Hello, welcome back to another Tuesday. Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is:
FREEBIE — that super specific list you want to make?? All yours to tackle this week!
We have all sometimes looked at the categories the books are inserted and then think “WTF? HOW IS THIS BOOK CLASSIFIED AS THAT?!?!?!?!”. Yeah, it happens to me a LOT, so why not do a post about that, right? So, here you have, 8 Miscategorized Books.
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ACOTAR is definitely not YA! I find a lot of books are mislabeled as YA and then people are up in arms when there are tons of sex and violence. Great idea for this week!
YES!!! Sometimes I’m reading books labeled as YA and I think: “this is awesome for me, but this is definitly NA!”
I have students who are 13 reading ACOTAR and my eyes kind of bugged out.
oh my…
Yea I totally agree that ACOTAR (and ACOMAF ) are definitely not YA!!! Which didn’t bother me as much but it seems a lot more YA books are more of a NA and they don’t label them right. It’s like if they were to label Game of Thrones a YA book..haha , we all know that isn’t true! I wonder if they read the book before they label them sometimes?
HMMM, i don’t think they do. Sometimes is a marketing thing, which is silly most of the time, but it works =/
Agreed on so many of these. Too many books seem to get categorized by their author’s other work, or who seems to have been reading them lately. It all seems very arbitrary.
Great list!
yeah, arbitrary is the right word, especially in regards to goodreads classifications 🙂
Oh god, who put Attachments in YA? It’s not even remotely close. I love that book but cmon, that is squarely in adult contemporary. I also snorted out loud at Crown of Midnight being a dystopia. Really. Read the blurb, marketers.
right? dystopia? I was so surprised when i saw that =/
You are so right on ALL OF THESE.
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Yeah, Ugly Love is in no way a YA book. I can see the Wallbanger confusion. There’s a feel to NA books and Wallbanger has it. It feels younger and fresher than most adult contemporary. Great list!
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I agree with Wallbanger, I had initially classified it as NA myself, before realizing that it is not 😉
“New Adult” is a new genre to me, no pun intended. I’ll have to investigate this more!
I’m biased, but NA is AWESOME!
Throne of Glass is definitely not dystopia and ACOTAR is not YA xD
yeah and YES! to be honest, for me, not even ToG is YA…
This is definitely a great topic to tackle! With Goodreads, especially, I think most of the problem comes from readers not really knowing how to categorize things properly. NA is sort of a newer concept in the mainstream reading community, so people who aren’t as entrenched in proper categorization probably don’t know that it exists? Even Barnes and Noble over here doesn’t really have its own dedicated “New Adult” section yet and usually you find them interspersed between YA and Adult.
I get that about NA, it was news to me when i started reading it too. and you are absolutely right about the problems with goodreads, a lot of people classify books wrongly. The classifications should be done by the author/publisher and should included in the specifics of the book
There are so many NA books listed as YA and Adult books as New Adult. Wallbanger is definitely not a NA novel and Ugly Love is not YA. I’m not surprised to see Crown Of Midnight in the dystopia list cause I’ve been seeing many readers listing fantasy books under dystopia genre mostly Young adult books.
oh wow, maybe they don’t really understand what dystopia means?!
Honestly, I often find it hilarious when a book is labeled in a wrong category, it reminds you that you never really know what your going to find in any section of the bookstore, and how many books are placed in a section just because it probably sells better there, as is probably the case with ACOTAR. Especially when Sarah J. Maas’s other series is in ya as well.
yeah, i agree with that. though to be honest, I wouldn’t classify ToG as young adult either…
I haven’t read it yet so, that’s why I said young adult, even though I really am interested in reading both her series in the future.
I’ve read some snippets of ACOTAR and I don’t plan on reading the series but I so agree that it should not be classed as a YA.
yeah, eheh 😀
Hahaha just imagine Crown of Midnight as a dystopian book! IT’S OUR FUTURE. We will loose all technology, but get invaded by fairies instead 😉
YES, it would be kind of awesome, admit it!
Ignoring the fact that communication would be more difficult, nope, wouldn’t mind that scenario one bit.
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This post made me crack up 😀 I haven’t read ACOTAR, but I still find it funny that it somehow keeps getting stuck in with YA XD And yeah, Crown of Midnight as a dystopian? What even??? lol
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eheh 😀
I am positive ACOTAR was marked as New Adult series by SJM but I have no idea why it keeps getting listed as YA. Especially ACOMAF. That is no way YA. Looks like Goodreads needs to get their act together because Colleen Hoover doesn’t write YA either. She even says that her only booked classified as YA is Slammed and everything else is NA.
YES YES YES! I don’t get it about ACOTAR, and much less about ACOMAF, because that book is hotter than some erotica I’ve read…
I would not class Ugly Love as Young Adult at all,I think of them in their twenties so adult?
yep, adult, or NA, considering the point in live of each character…
Wow, um I knew about some of these, but Crown of Midnight being a dystopia? Really?
And yeah, EVERYBODY gets ACOTAR wrong; at least with Fangirl there is nothing to explicit so it’s okay to be put in the YA section in terms of young people won’t be scared for life. Now, I’m not talking like 15-16 or whatever, because at that age ACOTAR isn’t going to be much of a shock, but 12,13 or so don’t need to be reading that 😀
Another complication is that although the first few books in the TOG series are YA, the later ones are NA because the characters are older and things are more explicit (especially EOS)- they do have a warning on the back for mature content. But that rises the question of where you put them. Similarly with Harry Potter, the first couple are middle grade but the later ones are really YA…
I totally agree with all of this Keira. I have the same issue with ToG, for me just the first book is really YA, because from then on, it’s pretty clearly matura YA or NA. And ACOMAF has more mature content than some erotica novels… And the same for HP, those last 4 books are not middle grade.