/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11576275]

What was your favorite YA series growing up?

[Anonymous No.11576510]

i used to read that with my dad. Brings me back, thanks for the memories.

[Anonymous No.11576520]

Harry Potter. I was one of that generation that got to grow up along with the books, so I had basically no choice.

[Anonymous No.11576532]

>all YA is brother-mother incest
>all YA is brother-mother incest

[Anonymous No.11577678]

>>11576275

[Anonymous No.11577823]

>>11576275

A tie between Mortal Engines and the Edge Chronicles

[Anonymous No.11577834]

>>11576275
>Demian
>Steppenwolf
>Siddhartha

They just don't make YA novels like that anymore.

[Anonymous No.11577844]

There were only 3 books, but I really enjoyed Hatchet, and most of Gary Paulson's other books

[Anonymous No.11577929]

>>11576275
Poison
Storm Thief
Incarceron
Sapphique
Howl's Moving Castle

[Anonymous No.11578002]

>>11576275
Icewind Dale Trilogy. And the later books with Drizzt Do’Urden. I was an edgy little /tg/. I have not reread them, and I doubt they are the greatest of /lit/.

[Anonymous No.11578033]

>>11576520
I regret nothing. Harry and the others were the only friends I had.

[Anonymous No.11578072]

Harry Potter like every socially well adjusted early teens kid

[Anonymous No.11578105]

I hated YA. I thought books just fucking sucked until my late teenage years when I discovered literature.

[Anonymous No.11578149]

>>11578072
>Socially well adjusted
Okay, bug boy

[Anonymous No.11578153]

>>11578105
Based

[Anonymous No.11578156]

I was into HP and the Septimus Heap novels

[Anonymous No.11578311]

>>11576520
Same. Growing up with the characters ageing along side me was a magical experience.

[Anonymous No.11578318]

Harry Potter, Enders Game, That book about the complex bat society.

[Anonymous No.11578375]

also Goosebumps and Animorphs but I have a special spot in my heart for Hank the Cowdog.

[Anonymous No.11578470]

Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, Eragon (shamefully) also some series called Monster Blood Tattoo, which I thought was pretty cool at the time (and also got away from the Tolkienfantasy or urbanfantasy of every other book).

[Anonymous No.11578932]

>>11576275
Artimis foul
Redwall
The golden compass
Harry potter
Warriors
Percy Jackson
The hobbit
Battle royale
Hunger games

I also ended up with like 40 dragon ball z books; my dad would buy them for me and id spend 2 hours on each one. Good memories

[Anonymous No.11579886]

Mortal Engines and Artemis Fowl, also Harry Potter of course and I loved a book named Abarat but I only ever read the first one.
Don't know if Goosebumps count but I loved those.

[Anonymous No.11579908]

>>11576532
w-what

[Anonymous No.11579934]

>>11576275
Darren Shan wrote a series about a kid who becomes a vampire or something it was good

The demon one was 2 spooky only read a few

[Anonymous No.11579952]

>>11578932
>Redwall
>The Golden Compass
>Artemis Fowl

My nigga

Pic related also
Animorphs was lit, the little morph in the corner that changes as you read. The special where they timetravel into dinosaurs

[Anonymous No.11579968]

i read this story once about the marriage of a young boy and girl in the backdrop of an apocalyptic gods' war. the story is set as the god of wanderers (patron god of the arabesque people the boy is descended from) quits the field while the armies and society of the god of order (slowly murdering the fuck out of everyone else)

there's a bunch of family drama and they travel to a nearby city and some crazy shit happens.

does anyone know what i'm talking about? i have no idea if it was YA to be honest with you but i've always wanted to re-read it. thx.

[Anonymous No.11581061]

I really liked that incarnations of immortality series by Pierce Anthony as a kid, though I only read On a Pale Horse and Bearing an Hourglass

[Anonymous No.11581091]

>>11576275
Captain underpants

[Anonymous No.11581104]

>>11576275
Finn Family Moomintroll
The Oz books
The Story Of King Arthur and His Knights - Howard Pyle
Prydain
Narnia
The Dark is Rising
The Belgariad

[Anonymous No.11581205]

>>11579934
I loved the Demonata books because they had lots of blood and guts and it made me feel edgy.

