There always used to be some popular series like Harry Potter, Hunger Games or Twilight series. Every single John Green book used to sell like crazy. Now they're barely relevant
wtf happened to YA books?
There always used to be some popular series like Harry Potter, Hunger Games or Twilight series. Every single John Green book used to sell like crazy. Now they're barely relevant
Oversaturated market and hyper social media. If there are some gems, they are hidden in a pile of shit. If those gems somehow get found, they only get their 5 minutes on the stage before the next new thing gets their turn to perform.
Pretty much this. YA novels that sold when I was growing up had a drastically longer shelf life, and were different enough from each other to have their own identity. Now I just see a thousand different iterations of whatever formula the editors are currently pushing for and maybe one or two novels that manage to be relevant a month after their release. I walked into a bookstore recently and all of the novels they were trying to push looked nearly identical to stuff I'd find on kindleunlimited
What does young adult even mean? I’m 21y/o. Am I a young adult? What’s the threshold? I went from reading Narnia books to reading regular fiction for adults. No need for anything else. If you need a stepping stone, then choose genre fiction or McCarthy for the teens
13 to 18 years old give or take
young adult books:
>no swears
>no sex
>written at a 5th grade level
>based
>based
>cringe
Overall swears and sex ruins fantasy stories
Melodramatic fantasy stories with teenage protagonists. That's about it. Bonus points for love triangles and oppressive dystopias, though they're not essential.
Make the protagonist female, the love interests rich/poor and different ethnicities, most of the characters orphans, and set it in the future or a fantasy world. There you go. You've made several million dollars.
the main reason these books got so big was because of their movie adaptations. There are still YA books being written and read, like Song of Achilles, but Hollywood hasn't made a decent adaptation of anything in over a decade.
The same reason that you don't have a few bands that everyone listens to anymore, the internet, which didn't hit it's tipping point with normies until like the early 2010s, allowed for massive market segmentation and now people pursue niche interests more.
what do zoomers enjoy?
Attention, and those doing things they can emulate for attention.
Something about trannies and bbc and gaysex and how inferior they are to people your age.
tiktok
Isekai, Villain Protagonist turned Hero (literally 5 YA books my little cousin had me read), and spooky magic stuff. Sci-fi is dead as frick.
>sci-fi is dead as frick
Good. Nobody has done anything interesting with the genre in decades
This is true. Science fantasy is very popular, though, which means Sci-fi could have a resurgence one day.
I rmbr them being mostly shit but i never read through a book as fast as i did picrel when i was 12, even to this day. Think it was my first all-nighter.
I still have an autistic passion/fetish for airships...
Book fads are like fashion fads, people move on. The Schoolkids-on-vacation-solving-mystery was pretty popular in the 90s