dumplin Most Surprising Read of 2015 Krisitn: Saint Anything Sara: Your Voice is All I Hear Best Series Started in 2016 Kristin: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Sara: The Red Queen and Stoker & Holmes New Authors Discovered in 2015 Sara: Jessie Burton Kristin: Huntley Fitzpatrick Favorite Character Kristin: Lord Akeldama Sara: Tim Mason and Sophronia Favorite Cover Sara: Finishing School Series Kristin: The Nest Best Book Debut You Read in 2016 Kristin: Simon and the Homo Sapiens Agenda Best World Building/Most Vivid Setting You Read This Year Sara: Six of Crows Kristin: Gail Carriger Books Hidden Gems of 2015 Kristin: Aristotle & Dante and Princes of Thrones Sara: The Darkest Part of the Forest A Book You Didn’t Get To in 2015 but will Read in 2016 Kristin: Devoted Sara: Winter Most Anticipated Book in 2016 Sara: Crooked Kingdom Kristin: Dark Days Club
Six Book Challenge
Kristin’s Picks for Sara: Stolen The Realm of Possibility All These Things I’ve Done Please Ignore Vera Dietz Nightshade The Truth About Alice
Sara’s Picks for Kristin Sea of Shadows Vampire Academy Falling Kingdom Openly Straight The Darkest Part of the Forest Ms. Marvel Vol. 1 March: Book One The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 1
Quarterly Book Club: *When I Was The Greatest
Surprise it’s an extra episode this month! Join us as we have a chat about pushing yourself as a reader and ways that we will be doing that in 2016.
Kristin: Winter From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess Confessions Series Manners & Mutiny
Sara Lady of Devices Behemoth
In this episode we talked about our most anticipated new releases for January, February and March of 2016. We also talk about book news and share what we’ve been reading.
January: This Is Where It Ends Passenger Truthwitch The Love That Split the World The Dark Days Club
February: Starts Above Unhooked The Glass Sword Blackheart Calamity Reign of Shadows Ascending the Boneyard The Shadow Queen
March: A Study in Charlotte The Winner’s Kiss Wink Poppy Midnight Yellow Brick War Half Lost The Great Hunt
Book News Morris Awards 2016 Finalist Goodreads Choice Awards 2015
What We Reads: Sara The Sin Eaters Daughter Waistcoats and Weaponry
Kristin What I Thought Was True Blameless I Am Her Revenge The Rose Society
On this episode of Adventures in YA we are talking about winter reading. Stay tuned to the end to hear out big giveaway announcement!
Kristin: The Disenchantments The Boy Next Door Nimona Changless Talon A Fierce and Subtle Poison The Inventor’s Secret
Sara: Saga Vol. 2 Chew Vol. 2 Deadly Class Vol. 3 March Vol. 1 March Vol. 2 Wayward Vol. 1 Laviathan
National Book Award Winner: Challenger Deep Adventures in YA Goodreads Group
Winter Reading: Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares My True Love Gave To Me Let It Snow Bittersweet To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before The Book Thief The Coldest Girl in Cold Town The Night Circus Snow Like Ashes Winterspell Cold Spell Winters Child Stork Nightshade Delirium Mara Dyer Trilogy The Name of the Star Odd Thomas Stolen Graceling Series
Other Books Mentioned: Lumberjanes Summer Days & Summer Nights Shades of Gray Thursday Next Series
You can find the first day of the Twelve Days of Giveaway here
Join us as we talk about book to movie adaptations
Sara: The Clockwork Scarab Curtsies and Conspiracies Since You’ve Been Gone Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour Dumplin A Madness So Discreet Sweet Temptation Prudence Everything Leads To You The Spiritglass Charade
Krisitn The Thing About Jellyfish Snow Like Ashes First and Then Waistcoats and Weaponry The Summer of Chasing Mermaids Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War Challenger Deep
Movies and Televisions Shows Mentioned Mockingjay Part 2 Harry Potter Twilight Beautiful Creatures Beastly The Mortal Instruments Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist If I Stay The Maze Runner Divergent Insurgent Me Earl and the Dying Girl Paper Towns The Book Thief The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants The Hunger Games The Duff
Movies and Television Shows Coming out in 2016 The Mortal Instruments Shatter Me Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them The Fifth Wave Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Allegiant A Monster Calls Let it Snow
Other Books Mentioned The Red Queen The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight Looking for Alaska Legend Ready Player One Artemis Fowl The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair Fallen Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List Will Grayson, Will Grayson The Remnant Chronicles Dorothy Must Die The Wicked + The Divine The Young Elites Leviathan
In this episode of Adventures in YA we talk about tropes in YA literature. Sara also loses her mind and issues a reading challenge to herself for the last two months of the year.
