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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Someone on G+ posted a question asking for everyone's favorite children's book, and listed To Kill a Mockingbird. I love that book, but I wouldn't call it a children's book, right?
Nathan Branford had that on his blog today and I thought the same thing. Especially with today's YA category, I always assume "children's book" means well below teen years.
That's who it was on G+!
I would term it a classic with a child protagonist and a child's POV. I don't think it falls as YA, per se, but I think it's very germane to inclusion on MS/HS reading lists.
My junior high book club always had TKAM as its first book of the year (it was the teacher/moderator's favorite book), so I first read it the summer between 6th and 7th grade. I definitely "got it," but then, I read Roots in 5th grade and loved it, so I was weird.
Knut and I both thought that NPR's List of Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books was incredibly boring.
So we traded picks and made our own top ten of just Fantasy and I like our list better. (They included series so we did too.)
1. The Circus of Dr. Lao - Charles Finney
2. Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake
3. Lud-In-The-Mist - Hope Mirrlees
4. Mythago Wood series - Robert Holdstock
5. Land of Laughs - Jonathan Carroll
6. The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter
7. Fafrhd and the Grey Mouser series - Fritz Leiber
8. Riddlemaster of Hed series - Patricia McKillip
9. The Dying Earth - Jack Vance
10. Iron Dragon's Daughter - Michael Swanick
Well, I've certainly read a more representative sample of the NPR list than y'all's.
Glen Weldon's commentary on the list is interesting, I think: [link]
Yeah, your list is completely foreign to me. I have heard of Gormenghast, and I have a Jonathan Carroll book that JZ lent me years ago (I think that's the one, actually) but I haven't read, but I haven't even heard of the rest.
There's much on the NPR list I haven't heard of either, but also lots I like. Too bad the Feed books didn't make it this time!
Glen Weldon's commentary on the list is interesting, I think: [link]
Ooh, yeah, worth a read.
I have the first book in the Gormenghast trilogy, but I've sadly never gotten around to reading it.
I haven't much on the NPR list either, sadly, but the books I have read Snow Crash, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and some others) I've very much enjoyed.
I need to read more science fiction, is the moral of this story, I think!
Gormenghast? Really?