A list of books about people in their early 20s that is not considered romance/erotica. Before you add a book please consider if one or more of the main characters is between the ages of 20 and 26 (for the majority of the book), and that it does not have a major romance plot.
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126 books · 56 voters · list created October 9th, 2018 by Lia (votes) .
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message 1: by Lia (new)

Lia None of the Leigh Bardugo books have main characters that are above the age of 19. Please don't add them.
The only exception is Nikolai and he's not a main character, only his own book(s) should be in this list.


message 2: by Haru65 (new)

Haru65 Lia wrote: "None of the Leigh Bardugo books have main characters that are above the age of 19. Please don't add them.
The only exception is Nikolai and he's not a main character, only his own book(s) should b..."


That's true for the Grisha trilogy. Aren't half of the Crooked Kingdom MC's in their twenties? Alex Stern (Ninth house) is 20 something.


message 3: by Lia (new)

Lia Haru65 wrote: "Lia wrote: "None of the Leigh Bardugo books have main characters that are above the age of 19. Please don't add them.
The only exception is Nikolai and he's not a main character, only his own book..."


I'm not sure but Kaz, Matthias, Nina, Inej, Wylan and Jesper are all teens. I didn't hear of Ninth House before so that's definitely an exception. But the books that have been released all are about teens I think.


message 4: by Lea (new)

Lea Vickery Can you add Good Night by L.R.W. Lee? It comes out next year. On the 14th of January


message 5: by Leonkm08 AWOL (new)

Leonkm08 AWOL Haru65 wrote: "Lia wrote: "None of the Leigh Bardugo books have main characters that are above the age of 19. Please don't add them.
The only exception is Nikolai and he's not a main character, only his own book..."


Alex Stern isn't part of the Grisha Universe.


message 6: by Lia (new)

Lia Lea wrote: "Can you add Good Night by L.R.W. Lee? It comes out next year. On the 14th of January"
It's on the list!


message 7: by Madmada (new)

Madmada And the top books "A Court of Thorns and Roses" series are romance.


message 8: by Lia (new)

Lia Madmada wrote: "And the top books "A Court of Thorns and Roses" series are romance."

yes I know. A lot of these books have a major romance plot, I think. It's a bit sad because that was not at all what I intended this list for.


message 9: by Madmada (new)

Madmada Yeah it's a shame, I was looking for good books that fall under the list s "criterias", but after checking some of them, Romance seems to be one of the top genres/shelves in a lot of them. I can't even suggest to filter them out since that will probably remove half the books, better consider it only a NA list!


message 10: by Lia (new)

Lia Madmada wrote: "Yeah it's a shame, I was looking for good books that fall under the list s "criterias", but after checking some of them, Romance seems to be one of the top genres/shelves in a lot of them. I can't ..."

I can't even do anything about it except tell people not to add them. I can't edit the list :(


message 11: by Madmada (new)

Madmada Ah, always thought you can control your own list.


message 12: by Miss Bektra (last edited Dec 21, 2018 04:33PM) (new)

Miss Bektra Madmada wrote: "And the top books "A Court of Thorns and Roses" series are romance."

They're New adult. Sarah J. Maas said as much in a book signing a few years ago. The romance is central, but it doesn't take over the plot, in my opinion.


message 13: by Madmada (new)

Madmada "A list of books about people in their early 20s that is not considered romance/erotica. .... and that it does not have a major romance plot."


message 14: by Miss Bektra (last edited Dec 26, 2018 04:20PM) (new)

Miss Bektra Madmada wrote: ""A list of books about people in their early 20s that is not considered romance/erotica. .... and that it does not have a major romance plot.""

Again, it's a matter of opinion how major the romance plot is in Sarah J. Maas books. At least In my opinion. Pestilence, Lothaire, and a Promise of Fire have plots that revolve all around the romance. Not A Court of Thorns. You can always ask a librarian to remove the ones you think shouldn't be here.


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