Websites Mentioned: National Book Awards Shortlist Brooding YA Hero Twitter
Kristin: The Winner’s Crime Soulless Snow Like Ashes
Sara: Americanah The Clockwork Scarab
Books Mentioned: Divergent Hunger Games The Forsaken Anna and the French Kiss You’re Voice Is All I Hear My Life Next Door Saint Anything Eleanor and Park The Selection Twilight Delirium Shatter Me Nightshade Series My True Love Gave To Me Slasher Girls and Monster Boys A Tyranny of Petticoats Triangles: The Points of Love Anthology Shadow and Bone The Girl of Fire and Thornes The Rest of Us Just Live Here Lux Series Gasp Will Grayson, Will Grayson Ready Player One
Grab a snack and something to drink today’s podcast is a long one. In this episode we talk about the things we love and don’t love about audiobooks.
Sara: The Golden Lily Since You’ve Been Gone Dumplin’ Sweet Temptation Walk on Earth a Stranger Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour Curtsies & Conspiracies Prudence Lair of Dreams
Kristin: Saint Anything Red Queen The Diviners This Is Where It Ends The Winner’s Crime
Books Mentioned: The Maze Runner Anne Perry William Monk Series Flavia de Luce Series The Song of Achilles The Scorpio Races Daughter of Smoke and Bone Graffiti Moon The Night Guest Americanah The Lunar Chronicles The Blackcoat Rebellion Series All These Things I’ve Done The Rose Society Six of Crows
Scary Books: The Walking Dark Daughters Unto Devils Bleeding Violet Slice of Cherry The Monstrumologist
In this episode of Adventures in YA we talk about what we've been reading, the National Book Awards, and have a bit of a chitchat.
In this episode of Adventures in YA we talk about what we’ve been reading, the National Book Awards, and have a bit of a chitchat.
Websites Mentioned: Sarah Dessen article in Seventeen National Book Awards Longlist Julie Murphy Tumblr Post YALSA Article What Should I Read Next NoveList
Kristin: Curtsies and Conspiracies In the Beginning Joyride Compulsion Saint Anything Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel Belzhar The Night We Said Yes Walk on Earth a Stranger
Sara: The Accident Season My Life Next Door Your Voice is All I Hear Empire of Night Vengeance Road The Diviners Lair of Dreams The Golden Lily
In this episode of Adventures in YA we talk about books set at schools. Make sure you listen to the end of the podcast for a special announcement!
What Sara Has Read: The Winner’s Crime (Did it again! Called it by the wrong name!) The Miniaturist
What Sara Is Reading: My Life Next Door Since You’ve Been Gone Empire of Night Miss Mayhem The Accident Season
What Kristin Has Read: My Life Next Door The Wrath and the Dawn
What Kristin Is Reading: The Night We Said Yes Sum of the Parts Into The Dim A Tyranny of Petticoats
Back to (Boarding) School Books: Finishing School Series Ember in the Ashes Winger Stand Off Anna and the French Kiss Isla and the Happily Ever After Hex Hall Viola In Reel Life Openly Straight The Name of the Star And We Stay The Mockingbirds Vampire Academy Curse Workers Looking for Alaska A Great and Terrible Beauty Harry Potter On The Jellico Road Evernight Belzhar The Gallagher Girls The Raven Cycle
Other Books Mentioned: The Boy Most Likely To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before P.S. I Still Love You Your Voice Is All I Hear Vengeance Road The Darkest Part of the Forest Coldest Girl in Cold Town Lost Stars
In this episode of Adventures in YA will talk retellings in YA.
Website mentioned: An Epic Chart of 162 Young Adult Retellings
What Kristin read and is reading Tracked Kissing in America The Heir Graffiti Moon I’ll Give You the Sun The Clasp Walk on Earth a Stranger My Life Next Door
What Sara read and is reading The Wicked Will Rise The Summer I Turned Pretty The Winner’s Crime The Miniturest
Fairytale Retellings: The Little Android Princess of Thorns Juliet Immortal Romeo Redeemed Splintered Series Court of Thorns and Roses Lunar Chronicles Fairytale Retellings Series Beauty Beastly Entwined (mentioned towards the end of the show)
Classics Retellings: Prom and Prejudice Sass and Serendipity Mask of the Red Death The Fall Nevermore Man Made Boy This Broken Wondrous World The Madman’s Daughter Trilogy Dorothy Must Die Series The Clockwork Scarab
Mythology Retellings: The Goddess Test Abandoned Series Everneath
New Releases: A Little In Love Anne & Henry This Monstrous Thing A Thousand Nights A Song for Ella Gray
Other books mentioned: Perks of Being a Wallflower Kiss of Deception Burn for Burn Not a Drop To Drink The Young World
In this episode of Adventures in YA will talk about our most anticipated new releases for the rest of the year.
