Cart's Top 200 Adult Books for Young Adults

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  • You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier

    A Manifesto
    Cover of 'You Are Not A Gadget' by Jaron Lanier

    In this thought-provoking critique of digital culture, the author challenges the prevailing trends of the internet age, arguing that technology often diminishes individuality and creativity. The book delves into the consequences of treating humans as mere components of a vast digital network, warning against the dangers of reducing people to mere data points. It advocates for a more humanistic approach to technology, urging readers to reclaim their unique identities and resist the homogenizing forces of the digital world. Through a blend of personal anecdotes and philosophical insights, the author calls for a re-evaluation of how technology shapes our lives and society.

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"Michael Cart, former YALSA president and the best-selling author of Young Adult Literature, applies his considerable expertise as one of the nation's leading experts on YA literature to identify exceptional adult books"
In his own words: "I started by revisiting the adult books I had reviewed since 1994... to search back issues of the three major youth review media, Booklist, School Library Journal, and VOYA. I consulted other book lists and readers’ guides and surveyed lists of award-winning books; I browsed in bookstores, got lost in the maze that is Amazon.com...followed by winnowing and discarding, until I had assembled the list of two hundred fiction and nonfiction titles".
Total is 126 fiction and 77 non fiction, the total is 203 as he treated certain works as one, e.g. Cormac McCarthy's works are discussed/treated separately but then counted as the Border Trilogy.

This list was originally published in 2013 and was added to this site about 1 year ago.

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