December Goodreads Book Group: Young Adult

Want to join a book group, but don't have time for meetings? Are you an avid social media user as well as an avid reader? Just want to read some good books and discuss them with others?

Join our online book discussion group on Goodreads!

Goodreads is an online community of more than 7 million readers. On the site, people share, rate, review, tag, recommend and organize their books. Goodreads also allows users to form groups. Each group has a virtual bookshelf for listing books of interest to the group and a space for forum-style discussions. As part of our group, we'll host monthly book discussions. Each month we’ll announce the theme (i.e. mystery, short stories, celebrity memoir) and then you choose the book you want to read and discuss.

Starting in 2005 with Twilight, books marketed to teenagers have become a staple of many adults' reading. And teens have always been reading books marketed towards adults, as the Alex Awards -- given to adult books with a special appeal for teens -- show. This month we'll be reading books that have successfully crossed genre lines, and we'll discuss what makes them so universally appealing.

Pick a book from our YA/Crossover shelf or the suggestions below and join the discussion!

The one that started the madness

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

2012 Alex Award Winners

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens by Brooke Hauser

Dystopias

Unwind by Neal Shusterman The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Pure by Julianna Baggott Divergent by Veronica Roth

Real Life Problems

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie If I Stay by Gayle Forman