What Kristin Read: Love, Lucy To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before P.S. I Still Love You A Thousand Pieces of You
What Krstin Is Reading: Kissing in America I’ll Give You The Sun Ash & Bramble Walk On Earth a Stranger The Clasp
What Sara Read: Proof: The Science of Booze
What Sara Is Reading: The Wicked Will Rise The Winner’s Crime
September New Releases
Sara and Kristin: Walk on Earth A Stranger Dumplin’ Six of Crows
Kristin: Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between I Crawl Through It
Sara: Vengeance Road What We Saw Sweet Temptation Library of Souls Your Voice Is All I Hear
October New Releases
Sara and Kristin: The Rose Society Carry On
Kristin: Happily Ever After A Song for Ella Grey Illuminae
Sara: A Madness So Discreet
November New Releases
Sara and Kristin: Winter
Kristin: Ten Thousand Skies Above You Hotel Ruby
Sara: Manners & Mutiney Soundless
December New Releases
Sara Frozen Tides Their Fractured Light
Other Books Mentioned: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight Please Ignore Vera Dietz Ask the Passengers The Grisha Series The Young Elites The Program Heartless The Beast of Cretacea
In this episode of Adventures in YA we talk about some of our favorite auto buy authors. We also confess some of our awkward fangirl moments and respond to a listener comment.
Authors Mentioned: Julie Murphy Maggie Stiefvater David Levithan Jennifer L Armentrout Becky Wallace Jenny Martin Meredith Moore Mary Pearson
What Sara’s Reading: The Wicked Will Rise Proof: The Science of Booze
What Kristin’s Has Read: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Heart of Betrayal
What Kristin Is Reading: These Broken Stars I’ll Give You The Sun Love, Lucy A Thousand Pieces of You To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
Kristin’s Auto Buy Authors: David Levithan Stephanie Perkins Anna Godbersen Kiera Cass Matt de la Pena Michelle Hodkin Andrea Cremer
Sara’s Auto Buy Authors: Gail Carriger Rachel Hawkins Julie Murphy Jennifer L Armentrout Leigh Bardugo Rainbow Rowell Richelle Mead Sarah Dessen
In this episode of Adventures in YA we talk about summer reading. We go over what’s on our to be read list for the summer and give you some recommendations on books and series we think would be great summer reads.
Mentioned: Texas Teen Book Festival
Authors Mentioned: Julie Murphy Sarah Addison Allen
Books and Book Series Mentioned: Princess of Thorns Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe The Night Guest Six of Crows Me and Earl and the Dying Girl The Fault in Our Stars Since You’ve Been Gone Anna and the French Kiss Meant To Be The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight The Summer I Turned Pretty I’ll Give You the Sun To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before The Heart of Betrayal Love, Lucy Firefight Side Effect May Vary Dumplin’ The Storyspinner Code Name Verity Openly Striaght Winger Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Eleanore and Park Fangirl Let’s Get Lost Bone Gap The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour Joyride My Life Next Door Open Road Summer Second Chance Summer Vampire Academy Grisha Trilogy Winter Mara Dyer Trilogy The Sweet Trilogy Syrena Trilogy Harry Potter
In this first episode of Adventures In YA we talk about why we as adult read and love young adult literature. We discuss how we came about reading YA and some of our favorite books and authors.
Websites Mentioned:
North Texas Teen Book Festival Goodreads
Authors Mentioned:
Barbara Cartland Beverly Cleary David Levithan Leigh Bardugo Marissa Meyer
Books Mentioned:
Sweet Valley High Baby Sitters Club Sweet Valley Twins Hunger Games Trilogy Harry Potter Divergent Eleanor & Park Twilight Saga The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer The Coldest Girl in Coldtown Grave Mercy The Lux Series Scorpio Races The Raven Boys The Lunar Chronicle The Grisha Trilogy The Girl of Fire and Thorns