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4 new trends for YA novels

Vampires? Check. Zombies? Been there. Werewolves? Done that. For the last decade, young adult literature has enjoyed an extended moment in the sun thanks to the popularity of magic-, vampire-, and fantasy-filled hits like 鈥淗arry Potter,鈥� 鈥淭wilight,鈥� and 鈥淭he Hunger Games.鈥� But after a decade-long run, we鈥檙e suspecting readers may be tiring of the magic spells, death matches, and dystopian plotlines. 鈥淒ystopia is pretty much dead,鈥� literary agent Barry Goldblatt said in an earlier Monitor post on the next chapter in YA Lit, 鈥�After dystopia, what next?鈥�

So what is next in young adult lit? For publishers, that is 鈥� literally 鈥� the million dollar question. Fortunately for us, the folks at Bookish have proposed for the next big thing in YA lit 鈥� an early look at what might just be the next hot thing to hit shelves and bestseller lists.

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'Divergent,' the film adaptation of Veronica Roth's bestselling dystopian young adult novel, stars Shailene Woodley (l.) and Theo James (r.).

1. A future devoid of love

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  • By Husna Haq

foresees a trend of 鈥渓oveless futures,鈥� piggybacking off dystopian themes, in which love is the enemy in future societies which concoct inventive ways to suppress the emotion.

鈥淣ow an enemy, 'love' becomes a foreign concept, and these dark futures have a variety of solutions for eradicating the organic emotion: computer generated ideal mates, elaborate courting ceremonies, and (gulp) extraction,鈥� Gallucci . 鈥淭hese books take 'first love' to the next level with teenagers discovering the forbidden emotional and fighting to keep it alive.鈥�

This theme combines the recent theme of dystopian societies with the timeless theme of love, injecting both with fresh appeal.

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