I Like Books That Do Weird Things

Eric and Kelly talk about their first YA reading experiences and what adult authors they’d love to see pen a YA novel in this teaser episode of Hey YA.     Show Notes We know. We know. We know it’s Outkast who did “Hey Ya,” but we are olds who referred to the song as being by Black Eyed Peas. Here’s a list of the books we discussed: Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World edited by Kelly Jensen Welcome Home edited by Eric Smith Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Gordon Korman (author of books like No More Dead Dogs and The Hypnotists) Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart Vincent and Theo by Deborah Heiligman (misspoken as Deborah Hopkinson on the show — apologies!) Meet Cute When I Am Through With You by Stephanie Kuehn Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Lock-In by John Scalzi Redshirts by John Scalzi