Read what interests you.

Read what you find engaging. You don't owe authors or genres your attention.

Yeah I forgot to say in the post, I don’t give a crap what others think I’m still going to read the books I want, I’m just curious how others may perceive it.

Yeah I forgot to say in the post, I don’t give a crap what others think I’m still going to read the books I want, I’m just curious how others may perceive it.

i am 20F and my favorite book is the BFG. i read it over again often. A handful of the books I have at home are the maze runner series, harry potter, etc. if you enjoy the books, read them. yes they might be easier to read for adults, but that doesn’t mean that they’re not meant for you. have fun with it, if you don’t jump to huge nonfiction books, that is okay. reading is reading, and it should be fun for you:)

Read what makes you happy. Anyone who says differently is full of shit. Enjoy those teen novels if they are what bring you joy. Adult life is so draining mindless teen fiction can frankly be a delightful palate cleanser. A little mindless escapism is exactly what people need a lot of the time.

I guess it's "normal" to care about things like that when you still put the "young" before "adult". Peak adulting is not caring or judging other people for doing the things they like.

Haha yeah, I forgot to say in the post, I don’t give a crap what others think I’m still going to read the books I want, I’m just curious how others may perceive it.

Also I have to read maze runner I enjoyed the movies and have been wanting to check the books out for too long lol.

Yeah I forgot to say in the post, I don’t give a crap what others think I’m still going to read the books I want, I’m just curious how others may perceive it, (check out my edit).

I’m a 68 year old woman who reads a lot in this genre and I have no clue why someone would question this. 💃🏼

Nothing wrong with reading a book from your childhood or revisiting a series you never finished. But I do find it weird when adults read exclusively YA. Unpopular opinion around these parts for sure. But YA is its own genre for a reason. Everything is much more black and white, problematic topics are avoided entirely or handled with kid-gloves, etc. I just don't see the appeal of reading literature written for children as an adult.

no worries, i dont see anything wrong with it, & im sure a lot of other avid readers have a few YA/ preteen favorites of their own

i read the maze runner books after seeing the movies and i LOVED them!! especially scorch trials! definitely give them a go

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Honestly some the the reasons you mentioned are why I think adults like to read those books. They remind us of simpler times and it's easier to deal with simpler problems. As adults we often need to deal with people that have ulterior motives and just have to deal with a lot of toxic people and drama in general. As you said there are topics that we deal with that we don't like dealing with, YA books allows us to avoid those problems and just focus on the single (fictional) problem the character is dealing with.

I don't think I articulated my thoughts properly here, but I hope you get the idea!!

Nothing is strange.
To me it seems more strange to block your passion and deny yourself an amusement just for STUPID social "clichés". ;)
I am 48 years old, I use video games, I read Manga, I watch Anime, i drawing, i enjoy!
But I work, I pay taxes, I do all those things that "adults do".

We need to stop thinking that being an adult is KILLING THE CHILD PART OF US.
That's where fantasy, joy, passion, your hobbies, and everything you like live.Killing that part of you, kills the part that brings you joy.

Psychologists today know this.When you're sick, the first thing they recommend is to find passion. to dance, to draw, to play.
To find that side they lost, that side that was their generator of joy.
NEVER BE AFRAID of doing what you are passionate about, just because you have to be HOW OTHERS WANT YOU! ;) have fun!

I'm an old guy. I like YA books if they're in my genres. The Leviathan trilogy by Scott Westerfield is a blast.

That is beautifully said!!

I also read manga, watch anime, and play video games I do all of that as an escape from my problems and I don't ever see my self stopping.

Never heard of the trilogy, but will definitely check it out soon!!

There's no shortage of easily digestible adult fiction out there. I'm not saying you have to only read Holocaust survivor biographies as soon as you reach adulthood. For example, I read a lot of WH40k fiction. My reddit username is a character from the Eisenhorn novels by Dan Abnett. They're not challenging to read in the slightest, yet they're still very clearly written with an adult audience in mind. I just don't really get why a well adjusted adult who can comprehend higher level reading would deliberately choose to limit themselves to YA.

This isn't about how easy something is to read or not read. It's about the themes talked about. Some people simply don't enjoy those dark themes in the books they read, they enjoy adventures that are "black and white" in the sense that the risks are life and death or something less severe. They may just not like the problematic topics you mentioned in your original comment.

Again, there are no shortage of adult fiction books without "dark themes". There is quite literally tens of thousands of books outside of the extremely narrow YA genre. If you think you need YA books for a carefree and enjoyable story, you're just wrong. Try Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, for example. One of the most popular goofy and lighthearted stories in the past 50 years. Yet still clearly written for an audience outside of 12-18 year olds lmao. The dark themes and problematic topics you're getting all hung up on are not a requirement. It's purely about who the author is writing the book for. YA books primarily feature teenage protagonists in order to relate to the experiences of their intended audience. Why adults are so obsessed with reading books meant to appeal to teenagers and the growing pains they are facing is very strange to me.

Okay, I thought that you were thinking that the problematic themes needed to be there I misunderstood your intent with the first comment. To answer your second question, take Japan for example, manga is ver popular there which almost all are told about teenagers. When citizens of Japan and writers of Manga were talked to about why they said they like to have young protagonists to relive their childhood days or to feel young again while reading even if it is fantasy they relate to the characters and their young problems.