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Originally Posted by Luffy
Have you tried to read the acclaimed YA books that are printed these days? That's the trouble with YA. Its most visible books are thrash.
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Yes, I am an eclectic reader and I read quite a lot of YA. Of the authors you list, I haven't read Schwab or Maas, and The Scorpio Races has been Stiefvater's best book, in my opinion, though I haven't read Call Down The Hawk yet. But I'm not going to try to convince you to like it, just like I'm not going to try to convince you to like my favourite food or my favourite song. I'd appreciate the same respect.
Most of Riordan's work I'd call upper middle grade more than YA, though obviously there's crossover. His Percy Jackson series and the spinoffs are excellent read-alouds for MG kids.
If you are genuinely interested in trying more YA, though there's absolutely no reason you should, I'd recommend looking more toward works considered YA-Adult crossover books. Golden Boys, for example, or Wilder Girls, or A Corner of White, or The Girl With All The Gifts, or My Sister Rosa, or Zeroboxer, or Liar; or some Melina Marchetta or Patrick Ness or Isobelle Carmody or Ambelin Kwaymullina or Alice Pung or Jenni Fagan or Paolo Bacigalupi. Start with subgenres that you enjoy in adult books. If you don't like adult romantic fantasy, for example, reading YA romantic fantasy is probably not going to be your jam.