Last week during our weekly live video chat, Tea Time with Team Epic Reads, we discussed and debated what adult books are good for people who typically read YA and only YA.

We listened to your feedback, read your blog posts, saw your Reddit comments and came up with this list of 25.

Have another book you’d like to add? Tell us in the comments!







The Complete List of Adult Books for Fans of YA:

Row 1:

1. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

2. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

3. The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

4. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

5. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Row 2:

6. Feed by Mira Grant

7. Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

8. Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

9. Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

10. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Row 3:

11. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

12. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

13. Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link

14. The Rook by Daniel O’Malley

15. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Row 4:

16. The Magicians by Lev Grossman

17. The Death of Bees by Lisa O’Donnell

18. The Stand by Stephen King

19. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

20. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Row 5:

21. Golden Boy by Abigale Tarttelin

22. Dare Me by Megan Abbott

23. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

24. Goliath by Tom Gauld

25. Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith