Adventures in YA Podcast

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

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...

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

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

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

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