Cart's Top 200 Adult Books for Young Adults

Author of the bestseller Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism, Cart applies his considerable expertise as columnist and critic for Booklist to identifying 200 exceptional adult books that will satisfy a variety of young adults’ recreational reading tastes. Based on the notoriously choosy reading interests of today’s older young adults, this useful book Features only the best of the best—no cheesy star bios or chick lit lite hereCovers a wide range of genres, from graphic novels and real-life adventures to romance and speculative fictionIncludes numerous read-alikes and related-titles lists, making it a great tool for both collection development and readers’ advisoryMakes finding a great book easy, with multiple indexes and thorough annotation Cart’s roundup of high-quality titles, put together with insight and obvious affection, spotlights hundreds of great books for a hard-to-satisfy audience.