[Anonymous No.11581279]

>>11576275
Anything written by Roald Dahl

[Anonymous No.11581440]

>>11576275
Ender's Game

[Anonymous No.11581963]

Chronicles of Ancient Darkness

[Anonymous No.11582656]

Harry Potter (abandoned at age 10 or 11 bc they went to shit)

Enders Game series

Star Wars books (not technically YA I guess, but might as well be. Abandoned at age 13)

I also really loved Shogun by Clavell as a 10/11 yr old kid which prob fucked me up bc it had some edgy scenes like the fat pervert Lord banging a boy and girl prostitute at the same time while listening to a European prisoner get boiled to death in a pot

[Anonymous No.11582660]

>>11582656
Oh also Dark Is Rising and Golden Compass, even if the latter would prob me some euphoric fedora Dawkins vibes now.

[Anonymous No.11582961]

>>11576275
you already posted it, op

[Anonymous No.11582969]

>>11576275
>The Virgin's Harry Potter
>The Chad's Percy Jackson

[Anonymous No.11583524]

>>11576275
Bartimaeus Trilogy
The Sea of Trolls

[Anonymous No.11583564]

absolutely fucking based

[Anonymous No.11583744]

>>11576275
harry potter? I did not read much as a child, only started in my 20s. potter was only YA I read so it wins by default.

[Anonymous No.11583748]

Cherub

[Anonymous No.11583775]

>>11582656
>(abandoned at age 10 or 11 bc they went to shit)
I don't recall any difference between the books, except maybe the last one been needlessly convoluted
>Star Wars books (not technically YA I guess, but might as well be. Abandoned at age 13)
picked up 6 months before they were removed from canon.

[Anonymous No.11583781]

>>11582969
>Chad's Percy Jackson
yeah right. if percy jackson is anything like Magnus Chase then you are full of shit

[Anonymous No.11583789]

>>11583564
>Where is my rose, apprentice
I was dimonds

[Anonymous No.11583973]

>>11578002
Isn't there a videogame with that name?

[Anonymous No.11583988]

>>11583973
yes. There are a few DnD games from Black Isle Studios. the plot has a big entry but I recall being discontented from the story when I played it. most fun I had in Dnd was (in another game I think) tricking dark elves and a demon into killing each other.

[Anonymous No.11584003]

pic related

[Anonymous No.11584121]

>>11583973
Yes, I believe it's a city in the Forgotten Realms setting of D&D

[Anonymous No.11584169]

>>11583781
>if percy jackson is anything like Magnus Chase then you are full of shit
(It isn't)

[Anonymous No.11584205]

>>11579934
Cirque du freak.
That's funny I also started the Demonata series then stopped because 2spoopy.I remember it being pretty good though.

[Anonymous No.11584218]

>>11578470
>regrets Eragon
>not Harry Potter

[Anonymous No.11584226]

>>11584218
The Harry Potter hate is getting out of hand if people are seriously starting to believe they were as bad as the Eragon books.

[Anonymous No.11584238]

Brandon Sanderson had this fun series called Alcatraz Smeardy and the evil librarians. I really enjoyed it but it took him so long to release the final book that I never read it. The reviews say it's uncharacteristically dark so maybe he accounted for the children that read the first few growing up?

[Anonymous No.11584244]

>>11584226
>The Eragon hate is getting seriously out of hand if people are actually starting to believe they are as bad as the Harry Potter books
Go stretch your legs bug boy

[Anonymous No.11584257]

>>11578002
Homeland (the very edgy one in the cavern city) was great. Loved reading about Drizzt killing spider people with his scimitars.

[Anonymous No.11584267]

Darren Shan was my favourite desu, although I'd like to lie and say my favourite was actually His Dark Materials trilogy, because that's true patrician YA fiction